Olazabal suffered with the putt in his farewell to Augusta

He Augusta Masters 2023 ended mid-afternoon this Friday for the first of the three participating Spaniards. Jose Maria Olazabaldouble winner of the ‘green jacket’ in 1994 and in 1999, ended his career in the first ‘major’ of the season without improving his feelings from the opening day and aiming for the final positions.

olazabalwho signed +5 on the first day, repeated the result on the second, this time with two birdies and seven bogeys after another day of many problems to find good positions on the greens and fight to improve positions. In this way, after being so far from the start on the first day, he has no option to approach the top50 that gives access to the weekend and ends in an overall +10.

Olazabal once again suffered a day in which he also did not find good feelings, especially on a putt he found himself uncomfortable with. From his mistakes came the bleeding of missed shots, especially shots from close positions that he was unable to convert.

This problem presented itself from the beginning. He left a putt more than a meter wrong on hole 1 and has been in control of his marker ever since. However, he missed another four-footer on the 5th and continued that trend with more missed putts for par on the 7th and 9th holes, all of them near the flag.

His +4 in the first half of his round was anesthetized by two beautiful birdies at the beginning of its second part. A good seven-meter putt on the 10th hole and another two-meter on the par five 13th for two birdies boosted his sensation to run before the final part of his round, but it was lackluster in three final bogeys for his +5 on the day and his total of +10.

In this way, the Basque does not have any option to fight to win positions and say goodbye to the Masters in the last places of the table. Olazabal thus completed his thirty-fourth participation in Augusta.