“Then I hit it close on the par 3 and then pretty close for two on the par 5. Like Munro, Becker had eight birdies in his round of 64, finding a freedom in his putting stroke that has been frustratingly absent in missing the past two cuts. “On the par 5 (six) I hit a good drive and then a good 5-iron and rolled the putt in. “I said to myself before the Vic Open, the three big weeks I’ve just got to play well in those. I haven’t played well in the big ones before that so Vic Open, NZ Open and NSW Open.
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