Im a top 10 tennis star – but golf is my true | Golf News

Some issues in life are simply not honest. In the case of Casper Ruud, one of the best tennis gamers on the planet, he is additionally a very succesful golfer and he shared his story from a latest go to to ‘essentially the most sacred golf place on earth’: Augusta National.

Three-time grand slam finalist Ruud was invited to play on the home of The Masters in Georgia whereas he is stateside for the primary arduous-court docket swing of the season.

Getting an invitation to play at Augusta National is tough enough. There are famously few methods to get a tee time between the pines and azaleas; gamers should both qualify to play in a event or be invited by one of its members.

The Norwegian, the No. 6 participant within the ATP rankings, admitted taking part in at Augusta National was on his bucket record, and he treasured the chance.

“I won’t tell too much, but I was lucky enough to go and play my favorite hobby sport, which is golf, at probably the most sacred golf place on earth if you ask me,” Ruud informed Sky Sports forward of the Miami Open.

“I was very lucky to be invited to play at Augusta National. That’s for me, all my life, been the No. 1 bucket list thing to do.

“It was an incredible experience. When you have watched that tournament all your life, to be there and see it with your own eyes, I believe – I feel like I don’t have a word in my vocabulary to describe it properly and the way it deserves to be described.

“I had a great time and I will remember that forever, but we’re in Miami now and it’s time to focus on tennis again.”

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Not solely did 26-12 months-previous Ruud fulfil a lifelong dream of taking part in on the home of the primary main of the 12 months, but he additionally did it in model by breaking 80.

“I played well,” he admitted. “I shot within the 70s, in order that’s good. After each spherical there shall be errors and you want you didn’t do that or that, but I had some good photographs and a good rating.

“So I can reside fortunately with that and I look ahead to watching the event on TV now I’ve been there. It’s arduous to elucidate how unimaginable that place is.

Ruud, the No. 5 seed, begins his problem for the Miami Open title on Friday within the spherical of 64 towards Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanović. If Ruud safely navigates his method to the spherical of 32, he’ll face France’s Corentin Moutet or Chile’s Alejandro Tabilo over the weekend.