Emotional Olly
Moving on to those who make it to the top of the leaderboard and stay there, Jose Maria Olazabal’s victory of 1999, his second, was arguably the most emotional Masters this correspondent has witnessed to date. The Spaniard’s win of wins occurred only two years after he had been diagnosed with a form of rheumatoid arthritis so dire that he could barely drag himself from his bed.
Well though he strung his shots together on the Sunday, Olazabal struggled to do the same with his words. That victory meant everything to a man who, at one point, had thought he might never walk again.
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