Sepp Straka will head to The Masters in mid-April as a fully paid-up member of the ‘anything can happen in golf’ school of thought. He believes he is living proof of that, a view that helps to convince him he can go one better than his runner-up finish at last year’s Open and pull on a coveted Green Jacket in the state where he grew up.
Straka was born in Austria, but at the age of 14, the family moved to his mother’s place of birth, Valdosta in southern Georgia, just a couple of hours away from Augusta National.
He also went to college at one of America’s most celebrated golf ‘nurseries’, UGA - the University of Georgia – as did the man who finished in front of him last year at Hoylake, Brian Harman, and double Masters Champion Bubba Watson. Studying at UGA also brought playing privileges at Augusta National, so it is no wonder he has always dreamed of winning The Masters.
