How skills honed on golf courses in Sheffield and Rotherham shaped the ‘cocky’ player’s game and propelled him to Masters victoryIt was a career that began on a council-run golf course in Sheffield,where those who remember playing with Danny Willett – the first Englishman to win the US Masters for 20 years – said he “wasn’t especially agreeable.
Crammed onto a pylon-dotted hillside by a council estate in the south-east of the city, the Birley Wood course is just a couple of tram stops absent from the church where his dad Steve was a vicar. It feels a world absent from Augusta’s exclusive fairways; and yet it was here those who knew Willett as a younger player say he forged his competitive spirit.
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Source: theguardian.com