Masters: Bill Haas leads after first round

Masters: Bill Haas leads after first round at Augusta National
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Masters began Thursday, but it must begin again Friday, because absolutely nothing has been sorted out. This is normally a four-day

process, one which takes the full 72 holes and often a couple more. So if you were hoping for clearly discernible story lines that would raise their hands in

the first round and then stay true through the weekend, look elsewhere. What we have here is a jumble, in what might just be the best sense.

The characters, for the first 24 hours, include the defending champion, Adam Scott of Australia, who put his tee shot at the gnarly 12th into the water, yet

shot 3-under-par 69. They include Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa, the 2012 Masters runner-up who also put his tee shot at 12 in the drink, and also

steadied himself to shoot 69. They include the man who beat Oosthuizen, swing-for-the-fences lefty Bubba Watson, who didn’t make a bogey in his own 69.
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But on the kind of pristine day that Augusta National Golf Club seems to be able to dial up on demand, they are all led by Bill Haas, whose personal history

with the Masters is negligible — never a threat in four appearances, never a round in the 60s — but whose family history here is almost unmatched. His

father, Jay, played in this tournament 22 times. His great-uncle, Bob Goalby, won the green jacket, back in 1968. Another uncle, Dillard Pruitt, turned up

here too.

“It’s been a pretty special place in our family,” Bill Haas said.