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Schwartzel's Family Are Crying for that Masters

Monday morning in South Africa when Charl Schwartzel sealed his first big title with a birdie to the final hole on the Masters.

Again property to the family farm around Vereeniging, a town just south of Johannesburg, Charl's father George watched just about every instant.

Which is a giant modify for the man who describes himself as "a nervous wreck" each and every time his son plays, and who has previously gone to sleep in order to avoid the agonizing stress of watching Charl in action with best golf clubs particularly in the last spherical.

"I was gonna take a further capsule but my spouse wouldn't allow me to. We watched it all ?a I nevertheless have not gone to bed," George Schwartzel advised The Related Press just about 12 several hours following Charl's triumph at Augusta National.

The elder Schwartzel took a sleeping tablet and went to bed when Charl completed second at the WGC-Cadillac Championship previous 12 months following battling with fellow South African Ernie Els down the stretch.

"I informed my household to wake me up when it was around," he mentioned.

At the 2005 Alfred Dunhill Championship, played in Dec. 2004, he napped under a tree on a deserted front nine at Leopard Creek Golf Club ?a and missed Charl claim his first European Tour title within the back again 9 with titleist 2010 ap2 irons.

"I had to discover someplace to lie down. I could not take it. So, I found a peaceful tree within the front nine."

It could are already the identical Sunday evening, except for his wife Lizette's intervention.

George ?a who guided Charl's vocation in the age of four, when the youngster played his first 9 holes ?a could have missed it all.

"My dad was stressing yet again, he couldn't check out it," stated Attie Schwartzel, Charl's young brother as well as a professional golfer on South Africa's Sunshine Tour. "He's this sort of a nervous wreck. He needed to get an additional pill but Mother would not let him."

By contrast, his 26-year-old son shown the coolest of temperaments inside the last spherical at Augusta Countrywide.

He had merely a single bogey and completed with four straight birdies to get a 6-under 66, the most effective closing spherical by a winner in 22 a long time. Schwartzel won by two shots around Australians Adam Scott and Jason Day, calmly rolling from the birdie putt to the 18th.

"My daughter was crying about 50 % an hour previous to he won, then I used to be crying when he won," George reported. "My spouse was content but she was not crying. She by no means cries or will get as well emotional.

"Charl has got her temperament, fortunately."

Charl's straightforward method was epitomized in his personal description of Sunday's closing hole, printed about the Sunshine Tour web-site.

"Driver up eighteen, 133 yards, pitching wedge to about 14 ft. Sounds really uncomplicated if you believe about taylormade r9 irons like that," Schwartzel reported.




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