Monday Future Masters notes

Early start: Clancy Waugh teed off five and a half hours before most of his competition did in the 13-14 age group.
Waugh was one of eight golfers sent out with the 11-12s. He had a 6:30 a.m. tee time.
“It was kind of weird,” Waugh said. “We caught up to the 10-unders on the front side. That made it a really long round.”
He had a tough start to his round. Teeing off on the back nine, a mental mistake led to a double-bogey seven to start his day.
“I moved my marker on the green (to clear the line for a playing partner), and I forget to re-mark it back,” Waugh said. “I putt the ball down and made the putt.“
He realized he hadn’t re-marked his ball properly. The ensuing two-stroke penalty turned a par into the double bogey.
Waugh said it was a “polar opposite” start from the opening round.
“Yesterday, on the first hole, I hit a chip that banked off somebody’s ball and went into the hole,” he said.
Golf gives, and it takes away.
 
Mr. Consistent: Will Brueckner was steady, if not spectacular, in Monday’s second round. Brueckner shot a 73 with 16 pars, a bogey and a double-bogey.
“That’s good and bad,” said the player from Walnut Creek, Calif. “I missed a lot of opportunities.”
His scorecard included all pars from holes 1 through 13 — although he started on the back nine. His best par, he said, came at the 18th hole, when he nearly chipped in for birdie after his approach finished short of the green.
 
TurnaroundSam Horsfield from Davenport, Fla., rebounded from a first-round 77 with an even-par 70, the second-best round of the day in the 11-12s.
“My iron shots were a lot better,” Horsfield said. “I was spraying them yesterday.”
Horsfield made birdie putts of six feet on No. 1, five feet on No. 12 and 10 feet on No. 13.

Fast start: Andy Zhang, whose 8:30 a.m. tee time was the last of the 11-12s, was more than ready to go.
Starting on the par-5 10th hole, Zhang, born in China and now a resident of Kissimmee, Fla., reached the green in two and made an eagle putt.
“I got lucky on the second shot,” Zhang said. “I kind of topped my 5-wood and it had a lot of topspin. It landed about 25 yards short and ran onto the green.”
Still, his eight-foot, downhill putt for eagle was tricky.
“I hit it very soft,” Zhang said. “It dropped in the middle.
Zhang shot a 73 Monday and is at 147.

High-tech drives: More technology is being added to enhance the Future Masters.
Each of the 10-under competitors was filmed teeing off in today’s opening nine-hole round. That has been uploaded to YouTube at the newly created TheFutureMastersChannel.
So parents, grandparents, friends and neighbors can see the players tee off in the tournament on YouTube.

Glover the champ: Newly-crowned U.S. Open champ Lucas Glover won his age division at the Future Masters twice — as a 10-under player in 1990 and in the 11-12 division in 1992. Besides Glover winning in 1990, two other current PGA Tour players won in their division — Charles Howell was the 11-12 champion that year and the 17-18 winner was Stewart Cink.
Barefooted golfer: At least for a hole, Mack Atkins of Destin, Fla., got to play without shoes. With a blister on his left heel bothering him, the FM officials in the 10-under division allowed Atkins to ditch his shoes and play the final hole barefooted. “Your feet sink down in the grass and it feels pretty cool,” said Atkins, who made bogey on the hole.
Water hazard: Rut Crawford, a volunteer scorer working with the 10-under group, got a little wet while helping one of the golfers retrieve his last ball, which was hit in the water on No. 6. Crawford said he reached in with a short club to try and scoop the ball up, and slipped into the water. The good-natured Crawford had a pair of soggy golf shoes as proof.
Good viewing: Spectators and golfers wanting to check the scores of those on the course can view the large digital scoreboard located near the 14th tee box. For the third straight year, DigiScore Tech of Atlanta is in town for the tournament — but this year is also recording the scores of the younger players.The first two years the flashy board, which is 6 feet high and 15 feet wide, was used just for the 15-18 age division. With computer software which links DigiScore to the Future Masters Web site, scores are updated on the scoreboard just as they are recorded by the Future Masters staff.