“I can't wait to bring my green jacket back to Japan. I can't imagine what it's going to be, but what a pleasure and what an honor…
”His face split with an eloquent smile, Hideki Matsuyama let all his emotion show through in the huge conference room half full of the Augusta National Golf Club, Sunday evening.
Faced with representatives of the international press, the winner of the Masters 2021 seemed almost abandoned to his joy.
He who, all year round, faces an army of Japanese journalists spying on his every move to tell them to the 10 million golfers in a country of 126 million inhabitants.
There, Covid-19 obliges, they were much less numerous than usual to listen to it.
“
This week has been less stressful for me,
” smiled Matsuyama.
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Moments earlier, in front of the white colonial-style clubhouse, American Dustin Johnson, winner last year, had helped him put on his new suit.
A green felt blazer, size
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