Paige Spiranac praises Nick Dunlap for finishing out Masters participation despite poor play

Golf influencer Paige Spiranac had benignant words astir Nick Dunlap’s show successful the 2nd circular of the Masters connected Friday aft helium had a beauteous atrocious archetypal spell astatine Augusta National.

Dunlap became the archetypal Masters rival successful a decade, and the youngest successful the tournament’s history, to sprout 90 astatine the course. He dropped 5 shots implicit his last 3 holes to extremity the nightmarish Thursday and did not talk to reporters afterward.

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April 8, 2025; Augusta, Georgia: Nick Dunlap walks the no. 13 greenish during a signifier circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club. (Kyle Terada-Imagn Images)

He could person easy withdrawn from the tourney arsenic helium fell mode disconnected gait to marque the cut. However, Dunlap showed his resoluteness and bounced back.

The 21-year-old carded a 71 successful the 2nd circular connected Friday – 1 of the champion scores for anyone who stepped into the tee box. Unfortunately, the chopped enactment was +2 and helium was +17 for the tournament.

"Massive props to Dunlap for shooting nether par contiguous aft his archetypal circular 90," Spiranac wrote connected X. "He could person easy WD but helium stuck it retired and came backmost with a large round! We’ve each been there. Golf tin devour you live but your adjacent large circular is ever close astir the corner."

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After Thursday’s disastrous archetypal round, the play satellite felt for Dunlap.

I’ve played with him a fewer times this year, and what a large player, what a large guy," Robert MacIntyre said. "He was struggling retired determination today, (but) his cognition was solid. He didn’t get successful the way. He didn’t laic disconnected thing that was going to impact his 2 different playing partners due to the fact that we’ve got a occupation to do.

"I consciousness for him today, but he’ll travel back."

Dunlap was acold from the lone 1 to miss the cut. He talked astir his 2 rounds afterward.

Nick Dunlap chips to the greenish connected the 2nd spread during the archetypal circular astatine the Masters play tournament, Thursday, April 10, 2025, successful Augusta, Ga.  (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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"I had much of a knot successful my tummy contiguous than I've ever had starting a circular of golf," helium said, via ESPN. "I had not a precise bully gut feeling astir it stepping up today. Proud of myself to station thing nether par."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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