Hours before he finished his first round of this year’s Masters one over par, Russell Henley sat on a plane for the 35-minute flight from Charleston, South Carolina, to Augusta.
Henley, a Stratford Academy graduate and former Georgia golfer, had spent the past two days at a hospital in Charleston. He skipped practice rounds at Augusta National, missed an opportunity to hit hundreds of shots and passed on time to read the complicated greens before Thursday’s opening round. But Henley has played in the Masters four times already, so he at least has some idea how this all works.