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John “I’ve been heading in the
right direction for a while,
Deere and I think it kind of starts
with your attitude, how you
Continued from Page 17 think about and handle
“I put together a really things,” Hadley said. “So I
nice round. Was very much kind of finally got that right,
in control. Rolled in some and then everything came
nice putts and stayed very together last week obvi-
patient,” Rodgers said. ously.” First-round co-lead-
DeChambeau, who was er Ollie Schniederjans had
just above the FedEx Cup a 74 to drop eight shots be-
playoff cut line entering hind Rodgers.
the weekend, survived Two-time Masters cham-
a pair of early bogeys to pion Bubba Watson shot
grab second place. a 70 to make the cut at 3
Tway was struggling to under, as did Davis Love
stay above the cut line III (68). Three-time tourna-
when he went on his bird- ment winner Steve Stricker
ie binge, making seven (67) made the cut on the
in a row at one point. But number at 2 under.
Tway’s tee shot on his 17th Defending champion
hole found the rough and Ryan Moore shot a 71 and
he was forced to settle for missed the cut, finishing at
a bogey. Chad Campbell tees off on the 17th hole during the second round of the John Deere Classic golf 3 over after two rounds.
Tway’s round, the best of tournament Friday, July 14, 2017, in Silvis, Ill. Moore missed the previous
his career, was highlighted Associated Press five weeks with a left shoul-
by a 28-foot birdie putt on der injury.q
the forgiving third hole.
“I was kind of hoping it Hootie Johnson, former Augusta National chairman, dies
would never stop,” Tway
said. “You’ve got to make
a lot of birdies around By DOUG FERGUSON morning. He was 86.
here.” AP Golf Writer Augusta National an-
Hadley said after his bo- Hootie Johnson, the South nounced his death and
gey-free round that he felt Carolina banker and Au- celebrated the sweeping
like he was playing with gusta National chairman changes to the Masters
“house money” after wrap- who stubbornly stood his during his eight years as
ping up a PGA Tour for next ground amid pressure for chairman.
season card last week. the club to invite female But it was his battle with
members, died Thursday Martha Burk and her Na-

This April 10, 2002, file photo shows Hootie Johnson, then-chair-
man of the Augusta National Golf Club, during a news confer-
ence at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.
Associated Press

tional Council of Women’s them out of the fray. That
Organizations that left his led to the first commercial-
mark. Burk wrote to John- free broadcast of a sport-
son in 2002 and urged Au- ing event on network tele-
gusta National to invite vision. Johnson stepped
female members so that it down as chairman in 2006
wouldn’t become an issue and was succeeded by
at the Masters. Billy Payne, who ran the
In a blistering, three-page Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
statement to reporters, Augusta National, which
Johnson said women might opened in 1931 and did
one day be invited, but not have its first black
it would be on the club’s member until 1990, invited
timetable and “not at the two women to join in 2012.
point of a bayonet.” That One was former Secretary
became a symbol of his of State Condoleezza Rice.
resolve as Johnson and Au- The other was South Caro-
gusta National dug in deep lina financier Darla Moore,
against relentless media whom Johnson nominated.
pressure. His public image clashed
He went so far as to drop with his legacy in business,
the Masters’ television where he was among the
sponsors — IBM, Coca-Co- most progressive bankers in
la and Citigroup — to keep the South. q