Former BYU Golfer Mike Weir Struggles In Opening Round At Masters

Last 12 months’s champion and the 2003 champion had decidedly totally different experiences on Thursday because the ninetieth Masters match acquired underway at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy fired a 5-under 67 in splendid scoring circumstances and is tied with American Sam Burns for the lead after the primary round of the most important championship.

Meanwhile, former BYU golfer Mike Weirthe one golfer with sturdy Utah ties in the sector of 91, shot a 9-over-par 81 and virtually actually will not make the minimize when Friday’s second round concludes. Weir is tied for 86th getting into Round 2.

Weir’s round was doomed virtually from the beginning, as he made a double-bogey 6 on the par-4 third gap to drop to three over. He additionally made a double on the par-4 seventeenth and completed with a bogey on the par-4 18th.

Weir did make one birdie Thursday, carding a 4 on the par-5 thirteenth.

This is the Canadian’s twenty seventh look in the Masters. The former All-American at BYU grew to become the primary left-handed main champion since Bob Charles, the 1963 British Open winner, when he won the Masters in 2003.

Weir, 55, at present performs on the PGA Tour’s Champions Tour. He will tee off at 6:02 am MDT Friday with former US Open champion Wyndham Clark and beginner Mateo Pulcini, who’s from Argentina. Clark shot a 72 on Thursday and Pulcini matched Weir’s 81.

Another Utahn who has been a fixture at the Masters the previous eight years, Tony Finau, did not qualify to play in the primary main of the 12 months this 12 months.

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, hits his tee shot on the 18th gap through the first round of the Masters golf match at the Augusta National Golf Club, Thursday, April 9, 2026, in Augusta, Ga. | AP