It would be odds-on that the 39-year-old is the lowest-ranked player ever to qualify for the Masters at Augusta<\/p>\n
There are two Masters taking place this year, the one you\u2019re watching, and the one you\u2019re playing in. Well. Maybe not you, exactly, unless you can count your handicap on two fingers, but the best player you know, that guy on the school run who used to play off scratch, that cousin who won the sports scholarship, or the uncle who everyone says could have made it back in the day. His name is Brandon Holtz, and if you haven\u2019t spotted him yet, he is, he says himself, \u201cthe old fat guy\u201d who has been playing with two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson this week.<\/p>\n
Holtz is 39, and works full-time as a real estate broker in Bloomington, Illinois. He plays as much golf as he can, but, given that he has two kids, a five-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter, it isn\u2019t nearly as much as he\u2019d like. He is currently 3,262 in the world amateur golf rankings. Which of course means he is a hell of a good golfer. And also that he is ranked a full 3,160 places below his nearest competitor among the six amateurs in the field here. And that\u2019s before you even get to the other 10,000 or so professionals in the Official Golf World Rankings, where he is currently unlisted.<\/p>\n
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