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What a weekend that was at Augusta National.

We had planned to use that opening sentence a week from now, but Saturday’s final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur followed by Sunday’s Drive, Chip and Putt kids competition proved again that nobody puts on a better tournament than Augusta.

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On Sunday, Oakville’s Nicole Gal brought home a win for Canada in the Girls 14-15 year old category at the Drive, Chip and Putt. Gal won her age group by a single point, largely on the strength of her putting which earned her nine of her 23 points. The Golf Channel’s Charlie Rymer asked the 14-year-old about her “perfect” putting stroke after her win.

“I worked on it a lot with my coach and then when I got my new putter, which is a beauty, I did a putter fitting and he helped me with my stroke to make sure I was right on the centre,” Gal told Rymer.

The love she had for her new putter takes golfers back to a time when a favourite putter was something so beautiful you couldn’t get your mind off of it, rather than a relationship so complicated you had to convince yourself daily not to banish it to the garage.