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A former college football player who was late to the game of golf, Billy Payne still managed to grasp its history, especially as it related to Augusta National Golf Club, where he made a relatively meteoric rise in stature at a place used to a different pace. Payne, who retired Wednesday (effective Oct. 16) as the club’s chairman, was fond of saying that he strived to maintain the ideals of Augusta National’s founders — great amateur golfer Bobby Jones and Wall Street financier Clifford Roberts — men he never met but whose legacy he strived to maintain. And yet, neither Jones nor Roberts would have been remotely familiar with any of the things Payne, 69, accomplished in his 11-year tenure as chairman. Unlike any of his five predecessors, Payne reached far beyond Augusta National’s boundaries and made the club and the Masters Tournament a force beyond one week a year in April.

Rickie Fowler is among the early starters looking to pass 18-hole leader Ryan Moore.

Winning an Open has a lot to do with managing the elements and keeping your emotions intact. It didn’t take long for front-runner Jordan Spieth to lose his cool on Sunday of the 146th Open, where he began the day with a three-shot lead. Spieth’s tee shot at the first was struck nicely and even Johnny Miller commented what a confidence-booster it was. Spieth did a club twirl and swiftly bent down to pick up his tee. But the shot was headed left and didn’t curl back into the fairway or bounce back in. Instead, it got caught up in the thick gorse and when Spieth came upon it, he didn’t mince words. “That’s just crap man, that’s crap. Not getting rewarded for good shots,â€� Spieth said. His caddie