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# The Masters 2011: five players to watch
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## Kevin Garside profiles his stand-out contenders for the first major of the
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season.
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![Padraig Harrington - The Masters 2011: five players to watch][1]
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Driving on: Padraig Harrington has shown fine form in the build-up to Augusta
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Photo: EPA
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[![Kevin Garside][2]][3]
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By [Kevin Garside][4] 10:10PM BST 02 Apr 2011
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[Follow Kevin Garside on Twitter][5]
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[Comments][6]
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**Nick Watney**
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Shot the joint-lowest score last year, a 65, and in the final round. Watney
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hits long and straight, a quality that goes a long way on this course, and
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showed with victory at the Cadillac World Golf Championship at Doral last
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month that he knows how to finish a big event.
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**Rickie Fowler**
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First timers tend not to prosper at Augusta. Tell that to those who stood in
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disbelief at Celtic Manor when Fowler came from behind to level his singles
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match against Edoardo Molinari over the closing four holes on his Ryder Cup
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debut. Fearlessness might be his best attribute.
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**Dustin Johnson**
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Drives longer than long, with a subtle touch about the greens for a big lump.
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Ran Watney close at Doral and might have had a major already had he read the
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guidelines on what constituted a bunker at Whistling Straits. He won't have
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that problem at Augusta.
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**Padraig Harrington**
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As he has shown at the Shell Houston Open in Texas this weekend, the form that
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won Harrington three majors in 13 months beginning at the Open in 2007, is
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returning. Rebuilt his swing since the gold rush to enable him to contend
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again at the big show. He's ready.
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**Martin Laird **
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Won for the second time on the PGA Tour at Bay Hill recently having featured
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regularly on leaderboards this year. A debutant, but the 28-year-old
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Glaswegian has played all his senior golf in America and goes to Augusta full
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of confidence.
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02 Apr 2011
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01 Apr 2011
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## [The Masters][18]
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* ### [Sport »][19]
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* ### [Kevin Garside »][3]
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* ### [Golf »][20]
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In sport
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[![The Masters 2011: after the choke][21] ][22]
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### [After the choke][22]
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[![][23] ][24]
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### [The Masters: final round][24]
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his feet][25] ][26]
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