Sam Bennett wasn't alone on the green when he made his Masters debut at Augusta National this afternoon. The U.S. Amateur champion always has a piece of his dad with him—if you look closely, you can see it peeking out from under his left glove.
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Sam, 23, has five words inked on his left forearm: “Don’t wait to do something.” Those were the last words his father Mark wrote for his youngest son before he lost his eight-year battle with early onset Alzheimer’s in June 2021.
“(It) took him 15 minutes because we had to show him how to write out every letter,” Sam recalled in an
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