AUGUSTA, Ga. — Meet Nicolai and Rasmus Hojgaard, an equivalent pair that’s singularly centered.
The 24-year-old Danish brothers are the primary set of twins to play in the identical Masters, and they are going to be pulling for one another Thursday when the storied event will get underway.
OK … that’s a little bit of a buried lie.
“In all probability be very irritating,” Rasmus stated when requested how it could really feel seeing his brother win a inexperienced jacket. “No, I feel it could be very cool.”
They’re just about lifeless ringers for one another, particularly after they confirmed as much as Augusta Nationwide this week sporting the identical grey quarter-zip pullovers. That wasn’t deliberate, by the way in which. Simply one other thoughts meld.
It’s useful that Rasmus has a swoop of brown hair, and Nicolai has a buzz. In any other case, it could be exhausting for anybody however family and friends to inform them aside.
“Again once we had been in class, we might swap lessons, and everybody within the room, they clearly know that it’s the flawed one which’s right here, however the instructor wouldn’t know,” Rasmus stated. “So we might sit there for an hour, and everybody was attempting to be critical concerning the scenario. Then the instructor ultimately would discover out that it’s Nicolai right here and never Ras, and they might simply chuckle about it. We did that just a few occasions and we thought it was fairly enjoyable.”
They don’t have equivalent expertise within the Masters, nevertheless. Whereas Rasmus is making his debut, Nicolai performed final 12 months and truly held the Saturday lead by means of 10 holes earlier than tailing off and ending in a tie for sixteenth.
“After the event,” Nicolai stated, “I checked out that pondering, ‘What went flawed after you had been in excellent place to then end sixteenth, and what are you able to be taught from that?’”
Naturally, the 2 are ultra-competitive and unquestionably pushed one another.
“I feel once we had been youthful, we discovered how you can take care of when someone was taking part in effectively and we couldn’t discuss to one another for days. …
“Then we acquired older and extra mature. We will shake one another’s hand now and say congrats when somebody is taking part in effectively.”
Oh, brother.
