Amateur scores round of a lifetime with Tiger Woods WSOC TV [Video]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — As life goals go, “playing alongside Tiger Woods — and beating him head-to-head — on Sunday at the Masters” is a pretty solid one. Amateur Neal Shipley has now notched that at age 23. Not a bad start to a golf career, right?

“Playing with Tiger, Sunday at the Masters, the whole week,” Shipley said after his final round. “I have to win one of these things to kind of top this week.”

Shipley, a graduate student at Ohio State, locked down the low amateur award at the 2024 Masters on Friday night, when he was the only amateur to make the cut. After struggling in the wind on Saturday — and after Woods really struggled — Shipley found himself paired alongside the GOAT for a Sunday stroll amid the pines and azaleas.

Growing up in western Pennsylvania, Shipley lived in the shadow of Arnold Palmer. But it was actually …