Matteo Manassero has lived many lives in golf.

In 2009, at the age of 16, Manassero became the youngest ever to win the British Amateur. One month later, he was the top amateur at the 2009 Open Championship, where he finished T13 at Turnberry. That was just four shots outside of the playoff between Stewart Cink and Tom Watson. He was the No. 1 ranked amateur in the world by year’s end and became the youngest to ever make the cut at the Masters the following April. He turned pro and won four times on the European Tour, including the 2013 BMW PGA, where he outplayed Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els, Lee Westwood, Francesco Molinari and others.

Then, the young Italian’s game fell off and fast. He registered just one top-10 finish in 2014, made just six cuts in 2015 and was no longer a card-carrying

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