The 21-year-old Nakajima of Japan, who is in the field by virtue of his win at the 2021 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, admitted he’s feeling the nerves but is honored to be playing the year’s first major: “Following the footsteps of Takumi Kanaya and Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama – it’s an honor to do that. I would like to be proud to myself to represent all the amateur players in the world.” Nakajimi was given a sponsor exemption into the Sony Open in January, where he made the cut and finished 41st. In 2021, he became the second straight player to win the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the top player on the World Amateur Golf Ranking after Takumi Kanaya in 2020, and the honor also gets him an exemption into the 2022 U.S. Open. For Jarvis, a Cayman Islands native who plays college golf at UNLV, he won the Latin American Amateur Championship to earn his first start at Augusta, where he got the best rejection ever from Tiger Woods on Sunday. Click the link below to read how the fun exchange went down.