"This golf course allows you to do that. It relaxes me a little bit off the tee so that I can go ahead and hit it. If I miss, I can use my skill to recover."
When he didn't land an approach, such as at No. 4 -- when his second shot rolled off the green and was almost buried under a camping chair -- his touch was sharp enough to help him scramble for par.
His creativity also helped him during the second round when he hit a shot from both knees off the lip of a greenside bunker, setting up a gimme for par and another nickname from caddies.
"They said, 'Well, maybe we should start calling you Dorf," Chopra recalled. "That was funny, too.
"I said, 'Well, I think I like Rambo better.'"
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