Inspired by highlights from Masters win, Charl Schwartzel goes worst to first

AUGUSTA, Ga. – There have been 209 players on the PGA Tour this season that have recorded enough rounds to qualify for the strokes gained: total statistic, the metric that compares a player’s score to the field average.

Charl Schwartzel is ranked 209th.

The 2011 Masters champion has – statistically – been the worst performer on Tour this season. In 23 rounds, he has averaged more than 2.78 strokes lost to the field per round – more than a half-stroke worse than Jonas Blixt.

“I haven’t felt like I’ve played as badly as my results, though,” Schwartzel said Friday.

And he was speaking Friday at Augusta National not because he was playing poorly again, not because he was on his way to another…