Hanson Taking Cues From Yani?

Bill Fields with a little background info on Masters third round leader Peter Hanson...

Hanson, who has a home in Orlando, has been working with instructor Gary Gilchrist since late last year. Gilchrist teaches LPGA star Yani Tseng, with whom Hanson practices a good deal. "I think it helps for him to have someone like Yani who is so superior in ladies golf," Hanson said, "maybe [I] feed off that a little bit. I've been practicing a lot with her, but unfortunately I haven't had the time to play with her yet."

When he was a boy, Hanson envisioned himself hitting volleys at Wimbledon instead of putts at Augusta National but "quickly found out I wasn't good enough" and began to concentrate on golf when he was 14 or 15.

Ryan Lavner reminds us that Hanson accepted a special PGA Tour membership recently.

Hanson, 34, who accepted special temporary membership on the PGA Tour this season, posted two top-5 finishes in World Golf Championship events this season, with a quarterfinal loss at the Match Play and a T-4 at Doral. A four-time winner in Europe, he also tied for second earlier this season in a PGA European Tour event in Qatar.