The 16 yr old  Manassero, was the  youngest person to qualify to play at the Masters. Now he's the youngest to make the cut.
3 over Par for 36 holes was the cutoff,  and Manassero finished tied at 40 with eight others eligible to play Rounds 3 & 4.
Manassero followed up an opening 71 (-1) with a 76 (+4) for a total of 147.  56 other participants were eliminated.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Italy's Matteo Manassero was the youngest person to play at the Masters. Now he's the youngest to make the cut.
The 16-year-old shot a 76 Friday that put him right on the cutline - 3 over for the tournament. He is also the first amateur since 1999 to make the cut, and the lone teenager of the four in the field playing the weekend.
Previously, the youngest player to make the cut was South African Bobby Cole, who was about a month shy of his 19th birthday when he made it in 1967.
Angel Cabrera made a 12-footer on 18 to avoid becoming the first defending Masters champion since Mike Weir in 2004 to miss the cut....
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - When Matteo Manassero drove down Magnolia Lane for the first time this week toward the clubhouse at Augusta National Golf Club, he was where he knew he was supposed to be. He was in the back seat.

Where else would a baby-faced kid who can't get a driver's license in his native Italy for two more years belong?

With his parents in the front seat of the silver Mercedes courtesy car and his golf clubs in the trunk, the 16-year-old amateur champion was headed to where he hopes to prove he belongs today. He was headed for the first tee box at the Masters as the youngest entrant in the major tournament's 74-year history.

Even though the 330-yard drive lined with 61 magnolia trees is longer than his best tee shot, Manassero earned the right to play by becoming the No. 1 amateur in the world. He is not only the youngest player ever to win the 124-year-old British Amateur but finished tied for 12th at the 2009 British Open, an event that brought him to tears when his playing partner for the first two rounds, then-59-year-old Tom Watson, lost the major in a playoff to Stewart Cink.

Such are the many sides of a kid so young it seems he should be a caddie, but whose game is so precise he finished in a tie for second yesterday at the annual Masters Par 3 contest, finishing 4-under, 2 strokes behind Louis Oosthuizen.

"Today was a funny thing, a fun experience," Manassero said. "I wasn't nervous today. When the stage is really big, then I will be"

That would be at 9:40 this morning when he not only tees off with Lee Westwood and Mike Weir at the Masters, but does so as the featured pairing on Masters.com, a new feature on the tournament Web site that will follow a select group each day on the back nine.

As stress-inducers go, that's the least of it for Manassero, yet judging by the way he has handled himself he is less stressed than Jimmy Buffett in Margaritaville. When Manassero was asked by a Los Angeles Times reporter if he trusted his English enough to not have an interpreter with him in the interview room, he looked confused before saying, ?"No, I can speak English"

The questioner persisted. 

"It's OK" he said. "I feel safe."

In 10 words, he had won over the room. Whether he can win over the grueling Masters course is another matter.

?Very inside my mind if I make the cut it would be a great thing,? Manassero said, ?but I have no goals here. I just want to enjoy this beautiful experience, this beautiful place, and take as much experience as I can. I won't have words to tell (my friends) how big and how exciting (this is). It's the Masters! It's just a special place, a special tournament, a dream. This is the end of my amateur days, yes, but on the other side we are near the part of my life I want to do.?

Manassero will turn pro for the Italian Open later this year. From there he says he will, one way or another, earn his tour card and his high school diploma, growing into a sport he hasn't yet totally mastered, even as he tees off at his first Masters.

"He is not quite long enough off the tee yet, but he is young" fellow Italian Edoardo Molinari, a playing partner in the Par 3,said."He will grow"

Surely he will grow. For now, he's one of just six amateurs who will tee off with brave hearts and pure hope for what the Masters holds for them. None could be more innocently charming than Manassero, who is standing comfortably on the edge of golf?s grandest stage.

"I want to become very good, of course" Manassero said. "Do I want to be great? Yes. I have, what is the word? The hunger. I trust in my golf."

Why wouldn't he? From his vantage point, he may be in the back seat on his way down Magnolia Lane, but he's in the driver's seat when it comes to golf.

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