Young, fearless, impressed. That’s an apt description of the three teenage golfers, all making their first appearance in the 2009 Masters Thursday.

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa and South Korea’s Danny Lee, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion, are all too young to rent a car or order an adult beverage, but are excited about their chances in their first Masters Tournament.

“This is my dream course to come over here and play this one,” said Lee, 18, who moved to New Zealand in 2001.

Ishikawa, 17, is the second-youngest player to compete in the Masters while McIlroy is 19. Together they make up the youngest threesome in Masters history.

How young? Combine their ages, 54, and they barely top the total number of Masters appearances by Gary Player. Total them and Tiger Woods still has 12 more total PGA Tour victories

Their priorities for the week are seeing girlfriends, texting friends back home, buying souvenirs and hopefully make Masters history.

“It’s great. It’s been a huge thrill to be here and it’s been a dream of mine for a long time to finally be able to play in the Masters,” McIlroy said. “For that dream to finally come true is pretty special.”

Both Ishikawa and McIlroy have won professional tournaments worldwide. Lee, who defeated 2009 Masters participant Drew Kittleson in last summer’s Amateur, plans to turn professional after the Masters.

But that doesn’t mean they aren’t in awe of their new surroundings at Augusta National Golf Club.

“I saw (on video) everything was so small and narrow. It is much bigger than I thought and everything starts with the greens,” said Ishikawa. “The first day, first practice round, I came in with a score of 1-under-par. I didn’t feel it was so difficult on the greens.

“Then as I went through more rounds, I had some three putts and I started realizing the difficulty of this golf course.”

A winner at the age of 15 on the Japan tour, Ishikawa has attracted a large media turnout from his homeland and been given the nickname of Shy Prince.

“I don’t know what it’s going to be like in the real tournament, but I’m kind of excited about going through the process of feeling nervousness in the morning,” he added about Thursday’s first round.

All three players arrived early in the week. McIlroy played in the Houston Open last week, while Lee and Ishikawa arrived early to practice.

All three looked for as much advice from previous Masters invitees as possible.

“I played with Ian Poulter yesterday and he told me not to ram the putts,” Lee said. “I was hitting putts really firm on the greens and he said, ‘you have to dribble in every putt. It makes it worse if you force it in the hole.’ That was good advice.”

Because Lee remains an amateur, he is staying in the Crow’s Nest atop the clubhouse.

While embracing the history, it’s been a Masters learning experience on his accommodations.

“I thought the rooms were going to be big, but their smaller than this. Half the size of the room here,” he said in the media interview setting. “I’m really surprised how they sleep in there. It’s still great history and I’m sleeping where Tiger slept, so that might help me play better.”

All three said four-time Masters Champion Woods has inspired their play, and the threesome can all recite from memory his past victories.

He also has the record they all want - youngest ever Masters Champion.