The Masters

I think I'll go with Scottie Scheffler this year and Will Zalatoris as my dark horse. Kind of pissed I missed DCP this morning, replay at 9 on the golf channel.

I’ll be watching. Would like to see Rory finally complete his career grand slam. Also a fan of Jason Day

I hope you are right. Will be rooting for Scottie. Will pick Rahm for the win and to get back in the groove. Sam Burns as longshot.

If I get to pick two I’ll take Morikawa and Hovland.

Do you think Tiger will play?

Hopefully not.

More like a favorite and one with long odds but you do you

I’m with you on this one

Add me to that list. The Tiger lovers will be along shortly to tug on his sack.

I’m pulling for Rahm myself.

Scottie has been n fire this year and it would be cool to see him get his first major.

Tiger has to be playing, in my opinion. He has been working towards this for a year, and he wouldn’t have arrived in Augusta last week if he wasn’t convinced he could win, not just play.

Tiger could vanish from the planet as far as I'm concerned. Many worship the ground he walks on, but he's nothing but a pathetic loser in life.

Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler and Tiger Woods.

Zero phucks given on what the Tiger haters think. Tiger has pretty much brought golf to where it is today! NO one is perfect, look in the mirror!

^^^^^^

I thought Yoda was dead?

Justin Thomas for the win and Max Homa as my dark horse.

I like to play golf but do not care to watch it anymore for its back to being pretty much boring. Tiger, Sergio and those young guns and some of the others made it fun to watch!
Enjoyed watching Ernie, Vijay, Mickelson, Furyk and Fred Couples even though they were not jumping up and down on the course.

Maybe I just do not watch enough of the players today, they seem to be kind of uppity and lacking the real rivalries and fire in the belly that appeared obvious in the previous generations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fui7yvebIdk

Jordan For the win.

Then give me Morikawa and Woods. I’ll tug on that sack just to ruffle some feathers in here lol

Tread lightly...you might end up as someones signature line. LOL

I want to see Faldo come out of the booth and win another one

I will go with Tiger

Spieth knows how to play this golf course if he can get his head on straight.

Is Tiger Woods playing?

He says he's playing as of now.

I bet most of us can say we've not done what he has to his family or himself, so I have no issues looking in the mirror.
I hope he plays all weekend and doesn't win, or make the cut.
It will be interesting, but coverage of the other golfers will be lacking unless he misses the cut.

He was the greatest player of his era, perhaps will we know now if his era is over or not.
"Player" could be construed many ways I guess and not all good ones.

This morning on sport talk, they had a guy covering his practice round yesterday on. Said he was limping after only playing 9 holes.

I'll take Tony or Victor for the win

Par 3 contest tomorrow at 2pm on ESPN

Always one of my favorites to watch , love it when one gets skipped off the water

https://www.masters.com/en_US/players/player_list.html


Always fun to watch Bubba Watson play

Better yet to enjoy Dustin Johnsons Fiancé Paulina Gretzky strolling around




I use to enjoy watching Freddy Couples play, he strutted around like a Banty Rooster.
Question is Popeye's Fried Chicken Freddy's sponsor now

You can google "biggest jerks in sports", biggest jerks on PGA tour", etc and Tiger's name is almost always near the top of the list.

Seems like a waste of my life to google crap like that. I don't care what an athlete does in their off time, I just want to see what their best effort in the sport looks like. Y'all got a lot of hate in your hearts..

Ditto.

He’s going to limp for the rest of his life.

Could care less if Tiger plays.... the problem i have is if he announces he is playing, it take away from the other golfers in the field. Waiting to announce his return is irritating, and everyone hanging on his every word and thought. Nobody to look up to imo. Tiger could be tied for last and gets more tv time than the guys leading.... disgraceful. my .02

That's your 3rd post in this thread about Tiger. It seems like you're obsessed with him. Why do you care so much? He's a golfer, not your brother or hunting buddy.

Par 3 is on

Shooter McGavin being the biggest turd of them all!

Valid post.

Tiger reminds me of LeBron.

I don't play golf, never have, so I am not a golf fan and don't keep up with it. But once a long time ago I was binge watching some golf tournament that had Tiger playing in it. Some other guy won and the first reporter to ask the winner a question immediately after the win asked "What did you think of Tiger Wood's performance today?" or something like that. It was so long ago I don't remember what the guy that won replied, but might have been something like "um yea, he lost". What I do remember is the look of victory sinking from the winner's face as it was obvious all the sports press were only focused on and asking questions about Tiger, Tiger, Tiger.

They just blew the horn, been waiting on this for three years now.

Love me some tiger. Gd it you hate America if you hate tiger

Rope a dope.....gd I love some tiger.

Ps......is daly playing or just signing

I agreed with that sentiment til they started kneeling for our national anthem and using their pulpits to bad mouth patriots...I will certainly own up to some hate in my heart for the perps...

aaaand they called it

What's that mean......did tiger scare everyone off and he won.

Rain was/is on the way

Great tribute to Jack Nicklaus. How cool would that be to be one of his kids or Peepaws grandkids.

Just did. Tiger #16 in top 16 PGA players that are jerks IN REAL LIFE. Duh, would you be a jerk if the media refused to give you any privacy….ever!?

Top 10 jerks on tour, Tiger not listed. But Hogan #5.

Would love to see Tiger win and 3 more majors in the coming years….He’s the greatest ever but the argument will never be final until he has the most majors. As far as his personal life, I care about that as much as I care about actors political views.

If not Tiger, Justin Thomas then Rory, (also a jerk in real life).

We need a Tiger/John Daly paring. It would be Happy Gilmore in real life.

Phil for the long shot!

Where's Fuzzy Zoeller these days?

Extremely long shot, in fact no shot whatsoever.

Just as a little side note, I once knew a guy who lived in Augusta who would rent out his home during the tournament every year through a local real estate agent. It would always be rented to a corporate client. He made enough off the rental that he and his wife could take a week-long vacation somewhere outside the US and have money left over.

My every thought of Augusta brings to mind Bobby Jones who was arguably the best amateur golfer to ever play the game. I'm sure it was his success as both an engineer and lawyer that he never saw to need to make money off playing the game.

No one will ever be able to swing a club as effortlessly as Bobby Jones.

Always enjoyed watching big Ernie Els swing the club, it was so fluid and effortless

Payne we have the first 2022 Masters update

https://twitter.com/chrisvernonshow/status/1512147778599899136?s=21&t=ilK9tbJ126V6hKRtYUcqcg

57 seconds

I get sick of Tiger talk at the Masters. His career is limping like his leg, and I don’t want to hear about him. He needs to limp off into the sunset, or the closest water hazard.

Call it hate if you will, but it’s more like serious dislike and disgust.

It's sports.....there will always be a vocal minority that talks of their disgust, dislike, hate...whatever, about the greatest players in their respective sport. It's kind of comical when people aren't able to limit it to the sport the athlete plays. Always devolves into a diatribe about the athlete on a personal level.

What is pretty undeniable is that if you talk about the two greatest to ever play the game, as well as the two that did more for the sport of golf.....Woods is in both those clubs.

Oh, and he shot 1 under today at 46 years old, in the first competitive he has played in 14 months, at Augusta.....

It's a sport.....nothing more, or less.

GD........how can you not like Tiger.........

It's going to be worse tomorrow when his round is on the entire espn broadcast.

How did Tiger do today?

I wouldnt have watched without him............bet a grand on him to show just to stay interested


the masters and golf win with him init,

He shot one under today.

I can and do. Saw him at his one and only Colonial appearance. Colonial turned the Tiger into a scared little pussycat!

My brother flew into Augusta this morning, he is there for all four days. That would be awesome to go at least once.

F tigger…Would not piss on him if he was on fire.

Not too shabby

I aint mad at how tiger did today. Im got screwed by the cup at 17 from the bunker. That was a great shot

His grouping was the featured trio today. Seemed they showed his every shot.

Only on the Master's app and Masters.com. His round tomorrow will be shown live on espn. They do it to rope the casual fans into watching more.

are you drunk?

like me?

Naw, but close. Had too much going on but watched all I could from 11-9ish when I was in here.

Be sure to sign up for tickets on their website every year and cross your fingers. It’s a random draw they do and the tickets are not expensive at all when you do get drawn. We got picked 11 years ago and damn, that place is amazing!

So here’s my funny Masters story… we’re there up against the ropes watching guys tee off on the practice round. I hear these guys talking who walked up behind us. One says… “man, granddad is getting heavy. I’m not going to keep carrying him this whole time… y’all gotta help out too”. Then another says… “man, you still have him? I thought you got rid of him on 13?” My curiosity was really getting the best of me, so I turn around and I’ll be danged if they didn’t have an urn with Ol Grandpaw’s ashes in it. I said is that your grandfathers ashes? They said it was his dying wish to be spread at Augusta and how he had already set the money aside for them to fly out and attend the tournament after he passed. When they left they were headed to #16 (the par 3 where they always skip the balls across the water on the practice rounds. Said he always liked to watch that and they were going to dump the rest of him there

As was the case with Robert Downey Jr, I enjoy seeing a guy take hard licks, recognize his mistakes and then learn from them. I know I have.

Wishing I was there, but got the hookup on a new lid today:

I give Tiger credit for today…bogeyed 4 out of first 5 holes, many golfers would fold, but he kept his head in it and battled back to stay in the hunt. Scottie Scheffler was on fire and is leading by 5 last I looked.

Where are all the Spieth lovers who have told me for years he’s coming back strong?

You're a bitter man Davis. You disappeared after last year's Open. Show up today after he missed the cut. I think you might not like him or Tiger....

Did y'all see Swafford's club head break off when he hit his shot on 13 today?


https://twitter.com/OutsideTheCut/status/1512518011462340616

My son was playing in the TO tournament several years ago at the illustrious Henrietta Country Club. The ground was so hard, the head of his pitching wedge came off. We got it repaired at a shop in WF that evening. It was such bad conditions, you could pick up and move your ball to the closest piece of vegetation.

Ha! No bitterness here Sir! Different strokes for different folks I reckon. Jordan didn’t win the Open if I recall. 2nd perhaps. I just don’t think he is a contender at all these days. Should be a fun weekend either way.

I'll bet you a thousand dollars he wins two majors by the conclusion of the 2027 Masters.

Definitely game with that bet!!! 2 majors in the next 5 years? No way in Haiti’s he pulls off that feat.

Deal

This….was..insane….only Bubba does this. If you didn’t see this, watch the video! A wedge from 171….in the trees, ball on a twig…..to two feet!

Glad to see Tiger still in the hunt.

I’m one of those who is rooting for Jordan, but something else has his mind occupied full time now. He has the skills, just doesn’t appear to have his head into the winning focus again like he did a few years ago.

This is the only golf tournament that I make an effort to watch.
Scheffler seems to have a pretty good grip on this one.

Watching a little of this since working outside since morning. Scheffler is a Texas boy...how could you not root for him?

Stafford - Super Bowl
Scheffler - Green Jacket

Would make a good year for HP.

He’d join the big four at HP

Bobby Layne
Doak walker
Kershaw
Stafford

Pretty heady company.

(I guess you could put John Hinckley in there, but that’d be weird)

I see that Stewart Cink shot a hole in one to move into a tie with alec baldwin...

Yep, a nagging wife and a kid with a chit-filled diaper!

does/did it to the best of us. been with mine 36 years, gave up on my golf game along time ago. lol

How is Tiger doing?

Beautiful weather today

11 over

That doesn’t sound good

He's already finished. Never was in contention.

Cameron Smith is what I’d picture if he was from Reklaw, Texas and not Australia.

Indeed, or my hometown of craphole Midland TX. Mullet, pornstache and looking like he just pounded a case of 'Stones. Heck of a golfer though.

Naw, his tan doesn’t have enough sunburn mixed in it to be from miTlan(as all my buddies from garden city call it)

McIlroy and Morikawa pretty impressive way to end y'alls tournament

Dang
I just sat back down to watch. It looks like Smith crashed. And he started the day like he was going to take over.

That was cool

Yea, that was something. Probably too late though.

Hard to believe Sheffler is only 25. Looks more like 35. But he's a cool cucumber.

So Mikelson didn’t even show up to play. What’s the story behind that?

Nerves got to him at the end. Good thing for that cushion. $2.7 mil and a pretty wife. Life is good!

Agree that was awesome to watch.

He was promoting a league backed by Saudi money and trashed the PGA in the process. It was pretty dumb on his part.

Agree and congrats to Scheffler.

Great tournament and win for Scottie!