2022 Masters

[saevel25]

Double hole outs from the same bunker on 18 for Rory and Morikawa. That is giving the crowd some entertainment. 

[boogielicious]

Matching bunker hole outs!

[DeadMan]

Fire Faldo into the Sun. Shut your mouth. JFC. 

[Zippo]

8 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

Awesome round for Rory! 64! That was fun to watch. 

Loved him and Collin holing out 18 from the bunker!

[boogielicious]

Only Greg Norman could blow this lead now!

[phillyk]

Thats an awesome win for #1 in the world! Even the best can 4 putt 😂

[nvkevin]

Great performance!!  Rory put on a show for the final round with a hell of a finish on 18, and Morikawa following suit.  

[jmanbooyaa]

So cool when past champ places green jacket on new champ. 

[iacas]

3 hours ago, Zeph said:

Rory should have started playing like this several days ago.

Copy and paste that every year.

[nvkevin]

22 minutes ago, iacas said:

Copy and paste that every year.

Truer words are seldom spoken…

[jmanbooyaa]

Ouch

[Bucki1968]

Friday was brutal.  We had tickets and weather was not very good. I'm amazed how much different the course looked from the last time we in 2017. I will say this, that golf course is tough. From the tournament tees....wow. 

[NM Golf]

On 3/28/2022 at 9:36 AM, NM Golf said:

I'm jumping on the bandwagon, Scotty Scheffler stays hot and wins (-14). The new world #1 is playing out of his mind!

I called it...was even close on the score until he melted down on #18.

[rehmwa]

Really enjoyed Sunday.  Scottie starting weak and recovering when Cam looked like he'd run hot.  Rory's ENTIRE FREAKING ROUND and with Colin with the paired eagles and the paired sand holeouts.  Scottie's nerves trying to putt out on 18 brought a ton of 'real' to the tournament - these amazing players are very human.  Tiger finishing up a cool comeback with smiles, but also plenty early enough in the day for us to enjoy rest of the show.  Tiger limping and the obvious pain in his gait and stance was another 'reality' of poignant moments.

It was a very riveting broadcast.  .....

YMMV

 

(bonus - I think the "Golf Shot" and the "of the ball" commentary was a lot less than typical, even with Nick on the mic.  So I got that going for me)

[Big C]

@iacas I said I would come back and eat crow if I was wrong, and I'm a man of my word so here I am. Good for Tiger - despite a few loose shots, his overall game was sharper than I expected. 

Physically, I was expecting the slide that we saw over the weekend to take hold on Friday. I think my instincts about his comeback chances were correct, but his body held up one day longer than I anticipated. Hopefully he can build off this and continue to contend in majors for years to come.

[Dr. Manhattan]

7 hours ago, Big C said:

@iacas I said I would come back and eat crow if I was wrong, and I'm a man of my word so here I am. Good for Tiger - despite a few loose shots, his overall game was sharper than I expected. 

Physically, I was expecting the slide that we saw over the weekend to take hold on Friday. I think my instincts about his comeback chances were correct, but his body held up one day longer than I anticipated. Hopefully he can build off this and continue to contend in majors for years to come.

 

Just not sure he's going to have enough tournament rounds moving forward to play the type of sharp game required at this level. Really hard to do. He had a more limited schedule than others in the past, but he was still playing 10-15 events per year. His new situation will be 4-5 events per year. That is tough as hell if you are hoping to somehow win events. 

[saevel25]

Tyrrell Hatton sounds off against Augusta National, saying it was an unfair test. 

Masters 2022: Tyrrell Hatton might hate Augusta National more than any other person on Earth | Golf News and Tour Information | GolfDigest.com

 

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"If you hit a good shot, you should end up near the hole. Not then short-sided into a bunker because of the slopes that they've created and stuff. Yeah, I don't think it's a fair test at times, and when you hit good shots and you're not rewarded for it, it shows."

I think first we have to define good shot. Scenario one, you hit the ball onto a known area of the green that severely slopes away from the hole into a bunker. Versus, you hit the ball 10-FT further away to a nice landing area and have a good shot at birdie. 

I think he is complaining that he couldn't flag hunt all day, and when he did he was penalized. 

To me, I love courses like Augusta National. Ones were you have to think about how much risk you must take to go after the flag. Not in the way a flag is tucked behind a bunker or water, but how the green contours. 

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"I think it's how the course is set up in general," Hatton continued. "You don't really have to miss a shot, and your next one you'll have -- you're really struggling to make par. With how it runs off the greens here and the slopes that you are then chipping into and how obviously it's cut, it just makes it really hard to even get chip shots close. I think everything is exaggerated here."

Yep, but you see Rory and others get up and down pretty well through out the week. Maybe work on your short game? 

Yes, when all these greens are elevated, and the front of the greens are protected, short game shots are a bit more tricky. Get better. 

I think he needs to revaluate how he plays golf at Augusta. His good shots, might be good shots in terms of ball strike, but they might not be good decisions. 

Edited April 12, 2022 by saevel25

[Double Mocha Man]

12 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

I think he needs to revaluate how he plays golf at Augusta. His good shots, might be good shots in terms of ball strike, but they might not be good decisions. 

Good point.  I think he wanted his well-struck shots on other courses that end up within 10 feet to do the same thing at Augusta National.