2024 Masters

[iacas]

A tradition like many, many, many others:

Good thing I could still go as a PGA member… ha ha.

[TN94z]

Got my annual rejection notice today.  Can you take a +1....🤣

[Zeph]

Two weeks to go!

Old man Woods is on the list of players. I hope he gets at least two rounds of golf, or even better: four.

[Carl3]

Look out folks, Tiger means business:

Tiger Woods has 'eliminated sex' while training for the Masters: pal

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Tiger is "working really hard in the gym. He's eating right. He's even eliminated sex," says a friend of the 48-year-old golfer. "He's focused."

 

[Zeph]

Level of dedication: Sex addict going into celibacy.

As long as it doesn’t have the opposite effect and all he can think about is the old in-out.

[snapfade]

1 hour ago, Carl3 said:

Look out folks, Tiger means business:

Tiger Woods has 'eliminated sex' while training for the Masters: pal

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Tiger is "working really hard in the gym. He's eating right. He's even eliminated sex," says a friend of the 48-year-old golfer. "He's focused."

 

I'm anxiously waiting for the meme's to drop.

[GolfLug]

2 minutes ago, snapfade said:

I'm anxiously waiting for the meme's to drop.

Welp, he is gonna layup on 13th and 15th, guaranteed. 🫤

[snapfade]

Now that I think about it, he should be out there slinging it, not laying off. He should be doing what he was doing when he was in top form. Hit the local Perkins, hook up with a few waitresses, call Stevie back and so forth. 

[phillyk]

How sad and forced does this look?…. 

I’ve intentionally stayed away from LIV vs PGAT recently as I’m exhausted by it. I want the best playing the best. 

It’s all Greg vs Jay marketing. Terrible. I want the best to win. I don’t care if it’s a LIV, Euro, PGAT, or Am that wins. 

[ChetlovesMer]

7 minutes ago, phillyk said:

How sad and forced does this look?…. 

I’ve intentionally stayed away from LIV vs PGAT recently as I’m exhausted by it. I want the best playing the best. 

It’s all Greg vs Jay marketing. Terrible. I want the best to win. I don’t care if it’s a LIV, Euro, PGAT, or Am that wins. 

Why are they all covering their nuts? It looks like someone standing behind the camera has a tennis ball cannon and is preparing to fire on them. 

[phillyk]

1 minute ago, ChetlovesMer said:

Why are they all covering their nuts? It looks like someone standing behind the camera has a tennis ball cannon and is preparing to fire on them. 

High Powered tennis cannon. 😂

[iacas]

15 minutes ago, phillyk said:

High Powered tennis cannon. 😂

Tennis ball cannon, but LOUDER.

[pganapathy]

I actually wonder if anybody from LIV is actually in good enough form that they can win the Masters.  Brooks showed us last year at the PGA that playing less rounds and tournaments isn't necessarily detrimental.  I really want Rory to win it and get his grand slam.  He is too talented to be stuck on 4 majors for almost a decade.

[ChetlovesMer]

2 hours ago, pganapathy said:

I actually wonder if anybody from LIV is actually in good enough form that they can win the Masters.  Brooks showed us last year at the PGA that playing less rounds and tournaments isn't necessarily detrimental.  I really want Rory to win it and get his grand slam.  He is too talented to be stuck on 4 majors for almost a decade.

I like the question. 

• I think there are a couple. Brooks Koepka, John Rahm are the two who come to mind. 
• But I think Joaquin Niemann and/or Cameron Smith could possibly surprise us. 
• Bryson Dechambeau has never faired well at Augusta, even when he was playing well elsewhere. So, I don't see it. 
• Sergio Garcia - Stick a fork in him.
• Tyrrell Hatton - I'd be shocked. 
• Adrian Meronk - See also Tyrrell Hatton
• Phil Mickelson - I keep hearing about how Phil finished second last year, which means he has a shot. To which I say BS. He finished 4 strokes back last year and he was 8 strokes back with 9 to play. It was as uninteresting a second place finish as has ever existed. 
• Charl Schwartzel - Hasn't been interesting in a decade. 
• Bubba Watson - See also Charl Schwartzel.
• Dustin Johnson - DJ seems to have settled into that "I have a sh!t-ton of money, why work hard anymore?" mindset. I could be wrong, but it kind of feels like he fell off the planet. 
• Patrick Reed - Speaking of falling off. 

So, in my humble opinion, which is worth almost exactly Jack Squat. Koepka, Rahm, Neimann or Smith are about it. 

 

[GolfLug]

4 hours ago, pganapathy said:

I actually wonder if anybody from LIV is actually in good enough form that they can win the Masters.  Brooks showed us last year at the PGA that playing less rounds and tournaments isn't necessarily detrimental.  I really want Rory to win it and get his grand slam.  He is too talented to be stuck on 4 majors for almost a decade.

IMO some courses in the British open rota and Augusta, and way it is set up for the Masters lend themselves to experience in a disproportionately high weight compared to the US Open and PGA Champ where it is much harder to trump ball striking. Rahm/Koepka/DJ, even Mickelson can come back for the dead and I wouldn't be terribly surprised. 

Of course, some one like Scheffler can always throw up a sublime ball striking weekend with reasonably decent putting and short circuit their way to the top, but I suspect you already knew that. 

[Vinsk]

I really hope it’s not a Scheffler blow out. I’d like to see a pack of the young guns go at it. I of course watch The Masters regardless, but would really bore it up if Scheffler or Clark have a big lead on Sunday.

[Elmer]

14 hours ago, iacas said:

Tennis ball cannon, but LOUDER.

This is the best thing I have read on the internet today.
Well done!

[snapfade]

I don't care who wins as long as it is not Clark. I kind of hope a LIV guy wins to stir the pot some more. Give Chamblee something to blow off on. IMO it's Scotties to loose. Can't wait for the announcers talking like they are in church or in the presence of the Pope. Bring back Gary McCord.