2015 Masters Discussion Thread

[jbishop15]

No Tiger yet, one hour to his tee time. Every other player around his tee time has been there for a while.

Tigers been at the course for almost an hour, according to GC Tiger Tracker.

[RJH999]

Even if Tiger shoots 65-65, he will not win.

[Dave2512]

He could have shot 65 yesterday so...

[BallStriker]

But he is absolutely not shooting 65-65.

watch your weight way out on that limb there

[Rick Martin]

Great, they will start showing Tiger once it goes on TV. How they don't show him for hole 1 , I don't get.

because there's more to the PGA and The Masters than TW?

[Rick Martin]

What's the point of a marker playing with Stricker today?

They've always used markers for the single players on weekends as far I can remember.  Protect the field? Slows the pace of the player? Who knows>

[pumaAttack]

RORS eagles!!

Could he go low and get back in this?

[ChrisP]

If Rory could only have that front 9 back from yesterday, he'd be right up there. I feel like he played those first 27 holes with no sense of urgency, and you could see after he walked off 9 yesterday that smoke was coming out of his ears and he just said "F- it, I'm aiming at every flag from here on out and going to smash every drive." And he has.

Would be interested to see how Rory would do if he would have played at Houston last week. Ken Schofield said last night that Rory played the week before in all 4 of his major wins. Why wouldn't you use that same formula this week? It's not like he left Bay Hill playing great golf. I was really surprised he didn't play at all in Texas.

[Dave2512]

I won't be surprised if a few of the -2 and better guys shoot 65-66. They can be aggressive.

[RandallT]

If Rory could only have that front 9 back from yesterday, he'd be right up there. I feel like he played those first 27 holes with no sense of urgency, and you could see after he walked off 9 yesterday that smoke was coming out of his ears and he just said "F- it, I'm aiming at every flag from here on out and going to smash every drive." And he has.

Would be interested to see how Rory would do if he would have played at Houston last week. Ken Schofield said last night that Rory played the week before in all 4 of his major wins. Why wouldn't you use that same formula this week? It's not like he left Bay Hill playing great golf. I was really surprised he didn't play at all in Texas.

Eagle gets him to T8. Seemed like he was dead in the water for quite a while. -7 for his last 11 holes helps.

[tiger19]

because there's more to the PGA and The Masters than TW?

Look at the ratings. Wit out TW last year, worse Masters ratings in 50 yrs. hate to break the news to you, but Tiger is the PGA. Admit it or not, it's true.

[pumaAttack]

Fowler is red hot out there. -5 today.  A low score is definitely get able early today.

[Dave2512]

Yeah someone is going low today. Spieth better hope it's him.

[3putter]

Speith can win this tourney today, but if he slips these guys will go after him hard.

I get a feeling they will toughen this course up for tomorrow

[ChrisP]

It appears they set the course up for Scoring today. Fowler's -5 for the day, Koepka's -4, Westwood's -3, Poulter's -3, Reed's -3....and they still have the easy par-5s to play on the back.

[Dave2512]

Soft Augusta really doesn't make for interesting viewing. It's not the Humana Challenge.

[ChrisP]

Soft Augusta really doesn't make for interesting viewing. It's not the Humana Challenge.

I agree. Not a fan of it this year. But I don't think there's much the Committee can do. They have the subair system to dry out the greens, but they also need the weather to cooperate. And the weather's been so wet and humid there of late, the greens just haven't dried out to where they wanted them. Today's really the first dry day they've had in a while, but it's not going to flip a switch just like that and get hard and fast.

[pumaAttack]

Rory's irons appear to be on today.  Looks like he is sticking everything around 10-15 feet.  if he could make some putts he could go quite low.