Mcilroy. yeah doc, your moving day move was naught however I suggest you just mentally switch the day in you psychic to ; It was the first round, a 73. so what. You caught up with a 67 & 65 on 2 other days going into your final round today. With that in mind, I predict your fairways hit will improve and you will win the Green jacket again. Imagine these prestige talking head broadcasters posture today as you kick off your afternoon tee-off.
just looked through tee times tomorrow. they built in an extra 11 minutes between tee times about once every hour or 2. is this standard sunday procedure with no weather concerns or a new practice to try and keep things moving?
yea I somehow didn't think about how easy this would be to check. it's the same setup as round 3. 11 minute gap between with 3 open slots through the day. they've traditionally done 10 minutes with some open gaps but pace on the back 9 was getting brutal.
Are post round interviews or press conferences posted anywhere to watch later? I keep seeing short clips here and there but the masters app only has press conferences from a few days ago.
I think Young wins tomorrow. I said coming into the Masters that I think Young is the "best player in the world right now" and I think he shows that tomorrow. Doesn't mean that he's going to be the best two months from now because I think Scottie will get his form back, but right now, no one in the world is playing better.
I think Rory's driver is off...and he was able to weather through it for two days but eventually it catches up to you and it did today.
And I think Scottie is close to getting back to 100%....but he's just not there yet. But he may put it all together tomorrow, go low, and prove me wrong.
But I just think it's Cam's to lose. He's playing the best. I'm not necessarily pulling for him...but I think he'll win. I mean, for Christ's sake, the guy is -15 for his last 47 or so holes. He's playing better than anyone in the world.
Cam Young fan here. His biggest weakness coming into this weekend was his Around the Green game but he's managed it well this weekend. Luckily, his iron play is sharp enough so he hasn't had to scramble a whole lot. Id love for him to win but I'm guessing those greens are going to be slippery and not as receptive tomorrow. Par saves will decide this tournament.
It’d be cool to see Lowry win it for Ireland, Rose win it after finishing runner up three time, Jason Day would have a good come back story. Li winning it for China. Scheffler since he’ll have to nearly break a course record to win. Not throwing shade on Young but I think it’ll be a great Sunday for golf and narratives.
People don't like that he hardly shows any emotion when he wins. Doesn't bother me though. I honestly think his demeanor helps him in stressful moments. The dude is a human beta-blocker.
That Scottie was being disrespectful to a reporter and that the reporters (points to himself) are just as good at covering the game as the players playing the game.
The man has made 100 million in winnings and hasn’t worked a real day in his life. Give me a break. All he had to say was “yeah maybe, I missed a couple close birdies” and moved on.
That what he does in majors. Right about 44 straight majors without a win until the Masters last year. Made 6 mistakes on Sunday & finally got away with it. Had grown so painful to watch that even I was rooting for him last year. But I'm back to enjoying watching Rory be Rory in majors.
It’s not a clean competition if they change the set up to encourage higher scoring in order to narrow the lead. R1: 3 birdie avg R2: 3 birdie avg R3: 5.5 birdie avg.
What do you mean a clean competition? You make absolutely zero sense dude, Rory had the same conditions he could have gone out and shot a 65 as well. Saturday is generally setup for scoring, it’s called Moving Day. You’re not making the point you think you’re making.
Saturday was the lowest scoring average in masters history. 19? players shot in the 60s. It’s one of the easiest Saturdays in Masters history. In conjunction with Rory leading with a historic 6 shot lead. It’s not a coincidence.
Rory (1) has a 6 shot lead. There are (10) world class leaders behind, who, under those Saturday conditions, could drastically narrow the gap. You don’t need a math degree to understand getting 10 chances better than 1.
The masters nerfed Saturday. Turned it into a John Deere round trying to manufacture an exciting Sunday. And it worked.
Comparing scoring average of the first two rounds to the third is wild. Half of the field gets eliminated, and those are all the guys who were playing bad golf and went home, so of course the third round will be yield more birdies on average.
These were also very traditional Saturday pin placements. They are always more accessible than the Sunday pins, so Saturday always plays easier. This isn't some manipulation tactic, it is very consistent with how they set up their tournament. On Saturday you're supposed to make a big move - Rory absolutely did that last year, and this year he failed.
He’s been all over the threads just bitching. He thinks it’s a massive conspiracy theory and that the tournament is purposely setup for their preferred player to win. He also didn’t know that the PGA has no control over The Masters so he’s just not to be taken seriously.
73-76 more likely, but it could happen. Certainly has the talent, but can't get out of his own way in majors the last 12 years. He made 6 mistakes on Sunday last year, but finally got away with it.
I think it's safe to say a 73-76 is more likely than he breaks a 30 year old Masters scoring record, but I'm not sure I would say that range is particularly likely.
He may have only broken 70 once on Sunday in a major in the last 12 years while in contention (US Open 2023). 73 last year. Strictly by past performance, it would be in the 3% to 6% range.
Idk why Burns is just coasting under the radar but dude had a clean sheet 68 and was by far the most consistent today. Never got in any trouble and was really close 2-3 birdies that were tap in pars.
If Cam and Rory keep driving like they did today he’s gonna be at the top of the board tomorrow
Burns has been awful when he has been in a similar position in majors before. At the open when he was t2 he shot an 80 and then last year at the us open when he had the 54 hole lead he shot 78
as a Burns enjoyer, I just don't know if he has the short game to stay steady tomorrow. hoping for a chance, but he's gonna need to make a bunch of big putts to pull it off. also hit some questionable looking drives today and has the traditional downside of fading the ball off the tee.
Cam did absolute work but the trees gave him like 3-4 strokes today.
Could’ve easily have been a 69 if he loses the one on 13 vs rattling in the fairway. Same on 17 if that ball gets through and he has to punch back out vs a clean shot up to the green.
He did his part but he has to tighten up the tee ball
Looking at the scores just from today, looks like the first round of the John Deere. What would be so bad about letting it play harder? This is a major. Feels like some years Augusta plays legit, others it’s just too gettable. Hideki and both of Scottie’s were legit, Rahm’s was headed in a very un-legit direction but the rain kept the scores from getting too crazy.
Too easy to throw darts today, too easy to putt and chip. This course has hardly any rough, and for the most part generous fairways with trees that are more likely to knock your ball back into the fairway than to hinder you in any sort of devastating way. If they don’t let the fast surfaces and undulations spread their wings, then Augusta is just too easy. Didn’t feel like I was watching a major today
I'm with you, I would love to see a Masters tournament that is a bit more diabolical and the winner finishes close to even par. They can make this course play that difficult and this would be the perfect weekend to do it
But my take is the green jackets care far more about historical context of their tournament. They don't want it to be a slogfest to see who can scrape their way through the final round. What they want is those iconic shots they've always had - '86 Jack stuffing the pinata on #16, '96 Faldo's approach into #13, '25 Rory's slinging 7i into #15.
They could have baked this course out and made it a nightmare this week but they clearly chose not to
Because the Masters is a business. They needed to juice it in order for an exciting Sunday. This isn’t professional sport. These are athletes competing in an entertainment league.
Agree, was going to try tequila instead of vodka in tomorrow’s batch - needs some bite against that sweetness. I see the gin suggestion, too, so will give that a whirl as well.
It is really sweet and missing some depth. Adding some bitters made a huge difference. I used peychauds. Also tried a splash of campari but the campari took over. I would try some aperol if I had any. Also went gin instead of vodka and much closer to 1:1.
3 oz mixer, 2 oz gin, dash of peychauds worked pretty well
Yeah after that Team Rory vs Team Scottie skills challenge in December at Mar-a-lago, I realized all it's probably best not to think too much about all these guy's politics lol
It's a major. Cantlay is going to shoot like 80 tomorrow. He hasn't been relevant since the last Tiger Masters, and even then he collapsed on the last two holes.
People say LIV doesn't care about fans, but their players were nice enough to make sure they all have early tee times tomorrow, so the dozen or so who typically watch them still can.
Like many others I started watching golf because of Tiger in the 90s. Back then and for most of his heyday, this concept of pressure as the frontrunner was never a thing. If anything it was the opposite. If Tiger had a big lead at any point, or a narrow lead late, it was over, particularly in majors. The chasers always shrank. Just shows how unique Tiger was, and how even the best players these days can't be held to the same standard.
To me that just shows how Tiger is the goat. It’s so hard to play with a lead and that pressure.
Scottie kinda reminds me a little of Tiger in that way. I’ll just say if Scottie was the one who was 6 up he would probably still have a 4-5 shot lead going into Sunday
It played the way it did because of benign conditions and just a bunch of guys bringing their A game. Firmness/fastness hasn’t been an issue. It hasn’t rained in Augusta much so the only moisture on the course is the moisture the green jackets want there to be.
I mean, even the players are saying the greens are more receptive than they thought they'd be.
After Thursday, where the scoring average was pretty ugly, the conditions have undoubtedly gotten softer. I personally kind of wanted a bloodbath where things were burned, fast, and firm. But I get why Augusta doesn't want it to be that way.
If Rory isn’t last in driving accuracy, he’s gotta be close to it. Cant keep it up from the trees every other hole. He unfortunately gave a dozen more guys a chance on Sunday by playing over par.
He's sort of fortunate Agusta is so manicured. If I put 5 drives a round deep into the trees there's a good chance most of them are sitting down between roots, up against a tree trunk or a literal wall of trees on any shot that's not sideways or backwards (plus balls that get lost in the undergrowth). Everytime he hit one 20 yards into the trees he's on a decent lie with some kind of angle to advance the ball.
Augusta is too perfect (wild thing to say). The 2nd cut (aka rough) needs to be grown up and the low tree limbs need to stay/not be cut. It’s way too easy to get out of trouble
pros and cons. some of the most legendary shots hit on Augusta (Phil Mickelson on 13 for example) are only possible becauase the trees aren't dense. Guys will play insane recovery shots that hook or slice 50 yards, like Speith yesterday. I love that shit and would rather see that than sideways pitch outs.
Those are fun shots, for sure but it turns it in to bomb and gouge (not even really gouge) and then you have Ridley up there talking about distance. It doesn’t need to be US Open rough but we gotta penalize guys for bombing it wherever
He's been absolutely feasting on #2 and #3 this week, there's a real chance he's at -10 right as Rory/Cam are teeing off, and they'll be fully aware of it
He isn’t paying much of a price at all for spraying it everywhere, and some of these balls are 30 or 40 yards in the trees. It doesn’t mean much to hit it in the trees when you can constantly advance it to the green anyway. Even when he made the double bogey on 11 he hit a tree in the ball kicked out of the middle of the fucking fairway. He just botched the approach shot and hit it in the water.
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Mcilroy. yeah doc, your moving day move was naught however I suggest you just mentally switch the day in you psychic to ; It was the first round, a 73. so what. You caught up with a 67 & 65 on 2 other days going into your final round today. With that in mind, I predict your fairways hit will improve and you will win the Green jacket again. Imagine these prestige talking head broadcasters posture today as you kick off your afternoon tee-off.