A pair of chokers down the stretch which was oddly fitting as it seemed nobody could make a putt all day. Sergio's miss on 18 in regulation was as bad as I've seen in a long time. The Mutt Masters.
Are you using a pipe or are you on the needle? Garcia's clutch putts on 13, 14, & 15 (first eagle on 15 by a winner in 23 years) don't count but his pars on 16 & 18 were chokes?
Really funny and really true...if Rose and Garcia are chokers on the basis of this performance, then I shudder to think what a mind like that thinks of Spieth, Phil, McIlroy, Ricky and Adam Scott...they must really, really suck. Matsuyama, Kaymer, Kutcher, frauds all of them, and the biggest choker of all - Freddie Boom-Boom Couples - why is he even playing, if he can't ever turn in a weekend performance better than that; he shouldn't have even won in 1992, the ball stayed on the bank.
Yeah Garcia and Rose, they are chokers, mutts... that's why most every man cries when he wins it the first time
As to the coverage? It's the best watch in every regard, every year.
I love the term patrons; I eat up the syrup; I always did and I probably ever will...it IS (imo) the most unique and special of the four professional majors; it IS about the traditions of game, the club and the tournament, who founded it, how it was run, how it was shown, the jacket, the champions dinner, the career-long entry into the tournament, the ceremonial tee shot, the monuments to great stars...
How different Freddy Couples career and Langer's reputation if they didn't win here...they would be out of your mind and anonymously ensconced in their Senior fortunes. Ask John Daly if he wouldn't have rather won here than even an Open at St. Andrews; it may have put his memory down in a much better way, if HE had a place to go to each year, to be influenced by the great champions of the game. Of ALL his many miserable defeats, tell me that Greg Norman's failures here did not define him with twice the measure of his two major wins and scores of tournament victories.
If you think the Masters culture is silly, craven or worthy of tiresome annual protest than you likely think the same of golf in your heart of hearts, because everything about the Masters culture holds golf, the reverence of golf and its great players in a shining and heroic light. Whatever honor there is to be had in the playing of a game, they announce. Whatever is good about the recreation and character of the game and its past, is held up high.
In the world at large Arnold Palmer is a good man, though flawed like the rest of us. In the Masters' world, he was first crowned as a King, without blemish. I don't know if the hardest of hard boiled stories are true about Palmer, but in the non-Masters world, the stories make him no more or no less a golfer, thing or human to be respected than Tiger, who blows his competitive record AWAY.
I too am not impressed with anyone but Faldo and Baker-Finch; I wish they had a better Hole Tower roster, but to hate (yes, "hate") on this is like throwing a hammer at the David.
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