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Bill_McBride

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #50 on: April 10, 2016, 06:02:03 PM »
Anyone still think this is boring?


Stunned by Spieth's collapse.   #12 strikes again. 
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RJ_Daley

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #51 on: April 10, 2016, 06:03:03 PM »
"Will it" be Danny's Masters to win?  :o
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Terry Lavin

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #52 on: April 10, 2016, 06:05:40 PM »
Quote from: David Schmidt on April 10, 2016, 05:57:10 PM
Rumors of the boringness of this Masters have been greatly exaggerated...

Thanks, Twain!  Post of the year!
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jeffwarne

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #53 on: April 10, 2016, 06:10:49 PM »
Quote from: David Schmidt on April 10, 2016, 05:57:10 PM
Rumors of the boringness of this Masters have been greatly exaggerated...

Not watching (flight)but is there any truth to the rumor Grillo went to relieve himself and Jordan was left to conference with fans for caddvice on #12?
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Matthew Rose

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #54 on: April 10, 2016, 06:14:54 PM »
Well..... snoozefest to bizzarro world with two swings of Spieth's club.
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Terry Lavin

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #55 on: April 10, 2016, 06:23:00 PM »
Major gagging.
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BCowan

Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #56 on: April 10, 2016, 06:26:42 PM »
Looks like a Bass Ale is in order
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Dean Stokes

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #57 on: April 10, 2016, 06:44:44 PM »
Quote from: David Schmidt on April 10, 2016, 06:18:51 PM
Great, great, GREAT line from Faldo after Willett hit his drive on 18:

"It's a different game hitting a golf ball with your heart in your mouth, I can promise you..."

Maybe the best of his career...
perfect.
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RJ_Daley

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #58 on: April 10, 2016, 06:50:26 PM »
I'm afraid Nantz is going to run out of serendipitous co-incidences, anecdotes, paeans and superlatives...  then what will we do?
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Dean Stokes

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #59 on: April 10, 2016, 07:55:14 PM »
Well what a crazy day. The back nine today was quite amazing in its outcome.
I bashed yesterday and the front nine today had me going to sleep at Spieth -7.
I don have the ego to say I didn't enjoy the last nine today. Cheers.
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jeffwarne

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #60 on: April 10, 2016, 08:07:51 PM »
Quote from: Dean Stokes on April 10, 2016, 07:55:14 PM
Well what a crazy day. The back nine today was quite amazing in its outcome.
I bashed yesterday and the front nine today had me going to sleep at Spieth -7.
I don have the ego to say I didn't enjoy the last nine today. Cheers.

"The tournament doesn't begin till the back nine on Sunday..."
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Matthew Essig

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #61 on: April 10, 2016, 08:36:50 PM »
Quote from: jeffwarne on April 10, 2016, 08:07:51 PM
"The tournament doesn't begin till the back nine on Sunday..."

+1


That quote was bouncing around my head the entire time the drama played out.
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Kalen Braley

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #62 on: April 10, 2016, 08:47:48 PM »
"The tournament doesn't begin till the back nine on Sunday..."

I fully agree, and up till then, it was a total snooze fest..
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Dean Stokes

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #63 on: April 10, 2016, 09:25:31 PM »
Quote from: Kalen Braley on April 10, 2016, 08:47:48 PM
"The tournament doesn't begin till the back nine on Sunday..."

I fully agree, and up till then, it was a total snooze fest..
agreed. And if "WE" didn't make a quadruple it would still have been BORING! Maybe we can blame the "we/team" for the error on 12. We we we we we we we .
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Sean_A

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #64 on: April 11, 2016, 05:23:36 AM »
Quote from: Kalen Braley on April 10, 2016, 08:47:48 PM
"The tournament doesn't begin till the back nine on Sunday..."

I fully agree, and up till then, it was a total snooze fest..


Maybe, just maybe...golf is generally a boring game to watch.  Maybe, just maybe, you lot are expecting too much entertainment based on what are in truth very few excellent viewing tournaments in history.  If you think about how much time the viewer must invest to watch golf...it actually delivers very little bang for the minute.


Ciao
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Tony_Muldoon

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #65 on: April 11, 2016, 06:03:32 AM »
I only watch the first 3 majors and I rate them by “sip speed”.

When it’s exciting the bottle(s) just evaporate way to fast.

Last night the unexpected flip happened so quickly and decisively that I went to bed early and there’s wine to be finished with dinner this evening.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2016, 06:05:51 AM by Tony_Muldoon »
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Niall C

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #66 on: April 11, 2016, 06:28:06 AM »
This discussion reminds me of the great English rugby player Dean Richards. If you really knew your rugby you could appreciate how brilliant the guy was even though the way he controlled the game often lead to low scoring (although not always).


Likewise at the Masters, watching players (sometimes) scrambling in the most trying circumstances to save par or even get a bogey just showed how talented these guys really are. Nothing was a given. Willetts up and down at 17 was brilliant and how many times over the week has Spieth done something similar. I only saw the later stages of Saturday (through beer goggles) and most of Sunday but from what I saw I thought it quite compelling.


Joe S
I totally agree regarding the TV coverage. Watching Sundays round I couldn’t help wondering whether Rory was the new Tiger, in that we are condemned to watching every shot he ever hits irrespective of whether he’s leading the tournament or missing the cut.


In the old days, TV producers were happy to go with the flow and show whoever was leading, or in the hunt or was making a move. Now it seems they have pre-determined players that they are going to show irrespective of how they play and that’s all they want to show.


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cary lichtenstein

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #67 on: April 11, 2016, 07:51:24 AM »
I watched every shot Sunday and I was at war with my brain and body which demanded SLEEP.


Both woke me up on 12, I understood the first one, but the 2nd one was oh my goodness!!!!!!


But I think it was a SAD tournament, and one of the worst Masters in my memory.
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jeffwarne

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #68 on: April 11, 2016, 08:04:57 AM »
Quote from: Sean_A on April 11, 2016, 05:23:36 AM
Quote from: Kalen Braley on April 10, 2016, 08:47:48 PM
"The tournament doesn't begin till the back nine on Sunday..."

I fully agree, and up till then, it was a total snooze fest..


Maybe, just maybe...golf is generally a boring game to watch.  Maybe, just maybe, you lot are expecting too much entertainment based on what are in truth very few excellent viewing tournaments in history.  If you think about how much time the viewer must invest to watch golf...it actually delivers very little bang for the minute.


Ciao


No different than a great book.
The "roar" crowd need to watch a Bruce Willis movie instead.


Another reason that "growing the game" is not the most practical or even desireable reasoning
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Mark Pearce

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #69 on: April 11, 2016, 08:11:16 AM »
Quote from: cary lichtenstein on April 11, 2016, 07:51:24 AM
But I think it was a SAD tournament, and one of the worst Masters in my memory.
Really?  Why?  How can it be anywhere near as bad as Zach Johnson winning laying up?  One of the best players in the world over the past 18 months won, all three of the top 3 in the rankings were in contention at some point.  Spieth displayed a masterful short game to stay ahead despite a long game that was never functioning.  Lots to love.  The scoring was a function of the weather, not the set up.
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BCowan

Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #70 on: April 11, 2016, 08:14:02 AM »
So laying up is boring?  Should Zack have hit in the water?  David Tom's in Atlanta should of hit it in the water?  How is a hole strategic if EVERYONE goes for it?
« Last Edit: April 11, 2016, 08:19:43 AM by Ben Cowan (Michigan) »
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jeffwarne

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #71 on: April 11, 2016, 08:19:16 AM »
Quote from: Mark Pearce on April 11, 2016, 08:11:16 AM
Quote from: cary lichtenstein on April 11, 2016, 07:51:24 AM
But I think it was a SAD tournament, and one of the worst Masters in my memory.
Really?  Why?  How can it be anywhere near as bad as Zach Johnson winning laying up?  One of the best players in the world over the past 18 months won, all three of the top 3 in the rankings were in contention at some point.  Spieth displayed a masterful short game to stay ahead despite a long game that was never functioning.  Lots to love.  The scoring was a function of the weather, not the set up.


nearly spot on,(you forgot an amateur being in the mix in prime time and Watson and Langer stories)
but I would argue(Johnson case) that a great course identifies multiple ways to succeed, and perfectly illustrates there many,many things for a trained eye to admire every year.
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Thomas Dai

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #72 on: April 11, 2016, 08:33:57 AM »
Has the creek in front of the 12th been getting wider over the years (or is this just a perception what with more TV etc angles these days)?
Atb
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Jim Franklin

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #73 on: April 11, 2016, 09:39:29 AM »
Is Spieth now the leader in the clubhouse as the slowest golfer on earth?
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John Kavanaugh

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Re: Boring Masters!
« Reply #74 on: April 11, 2016, 09:58:18 AM »
Quote from: Jim Franklin on April 11, 2016, 09:39:29 AM
Is Spieth now the leader in the clubhouse as the slowest golfer on earth?


Hopefully he will drop the "team" concept. I was fortunate to be listening on the radio so didn't have to witness the bag carrying bearded Svengali freeze Spieth's brain. I get that Spieth is still a child but he needs to lose the helicopter caddie.
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