Golf - classic or dud

ha ha yes. was watching '97 masters the other day and was taken aback to see that it was faldo putting the jacket on tiger and then remembering that faldo's comeback vs Norman was only the previous year so it wasn't as if tiger came on the scene when faldo was years and years past his prime, he came on the scene when faldo was still good enough to win majors! but as you say it seems like another era altogether.

SPIETH!!

I was four weeks early but SPIETH!!!!!!!! for real this time.

Really hope Patty Tavatanakit holds on to win the major tonight as she played a wonderful round 3 of p breathtaking golf. Averaging 316 off the tee, and straight, p amazing. Shout out to Shanshan Feng in contention after not playing a tournament for 16 months and actually during that span not touching a club at all for over a year. Also loved her answer when asked about what she did do during quarantine in China - "Well got up in the morning and thought about what I was going to have for breakfast, and after breakfast what I was going to have for lunch, and after lunch thought about what I was going to have for dinner. That was it really."

If you're someone who consciously marks the passage of time, this won't be surprising. I must have shut that off when it comes to golf, though, because the inclusion of Sergio Garcia in the "old guys" category here (#7) is very disorienting.

https://www.cbssports.com/golf/news/masters-2021-justin-thomas-rise-jordan-spieths-resurgence-lead-10-storylines-to-follow-at-augusta-national/

I still remember that major (PGA?) where he was 20 or something and almost overtook Tiger with that amazing shot from the woods.

stoked for the masters

think will win - patrick cantlay or justin thomas
hope will win - hideki or westwood or sungjae im
would hate to win - brooks

kim and matsuyama good early returns :)

Kim just snapped his putter in frustration, and is well in contention

Playing out the round using his 3 wood

his stroke with the 3 wood was so smooth on 16.

will zalatoris is legit. a top 25 machine considering he's still kinda a korn ferry tour player but results on the main tour have pushed him into the top 50 in the world in the meantime. his putting can be a bit iffy tho.

hope the greens on Saturday are more like
day one speed.

Rory just put a swing on it on #10 approach shot that looked like a 18 handicapper.

also SPIETH!!!!

Lots of bad reads on greens

pulling hard for hideki, fascinating player

“I sat in my car looking at my cell phone.”

- Hideki Matsuyama on how he spent his 77-minute weather delay.

— Rick Gehman (@RickRunGood) April 10, 2021

hideki post rain delay was sublime. only downside is how nervous i'll be watching him tonight.

i love how despite having a press pack from japan following him around from tournament to tournament for the last ten years they only found out he was married with a kid about 3 years after his actual wedding.

Fingers crossed for Hideki this evening. Seems bizarre that, 40 years after Aoki's near-miss, Japan still hasn't produced a male major winner. But then I've never quite understood why the French don't dominate clay-court tennis (probably based on watching exchange students rallying for hours in the local park when I was a kid... like, can they all do that?), instead of just one Roland Garros men's singles champ since WW2.

Well that was tighter than it needed to be but he got it done!

Xander really wet the bed on 16 he mighta been able to win it with a par and pressure

fun final day even if hideki was never in real peril

xander also went +4 over three holes before recovering for six straight birdies

weird day for him, but hideki deserves the win and i’m happy he pulled it out

this course is brutal. looks like every tee shot is blind.

also... phil!?

Not up on golf these days, but I'll watch today. It'd be a miracle if Mickelson pulls this off, no?

I barely recognize him now that he looks so….in shape

Definitely pulling for him, would be the oldest player to win a major right?

Ok I just looked it up, he would be by about 2 years

"Old Man"? I know they mean that as a tribute, but geez.

fun that this keeps swinging back and forth & theyre still on the front 9

oostie has played really good today, couple shots are a few inches diff he could be level w phil rn

of course after i say that he fucked up 13

Glad Mickelson has a bit of a cushion; that looks gruesome.

Whew this is gonna be close

Never mind he’s got this

during the overhead crowd shots i remarked i hadnt seen that many ppl move en masse since jan 6

i hate that nantz had nothing better ready than "phil defeats father time"

I sure hope everyone there's been vaccinated! Anyway, glad I stuck around. I spent two decades rooting against Mickelson (because of Tiger) but I was pulling for him today.

i wonder how many times phil gave the thumbs-up today

on some of those walkthroughs he was flashing it every 5 seconds, like clockwork. it was very odd to watch

on another note, I forgot that they don't get golf carts in these tournaments. nothing more riveting to watch on TV than a 50 year old man walking 300 yards

Phil!!!! Can’t believe he did it. Thought he was toast after the first hole today

Even more than holing out from the sand, I thought his most amazing shot was that 365-yard drive down the middle.

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=31500313

Yea that was nuts and you could tell he had it wrapped after that one

what scenes. great course for a tourney ,
awful for 'normal' golfers. another dent in the legend of brooks.

Thought his last green approach was killer, that had plenty of potential to go awry

brooks sounded a little pissy about getting bumped by the crowd but i can’t blame him. that whole thing would have made me very uncomfortable (and unhappy with the tournament directors) even if i weren’t coming off knee surgery

It was nonsense but americans are gonna american hey

brooks vs bryson is heating up

thing is bryson bothers brooks a lot more than brooks bothers bryson. it is funny how much brooks openly loathes him tho.

they both come off like jerks but golf needs something like this

No-one's interested in the Open? In the UK we have the excuse that it's not on the BBC anymore which tends to kill off interest in sports beyond dedicated fans.

I tend not to follow sport unless I can watch it live though I read reports.

Lol @ Oosthuizen fucking it up again.

Looked like a lovely afternoon of Golf.

Yes, I'd have loved to have spent a lazy Sunday afternoon/ evening watching it but I assume it's on Sky now. Anyway, it's finished, Morikawa won and I didn't see a second of it!

Yeah 20 or so years watching The Open :-(

Was almost as sad as when summer Test Cricket left terrestrial in 2005 (though radio can be adequate for cricket I've never got into it).

lol watched north of 30 hours of it this week. spieth looking great again, rahm bad day with the putter. morikawa was sublime ,fantastic iron player.

the gap btwn his strokes gained approach and the number 2 is wider than btwn the number 2 and number 30.

been highlights on bbc every day btw