The Masters 2020

charlieIRL

Don't think we have a thread on it? If we do i'll merge them

Just seen Sergio has tested positive for Covid and is out.

Looking forward to it this year again.

Also - all gambling talk to be here please, thanks.

LuckyGent88

It’s Masters week

And let’s start with the breaking news: Sergio is out due to a positive Covid test. Was waiting for some big name to fail it going into this week.

Really looking forward to this. So many storylines and plenty of players really playing well this year.

Bryson
Defending champ is Tiger
Augusta in November
No crowd roars and intimidating factor on Sunday.
Rory for the slam??
Can the main form man in DJ finally get that 2nd major.
Brooks, JT, Rahm, Xander, Hatton all knocking on majors door again.
How will Lowry fare??

All will be revealed

SEORG

https://twitter.com/JamesSugrue2/status/1325204814007918593

paulie21

Garcia out after a positive covid test

wildrover444

Early finish on Sunday round 8 or 9 so not to clash with nfl matches. Pity liked watching in the evening

Poker Face

wildrover444 wrote: »

Early finish on Sunday round 8 or 9 so not to clash with nfl matches. Pity liked watching in the evening

yeah totally agree.... golf is due to be done for 7 to 7.30pm

Chalk McHugh

Always a highlight of the sporting year. Pity the course wont be looking as resplendant as it does in April and no spectators but still looking forward to it.

Fairwayslost

Pity about the time changes.. always enjoyed the Sunday evening/night finish. Still it will be nice to be paid to watch it on Thursday / Friday. .. while busily working from home. Hahaha

Mushy

Fairwayslost wrote: »

Pity about the time changes.. always enjoyed the Sunday evening/night finish. Still it will be nice to be paid to watch it on Thursday / Friday. .. while busily working from home. Hahaha

This time is far better, no going to bed at all hours before work next Monday

Fairwayslost

Mushy wrote: »

This time is far better, no going to bed at all hours before work next Monday

Yeah but Sunday will probably clash with some celebrity / strictly/ bake off /x factor crass numpty crap that my wife will want to watch... can't even dissappear to the local to watch.. need to come up with a plan to disable the remote so its stuck on sports.

Mushy

Fairwayslost wrote: »

Yeah but Sunday will probably clash with some celebrity / strictly/ bake off /x factor crass numpty crap that my wife will want to watch... can't even dissappear to the local to watch.. need to come up with a plan to disable the remote so its stuck on sports.

Time to ramp up the brownie points between now and then. I'd say the early finish will help minimise a clash too

Fairwayslost

Mushy wrote: »

Time to ramp up the brownie points between now and then. I'd say the early finish will help minimise a clash too

Probably the correct and diplomatic route. In fairness she understands my frustration at not getting out to play. Hopefully when level 5 lifts we can get back playing.
I will never again take for granted how good we had it pre covid... I am going to laugh at every lost ball, every slice, every hook, every duffed chip, and every short putt.. and appreciate that slicing/hooking/duffing is better than lockdown

I seen Bryson on the practice ground earlier hitting his drives full pelt. I don't know how that man hasn't done himself an injury.

Fairwayslost

Fairwayslost wrote: »

Yeah but Sunday will probably clash with some celebrity / strictly/ bake off /x factor crass numpty crap that my wife will want to watch... can't even dissappear to the local to watch.. need to come up with a plan to disable the remote so its stuck on sports.

Masters is a once a year event, bake off and all that crap is on nearly every week.

Richard Hillman

Will there be more coverage this year or will Augusta keep with tradition and only allow TV to start off late?

gypsy79

Deleted User wrote: »

I seen Bryson on the practice ground earlier hitting his drives full pelt. I don't know how that man hasn't done himself an injury.

Probably shouldnt ask that question....wormhole

Mantis Toboggan

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Will there be more coverage this year or will Augusta keep with tradition and only allow TV to start off late?

Unlikely, they love restricting the coverage to make it more mysterious or whatever.

Its the only thing that let's the competition down.

fearruanua

Mushy wrote: »

This time is far better, no going to bed at all hours before work next Monday

Not if you have young kids. Bedtime in my house is 7.30/8.00.
I feel a very very very long family walk coming on early sunday afternoon.

Rooting for anyone but DeChambeau this week. A soft course will play right into his hands. Nick Faldo (he still hasn't found a personality) vocally endorsing the "science". Next individual who references that word in the wrong context deserves a 7 iron to the back of the head. A juiced up beefcake bludgeoning Augusta into submission isn't going to satisfy the golfing purist. Seve would be spinning.

DuckSlice

I wouldn't mind him winning. He is so good at every part of the game at the moment not just his long drives. If he putts as well as he did at the US Open he will win.

weldoninhio

Deleted User wrote: »

Rooting for anyone but DeChambeau this week. A soft course will play right into his hands. Nick Faldo (he still hasn't found a personality) vocally endorsing the "science". Next individual who references that word in the wrong context deserves a 7 iron to the back of the head. A juiced up beefcake bludgeoning Augusta into submission isn't going to satisfy the golfing purist. Seve would be spinning.

It's up to the others to up their game and beat him. Winning is winning.

RoadRunner

Deleted User wrote: »

juiced up beefcake

May the best man win, unless it's a juiced up beefcake bludgeoning Augusta into submission

Roger_007

Deleted User wrote: »

Rooting for anyone but DeChambeau this week. A soft course will play right into his hands. Nick Faldo (he still hasn't found a personality) vocally endorsing the "science". Next individual who references that word in the wrong context deserves a 7 iron to the back of the head. A juiced up beefcake bludgeoning Augusta into submission isn't going to satisfy the golfing purist. Seve would be spinning.

You cannot bludgeon Augusta into submission. The main defence of the course is, and has always been, the speed and slopes on the greens. There is virtually no rough such as you would find at the US Open.
What seems to be annoying the ‘purists’ is that he is not only hitting it long off the tee, he is hitting it relatively straight. He also has a brilliant short game which I believe is what will make him the man to beat on Sunday. His all round game is just better than anyone else at the moment.

Rikand

His short game is what won him the US open last time out. He was so good around the greens that there were guys who were hitting it outside of him, but his recovery game was top drawer. I think he averaged around 10th for distance off the tee(there was definitely at least 5 guys hitting it longer than him), but he was so so good around the greens that he couldnt be touched

paulos53

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Will there be more coverage this year or will Augusta keep with tradition and only allow TV to start off late?

I don't know about TV but the Masters app and website is supposed to be showing every shot live. There is a short video here on the details:
https://www.masters.com/en_US/mygroup/index.html

LuckyGent88

paulos53 wrote: »

I don't know about TV but the Masters app and website is supposed to be showing every shot live. There is a short video here on the details:
https://www.masters.com/en_US/mygroup/index.html

The app in 2019 was excellent. You could watch every shot and they had a shot tracker as well.

Just saw a little bit of Lowrys press conference today. If anybody else has seen it; does anyone know who the man to introduce him was. Green jacket on so is an Augusta member but he had quite the Irish accent on him also I thought.

Bryson has said that Augusta is playing more like a par 67 to him in his press conference!!! I genuinely hope he misses the cut somehow know or completely bottles it on Sunday.

youcancallmeal

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

The app in 2019 was excellent. You could watch every shot and they had a shot tracker as well.

Just saw a little bit of Lowrys press conference today. If anybody else has seen it; does anyone know who the man to introduce him was. Green jacket on so is an Augusta member but he had quite the Irish accent on him also I thought.

Bryson has said that Augusta is playing more like a par 67 to him in his press conference!!! I genuinely hope he misses the cut somehow know or completely bottles it on Sunday.

I was wondering that myself, here's the interview for anyone interested

PARlance

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

The app in 2019 was excellent. You could watch every shot and they had a shot tracker as well.

Just saw a little bit of Lowrys press conference today. If anybody else has seen it; does anyone know who the man to introduce him was. Green jacket on so is an Augusta member but he had quite the Irish accent on him also I thought.

Bryson has said that Augusta is playing more like a par 67 to him in his press conference!!! I genuinely hope he misses the cut somehow know or completely bottles it on Sunday.

John Carr, son of Joe.

Trampas

Lowry out with Eldrick in his first 2 rounds

Rory with DJ and Cantley

Mantis Toboggan

Trampas wrote: »

Lowry out with Eldrick in his first 2 rounds

Rory with DJ and Cantley

Sugrue with Olazabel and Putnam.

HighLine

Trampas wrote: »

Lowry out with Eldrick in his first 2 rounds

Rory with DJ and Cantley

Not good for Rory. DJ has become very slow on the greens and Cantlay is just brutal.

Mantis Toboggan

HighLine wrote: »

Not good for Rory. DJ has become very slow on the greens and Cantlay is just brutal.

I know he hates slow but he'll have to get over it, lucky he's not starting on the 10th and facing straight into amen corner. Probably will happen on Friday?

twounderpar

Jon Rahm is having some week in practice. Yesterday he had a hole in one at the fourth.
Today at the 16th, he purposely skimmed his tee shot across the lake. It rolled up on to the green and went all the way
to the back and into the hole. The most amazing hole in one you will ever see.

Dustin Johnson being interviewed in the conference centre there and was asked what his favourite tradition about the masters is. Dustin took a bit of time to answer then said the sandwiches.

paulos53

twounderpar wrote: »

Jon Rahm is having some week in practice. Yesterday he had a hole in one at the fourth.
Today at the 16th, he purposely skimmed his tee shot across the lake. It rolled up on to the green and went all the way
to the back and into the hole. The most amazing hole in one you will ever see.

https://twitter.com/TheMasters/status/1326232433373704194

charlieIRL

Roger_007 wrote: »

You cannot bludgeon Augusta into submission. The main defence of the course is, and has always been, the speed and slopes on the greens. There is virtually no rough such as you would find at the US Open.
What seems to be annoying the ‘purists’ is that he is not only hitting it long off the tee, he is hitting it relatively straight. He also has a brilliant short game which I believe is what will make him the man to beat on Sunday. His all round game is just better than anyone else at the moment.

He also admitted there in an interview that he’ll be hitting it where patrons normally stand. Taking different lines than normal.

charlieIRL

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I’m throwing a few quid e/w on Shane Lowry at 50/1. More out of hope than expectation, but you just never know.

Read the first post will ya?

slave1

Fek, no live BBC coverage that I could see, just late night highlights, think NowTV the best value for all us non Sky Sports subscribers

blue note

slave1 wrote: »

Fek, no live BBC coverage that I could see, just late night highlights, think NowTV the best value for all us non Sky Sports subscribers

Is the only way to get it for the 4 days though to get a month off now tv for €40? That's a bit steep!

Brendan Filone

slave1 wrote: »

Fek, no live BBC coverage that I could see, just late night highlights, think NowTV the best value for all us non Sky Sports subscribers

Eir Sports are advertising that they will be showing all four days live.

LuckyGent88

Reading a few reports and listened to a few podcasts that are saying that the course isn’t as good as in April. The grasses haven’t mixed as well especially around the greens which may affect chipping.

Weather forecast is due to be awful tomorrow too. Interesting that they are off both tees to try and fit in the groups. Finish very early on Sunday too to accomadate the NFL

willabur

talk of preferred lies also

Russman

HighLine wrote: »

Not good for Rory. DJ has become very slow on the greens and Cantlay is just brutal.

Kinda agree with this. Cantlay would put you off watching golf altogether.

That said, I've never seen Rory so chilled and relaxed as he was at his presser last night. Maybe this could be his week.

Russman

willabur wrote: »

talk of preferred lies also

I'd say the green jackets will do everything to avoid that, even running into a Monday finish if necessary. Although in these strange times, anything is possible.

slave1

Brendan Filone wrote: »

Eir Sports are advertising that they will be showing all four days live.

Good to know but unfortunately I'm not an Eir customer

HighLine

Russman wrote: »

Kinda agree with this. Cantlay would put you off watching golf altogether.

That said, I've never seen Rory so chilled and relaxed as he was at his presser last night. Maybe this could be his week.

I was thinking the same, he appeared quietly confident. He seems to be loving the fact that most of the attention is on Byrson and that he is going in somewhat under the radar.

Deeper Blue

Russman wrote: »

Kinda agree with this. Cantlay would put you off watching golf altogether.

My heart sinks every time I see him in contention.

Not sure why his slowness affects me more than other players but it just does.

Without wanting to be harsh, I hope he's nowhere near my TV screen on Sunday evening.

Roger_007

El Sueño wrote: »

My heart sinks every time I see him in contention.

Not sure why his slowness affects me more than other players but it just does.

Without wanting to be harsh, I hope he's nowhere near my TV screen on Sunday evening.

I think that DJ is the slowest player once he gets on the green. He’s fast enough otherwise, but I feel I’ve aged years watching him and the brother arsing around on the green.

LuckyGent88

HighLine wrote: »

I was thinking the same, he appeared quietly confident. He seems to be loving the fact that most of the attention is on Byrson and that he is going in somewhat under the radar.

All the cameras and press is all over Bryson. Their isn’t even that much talk about the defending champ and that is Tiger woods. Rory even tried to steer more of the press towards him.

All golf twitter, podcasts, writers and broadcasters are mainly talking about Bryson. Their is so much pressure on him now. And let’s face it it’s his short game that also won him the US open.

Interesting also to hear from Adam Scott who is also questioning the anchoring again and feels that’s where Bryson has an advantage too. I’d agree that the way Bryson putts is also anchoring.

Wombatman

ThewhiteJesus

I found brysons comments fascinating about driving to where patrons would usually stand, it made me think, in his case the crowd is dictating how he plays courses, that’s not right