Masters 2023

spacecoyote

Might as well get a thread started for this one.

Are peoples excitement levels building? Will the new tees impact on the bombers?

Can Rory get it over the line, it's probably some of the best form he's had coming into the Masters?

Will the LIV guys show up, without having played a lot of 72 hole competitive golf? I see that Cam Smith is the only player on the pre tournament interview schedule, which I assume is a conscious snub of some big name past champs.

Could definitely be some interesting pairings depending on how things play out?

slave1

Looking forward to the sunshine and back 9 Sunday with Tiger roar.

Damn shame not on BBC, when Peter Allis passed it was a sad day and now not on the BBC at all is just wrecking a tradition

spacecoyote

Weather forecast not looking great at the moment for the weekend.

Potential storms on Thursday and rain for the weekend. Talk of a potential Monday finish?

slave1

Won't suit the Tiger, he's done playing in lower temps, he needs the power from our yellow sun

Xander10

I hate rain interrupted events. Play is slow enough at the best of times.

spacecoyote

This us the current forecast.

Interestingly, and I never understood this, the rain percent they give out is not the percent chance of rain, its the percent of the area covered that is guaranteed rain, something new I learned today

blackbox

I've just found out that BBC are not showing highlights.

The Masters is the only golf I ever watch on TV, so I'm not about to get a sky sports contract.

Anyone got any proposals? I'd actually prefer highlights to spending 4 days watching it.

blue note

Some podcast was talking about the BBC lately and mentioned that they were offered PGA tour highlights for free and turned it down. Hard to think there aren't influential people in that sports department who don't want to see them cover golf. Matt Fitzpatrick not even nominated for BBC sports person of the year, rory never winning it, the lack of any furore to keep the open. And then actually turning down free content. Surely a 1 hour a week highlights package would get enough viewers for a slot somewhere.

Looking at the renewed popularity of F1 now really reinforces the importance of something being available to people to grow and interest in it. Loads of people are watching F1 for the first time in about 20 years due to drive to survive. They went away largely because it went to sky. The same thing is happening with golf. The annual masters and open golf is gone. The two weekends of golf a lot of people watched will now be reduced to zero golf. It's a shame.

Mushy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120436685#Comment_120436685

I'd imagine there'll be highlights on youtube. Now TV could be a feasible option, yeah you've to pay but its relatively cheap.

spacecoyote

Think you can get 3 months of now sports package for €30 at the moment, which is not too crazy

Xander10

The Master's website has shown live feeds recently.

Mac_Lad71

Myles Dungan used to present a Sunday night live Masters feed on RTE many moons ago.

I used to love it as a young lad and it got me interested in the game which I've been playing over 20 years.

blackbox

Must look into now tv.

antimatterx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120436685#Comment_120436685

Now TV. Don't pay full price. Check out this thread for a sports code. You need the sports subscribe (Sports Extra is for BT).

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058086783/now-tv-latest-deal-codes#latest

Rikand

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120436685#Comment_120436685

I signed up with NowTv last week. It was 22€ a month for 12 months for just the sky sports. Hopefully it's still there. That deal was only for first time subscribers to the sports package

antimatterx

I'm really looking forward to this. I'm not the biggest golf fan, but I always enjoy the masters.

Scottie last year was incredible and I have fond memories of Tiger Woods in 2019.

Could this be Rory year?

satguy

Not on the BBC,, they passed it,, and it was offered the coverage for free..

So no masters golf for me this year..

But the BBC are making it up to us all,, By remaking some nice Dickensian Dramas,, with most of the lead characters Race Swapped ...

Can't Wait ..

Must love hardship

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120436685#Comment_120436685

I think the Masters App will show every shot.

AyeGer

It would be great if Rory could do it. I see the LIV guys are talking about a big celebration on the 18th green on Sunday if one of them win.

I think Zander Schauffele could be a good candidate for the win this year.

GolfPar

Tee times and groupings out today?

Anything4883

The masters app is actually brilliant. It shows every shot by every player, you can follow who you want. Live leaderboard etc. Would recommend downloading it if you haven't the channels to watch on TV.

wildrover444

Hearing weather supposed to be pretty bad for the four days. Plenty of rain and good chances of thunderstorm. Hopefully they get all four days in . Could be a Monday finish though.

Mushy

Not the worst situation if that happens with it being a bank holiday. The early Sunday finish few years back was lovely, wouldn't mind that again...completely neglect family duties for a day for it

costacorta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120440493#Comment_120440493

Might suit our man Shane , he seems to perform well in windy and rainy conditions. His form going in is poor though !

monkeybutter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120434975#Comment_120434975

I don't think that makes sense

spacecoyote

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120443404#Comment_120443404

With a bit more digging it seems that its almost right. The calculation is a combination of the forecaster’s certainty that rain will fall in the area and how widespread it is expected to be.

So the percent chance of rain * the percent of area likely to be rained on.

For example, an 80% chance of rain, across 50% of the area gives a percent chance of precipitation of 0.8 * 0.5 = 40% chance in the forecast

monkeybutter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120443715#Comment_120443715

for me its just the chance of any spot getting any rain in the say hour or day of the forecast

without the second bit

so just 80% chance of rain, its to imprecise for anything else and that makes the most sense to the end user

spacecoyote

Sure, I get that, but it's an incorrect assumption and strictly more imprecise going by the US National Weather Service definition.

If you take 2 examples:

A 100% chance of rain across 30% of the area = a 30% chance of rain in your forecast

A 60% chance of rain across 50% of the area = a 30% chance of rain in your forecast

So two different scenarios resulting in a single output in the forecast you see

monkeybutter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120443928#Comment_120443928

look thats not what you said above in the first post

inn the image, 80% chance of rain means 80% of rain anywhere in the forecast area

that's how it works

not that there is 100% chance of rain in 80% of the forecast area, which is what you said

spacecoyote

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120444210#Comment_120444210

Yes, I know that's not what I said initially, hence my clarification in my first reply to you

gillamandango

"A 100% chance of rain across 30% of the area = a 30% chance of rain in your forecast"

So if I put in my area for the weather, it will say there is X amount of chance of rain which could be 100% or 0% depending on where I am, but my location is precise, so it doesn't make sense

boccy23

Obviously no golf to talk about. 😉

spacecoyote

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120444327#Comment_120444327

Your location isn't 100% precise in a forecast app, etc...really though is it, it covers a wider geographical area than the exact square foot of land you're standing on.

Anyway, whether you agree with me or not, is somewhat irrelevant. I don't think it makes great sense either, I'm just quoting the calculation as per the American National Weather Service

"Meteorologists calculate the Probability of Precipitation (PoP) using a simple formula: PoP = C x A. Where “C” stands for the confidence a forecaster has that rain will occur somewhere in the forecast area, and “A” stands for the percentage of the area where they expect a measurable amount of rain to occur."

Mantis Toboggan

Looking forward to this, pity about it being Easter weekend. Winner probably coming from Scotty, Rory, Jon Rahmbo, JT & Morikawa - take your pick.

Will be interesting to see how the weather impacts, wet weather probably leads to lower scores so look for around - 14 ish - Tiger will make the cut, fingers crossed for McLean and all the Irish - hopefully the coverage is good as usually it's crap. Thank god for the app.

Dr. Bre

Power got a hole in one in the par 3 contest

Stacksey

Paul McGinley 💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤

Mantis Toboggan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120445160#Comment_120445160

And followed it up with another one, what's the odds of that!!

FixdePitchmark

I can kinda put up with the partners ....but them hitting shots and the stupid kids are doing my head in....

Rikand

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120445696#Comment_120445696

The faffing around with Spieth's kid who can barely walk trying to get him to hit a putt was a bit much. Dont mind the caddies hitting the odd shot. At least they can get on with it

FixdePitchmark

Yes the Spieth ..Thomas group is bullshit...

FixdePitchmark

Spoeth young lad will never make PGA level...

Motivator

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120445142#Comment_120445142

Easter weekend is absolutely brilliant, bank holiday Monday to go and play 18 myself then.

I disagree about woods, poor weather turns it into a bit of a slog with potentially lots of stopping and starting. That won’t suit him at all and it turns it into a longer course which can’t suit him despite how well he still hits it.

CMcsporty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120445763#Comment_120445763

Cut line is top 50 plus ties at The Masters. There is only 88 in the field. Weather today looks fine.

Tiger made the cut last year. He's a year further along in his recovery. PLUS Harrington thinks he'll do well this year.

Here is 40 golfers who will likely struggle to make the cut. I'd take Tiger ahead of any of them.

Taylor Moore

Guillermo Mito Pereira

Louis Oosthuizen

Sergio Garcia

Russell Henley

Bubba Watson

Thomas Pieters

Ryan Fox

Harris English

Cameron Champ

JT Poston

Francesco Molinari

Jason Kokrak

Kevin Na

Harold Varner III

Adam Svensson

Charl Schwartzel

Adrian Meronk

Phil Mickelson

KyoungHoon Lee

Sepp Straka

Mackenzie Hughes

Scott Stallings

Kazuki Higa

Zach Johnson

Kevin Kisner

Aldrich Potgieter

Harrison Crowe

Matthew McClean

Sam Bennett

Ben Carr

Gordon Sargent

Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira

Larry Mize

Bernhard Langer

Fred Couples

Mike Weir

Vijay Singh

Jose Maria Olazabal

Sandy Lyle

Mickelson: There is a guy who wont make the cut. He looks like he drank from the holy grail but chose .....poorly.

Xander10

Tiger's golf is fine. The struggle for him will be walking around. It's very long and much hillier than it appears on TV.

But I wouldn't rule him out making it through the first two rounds.

spacecoyote

Interesting comment re chipping no longer being an issue from Padraig.

When you look at someone like Cameron Champ who was top 10 last year, it would certainly seem that way. Guy hits it miles, but as I read recently, his short game is so bad he makes Hovland look like Seve

spacecoyote

Is there anywhere that feature group coverage is shown prior to the full live feed kicking in?

Mantis Toboggan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120447481#Comment_120447481

Sky sports?

spacecoyote

McClean with a savage approach to 1st and a handy birdie start

Mantis Toboggan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120447665#Comment_120447665

Super start, he'll remember that one forever

Mantis Toboggan

With the weather that's coming in this first round is huge.

Kiith

What channels are showing it (globally)? Sky still showing the Tiger 2019 movie thing, few other channels are just talking about it. Haven't actually found the live golf yet.