How do you guys who like golf not have a thread about it? Is this not the Daytona 500, or Tour De France in your world? Super Bowl maybe even?
Zero interest in golf, and even I know the Masters (racist) is on...
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I’m watching. Best players, incredible course, lotsa drama. It is one of four majors for many good reasons.
About the course and the greens, everywhere has slopes, rises, small and large hills. The players know everyone of them like the backs of their hands. The ones who excel may not be hitting the longest or even the straightest. But rather the ones who hit those rises and slopes where they want and can take advantage of.
That said Augusta National might certainly get over itself. Not my fav major because of all that. But it certainly is on the Mt. Rushmore of great golf competitions ever.
About the course and the greens, everywhere has slopes, rises, small and large hills. The players know everyone of them like the backs of their hands. The ones who excel may not be hitting the longest or even the straightest. But rather the ones who hit those rises and slopes where they want and can take advantage of.
That said Augusta National might certainly get over itself. Not my fav major because of all that. But it certainly is on the Mt. Rushmore of great golf competitions ever.
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Would rather watch soccer or, well, pretty much anything.
Would rather watch soccer or, well, pretty much anything.
Sorry, but I think it’s fantastic.
Come at me bro…I guess?
Come at me bro…I guess?
I'm somewhat interested in the Masters and the other majors, but don't start watching until Saturday.
I saw some stuff on people that live near the course and will rent out their house for the week...50k to 250k depending on the house.
Amazing!
Wait till after tomorrow after the cut.
When the tournament makes it’s name for itself .
When the tournament makes it’s name for itself .
Love the Masters, one of the best sporting events of the year.
By the way, King Stupid, how is the LIV tour doing?
I don’t know very many people who still watch the Tour De France since the Armstrong doping scandal. Same kind of deal with golf nobody gives a **** about it since Tiger Woods was on top.
Do people actually sit and watch golf for hours on TV? Playing golf bores the hell out of me, I can't imagine just watching it.
Golf, NASCAR, soccer and professional wrestling. Zzzzzzzz...
That's because you probably suck at it.
I hate golf. It’s right next to soccer for me. I’d rather watch paint dry.
..still laid up from ankle reconstruction, this weekend i plan to use the Masters as nap inducing material.
Well if you don’t enjoy playing it or suck at it, most likely you won’t want to watch it.
I luv playing golf and challenging different courses and having camaraderie with my friends and family members.
You mean the tour that literally changed golf forever by getting the players on the tour way more money and sponsorship dollars?
Watching golf is great because of the pace...it lets you grab a drink or answer some texts or chat with friends and you don't miss anything.
And golfing with your friends is one of those things that just doesn't get old. It changes a bit, but it doesn't get old.
I can remember years ago, meeting out at Quarry Oaks or Stone Creek or Players Club (when it was public) and taking a shot, loading up our beers and just having a blast, playing and goofing around for 4 hours.
Getting to the 15th hole was almost sad because you know the golf was close to being done but of course one friend would always be like "Should we stop at a bar after this?" which just meant for time to drink and goof off with your friends.
They were just magical days with 3 to 7 other friends. In the moment you don't even realize how fun and special it is...None of us were all that great at golf.
The scores would range from 80-115, but the bad shots just created more laughs and jokes.
Eventually it started to get harder and harder to get guys out to golf and/or to hit up the bars after a round of golf. What was once a weekly event turned into 3-4 times a summer and that turned into 1-2 times each summer.
And golfing with your friends is one of those things that just doesn't get old. It changes a bit, but it doesn't get old.
I can remember years ago, meeting out at Quarry Oaks or Stone Creek or Players Club (when it was public) and taking a shot, loading up our beers and just having a blast, playing and goofing around for 4 hours.
Getting to the 15th hole was almost sad because you know the golf was close to being done but of course one friend would always be like "Should we stop at a bar after this?" which just meant for time to drink and goof off with your friends.
They were just magical days with 3 to 7 other friends. In the moment you don't even realize how fun and special it is...None of us were all that great at golf.
The scores would range from 80-115, but the bad shots just created more laughs and jokes.
Eventually it started to get harder and harder to get guys out to golf and/or to hit up the bars after a round of golf. What was once a weekly event turned into 3-4 times a summer and that turned into 1-2 times each summer.
Now that you got me thinking about it...those weekends were the best.
Friday night, coach a game or go out right after school (after spending most of the day trying to convince kids to change their gender and vote democrat, of course) then hitting up the bar for happy hour and going out afterwards...
Trying to meet some girls (463 will be mad about that, but relax, it is okay) and then basically passing out that night only to get up at 6am to shower and meet up at the course by 830am and start our round with beers and laughs.
Friday night, coach a game or go out right after school (after spending most of the day trying to convince kids to change their gender and vote democrat, of course) then hitting up the bar for happy hour and going out afterwards...
Trying to meet some girls (463 will be mad about that, but relax, it is okay) and then basically passing out that night only to get up at 6am to shower and meet up at the course by 830am and start our round with beers and laughs.
I played a lot of golf and played competatively and I played with some PGA tour pros a couple of times. But when I wasn't playing I couldn't watch it on tv. I followed (walked) Fuzzy, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf, et al at a senior PGA event at Palm Beach Gardens but rarely on purpose when on TV.
If you were given little patience in life, me, golf is not your game. I was a tennis player in high school, which is a much better game and gives you better exercise. At 13 a buddy of mine invited me to play golf, thinking I would be into it. In nine holes I never did get that damn ball in the hole and thought at that time, what a stupid game. Trying to get this little ball into a tiny hole 100 miles away 
. Game never made sense to me and I’ve been ridiculing since. Like bacon, I don’t understand the wide appeal to it.
. Game never made sense to me and I’ve been ridiculing since. Like bacon, I don’t understand the wide appeal to it.
So you tried it once, sucked at it and quit?If you were given little patience in life, me, golf is not your game. I was a tennis player in high school, which is a much better game and gives you better exercise. At 13 a buddy of mine invited me to play golf, thinking I would be into it. In nine holes I never did get that damn ball in the hole and thought at that time, what a stupid game. Trying to get this little ball into a tiny hole 100 miles away
Glad I didn't do that with sex...I mean...I never got any better at it but it is still fun to do!
I had a genuine father daughter interaction just the other night. I told her the reason golf is one of the best sports ever is because it’s almost exactly like life.
She’s a thoughtful young woman. So she just rolled her eyes and said, “Huh?”
So I explained, “It’s a bittch.”
“Life or golf?”
“Exactly.”
She’s a thoughtful young woman. So she just rolled her eyes and said, “Huh?”
So I explained, “It’s a bittch.”
“Life or golf?”
“Exactly.”
Well to each their own. That's why the world is full of variety.
You can kind of say this about a lot of sports? Tennis, what a dumb game. I never understand the joy or challenge of hitting a little green ball back and forth over a net. Basketball is so dumb bouncing a ball a couple times and then trying to throw it through a metal ring!If you were given little patience in life, me, golf is not your game. I was a tennis player in high school, which is a much better game and gives you better exercise. At 13 a buddy of mine invited me to play golf, thinking I would be into it. In nine holes I never did get that damn ball in the hole and thought at that time, what a stupid game. Trying to get this little ball into a tiny hole 100 miles away
Just another real-life example that life imitates golf? Robert McIntyre, a pretty stern Scotsman and damn good golfer, flipped the bird at the cup yesterday after shooting a quad-nine on the par-5 15th.
I do the exact same thing at the bathroom scale most every morning.
I do the exact same thing at the bathroom scale most every morning.
The primary source of financing for LIV was and remains the bone-crusher Public Investment Fund.
As Tom Watson explained Wednesday, those who left the PGA for the bone-crusher tour broke the number one rule in golf by actually screwing the sponsors who make professional and a lot of amateur programs possible. They fuuked the goose that lays the golden eggs.
The bone crusher tour is crass and cynical sports washing at its very worst. While I enjoy watching the greatest golfers excel at one of the hardest sports ever, I love watching LIV languish in sporting backwaters and players like deShambeau implode against real competition.
Yeah, who gives a crap that LIV helped with the purses on the PGA. As I wrote long ago, those losers left for the money and now all want back on the PGA tour because they are effectively irrelevant now in the golf world. LIV does not prepare their golfers to be able to consistently compete in the majors. They can win because they have talent but it takes someone like DeChambeau who is a practice nut to keep up his skill to compete. What do you think about LIV, literally 54 in roman numerals and equal to the number of holes these guys were playing, going to 72 holes? Now that is a big change when you name your entire tour after the 54 hole format but need to change to 72 holes because your tour isn't preparing players for the majors like the PGA. The LIVers ran for the money now want to scramble back to the PGA. Tom Watson is right, they should have had to play the Korn Ferry tour for a year and earn their way back. At least Patrick Reed is forced to be on the DP Tour before being reinstated.
So should every PGA tour member give back 50% of their increased prize purse that they ALL have been awarded because of the LIV?
If someone said you can make 10x what you are right now and cut your hours by 20% by doing the same job. I’m guessing LouisK would be rolling out in a hurry.
Bottom line is that every golfer should be thanking the sacrificial lambs for bettering their situation. Golf as a whole benefitted by the LIV whether people want to admit it or not.
