The Masters 2018

More of Billy Foster on Sky please!!

This is a great video.

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Beezerk said:
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Seriously though mate, apart from the history I don't get the love for (some) links courses. Saying that I walked around Birkdale a few years ago while I was working nearby and that looked nice.
I was reading the supplement in this months GM mag, "Must Play Courses of 2018". There's one in there called Princes, is it some sort of in joke? It looked like a strip of wasteland next to the sea, £105 to play that on a weekend :D
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Princes is £50 with the forum on Sunday 18th November and that includes a meal. Make a trip of it mate and get your name down for 3 Open Championship Courses. Royal Cinque Ports on Monday 19th and Royal St Georges on Tuesday 20th November. Dare you :D
 
Watched the full coverage last night, don't understand why folks are knocking it, for only round 2 it was some great viewing and it is set up beautifully for 'moving day'. Going to be very interesting seeing how Reed and Leishman cope with a lead and being in last group with pressure of McIlroy/Speith/Stenson/Johnson etc quite close behind.
Visually it has always been stunning, like playing golf in a huge country house garden. It's a very clever design and one all the players love. Scotsman Alister Mackenzie set the place up, his last design I think in 1933 a year before he died and imo it's some final legacy.
Some list of courses he set up - interesting read about the fellow here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alister_MacKenzie
 
Do all majors have to be on links courses? I love the masters for what it is, a beautiful spectacle of green and brown with some flowers and water in for good measure.
The greens certainly make the course as they refuse to grow proper rough. Where I come from, when you go in the rough, you can't see the ball until you almost stand on it. This past few weeks (Houston and now Augusta) a few of us have had a laugh and the commentators calling "that" rough. The ball is sat up like a coconut. Imagine the scores when they have to occasionally hack out just to get it back into play, the greens could then be made a little more fair and the major/course would be all the better for it. I don't want US open type rough but a little more would make sense when the trees aren't a big defence due to little low level branching.
It'll be interesting to see how they keep the course the week before the next masters (the ladies final day), I'm fairly sure they won't be just as fast. An extra inch of rough could be the making of the place.
 
brendy said:
Do all majors have to be on links courses? I love the masters for what it is, a beautiful spectacle of green and brown with some flowers and water in for good measure.
The greens certainly make the course as they refuse to grow proper rough. Where I come from, when you go in the rough, you can't see the ball until you almost stand on it. This past few weeks (Houston and now Augusta) a few of us have had a laugh and the commentators calling "that" rough. The ball is sat up like a coconut. Imagine the scores when they have to occasionally hack out just to get it back into play, the greens could then be made a little more fair and the major/course would be all the better for it. I don't want US open type rough but a little more would make sense when the trees aren't a big defence due to little low level branching.
It'll be interesting to see how they keep the course the week before the next masters (the ladies final day), I'm fairly sure they won't be just as fast. An extra inch of rough could be the making of the place.
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I wouldn't change it. There's such a premium on accurate iron play at Augusta as you must be on the correct part of the green to score, that the rough, albeit short, is sufficient to lose enough control of the ball to matter. Putting isn't so bad if you are on the right side of the flag, the guys scoring well aren't 3 putting more than normal as they're hitting approaches well, that's the challenge.
 
This is true and happened yesterday:

My wife’s friend who is in her early 70’s saw press red button to watch Amen Corner.

She did not know the Group were still playing music and was shocked to find Augusta!
 
Captainron said:
Princes is £50 with the forum on Sunday 18th November and that includes a meal. Make a trip of it mate and get your name down for 3 Open Championship Courses. Royal Cinque Ports on Monday 19th and Royal St Georges on Tuesday 20th November. Dare you :D
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I'd love to mate but I've got a Cabby esque ban from certain meets :rofl:
 
Looks like rain and wind has hit Augusta and bogeys are the order of the day for the players so far - Mickleson 4 over after 3 ,Woods bogeys the first
 
bluewolf said:
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No it's not. It's fake. It's an American dream version of pretty. It's a triumph of paint, dye and special effects. It's like one of the Khardashians on the cover of vogue. Give me the Scottish or Irish Open. The Open at Muirfield or Turnberry. Anything authentic.
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Well, that's a choice, an opinion. I'm with Beezerk on this regarding links although I am playing at Turnberry on Monday and Tuesday so that may change things. I like colours, why not? They are cheerful and nice to look at, particularly when everything is so bleak here at the moment.

There is no point getting into a links v parkland debate, been done to death and no one ever changes their mind.

Good chance of getting an infraction for using the K word, be careful 😁.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Well, that's a choice, an opinion. I'm with Beezerk on this regarding links although I am playing at Turnberry on Monday and Tuesday so that may change things. I like colours, why not? They are cheerful and nice to look at, particularly when everything is so bleak here at the moment.

There is no point getting into a links v parkland debate, been done to death and no one ever changes their mind.

Good chance of getting an infraction for using the K word, be careful 😁.
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I'm more concerned that I appear to have spelled it correctly!!!
 
I love how Augusta looks, those imposing looking drives down the tree lined fairways, awesome. Can’t beat a bit of water on a course as well. I can see past all the smaltz, that’s just American tv for you.
 
Beezerk said:
I love how Augusta looks, those imposing looking drives down the tree lined fairways, awesome. Can’t beat a bit of water on a course as well. I can see past all the smaltz, that’s just American tv for you.
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Just looks like a posh goat track to me.
 
If you like the look of parklands then it’s going to appeal

It looks immaculate condition and very colourful but i prefer the look of a heathland like Sunningdale or Swinley and then next choice would be a Links like Royal County Down

Know someone who has played Augusta and they said it is immaculate but a little bland without the stands but the condition of it is the best he has ever played
 
murphthemog said:
Just looks like a posh goat track to me.
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You see this to me looks like a goat track, in fact it's too bland looking to be a goat track :D

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