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The Masters 2025

Still have a feeling about Tommy Fleetwood having a good week and going close. It seems strange there was nothing from McIlroy early in the event last week about his elbow being in pain. Seems strange timing and why announce it publicly as it is bound to bring more attention
 
And yet only one of the three rounds is played over the Augusta National course.

Smacks of tokenism and not unlike the Drive, Chip & Putt contest for kids.
All who play rounds one and two on Wed and Thurs get to play Augusta National on Friday - whether they make the cut or not. For those making the cut it is a practice round - for all others it's great experience - as it would be for any amateur golfer male or female, and I think that it's rather insulting to elite amateur women's golf to call it tokenism and liken it to the D,C and P. Those who make the cut play the final (third) round of the ANWA on the Saturday.

And ANWA matters. The winner gets a LEAP point - LEAP being a new pathway onto the LPGA tour. And that is lucrative...certainly compared to the LET.
 
All who play rounds one and two on Wed and Thurs get to play Augusta National on Friday - whether they make the cut or not. For those making the cut it is a practice round - for all others it's great experience - as it would be for any amateur golfer male or female, and I think that it's rather insulting to elite amateur women's golf to call it tokenism and liken it to the D,C and P. Those who make the cut play the final (third) round of the ANWA on the Saturday.

And ANWA matters. The winner gets a LEAP point - LEAP being a new pathway onto the LPGA tour. And that is lucrative...certainly compared to the LET.
And yet there is a player in the Masters field who, in the past, competed in D,C & P.

Obviously that isn't going to be the case with ANWA.

If ANGC are serious about promoting women's golf perhaps they should consider hosting a tournament for the very best in the game, LPGA and leading amateurs.

Holding an amateur only event will unfortunately never attract that much public attention.
 
Still have a feeling about Tommy Fleetwood having a good week and going close. It seems strange there was nothing from McIlroy early in the event last week about his elbow being in pain. Seems strange timing and why announce it publicly as it is bound to bring more attention
I’d love to see Tommy win. But his putting really isn’t good enough to win on these greens unless he has the best putting week of his life.
 
The on course food is marvellous. Can you buy proper Pimento cheese in the UK? Some of the stuff online doesn't look right.
I loved the food but not the cheese sandwich funnily enough... It just tasted like a mediocre cheese with cheap bread. I don't get the hype around it?

The BBQ sandwich and the Chicken Salad sandwich were my favourites. There was great, cheap beer too, but I purposely didn't drink much because I wanted to remember the day :) As a result, I had a few cups of the lemonade and it was marvelous!
 
And yet there is a player in the Masters field who, in the past, competed in D,C & P.

Obviously that isn't going to be the case with ANWA.

If ANGC are serious about promoting women's golf perhaps they should consider hosting a tournament for the very best in the game, LPGA and leading amateurs.

Holding an amateur only event will unfortunately never attract that much public attention.
Maybe not...but it is a big step in the right direction and a big thing for the women amateurs - and does raise their profile - albeit perhaps only for those not dismissive of the women's game in general - and such types walk amongst us. I am of course very and unashamedly biased.

For those with even just a passing interest...Golf Monthly recognizing the event with a current article

 
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And yet there is a player in the Masters field who, in the past, competed in D,C & P.

Obviously that isn't going to be the case with ANWA.

If ANGC are serious about promoting women's golf perhaps they should consider hosting a tournament for the very best in the game, LPGA and leading amateurs.

Holding an amateur only event will unfortunately never attract that much public attention.
R&A, PGA, USGA, all hold corresponding womens events now. The Masters is an outlier. As a major, a title that brings it enormous prestige, it has a responsibility to go the whole way, and not this sop.
 
Anyway

We do a Masters comp

You have to pick 6 golfers

Split into

US
Europe
ROW

Can only pick 2 from each area

And must have a pick from each group

Group 1 - Elite

The top 20 in the world minus the LIV g

Group 2 - Contenders

The next 20

Group 3 - Journeymen

the rest that qualify via tours or comps

Group 4 - Oldies and Ams ( past winners )

Group 5 - LIV


Have gone for

Scheffler
Lowry
Rory
Koepka
Cabrera
Cam Davies
 
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This one. The greatest moment of all time in all sport. It will echo through the universe for eternity. All sport from here on is downhill.
If you saw this, you lived.
 
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This one. The greatest moment of all time in all sport. It will echo through the universe for eternity. All sport from here on is downhill.
If you saw this, you lived.

His tee shot on 16 that year got a pretty big cheer, the group infront couldn’t tee off because of it.

I also liked that they played in 3 balls that final round, made it feel that little bit tighter and more tense.
 
If only he could drive as well as he could 'drive' - his twilight years might have been so much different...
Tiger was a Titan, whose golf angered the Olympians, as he was better than they. In 2008 they tried to curtail his US Open by wounding him, but his win, even more impressive than before, so enraged them that they set about destroying his life completely. They took their eye off him after that considering their work complete. But the Titan's golf was so powerful, that the 2019 Masters, a feat so great even Zeus himself knew he could never better, and he was driven to a fury, hurling a thunderbolt at Hawthorne Avenue, breaking our Titan Woods definitively. Even the other Olympians rebuked Zeus for going too far, as gods and mortals alike, shed a collective tear.
 
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Tiger was a Titan, whose golf angered the Olympians, as he was better than they. In 2008 they tried to curtail his US Open would wounding him, but his win only, even more impressive than before, so enraged them that they set about destroying his life completely. They took their eye off him after that considering their work complete. But the Titan's golf was do powerful that the 2019 Masters, a feat so great even Zeus himself knew he could never better, and he was driven to a fury, hurling a thunderbolt at Hawthorne Avenue, breaking our Titan Woods definitively. Even the other Olympians rebuked Zeus for going too far, as gods and mortals alike, shed a collective tear.
Stop drinking or smoking whatever it is you are
 
Most important sportsman of the last 50 years. Won the masters with a back held together by pins 22 years after his first.
Wory is complaining about having a sore arm.
 
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