OT: The Masters

[LIUCHusky]

For you that was a push. For a pro that was a shank.

The next time a pro describes that tee shot as a shank will be the first. If you want to describe it as a shank, so be it. Good night.

 

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

I mean a shot that was way off, left or right. Blocked, pushed, whatever.

That's fine, but not a shank. I've played golf my whole life, its common for people who don't play a lot to call every mis hit a shank. If you've ever played enough and get a case of the "shanks", you'll know the difference.

 

[storrsroars]

 

[AZHuskiePop]

I was just going to comment on the fashionistas on the BY but I reminded myself I’m not without sin .
I was playing an early morning weekend round by myself a few years ago so I was paired with 3 Canadian snowbirds. They were nice guys and must of been short term visitors because they brought a camera . In fact they had me take their picture on the bridge connecting our island green. Very Picturesque but after playing the hole hundreds of times you really don’t notice.
They had tickets to the Phoenix Open and made the mistake of asking me for any suggestions
Without thinking I said , lose
the knee socks and pick up some no shows or you will stick out like a sore thumb. That’s a savage crowd . Me giving fashion advise is pretty comical.
They took it well , I mean, they were Canadians polite to a flaw.
I always wondered if they took my advice.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I will gladly take the field against anyone that would like to wager

Nostradamus over here.

 

[LIuconn]

Deserving champ and a block on the first tee definitely isn’t a shank

 

[Dove]

You guys are quibbling about millionaires playing a bouigoise game.

 

[8893]

bouigoise

 

[Chin Diesel]

You guys are quibbling about millionaires playing a bouigoise game.

That describes every thread about every pro sport.

 

[Chin Diesel]

The 23 players who can win the Masters

Each year for the Masters, I create a filtering process to help determine the players who are most likely to win the green jacket based on criteria that have strongly predicted outcomes at Augusta. I usually get the list down to roughly 20-25 players. Last year, Dustin Johnson was one of my 21...

www.golfwrx.com

Interesting way to whittling down the field

This guy whittled the field down to 23 using metrics. Zalatoris would have made the top 23 except he was a first time player. Which played out again. No one since Fuzzy in 79 has won in their first appearance.

He got the winner and just about the entire top 10. Interestingly enough, he removes Schauffele because he doesn't hit the ball high enough yet Schaffele is a top 5 machine at Augusta.

• Paul Casey (45/1)
• Stewart Cink (450/1)
• Corey Conners (80/1)
• Bryson DeChambeau (11/1)
• Sergio Garcia (50/1)
• Tyrrell Hatton (45/1)
• Viktor Hovland (33/1)
• Sungjae Im (40/1)
• Dustin Johnson (9/1)
• Si Woo Kim (125/1)
• Marc Leishman (110/1)
• Shane Lowry (110/1)
• Hideki Matsuyama (45/1)
• Rory McIlroy (18/1)
• Collin Morikawa (30/1)
• Louis Oosthuizen (75/1)
• Ryan Palmer (150/1)
• Jon Rahm (12/1)
• Justin Rose (80/1)
• Jordan Spieth (11/1)
• Justin Thomas (12/1)
• Bubba Watson (55/1)
• Gary Woodland (150/1)

 

[uconnfan68]

That's fine, but not a shank. I've played golf my whole life, its common for people who don't play a lot to call every mis hit a shank. If you've ever played enough and get a case of the "shanks", you'll know the difference.

The wedge on 18 came close.

 

[JimCtheGOAT]

The wedge on 18 came close.

He missed the green by a foot.. ball was pin high, 25 feet right of the flag. Ball below his feet (push lie) and he pushed it a tad. Definitely not even remotely close to a shank.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

Good place to share this:

Hideki Matsuyama carrying the green jacket through the airport and flying commercial is extremely on brand (msn.com)

 

[Chonky]

Good place to share this:

Hideki Matsuyama carrying the green jacket through the airport and flying commercial is extremely on brand (msn.com)

Better than taking it to Waffle House

 

[Chin Diesel]

Good place to share this:

Hideki Matsuyama carrying the green jacket through the airport and flying commercial is extremely on brand (msn.com)

Good place to share this:

Hideki Matsuyama carrying the green jacket through the airport and flying commercial is extremely on brand (msn.com)

I liked Tom Watson's answer. He said he's never taken or worn the green jacket off the ground's of Augusta.

 

[jleves]

I liked Tom Watson's answer. He said he's never taken or worn the green jacket off the ground's of Augusta.

Phil Mickelson was spotted wearing it at a drive through.

FYI Winners can only take the jacket off club grounds for the first year - then it has to be returned and can only be worn there.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Phil Mickelson was spotted wearing it at a drive through.

FYI Winners can only take the jacket off club grounds for the first year - then it has to be returned and can only be worn there.

yep.

Let's see if I can do this right. Phil supposedly has a tradition where he'll invite some of the newer or younger players within his sponsorship groups to a sit deal meal at Augusta. Partway through the meal Phil gets up, goes and gets his jacket and returns to the table wearing it. Upon sitting down Phil says he was feeling a bit chilly and needed to warm up.

 

[Palatine]

IMHO, the name Zalatoris definitely fits a evil emperor in a sci-fi movie. I don't know the ethnicity of the name. So it could be a space alien name.

Soon all Augusta will bow before Zalatoris.

 

[LIuconn]

He has the name and look of a modern Bond villain

 

[jibsey]

I think they are piping in recorded bird songs on the TV coverage. Northern Cardinals were singing a bit too much on every broadcast.

 

[Chin Diesel]

So this is an interesting twist.

Zalatoris is a good Bond villain name.

So what is his angle for world domination?

Does Bond kill him with a golf club snapped in half and jam the shaft through his nose and brain and finish it off with a walkaway line of "Now that's what I call a shank!"?

 

[Umami Zen]

Zal has to have a cheeseburger with fries on the turn.. Gotta get some meat on those bones.LOL

Kid is a player!

 

[AZHuskiePop]

IMHO, the name Zalatoris definitely fits a evil emperor in a sci-fi movie. I don't know the ethnicity of the name. So it could be a space alien name.

Soon all Augusta will bow before Zalatoris.

Lithuanian or Greek I always get those two mixed up and i’m a seasoned genealogist. I think it depends on the gender of the word.

 

[Chin Diesel]

 

[uconngb]

Nostradamus over here.

Easy to comment after the tournament is over isn’t it?? Should have bet me if you thought I was so wrong.