The Masters is actually the Championship of Champions. The top 50 players in the world. The winners plus top finishers in the other majors. The winners of PGA tournaments. Plus the top amateurs.
would certainly put the TPC up against the NEGBJI in terms of crowd noise. And there is plenty of public interest and they don't artificially restrict tickets to make them appear harder to get than they should ala the old cranks of the NEGBJI.
LOL......if the Augusta National didn't "artificially restrict tickets", the Masters would be a zoo. How many would you like them to print? One hundred thousand? They'd all go in an instant, trust me. The demand is that intense. The course is packed with the number of tickets which they currently print. It's not to make them appear harder to get.
And I am hardly the only person who thinks the NEGBJI played year in and year out on a course that favors certain types of golfer is a true test. Look up what Lee Trevino about it some time? Of course most golfer will never say anything because the NEGJBI cranks are tend toward fascism and the cranks might find some way to keep them out.
I think we get your real objection to the Masters. You don't like the old boys who run it. Fair enough. They're not not everybody's cup of tea. As for Trevino, did he ever win the Masters? That would be "no". If you're going to spin the line that those who have won a Green Jacket have an incentive to pretend it's a major, I can equally spin the line that those who never could will have something against it.
Sure those who have won the NEGBJI have an incentive to pretend it is a major. That is why majors are not determined by players.
Right......Jack and Arnie and Tiger are just "pretending". They have an "incentive".
Pure codswallop.
Lee Trevino did not have the length to win at Augusta. He once said that if Nicklaus would have had to play his second shot, he would have given up golf.