Posted on 11/09/2020 6:46:43 AM PST by C19fan
Instead of being the annual rite of spring for golf in April, the Masters will serve as an autumn awakening in November.
A different version of a Fall Classic, if you will.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Masters was postponed from its annual run in April to November 12-15. That seven-month alteration, in short, means it will be a Masters unlike any other when players arrive in Augusta, Georgia, in pursuit of a green jacket.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“You’re going to have to hit a lot of long irons into greens.”
In other words not a driver/wedge/putt contest. The caddies are going to need to remove the rust from those 3 irons.
Ball position on the greens at Augusta is so important, so if players are hitting longer irons (less accurate, harder to hold) on their second shots, it could be very interesting to see what the scores are. Often, if you’re not on the right shelf or part of green at Augusta, you could make no less than a 3-putt...sometimes, even worse.
Potential for some weather delays it looks like
Thu 12 78°/67° Thunderstorms 80% SW 5 mph
Fri 13 78°/62°Showers 40% N 6 mph
Sat 14 70°/61° AM Showers 30% ENE 9 mph
Sun 15 76°/61° Showers 40% S 8 mph
The Pros will handle it. They play a game which is virtually unknown to the rest of us.
Golf is about the only live action on TV that is almost untainted by C-virus intrusion. I am looking forward to the Masters this week.
I thought golf was worried that the game was starting to be a lot less about skill and more about how long a player can drive. I guess not so much.
How are they going to get women to be successful playing against the men if they keep making courses longer and longer?
Kamala needs to look into this.
“You’re going to have to hit a lot of long irons into greens.”
Except Bryson DeChambeau
I guess the growing of pumpkins on the greens is out this year.
Golf is the only sport I watch these days. The others have ceased to exist for me.
Check out this article about a practice round Bryson Dechambeau played recently with Sandy Lyle the 1988 Champion....
Here’s a recap, per Paulson via Lyle, of what DeChambeau hit into some of the holes:
No. 1 (Par 4, 445 yards): Sand wedge
No. 2 (Par 5, 575 yards): 8-iron
No. 3 (Par 4, 350 yards): Flew the green with 3-wood off the tee
No. 8 (Par 5, 570 yards): 7-iron
No. 9 (Par 4, 460 yards): Sand wedge
No. 10 (Par 4, 495 yards): Pitching wedge
No. 11 (Par 4, 505 yards): 9-iron
No. 13 (Par 5, 510 yards): 7-iron (hit 3-wood off tee)
No. 15 (Par 5, 530 yards): 9-iron
No. 17 (Par 4, 440 yards): Sand wedge
“They play a game which is virtually unknown to the rest of us.”
Not sure on that as it won’t be this time. With the conditions, they will have to play our game a little more. The game this year at Augusta is going to be more like what we face with no rolls and different winds. And hurricane and tropical storm season doesn’t end until late November so there may be a lot of wet out there. The winds are part of why many don’t play in Hawaii or Texas.
So the normal club selection is going to be a chess match rather than a muscle game. Thus the bombers will have to compete with the straighters rather than the other way around.
The course will still be around 7500 yards, but their will be far less challenging of par 5’s and position will be the practice rather than the challenge of length. I don’t know about the irons, but you’ll see a lot more hybrids and 4/5 woods. Many pros don’t even carry anything in the bag below 4 iron and carry extra wedges. These wedges may not be needed this year as much as they won’t be attacking the fairways to the last part of the landing zones and are going to have to come in with something a little bigger. They’ll be throwing lawn darts from the neighbor’s yard.
rwood
I was surprised to see that the NFL is in week 9.
Any word on the early start times ? I read they were going off 1 and 10 ?
Since golf came back on TV, it has been a major source of my TV entertainment.
I have been trying to golf for 5 plus decades and got down to high single digits as a USGA handicap but that was a few years ago.
My last one was 12, two years ago and my home course closed.
I've been traveling around to different courses and with no home course, I gone up to a 15, but most of that is not knowing the greens.
The wonderful thing about golf handicaps is anybody can play anybody and have a reasonably competitive game {we all know about the lowest of the low lifes, the dreaded sandbagger}.
All most all sandbaggers are demonRATs, they love cheating.
In western PA, sandbaggers are allowed to be shot, without penalty:)
The Masters golf tournament has begun. Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus hit the honorary first shots. It will rain today but is expected to be very nice for the next three days. The original forecast was for rain three days. They started 10 minutes late.
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