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Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 8:57 AM
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For me it's an easy, but not short explanation. It is the only one of the four Majors where the golf course itself is the star, year after year. (Not coincidentally, it is also the only one of the four with a permanent home. Me, personally, I wouldn't mind seeing ALL Open Championships be played at St. Andrews, and all US Open Championships be played at Pebble Beach. Let the PGA Championship rotate. Butt, that's just me, I suspect.)
Another reason I love The Masters is that the course managers do everything in their power to preserve the original "shot values" that Bobby Jones envisioned when he and Alistair Mackensie laid out the course and built it.
Now, preserving those shot values has become very difficult with the advances in golf equipment, balls, and the physical fitness of the players themselves. But, Augusta National does its best to keep up. No. 13, for instance, was lengthened off the tee again this year. When I first remember watching The Masters, the hole was 450 yards long, players with wooden headed drivers had to swing a big tee shot around the corner to go at the green with a very long iron or a fairway wood, or choose to lay up. In recent years, that club had dropped down to a mid iron or even less, and EVERYBODY was going for it, every time. This year, the hole played 550 yards long, and that go/no-go decision after your drive has been restored. A less than stellar drive means a lay up again, just as Bobby Jones intended.
Of course, "par" has never been considered a sacred cow at Augusta National either, the way it is at the US Open or PGA Championship. I think if the PGA of America could make the players play the US Open and the PGA Championship in a gravel pit, they would do so, if that is what it took to preserve the winning score being somewhere around par. It is seldom enjoyable golf to watch, unless you are a sadist who just enjoys the heck out of watching the best players in the world look more like you for four days.
The Masters? I don't think it is an accident that the Sunday "back nine charge" to win at Augusta is the most hoped for and watched thing in golf. And, as such, also no accident that what many consider the best Masters ever was in 1986 when a 46 year old Olden Bear Jack Nicklaus shot that 30 on the last nine holes to charge out of the pack and capture his sixth green jacket, and last Major title. Even Nicklaus himself, who was usually stoic on the course, had tears in his eyes, knowing what he had just accomplished.
When you get right down to it, as has been pointed out many times, The Masters is really not a "Championship" of anything, as are the other Majors. It is just the best run tournament in the world, on the prettiest golf course in the world. You get to see each new wave of modern stars compare themselves as directly as possible to the golf legends of the past on the "same" golf course. Other than that, not much to it!
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1000% agree
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Apr 10, 2023, 9:04 AM
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On all points. Spot on, man....
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 9:10 AM
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A Tradition like no other. It’s The Masters!
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 9:47 AM
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I agree about St. Andrews and Pebble Beach as well. I enjoy The Masters partially because of the time of year. Spring is just arriving and the course is magnificent - flowering shrubs in all of the glory too. I would watch a documentary on the groundskeepers if there is one!
(And Go Tigers!)
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 9:54 AM
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Green Jacket
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For me, it reminds me of my childhood...
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Apr 10, 2023, 10:13 AM
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When I was a young boy, my father and I would go to the practice rounds every year. That was back in the day when you could just show-up, pay your money at the gate, and walk right in. In fact there used to be two signs at the entrance. One said "Ticket Holders Gate" and the other said "Main Admission Gate". Before 1995, when the lottery for practice rounds badges was started, anyone could still walk up to the gate and purchase a pass Monday through Wednesday. I have attended both the practice rounds and the actual tournament more times than I can count. Over the years I have probably walked every inch of that course.
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 10:17 AM
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History, traditions and the landscape makes the whole tourney special.
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 10:22 AM
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I love the game of golf. Am pretty sure we're going to get to play in heaven. The Masters is the showcase of all the pomp, pageantry, and professionalism of the game.
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 12:20 PM
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And those in h e l l will be forced to watch golf.
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I like The Masters for all the reasons listed. BUT the media ….
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Apr 10, 2023, 10:27 AM
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could easily turn down the “gush and mush” down 20%. The History is fine and respect for AN deserved _ but the profound reverence by media is over the top. Same can be said for the British Open.
Of course, I just turn down the volume and listen to music during much of the broadcast.
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 10:35 AM
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Don’t care for golf at all. Have no idea how sane, American men could like a game (it is not a sport, no athleticism involved) invented by a bunch of dummies who wear women’s skirts (kilts) and squeeze on the most gosh awful sounding musical(?) instrument ( the bagpipe ). Hitting a round little ball with a crooked stick and then chasing it all afternoon? Please!!
It is the most boring thing to watch or TV. Even worse than bowling. Watching grown men toss sprigs of grass in the air, lie down and try to see if the earth is really flat or not, stand over their ball and wiggle their rear ends and then back off and start all over if a bird chirps is not for me. Not for me!!
If it is so important to get that little ball in that gopher hole, then by all means get in your golf cart, drive down to the green, take another giant slurp of your beer and simply drop it in the hole. This is the most precise description of golf anyone could ever come up with.
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^^^^^NASCAR FAN^^^^^^^^^^^^^^***
Apr 10, 2023, 12:15 PM
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Maybe the most ignorant post I have ever read on this forum. No, you don't have to like golf or watcxh it, but you really need to try to understand the sport before making such ignorant statements.
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 12:51 PM
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Well said. It wasn't to exciting this year but the back 9 on Sunday at the Masters is awesome. One of the greatest sporting events in the world.
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Im not a golf lover but do love The Masters
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Apr 10, 2023, 4:09 PM
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mainly for these reasons...
1. Its the first major of the year (and really the first big tournament in general)
2. Its a big regional event to the Southeast...so its also a local event by default to South Carolinians. We all know people who have tickets annually and generations who have gone...this is not the case in most states.
3. Its the best looking course...pine trees and blooming azaleas always look perfect on tv.
4. So much sports history with the tournament and they do more to keep it authentic than other events
5. Its hyped and advertised to exhaustion during March Madness. Beinig that CBS produces both, you get a heavy dose of Jim Nantz and almost feel like you follow him from the Final Four to Augusta each year.
To me, its just like Daytona and the Kentucky Derby. These are the 'Super Bowl' events of those sports and are enjoyable to watch in a casual manner.
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Ditto***
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Ditto***
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 4:38 PM
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Hearing the roars on the course while trying to figure out what hole it's coming from and who just did well.. The food.....Friday and Saturday rounds are the best.
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 5:55 PM
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Amen Corner through hole 16. Holes 11 - 16 can make or break a Masters round.
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only day of the year that i actually plan to watch golf
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Apr 10, 2023, 8:18 PM
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is Sunday at the Masters
will watch a few others - the Opens, the Heritage, but don't really plan my Sunday around it like i will for the Masters
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 8:48 PM
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I love the tournament because I have been fortunate enough to play the golf course quite a few times and watching the pros hit some of the great shots causes you to say how in the hell do they do that!
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 10, 2023, 11:43 PM
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I find golf to be very boring to watch on TV. My husband loves to play golf and will watch some of the tournaments on Sunday. I think I could get into it more if I was actually playing. I agree the Masters is the king and there’s just something about that tournament that none of the others can duplicate.
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Re: Why do you love The Masters Tournament, if you do? (Long)
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Apr 11, 2023, 8:42 AM
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Also an easy one for me. I was fortunate in that my grandparents started getting Masters tickets back in the 50's. My father started taking me sometime around 1972 or 72. We would sit behind 3 green where we could see them hit into 3 and then tee off on 4. After all the players had gone through, we would walk down to 15 or 16 and find a spot and watch them come through again. Can't do that these days. Around 74 or 75 I would follow Johnny Miller and see every shot he took. Again, that's a little tough these days. I was always exciting watching and hearing roars from around the course. Then all heads would turn towards the leaderboards to see what the roar was about. Those people working the boards knew hot to play it to. The would open it up, a slight delay......then slam it up.
After both grandparents has passed away we not longer received the ticket application. But I was there every year for around 20 or so years. And I have memories from each one.
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