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Originally posted by cne32507:
I've been to practice rounds. Augusta National is the green cathedral of golf. TV doesn't do it justice; the grass is greener, the bunkers whiter, the trees bigger, the hills steeper and the greens trickier than one can imagine. I saw a grounds crew at the end of the day using flat shovels to pound the bunker fronting 9(?). The foreman stood at the back and would throw balls as hard as he could into the steep front. If they didn't bounce back and roll to the flat bottom, more pounding. Amazing and stunning.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
so much butthurt over Tiger being the biggest story of the week. sorry some of you guys don't like it, but he's still the biggest story in golf and he will be the biggest story of the week until the weekend. he is one of the top 2 golfers of all time, ya know. and he's back to +1 on a day that nobody is really lighting the course on fire.

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Originally posted by walkinghorse:

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Originally posted by cne32507:
I've been to practice rounds. Augusta National is the green cathedral of golf. TV doesn't do it justice; the grass is greener, the bunkers whiter, the trees bigger, the hills steeper and the greens trickier than one can imagine. I saw a grounds crew at the end of the day using flat shovels to pound the bunker fronting 9(?). The foreman stood at the back and would throw balls as hard as he could into the steep front. If they didn't bounce back and roll to the flat bottom, more pounding. Amazing and stunning.

Did you get to see the mowing crews in the evening? Looked like a formation of fighter planes moving across a green sky!
Was fortunate enough to see all 4 rounds back in the early 90's. An experience that everyone should experience. The course is the star, to me at least! TV does not do it justice!

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Originally posted by medic451:
Poor Sergio Garcia, 3 shots in a row roll back into the water on 15. All good shots, just too much back spin.

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Originally posted by AllenInWV:
I know nothing about golf (other than it's a nice walk, spoiled) but I saw a video on Facebook this morning....

Did some guy literally skip his ball across a pond out there?? Ya know, like skipping a stone? Came pretty close to the hole too!

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Originally posted by AllenInWV:
I know nothing about golf (other than it's a nice walk, spoiled) but I saw a video on Facebook this morning....

Did some guy literally skip his ball across a pond out there?? Ya know, like skipping a stone? Came pretty close to the hole too!

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Originally posted by Ripley:
After a brilliant back nine Thursday, Spieth stumbled on 18, working his butt off for a bogey. In the post round interview, whoever it was asked Spieth about some "panic" comment he'd made a while back. Maybe I'm wrong, it looked like Jordan wanted to clock him. That's right, pump some ugly negativity up his butt. Spieth opened today double bogey, bogey.

Time and again in Wood's dominant years, TV people would do this to potential rivals. I particularly remember this crap slapped on Ernie Els before the start of a major final round. Like Spieth, Els couldn't believe what he was hearing. Woods rarely talked after rounds then and certainly was never confronted with negativity.

Unrelated but another "favor" for Woods back then was early round Thursday, late Friday. He'd start the tournament on ideal greens on day one, on day two knew his standing and could choose to be more aggressive if need be. We're back to that pattern this year, early Thursday, late Friday. Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg that is special treatment bestowed on Woods.