Not Much Excitement In The 2007 Masters
This will go down in the anals ( I could use that term to describe this year’s setup ) as the most boring Masters to ever be televised.
No birdies.
No miraculous shotmaking.
No tap-in’s.
No fun.
No thanks. I think I’ll work here at the computer tomorrow ( Sunday ) and keep up with the day’s dropping of even more shots by reading Jason Sobel’s blog over at ESPN.
He’s been doing a great job of describing the ( very little ) action so far and I expect nothing but his finest on Sunday.
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I think it’s great to watch a tournament where par actually means something. It makes us normal hackers feel a little better about our games to see the pros struggling a bit instead of shooting bogey free rounds of 63, 64, etc. I wish we saw this type of golf more often!
There’s a lot of other people who feel the same as you Nick.
I’m just used to Sunday charges and exciting back nines at Augusta.
The “par is a great score” thang is usually reserved for The U.S. Open, where we’re used to this type of play.
Augusta’s greens were never meant to be 12+ on the Stimpmeter. When they were designed, with all that slope, the greens were good at around 6 or 7, if a Stimpmeter had been invented back then.
You, nor I, not a LOT of the Pro’s, would or will not enjoy golf when Par is a ‘great’ score.
A ‘great’ score should be birdie, a ‘good’ score should be par.
Golf was never meant to be a mentally exhausting test of survival.
Look back in the anals (there’s that word again) of golf at the courses and people who began the game and you’ll see that ‘Target’ golf is a purely Americanized version made for advertisers and developers.
The Open Championship (British Open) is by far the best test of ‘golf’ and probably always will be.
I don’t like those -26 after 4 days golf tournaments either, but I also don’t think a course setup that causes the 70 best golfers in the world to shoot over par is a very good setup either.
Augusta National is just doing this because they can and they know not many will complain or they’ll take their toys and not let you play with them.
They have more than one problem down there and this is just the part we see.
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