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FTF: What’s a bigger tournament, the Open Championship or the Masters?

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7 years ago

Jul 21, 2017

The GolfWRX forums exist so golfers have access to the latest equipment releases, hottest discussions, real equipment reviews, best instruction, new technologies and everything golf you can imagine. So if you love golf, the GolfWRX forums are your sanctuary.

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Bigger tournament: The Masters or The Open?

As TheyCallMeVinnie points out, Rory McIlroy called the British Open the biggest tournament in golf. Surely, many pros and fans reject this notion, thinking instead the annual gathering in Augusta, Georgia, is a bigger deal.

Like all great debates, there’s no definitive answer, but that doesn’t get in the way of some great discussion.

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Your first Scotty Cameron

Started in 2014, this thread is still going strong. Sapps_12 asks: What’s the first Scotty Cameron you owned? Take a trip down the GSS blocks of memory lane with your fellow GolfWRXers.

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Favorite pair of golf shoes ever?

Golfers are weirdly particular about their shoes. Tsecor asks fellow WRXers what their favorite shoes are and why. Comfort, performance, aesthetics, we all preference different elements in our shoe selections.

Some of us, doubtless, still swear by steel spikes (although there’s nowhere left to wear them).

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The best place to live, work, and golf

Here’s a good debate: Name the place that offers the golfer everything. Good jobs, great place to live, and an abundance of quality golf options. Breaks81 narrowed his list to Texas, Utah, and Arizona but remained open to additional suggestions.

To see what the forums had to say, check out the thread.

Jason Day’s high tops

As you may have heard (and may not care to have heard), Jason Day wore a pair of Nike Air Jordan 1s during the first round of The Open.

Not surprisingly, there’s a heaping helping of hot takes in this forum thread dedicated to the subject, and the larger discussion about the direction of golfwear is well worth weighing in on.

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chris franklin

Jul 22, 2017 at 5:56 pm

More to the point is do you honestly believe this to be journalism?
The answer to your question which one supposes to be ‘which is the bigger tournament?’ is unquestionably the Open Championship,historically older,played on a variety of courses and is open to qualifiers unlike Augusta which started life as the Augusta Invitational and is now played on a tricked-up golf course that must have RT Jones spinning in his grave.
No great golfers cv is complete unless they have lifted the Claret Jug.

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golfraven

Jul 22, 2017 at 3:20 am

I was once a big fan of the Masters but it becomes more staged and very obvious to the spectators. Still would like to go to Augusta and see it live. The Open is the championship which challenges all skills of the player (well the course and weather do the rest) and rightly the winner has the title the champion golfer of the year.

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Mike

Jul 21, 2017 at 6:58 pm

I agree, the Open is the biggest Championship, the Masters the biggest tourney.
In Australia the telecast starts at 3.30 pm and finishes around 3am . Does the Masters do any thing like this?

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Blake

Jul 21, 2017 at 2:14 pm

Not even a close comparison. The masters is the biggest golfing event year after year. Not even close to whatever is second (which would prob the the US open, Not the British open).

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- Nat Thorp
  
  Jul 21, 2017 at 9:57 pm
  
  I think that may be a slightly ascue judgement. The Opem Championship would get significantly higher viewing in Europe than the Masters.
  Personally, having played in Scotland and played a few of the Open loop, I would say that the Open Championship is a more difficult victory (depending on weather). The Masters is always perfection but it’s always Augusta, same course same set up. I would think you could ask quite a few pros and they would say there is almost no course harder than Carnoustie in the Open Championship, including Augusta.
  
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Ceri pritchard

Jul 21, 2017 at 12:54 pm

The open is the biggest championship. The masters is the biggest tournament. It doesn’t get more definitive than that.

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Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (4/9/24): Titleist TSR 9-wood

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From the Forums: How are you liking TaylorMade’s Qi10 fairway woods?

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Edwardsr: “I got fit into the Qi10 core model with Ventus TR Black 8X and it’s absolutely amazing for me.During the fitting with my 12-15 swings with it, it was the most efficient combo I’ve ever tested, tons of 1.48 smash and 3 or 4 1.49 smash (which I don’t think I’ve ever gotten on 3 wood on a launch monitor).”
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