lets try to have it all in one thread please.

Niiiiice Ace for Poults on 16... Mr Tiger still even...

Boom Boom is +4 through 10. With all of the contention talk early, he may be playing his way out of this thing early.

I hope Zach Johnson stays around the top 10. All that talk about him probably not making the cut or having a chance at a repeat on the golf channel last night really put me off.

The Masters scoreboard shows ZJ at -2 but CBS shows him at -3...

How about Mark OMeara at -1 after his first 18. Thats what I call a happy tenth anniversary .

Rough start for Adam Scott. How much of this has to do with the sickness?

Well, from a European point of view, and this being a Ryder Cup year, I like that leaderboard right now.

check Phil out, -2 after 2. That's a start

just turned on the masters mix on directtv. i see that programming starts at 3:00....how often do they update the leaderboard on that channel?

nice to see zach backing it up. whoa...and sandy lyle? i'll never forget those tight plaid pants from 1988...or that bunker shot.


omg....justin rose -3 after 3...wtg euro's!

I picked:

Couples
Rose
Weekly
Goosen
Olazabal
Sabbatini
Appleby
Ohern
Fasth
Verplank

in a fantasy league. Not looking to good for those blokes at the moment.

Yea my Woody Austin Pick isn't exactly lighting it up right now either.

Tiger chips in for eagle on 15. Necessary.

That keeps an average round from being a bad round.

Highlight of the golfing year for me this year is Sandy Lyle at -3...

hey all: Just woundering what's the toughest thing for all the players at the masters,but especialy the rookies in the field to deal with just the enormity of getting in the field as a player the toughness of the course or just dealing with the whole experience without getting to overwhelmed? Thanks for everyone's input

i can't get over how vivid the colors are. and that's on TV....


mental note for next year.....have 4 tv's all programmed to the different master's mix channels. FARKING AWESOME is what it is!



and sandy lyle being there....SO FREAKING COOL!

hey all: lets get your picks to win the masters. Mine is the "goose" retief goosen even though he's been struggling in '08 up intill about a month ago. Thanks

Phils just 3 stabbed it from 15ft for bogey....OUCH. Nice big horseshoe lip out

i don't care who wins. i just want to watch....every minute of it.

Looks like Woods has ditched the 5 wood and put a 2 iron back in...

Says the 1 iron-carrying poster.

can I say....Go Sandy!!!!!!

I wonder if he could still squeeze into those checked trousers come Sunday? I bet he can't knock a 1 iron into the bunker on #18 anymore though...

I actually still have a pair of those old Adidas 'Tobacco' trousers somewhere myself...

An Adams Hybrid Sandy ?!?!?!!!!

As my old sixth form head once said to me so memorably... 'I'm both surprised and disappointed in equal measure...'

Lol kiddo one day you will be begging for a seven wood. Do you think with Tiger its a club for courses thing?

I have just been watching for a while seems like a lot of nice shots very tenativive putting. Its pretty sad.

Nice of Tiger to only shoot even can you imagine no birdies. My fear was he would open with a 65 and scare everyone.

Phil seems to be struggling with the putter still.

When the day comes when I can't hit my beloved long irons Ken, the clubs start gathering dust in the loft and I take up gardening...

I just thought it was surprising, as he's carried a 5 wood for the last couple or three years at Augusta and the concensus of opinion is that the course is playing relatively long.

Watching Woosie and Sandy is giing me goosebumps. If only Greg Norman and Seve were there I'd be a bit giddy.

I just got home and started watching for the first time in HD... I almost cried... SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Could anyone tell if that was a Select or Style Studio putter Justin Rose was using?? didn't see the GI-normaus Dots in the back..........

I picked Goosen in my two boards. He is not impresssing me yet.


Was Sandy Lyle using a Ping Redwood?

kids just got home from school.

one of them asked why the grass is so green on tv.

i said 'because it's heaven'.

little one says "they're all dead? and can i change the channel?"

i looked at her and she ran really fast.





c'mon phil....make some farking putts!

You DTV HD people are killing me. I couldn't get mine scheduled for install until Saturday! at least I'll still have a day and a half of HD coverage on my new 42" LCD...

Classic.... just classic.... sounds like you might have missed an opportunity to "educate" LOL

My partner is already aware that the onset of labour at any point on Sunday evening will mean that I will not be present at the birth.

The children will be taught from infancy that turning off the TV whilst the Masters coverage is on will be looked upon by Daddy in the same light as burning a Union Flag in the garden...

Matt brother when is she due
. Because I promise you that you are lying like a bedwetter the birth of your child would take prescedence.. Of course carrying a radio into the delivery room would be permisable.


Ok my ananlysis is if this keeps up Peltz may hit the unemployment line. Phil can not buy a putt. Then again nobody can whats the deal?


Everyone is hitting it pretty good but nobody is making crap.

Ken

Who really likes Phil anyway...? Stupid question. But Tiger's just messing with us, he probably signed a deal with CBS to keep it interesting for Sunday

Also I'm thinking i probably should have made the effort to put £1 on Lee Westwood at 66-1. I thought that looked good and now I'm feeling vindicated. And deprived....

Me

I like phil.

My .02

His putts and everyone elses seemed very tentative. Paul Casey's game always shows up at Augusta. Lee Westwood is a nice surprise. Jim Furyk is so zzzzzzzz.

MastersMix is the bomb!




Yoda....you would not miss the birth of your own spawn for a television broadcast of golf.

Crabby

You're right. I would never miss the birth for televised golf. However, were I to have tickets...

I did jokingly mention that I'd be in front of the TV on Sunday night no matter what, but the phrase 'we are not amused' would probably cover the look I got in return...

Yoda is indeed wise. But Mat would be dead.

Oh come on Mat do you really want to watch your partner scream in pain for 12 hours. I think you'll have to come up with a cunning plan to somehow get out of it. I mean you're going to spend the next 18 years with this child, why not enjoy some sunday afternoon augusta thrills....



(I do have a soul)

Furyk just raised up and pulled the heck out of a four footer and they blamed it on the darkness .

Faldo please shut the heck up.

It was a bad stroke Hello just and ugly stroke

I like Phil.


Just a question to all you UK blokes: How do you all feel over there knowing that 3 of the majors are played State side? That must really piss you off. Just curious.

hurrying in the dark was that stupid or what????

As a UK guy, I wouldn't say having 3 majors in the US pissed me off, we still have 1 and a few other top tournaments here. But I think the lads from Oz/Europe/SA/Asia might begin to feel hard done by in the coming years with the game growing in popularity there. If things were to change, I think it would be the PGA that would have make way.

I think having all the WGC events in the US is more contentious, I don't see why the all the players can't get off there asses and turn up to a big tournament once a year in Australia or SA. They only show up in Dubai for the $$$ so turning up there doesn't make you an 'international' player.

As for the Masters - great to see Sandy playing well.
How white are Stephen Ames teeth!
Tiger looked a bit dodgy at times, as did Phil.
For some reason, I don't think Rose really has the balls to keep it going.
I actually think Zack Johnson might be a strong contender than some have thought, he went out today and played some great stuff under a bit of pressure, i.e. everyone expecting him to fail.

Well I doubt their will be a change in the majors anytime soon. The PGA tour had been trying to get the TPC regognized as a major for years with no luck\

You don't rag the PGA and I will not rag your Open.

I didn't really watch any of it, but by the looks of the scorecard it really did look like tiger was just playing to stay even. Maybe he actually does have a deal with CBS:
CBS: hey tiger, I'll pay you a fortune if you make it exciting this weekend.
Tiger: allright, if you REAAALLY want

I wish i was tiger :p.



From the European point of view, he's right. There's nothing. Not a single golf tournament worth watching. Well, even though, the Volvo Masters at Valderrama is allright, still not US or UK standard though.

Well the game was invented on that side of the pond. So to me it's just ironic. I totally agree with the idea of the WGC events needing to be other places than America. I don't get that at all. But if I were a Euro, the championship I'd want to win would be the Open.

Oh yeah, and about Tiger; like I said, I just have a gut feeling he will not get green jacket 5 this week. Anyway, we need someone else to get their first major. I am really pulling for Rose, but I picked him at the Open in my league, so if he gets #1 this week, he might not get it at the Open. In a nutshell: I want anybody to win but Tiger.

Mat, YOU may have the best intentions.
But what happens, if Lee Westwood really is in contention on Sunday? Won't every doctor, nurse and midwife in the Worksop area tell her to "Wait until it's over", anyway?
Given the way life sometimes works, I wouldn't be surprised, if Lee were to win and you to become a father at the same time. What a screenplay. A whole city glued to the TV sets watching a golf tournament, while a couple is desperately trying to get anybody to help them deliver a child....

i expected much better from ogilvy. hopefully he can pull through