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Author Topic: Masters 2019  (Read 14886 times)

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #50 on: April 13, 2019, 05:56:21 PM »
Tiger has this wrapped up. In the final group . Will shoot 68 tomorrow and grind out the victory .
Wrap it in bacon. Go Tiger!
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #51 on: April 13, 2019, 06:14:55 PM »
Tiger has this wrapped up. In the final group . Will shoot 68 tomorrow and grind out the victory .

68 gets him a playoff at best. Molinari goes out and shoots 69/70 in control just like at the British.

He better hope Koepka keeps putting like he did on 16-18, his ball striking was superb the back 9. And his response to that terrifying “Tiger roar” from 16 was a stone cold eagle to bounce back from that bogey on 14.

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #52 on: April 13, 2019, 06:24:49 PM »
early starters may have better conditions. as it gets later in the day, bad weather closes in=wind playing games with the ball and their heads.  setting up a melt down.  i like tony, but tiger has the experience.  kooch and koepka could steal one here

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #53 on: April 13, 2019, 06:34:12 PM »
Get up early tomorrow.   They are going to endeavor to be done by 4 EDT.   Threesomes, split tees, early tee times.

I made my umpiring availability only through 3 so I could watch what I hoped would be a great finish to the Masters. Now, I could end up missing the entire effen thing! Damn! Maybe I'll get rained out tomorrow like I was today, though. That would be sweet.

Tiger has this wrapped up. In the final group . Will shoot 68 tomorrow and grind out the victory .

Silliness.

Molinari and Koepka are not only better than Tiger but they are completely unfazed by him.

Has he ever come back from even 2 strokes down to win a major? I don't think so. And the competition is so much better now.
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #54 on: April 13, 2019, 07:18:02 PM »
Planning on getting to Augusta tomorrow at 5:00am.

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #55 on: April 13, 2019, 08:52:03 PM »
I caddied for Phil at the 1999 Western Open Pro Am, and can confirm I did not get stiffed.

Wow, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing that.

As a young kid growing up at that time and in the process of learning to play left-handed, I always spent a lot of time watching Phil. Surprising (or maybe not) how few good lefties there have been in my lifetime.

(PS, fun fact: Phil is actually right-handed, he just plays lefty)
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #56 on: April 13, 2019, 09:13:17 PM »
Planning on getting to Augusta tomorrow at 5:00am.

that's awesome!  the lambeau field of golf!  i hate the term "bucket list" but augusta is on my top 5
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #57 on: April 13, 2019, 09:15:49 PM »
I know this isn’t necessarily the thread for it, but I’d be curious if anyone else had either good caddy stories. I caddied at St. Charles Country Club from 13 through my senior year at MU. Best job I’ve ever had. Phil was biggest name I ever caddied for. Phil talked to Bones far more than me during that round, but experience of a lifetime otherwise. I was on a bag in a foursome with Hal Sutton, and other rounds with Tony Jacklin, Ray Floyd, and Billy Casper. Non tour pros Gene Keady, Dale Tallon, Howard Sudberry. I regularly caddied for Jim Skinner (and his wife Kathy) before he became CEO at McDonalds. Great sense of humor and always tipped very well.

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #58 on: April 13, 2019, 09:40:15 PM »
Planning on getting to Augusta tomorrow at 5:00am.
I was there with my boy today, our first time.  We had our chairs in the front row on 16.  It was nuts when Tiger made his birdie

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #59 on: April 13, 2019, 10:02:16 PM »
I was there with my boy today, our first time.  We had our chairs in the front row on 16.  It was nuts when Tiger made his birdie

Good for you and son.  I took mine some years ago and both of us talk about it each year the Masters is on, seems like yesterday.  Always remember how hilly it was, not one weed or piece of clover, even in rough, and how well treated by the staff there.  Spent lots of money at merchandise tent, lots..... 

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #61 on: April 14, 2019, 12:02:32 AM »
Planning on getting to Augusta tomorrow at 5:00am.

Nice weekend...

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #62 on: April 14, 2019, 12:29:18 AM »
I know this isn’t necessarily the thread for it, but I’d be curious if anyone else had either good caddy stories. I caddied at St. Charles Country Club from 13 through my senior year at MU. Best job I’ve ever had. Phil was biggest name I ever caddied for. Phil talked to Bones far more than me during that round, but experience of a lifetime otherwise. I was on a bag in a foursome with Hal Sutton, and other rounds with Tony Jacklin, Ray Floyd, and Billy Casper. Non tour pros Gene Keady, Dale Tallon, Howard Sudberry. I regularly caddied for Jim Skinner (and his wife Kathy) before he became CEO at McDonalds. Great sense of humor and always tipped very well.
Good enough question to have its own thread.   
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #63 on: April 14, 2019, 12:40:22 AM »
I know this isn’t necessarily the thread for it, but I’d be curious if anyone else had either good caddy stories. I caddied at St. Charles Country Club from 13 through my senior year at MU. Best job I’ve ever had. Phil was biggest name I ever caddied for. Phil talked to Bones far more than me during that round, but experience of a lifetime otherwise. I was on a bag in a foursome with Hal Sutton, and other rounds with Tony Jacklin, Ray Floyd, and Billy Casper. Non tour pros Gene Keady, Dale Tallon, Howard Sudberry. I regularly caddied for Jim Skinner (and his wife Kathy) before he became CEO at McDonalds. Great sense of humor and always tipped very well.

I caddied in middle/HS at a CC in the North Shore suburbs of MKE.  Sal Bando was a member and a regular bag of mine when he was in the Brewers front office.  Nice guy, took insanely large divots.  Caddied for Bob Lanier one time when he was a guest.  Caddied for a guy one time who played on the Candian Tour at the time.  That was actually really fun, to watch someone of his caliber play from that perspective.

I started to fade out by the time I was a junior or so in HS.  I was doing other work and the caddy environment wasn't as fun.  But I had a younger cardiologist from Froedert (i think) who I caddied for in the club championship as a freshman.  He made a run, we had a lot of fun, and his daughter actually danced at the same studio as my sisters.  So he began requesting me.  He didn't play often, probably 10-15 times a summer, including club events/tourneys, but he would call me personally, and always gave me $100.  Which is notable cause I think caddie take home was $18+tip, so that was worth not schlepping around for luck of the draw (I knew plenty of guys who would give a $20 and be done with it).

Other good story, one of my best friends growing up became a golf pro.  Went to Ferris St, did the program, and was doing basically a co-op our senior year of college at a club near Phoenix.  I went to visit him for I think Presidents Day that year.  He had to work a decent amount so id hang out, but we asked me one night if I wanted to caddy the next day.  I kind of scoffed, but he told me it would be worth it, so I said sure.  Turns out he was friendly with a guy who played baseball at Georgia Tech and now was a businessman in the Phoenix area.  He was playing in a 3some that day with my buddy and his old college teammate...Mark Teixeira.  So I was on the bag for Teixeira.  Really nice guy, decent golfer, but HUGE in person and huge off the tee.

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #64 on: April 14, 2019, 05:24:14 AM »
that's awesome!  the lambeau field of golf!  i hate the term "bucket list" but augusta is on my top 5

I went for the first (and so far only) time in 2008. It is one of the very, very few places that I've been to that exceeded my extremely high expectations going in.

IMHO, much better experience than Wrigley or Lambeau or MSG, etc. Those places are iconic, but they're still only stadiums, fields and arenas. Augusta National is indescribably amazing.

Absolutely go if you get the chance.

Good for you and son.  I took mine some years ago and both of us talk about it each year the Masters is on, seems like yesterday.  Always remember how hilly it was, not one weed or piece of clover, even in rough, and how well treated by the staff there.  Spent lots of money at merchandise tent, lots..... 

I walked Augusta for 5 days, and the hilliness of the course was one of the things that surprised me because it doesn't come across that way on TV. And the pristine conditions. As you said, not a blade of grass out of place.

The merch was a rip-off, of course, but I also was surprised at how relatively inexpensive the food and soda was.

Very possible I'll never make it back there, but I'm glad to say that I went once -- even if it was perhaps the most boring competition with perhaps the worst champion (Trevor Immelman) in Masters history!
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #65 on: April 14, 2019, 07:06:57 AM »
I want to party like it is 1986 today!! I remember, like many, the entire day when Jack pulled off his last win at Augusta. Spent the entire evening celebrating at The Gym Bar with my wife.
This golf fan will be cheering for the what I believe to be, the greatest redemption story in the history of sports. Two years ago when Tiger was arrested I feared for his ability to ever have a happy life again. Win or lose, I hope my man enjoys the love of the fans today.

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #66 on: April 14, 2019, 07:22:53 AM »
I went to Augusta back about 1993.  TV doesn't come close to doing it justice.

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #67 on: April 14, 2019, 08:21:46 AM »
I know this isn’t necessarily the thread for it, but I’d be curious if anyone else had either good caddy stories.

 So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #68 on: April 14, 2019, 08:23:49 AM »
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #69 on: April 14, 2019, 08:41:50 AM »
Wow, Mickelson

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #70 on: April 14, 2019, 08:58:03 AM »
@darrenrovell Yesterday at 21:02
$1,190,000: What one bettor would win if Tiger wins tomorrow. Bettor placed an $85,000 bet at 14/1 at a William Hill sportsbook in Nevada on Tuesday. It represents the greatest single bet golf liability in the US operator’s history. Tiger now 3/1 at all of William Hill books.

Tiger Woods Has Bookmakers Sweating After Third Round of Masters
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-13/tiger-woods-has-bookmakers-sweating-after-third-round-of-masters
 Former world No. 1 is seeking his 15th major tournament title
 One bettor is hoping for a $1.2 million payday on Sunday
Before the tournament began on Thursday, Paddy Power discussed which seven players posed the most danger for the people running golf books. Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy was top of the pile but is now out of contention, and Woods was ranked the fourth-biggest potential liability.

“If the Woods-meister starts shooting the lights out everyone will want a piece of the action and that could mean carnage,” the Dublin-based betting company said. “We’ll be diving for cover if Woods starts to put on a Masters-class.”


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We had threads on this before.  Bookmaking is such an ultra-competitive tight margin business (meaning it is not that profitable anymore) that the days of just balancing the books and diving the money are long gone.  Now the bookmakers have to take one side of the bet.

Seems like the public likes betting on Tiger and the bookmakers were all too happy to take the other side.
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #71 on: April 14, 2019, 09:14:30 AM »
@darrenrovell Yesterday at 21:02
$1,190,000: What one bettor would win if Tiger wins tomorrow. Bettor placed an $85,000 bet at 14/1 at a William Hill sportsbook in Nevada on Tuesday. It represents the greatest single bet golf liability in the US operator’s history. Tiger now 3/1 at all of William Hill books.

Tiger Woods Has Bookmakers Sweating After Third Round of Masters
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-13/tiger-woods-has-bookmakers-sweating-after-third-round-of-masters
 Former world No. 1 is seeking his 15th major tournament title
 One bettor is hoping for a $1.2 million payday on Sunday
Before the tournament began on Thursday, Paddy Power discussed which seven players posed the most danger for the people running golf books. Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy was top of the pile but is now out of contention, and Woods was ranked the fourth-biggest potential liability.

“If the Woods-meister starts shooting the lights out everyone will want a piece of the action and that could mean carnage,” the Dublin-based betting company said. “We’ll be diving for cover if Woods starts to put on a Masters-class.”


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We had threads on this before.  Bookmaking is such an ultra-competitive tight margin business (meaning it is not that profitable anymore) that the days of just balancing the books and diving the money are long gone.  Now the bookmakers have to take one side of the bet.

Seems like the public likes betting on Tiger and the bookmakers were all too happy to take the other side.

6 to 8% is the entire squeeze.  You are correct, very low margin.  We keep meeting with leagues and betting houses, along with the data guys like Sport Radar, and the amount of true money to be made is so damn small.  Sure, top line revenue is there, but margin is almost non existent.

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #72 on: April 14, 2019, 10:06:20 AM »
Decent amount of golf to be played. But this looks like molinari will win. He's been Rock solid with scrambling. Would need someone to go really low to catch him.

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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #73 on: April 14, 2019, 10:23:19 AM »
Decent amount of golf to be played. But this looks like Molinari will win. He's been Rock solid with scrambling. Would need someone to go really low to catch him.

Never ever ever ever (did I say ever) predict a winner on the front nine unless they have a 10 shot lead.

Tiger now one back on 8.  Molinari stopped being rock solid the second you hit "post" as he cannot hit a fairway or green anymore.
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Re: Masters 2019
« Reply #74 on: April 14, 2019, 10:42:49 AM »
Never ever ever ever (did I say ever) predict a winner on the front nine unless they have a 10 shot lead.

Tiger now one back on 8.  Molinari stopped being rock solid the second you hit "post" as he cannot hit a fairway or green anymore.

He promptly birdied and hit a perfect drive on 9.

He's the best golfer in this group. Obviously Tiger or a couple of others could win this too but Molinari is a killer. So solid.