Just saw that on ESPN. Holy crap. Lucky no one was injured/killed.

Come on, Tiger. Get hot tomorrow, please. just make the cut. Want to watch you over the weekend in honor of my dad.

39 players still need to finish the 2nd round and then the cut will be made. That's almost 1/2 the field.

Really ****ed up that guys will sit around not knowing if they will need to play in round 3 or go home. Then some guys finishing round 2 may need to turn around and go right back out or finish early and wait a long time.

Hope TV or internet coverage is much better tomorrow cause the last two days have been horrible. Too much bullshit and too little live golf.

On ESPN and its light rain.

Tiger gonna choke. Hit an absolute putrid drive on #18 after bogeying 17. I think the rain and cold will be too much for his knee and back.

Yep, as it stands now, Tiger would be out. Projected cut at +2.

raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock this morning

Keopka's going to have some knee problems when he gets back out there. These conditions are brutal on the mind body spirit in a golf match.

Rahm hit a 240 yard center laced drive on 18.

See what it's like assholes when you don't have dry fairways rolled away from you to get max roll all the time.

Cut at +3.. Tiger makes his 23rd cut..

JT tanked for him. Let the conspiracy theories begin

Oh well, good for him. :thumb:

Probably not so much for his leg and other surgically repaired parts.

Oosthuizen quit rather than come back and play the 18th this morning. Can't say I'm surprised-- he's the same chickenshit that laid up from the rough on a par 5 when down two to Rahm on the 72nd hole of the US Open. Just another guy who cares more about cashing checks than taking a risk to win.

Higher tv ratings you see.

The Masters apparently chose not to include the leaders as a Featured Group this afternoon, which means the first anybody will see of them is the start of network coverage at 3. You’d think this kind of nonsense would have ended when they stopped putting replays of every single shot of every player in the field online but it hasn’t.

You can watch holes 4,5,6 on the masters app.

Not showing the leaders is an absolute joke.

Especially with the risk of getting another delay.

JT, Songjae Im and Spallings all shit the bed on last 6-9 holes or Tiger was gone.

JT went from -2 to +4 in 9 holes to miss the cut.

He has sucked in the last year. His putting and chipping has been awful.

I wish I could hit like they do.

Hell, at times I wish I could hit like the women do.

If I had Jordan Speith or Patrick Reeds short game and putting it would drop my scoring avg by at least 9. Its incredible the feel these guys have. I would have 45 putts on 13 stimped greens

OMFG actual leaders! Thank you wise and benevolent golf gods for this undeserved gift for which we are not worthy.

Not sure how much longer they can play with all the standing water.

tiger double bogies 16!!!

I hate wet socks with every fiber of my being

Going forward, a Saudi network should broadcast the Masters instead of CBS.

Woods and Couples wish their play was as good as all their criticisms of LIV.

Worst is playing in the morning in sub 35° temps and skulling an iron on the 3rd or 4th hole.

Mines comes from walking soybeans and the plants are filled with dew. Have to wear jeans so the plants dont cut you. All the dew ends in your shoes.

Every step is a squish

to this day

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Did Koepka/Rahm both withdraw from the tournament? Or is CBS not allowed to show them because of other apps and schmaps?

Oh great. Now the play is over. Would have been nice to show it earlier instead of other nonsense.

crap

The correct answer is 13 minutes. :thumb:

They got through enough holes today so they could easily finish all of it by tomorrow evening. I imagine that was the plan all along.

Interesting time to stop, though, with a potential 2 shot swing between Koepka and Rahm on 7.

Well….

LMAO And I just got in from raking rocks out of the ditch. Glad I hurried.

The 7th green was completely waterlogged. My guess is during that delay they told the leaders that they were about to stop play anyway in the next 5-10 minutes so they didn't have to putt.

Also CBS got completely screwed by the Masters' decisions today. Got a whole 10 minutes of coverage. LMAO

Welcome to the future of sports.

I'll give you a complete OPPOSITE with super DRY conditions.

The very first time I came to AZ to play golf was 1997. I played Troon North in Scottsdale.

I hit at least 6-7 shots into the brush off the fairway. As I went looking for my ball I would lean in or reach in to look near bushes. At the time they looked harmless.

By the time my round was over I had over 50 scratch marks, dried blood in several locations and 20-25 sharp needles stuck in my ankles and socks from jumping cholla. They have a slimy texture and barb like spines that make getting them out very tough.

No one EVER warned me about desert golf in shorts.

The future of sports is more access, not less. If the Masters sticks to their guns (and no reason to think they won't), there will also only be live coverage of Amen Corner and 15-16 for the Koepka/Rahm group's R3 tomorrow morning. Probably will miss a few holes to start R4 as well.

Masters did allow ESPN to resume second-round coverage at 7 a.m. CDT today. I'd imagine it will do the same with CBS and third-round coverage. But instead of cutting it off after the third round, the Masters should just allow CBS to go right into the fourth round, instead of having the window with only online coverage.

He'll be lucky to play another Masters again.

Wonder if Tiger shows up tomorrow or withdraws after today's showing?

The guy could barely walk and reach for the ball by the end of today's round. I'd be surprised if he tried to walk 27+ tomorrow.

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Yep, you were correct.

The rain delay is letting us watch more golf than when it was live.

He is a big faker. Everytime a round goes south he starts limping.

Or more likely, he’s just old, broken and done.

The guy’s leg was completely shattered and then surgically repaired and he can’t move/walk like he once did or swing anywhere near the same speed he did before that happened, but why let facts get in the way of a good narrative?

Walking that hilly course with the ground being so soft is taking a toll on TW for sure.

I'd be shocked if Tiger played tomorrow. That's not just his leg, that's his lower back as well. He's probably going to be feeling at least 50%-75% or so of that pain tomorrow when he wakes up. If he can get to sleep.

I hate to say it, but he may go down the road of pain killer/fentanyl use or over dose.

I sure hope not

He got into this by popping pills. But yeah, I hope he doesn't go down that road.

So disappointed right now. I know a percentage of how he's feeling right now and it's just miserable.

It appears I am far from the only person pissed off at the incredibly shitty coverage of this event.

Twitter fans voicing pretty negative comments. They are richly deserved.

The WORST coverage of any golf event in my lifetime, let alone the most watched Major.

It's a great example why people are sick of the pompous PGA and places like stuck up Augusta.

The PGA has nothing to do with it. If they had their way the entire thing would probably be on TV. Heck I'd bet the LIV guys probably would push for that too. Augusta does what it wants and nobody is going to cross them.

To a point but I think the PGA has some input, just not like other events including Majors.

Shame on the PGA for getting steamrolled by Augusta.

If they had any input at all, the LIV guys wouldn't be there. I'm not sure there's another thing in sports like Augusta. Even CBS and ESPN are billion dollar companies and they have zero pull with Augusta. They do and say whatever Augusta wants. If Augusta doesn't like something the network does, or something an announcer says, they are done. They basically have one year contracts every year, Augusta can pull the plug on them anytime. It's probably why the TV announcers have avoided talking much about the LIV/PGA rivalry.

Every single thing about this event is what Augusta wants. Here's a good article about it. As long as they're the most prestigious golf tournament with the biggest ratings I doubt anything will ever change.

https://frontofficesports.com/newsle...ls-everything/

Tiger quit.

Augusta national doesn't give a s*** about what you think of the coverage. And by the way the coverage has been fine. I don't know what people are bitching about.

It's pretty obvious this is the first time Scho, and the "Twitter fans voicing their opinions" have ever watched the masters. Not that Scho has ever been right about anything.

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Augusta told Dwight Eisenhower to **** himself when he asked about the tree on 17. They DGAF.

And people complaining about TV coverage of the Masters have no idea what it used to be like. They have every final round on their YouTube channel. Go and watch the difference in coverage pre-2000. You hardly even see the leaders before 9.

I recall very clearly what it used to be like. But there's no excuse for the Masters to not be broadcasting the first 7 holes of the leaders yesterday when they are already showing every shot of every player online. Whatever argument they may have had for doing so expired once they started doing that over the past decade.

Times have changed and they've actually adapted in some ways but not others.

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I always thought Augusta protected their brand. Even now in the age of social media.
People want more-they refuse to a point.

Up until 20 years ago you didn't know what the front 9 looked like unless were there.


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Bennett has lost 4 strokes today. That stinks. Hopefully he can make a bit of a comeback.

You are certainly a dumb mother****er, that I am DEFINITELY right about.

Been watching the Masters for 44 years.

I bet you're a real "expert". ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL

During the 70's and 80's, TV coverage was VERY different and there was no social media.

Things adapt over time and change for the better.

Maybe we should broadcast the Masters in black and white from the 10th hole to make some of you purists happy that they are keeping with tradition and the Masters way.

On a side note, surprised the crazies haven't gone after Augusta to change the name from "The Masters".

The protests (as it was) for changing the name already happened. 2020 I think. Mostly in print. If there were actual protests, you’d never know as the Masters keeps the lid on tight.

Their first black player in the tournament was Lee Elder in 75. That discussion took place the year they were going to honor Lee Elder.

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

This is why you should keep your mouth shut and stick to what you think you know about shitty Kstate.

You know NOTHING blowhard.

1985 Masters showing leaders on 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th hole and all along the way.

Some of you douchenozzles just make shit up.

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Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm, Viktor Hovland and Patrick Cantlay in the final two groupings. It doesn't get much better than that, four greats.

One of them is going to get their first green jacket and it will be a life changer even for a guy with four majors like Koepka.

Hovland just missed that final long putt on 18 or else he would have been in the final group. He played great and if he gets it going again later, he could sneak by and win.

The coverage today was 100% better and they should plenty of other guys.

I hope it's close

Patrick Cantlay may be even more boring that Sheffler and my god that is hard to do.

Cantlay says you need to mark it.

I'm not sure they will have time to finish the round. Last 3-4 groups gonna have trouble, especially if any overcast.

I would think they told the golfers that they have to keep the game moving if that would do much good.

why does couples have an asterik by his name?

watching without sound on computer

Past winner maybe?

Right now I'm watching two different feeds of the game on two 60 plus inch TVs. I'm streaming a feed on ESPN Plus via Hulu and I'm watching the main broadcast over the air on rabbit ears. More coverage laughing my ass off.

Started on back nine instead of hole 1.

Wow you're so cool. :rolleyes: