Masters changes CBS broadcast after Saturday rainout, fan outrage

https://golf.com/news/fans-rage-cbs-...t-rotten-luck/

Golf Fans Were Livid About Masters Coverage at Start of Third Round

https://www.si.com/golf/news/masters...nd-tv-coverage

This is getting real good now as 4-5 guys charging towards leaders.

Took Rahm / Koepka group 2 1/2 hours to complete front nine. They will be finishing at sunset.

Good for Mickelson.

I'm rooting for Phil to win the Green Jacket and pull a Hollywood Hulk Hogan immediately afterward. I'm talking about spray painting LIV on the jacket and then telling all the fans to stick it.

Rahm is pudgy he needs to go on a diet

Can't believe he's 28. Dude looks ten years older.

Koepka fading?

Rahm and Koepka are two of the fastest players on tour and are stuck waiting 3-4 minutes on EVERY shot.

Not hitting good shots and getting no breaks. :doh!:

Kinda was rooting for Koepka. He's had a hard road recently.

Rahm with a great shot there

Welp

Really hate to see douche canoe piss his chance away today.

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Victor Hovland reminds me of Benicio Del Toro.

Brooks Kupkake.

Those LIV boys had a moment to shine and fizzled.

Uh - oh hitting a provisional?

Somewhere a young Saudi superfan weeps...

Can’t begrudge the money. Just the scumbags paying it.

Greg Norman can collapse (as usual) on the champagne he had waiting.

73-75 is some Lee Westwood energy.

Rahm is in much better control of his emotions than he once was. It's put him over the top.

Top 12 and ties invited back to the 2024 Masters
Almost all of them already had exemptions.
Gary Woodland missed it by a stroke.

1. Jon Rahm
2T. Phil Mickelson
2T. Brooks Koepka
4T. Jordan Spieth
4T. Patrick Reed
4T. Russell Henley
7T. Cameron Young
7T. Viktor Hovland
9. Sahith Theegala
10T. Scottie Scheffler
10T. Matt Fitzpatrick
10T. Xander Schauffele
10T. Collin Morikawa

3 of the top 5 were LIV golfers.

Some of you guys are jealous haters and need to slow your roll.

Sounding like bitter school girls.

Also three of the top 15.

I would have far preferred the PGA Tour and its media to eat their words about the quality of LIV for the past year with a Koepka win but Rahm beating him is hardly a surprise. He’s been the best player in the world for a few years now and certainly has been in this spot more recently than Koepka. That very clearly showed today.

Mickelson also coming T2 thirty years after his first major top 10 (1993 PGA) is a remarkable accomplishment. Such a crazy talent level.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just asked Brooks Koepka his thoughts on the pace of play today<br><br>&quot;That group in front of us was brutally slow. Jon went to the bathroom 7 times today, and we were still waiting. So yeah.&quot; <br><br>🔥🔥🔥</p>&mdash; Christopher Powers (@CPowers14) <a href="https://twitter.com/CPowers14/status/1645213700263927811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

How Cantlay didn’t get a penalty today, I’m not sure.

Tiger dropped out. What a wuss. Stayed long enough to tie the record and then ran away.

Masters usually sucks. They invite half the field of regular tourneys and fill it with like 20 geezers. So you get crap endings like this a lot

Bro...the cold like that was brutal on him and his injuries.

There was no reason for him to push it.

That course with all the elevation changes is a grind on a young person walking it.

He wasn't going to play a round and a half on that hilly course and in those conditions. He needs to recuperate and get ready for the British Open, a tournament he can actually win.

People always knock the Masters for the field, but who didn't play would you liked to see in?

I think it's the right group of players.

Top 50 golfers in the world.

All the tournament winners from April to March.

All the recent major winners and top 4 finishers at previous majors.

I could see bumping up the OWGR group from 50 to 60. I think the exclusivity is what makes it special. One of the cool things about watching a young golfer win a tour event is thinking immediately, he's going to the Masters!

You should take your own advice - along with the L you're taking for saying the LIV guys were "...a bunch of washed-up guys [who] want to cash checks in a third-tier league...".

He can only win the British if its warm. He cant win any cold weather ever again.

He should petition to play with a golf cart (it's probably the only way he'll ever win another golf tournament), but it seems he has too much pride to ever do it.

Wasnt there someone who got a cart with the help of ADA?

Tiger may qualify.

Yes, there was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Martin

I suspect Tiger would qualify given the state of his leg and I suspect the Tour would gladly let him do it. Still don't think he does it.

Tiger won't ever win another golf tournament, get over it.

Ok, but that wasn't the discussion.

He won the US open a few years ago. Isn't that a 10 year exemption?

It’s going to e okay Schmo. You can still blow the LIV boys. One of these days those guys might win a tournament that end after 54 holes. That was simply an epic collapse from the Kupkake’s drive on 1. No other way to look at it.

Amazing how 72 holes became too much in such a short time.

When he's old enough he's going to play the Champions tour where golf carts are allowed.

Phil did pretty well in his final 18 holes of the 72.

Looked to me like Koepka just got nervous because he hadn't been in that spot in four years and wasn't able to play his best as a result.

Probably. I think he's suggested in the past he wasn't going to play that tour, but I bet he will occasionally.

Agreed.

I think he’s still mentally shaken. He talked about it on the series Full Swing. When he was on, he knew he wasn’t going to let a miss hit end his round. It’s tough to keep that edge when other guys are climbing the mountain and you get a nagging injury. Then you try to compensate for that and injure something else.

Phil did finish strong but I'm glad he didn't win. He had the fans on his side when he won the PGA at Kiawa but now not so much now.

The Master's website listed he withdrew due to a flareup of Plantar fasciitis. So doesn't seem it was due to the leg injuries if that was correct.

Show me on the doll where the LIV golfers touched you.........:rolleyes:

I have to brag on myself for a second. Yesterday I set a personal best round. I know most of you are better golfers than I am, but I can still hit the ball pretty well. Anyway, I shot an under-90 round for the first time in my life. 44/45-89. Also a triple-bogey free round for the firs time in 5 years.

Sorry to interrupt your PGA/LIV argument.

:thumb:

Nice! I only have a couple rounds below 90. both involved a fair amount of luck/odd circumstances. Mostly I'm a 100+ shooter. But my primary goal in golf is to drink beer and have fun, a lot of times we stop keeping score and just bet drinks on every other hole.

Pretty sure he voted against the use of carts on Tour last year.

That sounds like Tiger Woods, yeah.

Schmo, you can sing the praises of all the men who have been your escorts, but the LIV boys aren’t going take you home.

:doh!:

Keep your day job.

He won't. He's kind of ignorant. He used a steel shaft driver for years and years.

You're right. 2019 US Open. I always forget it was the US Open and not the Pebble Beach Pro Am.

It's a five-year exemption though. Gary Woodland's last year exempt is 2024.

Ocotillo. I've played that course in Phoenix a couple of times.

What setup do you have?

Skytrak. But I sold it. Still have the setup/hittingbay/comp/projector. True strike mat and a CCE mat but want a better sim unit if I even decide to replace it.

This RBC Heritage Tournament has been fantastic. My buddy bet $30 on Speith and will win $1200 if Speith wins.

Love this tournament. Seems to me like the sun shines brighter there, for some reason. It’s always really bright and sunny.

Fitz hit great shots over the last 5-6 holes. Spieth just couldn't get those putts to drop.

That is a beautiful course.

My buddy missed a $1200 payday on a $30 bet. That sucks!

I never played Sea Pines but Hilton Head is the bomb for golf. Lot's of great golf courses.

I always enjoy watching Spieth play and I always root for him. On the other hand I hate it when any of the smarmy Euros win on our soil. That said Rahm seems to be a pretty likable guy.

Brook Kupkake looking pretty steady today.

That was a freaking gem outta the sand from Brooks.

Block with a hole in one LMAO. Guy is living a fairy tale.

This is a very cool story for Block, but it feels like CBS is focusing on it more than they otherwise would because Brooks is walking to the title and exposing the establishment while doing it.

So how are you gonna keep guys like Koepka off the Ryder Cup team?

5 majors now, he's an all-time great.

Great ending for the tourney.

Block. What a guy.

He swished it, to boot!

Did the patron scream "white power?"

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The PGA Championship is the Major for the golfer in all of us.<br><br>Well, Michael Block, we are all fans of you. Thanks for taking us on this ride. <br><br>We&#39;ll see you next year at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PGAChamp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PGAChamp</a> <a href="https://t.co/k6vD2MvSkU">pic.twitter.com/k6vD2MvSkU</a></p>&mdash; PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) <a href="https://twitter.com/PGAChampionship/status/1660407274580393987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Brad Faxon makes the case that Brooks Koepka may deserve a spot on the Ryder Cup team and Brandel Chamblee was not having it. <br><br>Chamblee can’t fathom the fact a LIV golfer just won a major. Awkward. <a href="https://t.co/PhCVp6qBV8">pic.twitter.com/PhCVp6qBV8</a></p>&mdash; Mark Harris (@itismarkharris) <a href="https://twitter.com/itismarkharris/status/1660431162907451398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I wondered that too. Sounds like it . Tired of people yelling crap.

Wait, how is he “exposing the establishment”? LMAO

I must have just imagined the golf establishment journalists ripping the LIV and its golfers to shreds last year talking about how they weren’t playing real tournament golf and shouldn’t get OWGR points or exemptions to majors as a result.