Who will win it? I believe it will be one of the following four. Matt Kuchar,
Jordan Speith, Bubba Watson or Jonas Blixt. There are others fairly close, but I don't look for all of these guys to collapse, which it will pretty well take for someone else to win, and someone else would have to shoot a pretty low final round, which is difficult to do at the Augusta National. Can't wait for the game to start. IMO, the Masters is one of the premier sporting events of the year. And the tournament is usually won on the back nine on Sunday. I don't know how many of your are golfers. Ynocpirt is the only one I know for sure, other than me, who plays. But if you play at all, you recognize the greatness of even the guys who finish last at the Masters.
They're all amazing.

(04-13-2014 12:24 PM)outsideualr Wrote:  Who will win it? I believe it will be one of the following four. Matt Kuchar,
Jordan Speith, Bubba Watson or Jonas Blixt. There are others fairly close, but I don't look for all of these guys to collapse, which it will pretty well take for someone else to win, and someone else would have to shoot a pretty low final round, which is difficult to do at the Augusta National. Can't wait for the game to start. IMO, the Masters is one of the premier sporting events of the year. And the tournament is usually won on the back nine on Sunday. I don't know how many of your are golfers. Ynocpirt is the only one I know for sure, other than me, who plays. But if you play at all, you recognize the greatness of even the guys who finish last at the Masters.
They're all amazing.

Don't play and have never watched.

Good tournament this year.

(04-13-2014 01:35 PM)mjs Wrote:  

(04-13-2014 12:24 PM)outsideualr Wrote:  Who will win it? I believe it will be one of the following four. Matt Kuchar,
Jordan Speith, Bubba Watson or Jonas Blixt. There are others fairly close, but I don't look for all of these guys to collapse, which it will pretty well take for someone else to win, and someone else would have to shoot a pretty low final round, which is difficult to do at the Augusta National. Can't wait for the game to start. IMO, the Masters is one of the premier sporting events of the year. And the tournament is usually won on the back nine on Sunday. I don't know how many of your are golfers. Ynocpirt is the only one I know for sure, other than me, who plays. But if you play at all, you recognize the greatness of even the guys who finish last at the Masters.
They're all amazing.

Don't play and have never watched.

Can't realize what you are missing then.

(04-13-2014 01:35 PM)mjs Wrote:  

(04-13-2014 12:24 PM)outsideualr Wrote:  Who will win it? I believe it will be one of the following four. Matt Kuchar,
Jordan Speith, Bubba Watson or Jonas Blixt. There are others fairly close, but I don't look for all of these guys to collapse, which it will pretty well take for someone else to win, and someone else would have to shoot a pretty low final round, which is difficult to do at the Augusta National. Can't wait for the game to start. IMO, the Masters is one of the premier sporting events of the year. And the tournament is usually won on the back nine on Sunday. I don't know how many of your are golfers. Ynocpirt is the only one I know for sure, other than me, who plays. But if you play at all, you recognize the greatness of even the guys who finish last at the Masters.
They're all amazing.

Don't play and have never watched.

Sorry. Your loss Mick.

As a young person I dabbled in all sports I could given the opportunity and time. IMO, Golf is the greatest of all games. The reason I say that is that to be a decent golfer it requires so many things including strength, coordination, emotional control, determination, steady nerves and other such things as well as lots of hard work. When I was young I was a decent week-end duffer but never had the time to practice or play in order to be a better player. In my next life I plan to give Golf a higher priority.

(04-13-2014 06:48 PM)DollarBill Wrote:  As a young person I dabbled in all sports I could given the opportunity and time. IMO, Golf is the greatest of all games. The reason I say that is that to be a decent golfer it requires so many things including strength, coordination, emotional control, determination, steady nerves and other such things as well as lots of hard work. When I was young I was a decent week-end duffer but never had the time to practice or play in order to be a better player. In my next life I plan to give Golf a higher priority.

You couldn't have stated it any better. It's more than a game. It's an addiction if you really get into it. But a healthy addiction.

(04-13-2014 06:57 PM)outsideualr Wrote:  You couldn't have stated it any better. It's more than a game. [b]It's an addiction [/b]if you really get into it. But a healthy addiction.

Three things I'm glad I've never been addicted to are smoking, any form of dope, and golf. I've never even sampled any of the three. Now that said, I've had a few other bad habits in my time.

I'm not so sure about addiction being a good thing. Years ago when I played some you could drop by the golf course and likely see young guys hanging out at the club house when they should be at work. Also in those times I knew several who would spend their week-ends playing golf, neglecting family and not taking care of chores around the house. How golf gets you is you have an exceptionally good round and you think, yea, I've got it now. Then the next time you can't hit the ball at all. You then can't wait to go back to prove that you actually can play the game. That's how you get hooked on the game. So much of golf is mental.