Fore please: The 2023 Masters thread

I mean, I get it. I've bitched for years on here about delayed Olympics coverage. We're used to around-the-clock coverage of the other majors. Augusta marches to its own drumbeat.

Today's featured groups is a complete joke. Show the damn tuuuuuurnament.

Augusta had to go kicking and screaming just to get a 2 p.m. start on Sunday. Be thankful we had morning coverage on Saturday and will get it on Sunday.

But it's their broadcast. CBS and ESPN pay exactly $0 to air the Masters. In exchange, the green coats have complete control of the broadcast. Ridley and Co. need to catch up, but they won't. Not at the point of a bayonet.

 

A tradition unlike any other -- Aunt Bee clutching her pearls in the first week of April.

 

And the majority of people don't know that. Pre-empting a canned special on the Latin America Amateur to show, ya know, a weather-messed Masters, would seem like a logical move, but ANGC controls all and this is the same operation that ordered piped-in bird sounds.

Though at the same time the streaming experience is unreal, you can watch every shot online and the broadcast's commercial breaks are barely enough time for a whizz and refresh on snacks. Are we not mostly blessed already?

 

Looks like a two-horse race for the last 28 holes.