Masters Running Thread

Oh, come on Pern. You're not that much of a n00b.

 

*Hangs head in shame for second time in 10 minutes.

Fuck it, let's just play cards.

 

Short version: Four pools (right now) with players split into them based on where they're from and how they got into the Masters. You get one player from each of two groups and two players from each of the other two groups, for 6 players on your team. Scoring is the same system as high school and college golf, with the top four scores counting toward your team score.

If more than two of your players miss the cut, so do you.

So can I accept as a given that everybody's going to want to pick Eldrick? I may have to have another group called "Tiger Woods" and put Eldrick in his own group. I want this to be a challenge and it's not a challenge if everybody picks the same guy.

 

I want in the pool, java dude.

 

I also REALLY want to put some money on Choi at 40-to-1. That's some damn good odds for a mightily underrated golfer.

 

I'm in.

 

The golf or the poker?

 

I'm in the pool as long as it's bathing-suit optional.

 

In your case, the bathing suit is mandatory. No offense.

Format has changed, as you'll see when I start the thread momentarily.

 

Yes.

 

Yo, Chef! Break out the cards, we got a sucker another player!

 

So now that ESPN is covering The Masters are they required to use the term "patrons" and "second cut" on their newscasts and radio updates in addition to the coverage? I'm wondering if the production crews have a meeting at the start of the week where the pictures of Jack Whitaker and Gary McCord are shown on a screen. Leave your wit, your independence and journalistic integrity at the gate boys. We want to be back here next year.
Hearing Tirico describe "a young patron" being called out to the green to take a golfer's putt on the Par 3 made me want to puke.