Running 2025 golf thread

[Chef2]

If I were king for a day, I would ban cellphones on the course. They showed Thomas teeing off on a par 3…..and almost every one of these moron fans with a phone..are recording his tee shot of face-timing or whatever they're doing.

 

[John]

If I were king for a day, I would ban cellphones on the course. They showed Thomas teeing off on a par 3…..and almost every one of these moron fans with a phone..are recording his tee shot of face-timing or whatever they're doing.

There is a lot I loathe about the Masters, but its policy banning phones (assuming it's still in place) is one thing I like about the place.

 

[MileHigh]

There is a lot I loathe about the Masters, but its policy banning phones (assuming it's still in place) is one thing I like about the place.

What do you loathe about the Masters? Yes, the cellphone ban is still in place.

 

[hondo]

Tiger announcing on social media that he's in a relationship with the President's former daughter-in-law then asking for privacy is next-level arrogance.

 

[MileHigh]

Tiger announcing on social media that he's in a relationship with the President's former daughter-in-law then asking for privacy is next-level arrogance.

LOL. Tiger and arrogance. Stop.

 

[John]

What do you loathe about the Masters? Yes, the cellphone ban is still in place.

All the things that a fairly liberal guy in 2025 would loathe. That's more about Augusta National than the tournament, I suppose, though it's hard to separate the two.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

All the things that a fairly liberal guy in 2025 would loathe. That's more about Augusta National than the tournament, I suppose, though it's hard to separate the two.

Augusta National is a weird club in many respects. It is not quite like what it was 20 years ago, let alone 50. You are right that you can't separate the club from the Masters. The members join in large part to participate in putting on the tournament. There are plenty of other exclusive clubs in this land where a rich guy can join to play a famous world-class course that never have tournaments, Seminole, Cypress Point, Chicago GC, to name a few. So the newer (in club terms, not age terms) members are there to well, have a role to play (Augusta has a large one) in the management of golf the sport. Everyone involved in that, no matter how hidebound a reactionary in other areas of life, knows the sport needs to get more diverse and younger if it's to prosper, no, to survive. So you see things like the women's amateur and the drive, chip and putt finals held there. Then there is another set of members, primarily from the Atlanta and Augusta elite (such as that one is). I call them Augusta Regional. They're the ones who don't want the club to change internally. There's not really a tension between the two, because the club works by consensus and a slow and sometimes grudging ability to compromise.
Covering a Masters in person was a real revelation to me. It is a much more relaxed atmosphere than is presented on television. I think that might be just a tradition members feel like fighting about. Or maybe Jim Nantz makes them do it.

 

[playthrough]

There is a lot I loathe about the Masters, but its policy banning phones (assuming it's still in place) is one thing I like about the place.

Last year I took one step out of the press building to head for the course with my phone in my pocket, fortunately I patted my hip, realized it and wheeled right back in before anyone noticed. Disaster averted.

 

[Chef2]

Last year I took one step out of the press building to head for the course with my phone in my pocket, fortunately I patted my hip, realized it and wheeled right back in before anyone noticed. Disaster averted.

Disaster averted for sure.
But it would have made a great story to tell here.

 

[DanOregon]

Lets be real. People stopped caring about who Tiger was dating once he stopped winning golf tournaments.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I stopped once we learned what a poon hound he was.

 

[hondo]

Disaster averted for sure.
But it would have made a great story to tell here.

It's not the death penalty for forgetting to leave your cell phone. It happened to me once. I was under the tree and it buzzed. A Pinkerton heard it and told me to walk back to the press room with him (it was the old one, just a short stroll from the tree anyway). I had to tell Martha Gay I forget it, she wrote a one-sentence report, had me sign it, told me to go back to my seat and leave the phone, then go about my business. I never heard anything more.