The Masters 2022 thread

Think they have a cut off by 65

Agreed. 60 should be the max. There's always the seniors tour if they want to carry on playing competitively. They've had enough years of glory and the spotlight, and I personally think it makes a mockery of the tournament having so many old farts wheeled out every year.

A few more up and coming amateurs should take their places.

And/or expand it to the top 60 or 70 in the rankings.

You're entitled to your opinion but they're still using up course time that others could have.

And it's Augusta itself that makes the Masters, not them.

There are only four former champions over the age of 60 in the field. One of which finished in the top 30 18 months ago.

how are they using up course time that others could have? If they don’t play then their spot doesn’t go to anyone else, you do realise that?

You said a few posts up that up and coming amateurs should take their place. How would that be based on ranking alone?

Also your logic would dictate that Tiger should have no place there this year. Even though he's won it 5 times and as recently as 3 years ago. Yeah?

All the old dudes playing are past champions so they have earned their spots, I turned on the tv years ago and an elderly man was hitting a tee shot, the commentators were fawning over him and saying how great he was and I hadn’t a clue what was going on, turns out it was Billy Casper, the 1970 masters champion, he was about 6 stone overweight and should have been in a nursing home, but fair play to the chap for turning up, I thought he must have been one of the ceremonial starters, but I just looked it up, and he hit the deck in 2015, aged 83, in the 2001 masters he shot 87-80 and missed the cut by a few, he withdrew from the 2005 masters after shooting 106 in the first round, including a 14 on a par 3. But on the other hand he won 51 PGA tour titles, including 3 majors, as opposed to the zero wins or zero majors that internet know all’s including myself will ever win. Hard to know where to stand on this issue, but all the adulation for golfers is over the top in most cases, except for the likes of Tom Watson who was a true great, and nearly won a major at 59 years old, and interestingly Tom Watson won the Australian open in 1984, and played in the 2012 edition, at 63 years old, shooting the low round on Sunday at -3, when 6 out of 69 players broke par, and the other 5 all shot -1. The tournament was won by Australian Peter Senior, who was 53 at the time, and who won the Australian Masters at the age of 56, when an American amateur named Bryson DeChambeau finished tied 2nd. So there’s a counter argument in a way, as is Bernhard Langer, who is 62, plays consistently, and shot +4 today, the same score as Justin Thomas and Bryson DeChambeau.

What knickers and what twist? You posted an opinion, yes. Do you think that by just saying ‘hey, thats my opinion,” that debate should then be stifled? This is a message board, most of our posts are opinions on something.

You are contradicting yourself. In one part you want to give places to up and coming amateurs - who, as their status suggests, have won nothing of note yet. But you want to give them an outing in the biggest golf tournament in the world…. To what…. Give them some experience? Cause they have as much chance of winning it as the over 60s.

In another part you bemoan the 51st ranked golfer not getting in instead of Tiger Woods cause he’s had some good results. So should a decent amateur get in instead of no51 or vice versa? And either way, they’d be ahead of Tiger anyhow?

Cameron Tringale i believe at no52 in the world is the highest ranked player not eligible to play this week. A fine player no doubt, has to be to get to no52. He may well win big in the future but currently he is winless on the pga tour barring an unofficial team event 8 years ago.

He should go to Augusta ahead of the likes of Tiger Woods? Really?

Well what do you know. I've been both playing and watching golf for almost 50 years (a big chunk of that off +4) and never knew all that!!

I mentioned only the fact of returning champions from years ago and old farts who no longer play on the main tours being scrapped. I never said about dispensing in any way with the "lots and lots of things put together that makes the Master, the Masters".

It's my opinion, and unless I'm very much mistaken you are allowed to express opinions on a discussion forum.

If you don't agree fair enough. But I don't need to be lectured to by you with your perceived superior golfing knowledge. And, for your information, you're not "discussing" things with me - you're trying to be a smart ass, obviously desperate to get some perverse pleasure out of proving me wrong on some point. Keep trying.

Yes. Cameron Tringale has had plenty high finishes this past 12 months. Tiger Woods has had nothing (and I do realise he's not been playing). I believe players should earn their tournament places, not gift wrapped places based on results from years ago. Again, that's my opinion. You don't have to agree.

Go ahead and have the last word if you want. You seem just that type... smug, arrogant, conceited and condescending. If you were not so sarcastic and trying to project that you're the "fountain of all golfing knowledge" in everything you say, then I would have been happy to have a decent discussion with you. But I wont be replying again. I have far better things to do than read the tripe that you write.

This debate comes up every year during the Masters. The Augusta commitee march to the beat of their own drum, if they want past winners there, then they will be allowed to be there. It’s a fact that during coverage of all majors, there are players who are never seen on our TVs, so I don’t see why people have an issue with former winners playing. If Sandy pulled out sick, would Augusta let another player above the 50 cut off in? That’s all you need to consider.

He's not that type of member. Nick faldo was on a podcast and said that the past champions can come back and play once a year I think it was. Other than that they're looking for member invites.

I enjot the Masters and all of the pomp that goes with it including past champions playing etc.

But id have no time for Augusta golf itself. Lets not forget it was a seriously racist and sexist organisation for most of its existence. Some of the stories you'd read are off putting to say the least.

Anyway back to the golf.

I think the Woods hype will die down today when he drops a few shots. Physically you cant see him surviving out there.

McIlroy needs to empty his head and stop over thinking things. Just hit the ball as well as he knows he can and dont worry. He needs to stop making silly mistakes.

DJ looks sharp and consistent for the best part.

I don’t understand people giving out about Tiger ,once he’s retired the game won’t be the same, will there ever be another like him or Jack, I hope so but it’s not guaranteed, and he still has it even with a fused back and gimpy leg