Masters 2023

The one thing I noticed this weekend is the ridiculous amount of time almost all the players take over their putts, way too much time wasted, it was painful to watch.

Problem is, their crap filters down into game at all levels - I'd say a new time limit will have to come in - there are many players with sensible routines that putt every bit as well as these clowns. As someone said here before - when someone adds a new things to a routine - they add , they rarely remove a part. Likes of Homa is off the wall stuff. Not fair on other players in the tournament having to wait. It is just selfish.

New rules needed.

Tbf he only played well last year when the pressure was off and he was miles back, he started poorly as usual. His scores were 73 73 71 and then he made a charge with his 64 final round.

Hmm, how many masters champions have ever won a major like this , hey!?

Imho, McIlroy needs to improve his putting, and his approach wedges & high irons even more, just concentrate on his golf, maybe change some of his team, and get out of his own way!!

P.s. stop being the player spokesman for the pga tour (v Liv) might be a good start too imho.

P.p.s. Lowry didn't putt nearly well enough to compete either imho. As far as I saw he gave away about ~5 stokes on both Saturday & Sunday cos of poor putting.... Okay they won't all drop, but improve these by 50% and be 5 better, & then who knows!!

Yes, sure, but my point is he needs to vastly improve his putting if he is to really contend at Augusta.

Lowry's long putting was pretty good tbf, but it was his putting from 8 - 18ft, that left him down badly imho. He had so many putts to score from this range and left them out there. In contrast Rahm was rolling these in with regular ease!!

P.s. by holing just ~50% of these say, he could have been 5 shots better in his final two rounds alone! A Shame!!

Total purse: $18 million

1st: $3,240,000 -- Jon Rahm

2nd: $1,944,000 -- Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka ($1.594 million each)

Phil and Brooks get that for just turning up to a LIV tournament right?

You might be right about where Lowry was ending up on the greens, I'm not sure, the ones he kept missing looked very getable regardless.

'...but plenty of average at best putters have won round Augusta - Hideki, DJ, Bubba, Scott, Scheffler, Sergio etc.'

Yes, maybe. But these guys all putted really well when they won their masters iirc. E.g. I'm thinking of Scheffler & Sergio hardly missing a putt all weekend when they won.

So that's the message really if you want to win at Augusta you need to drive like God, hit your approach irons like Jesus and putt like the Holy Ghost himself !!

P.s. you don't have to worry about the rough at all though!!