2014 Master

Players who missed the cut ...

	CUT	-	Ryan Moore	-	-	-	77	72	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Sang-Moon Bae	-	-	-	72	77	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Luke Donald	-	-	-	79	70	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Sergio Garcia	-	-	-	74	75	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Marc Leishman	-	-	-	70	79	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Victor Dubuisson	-	-	-	74	75	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Ernie Els	-	-	-	75	74	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Phil Mickelson	-	-	-	76	73	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Webb Simpson	-	-	-	74	75	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Charl Schwartzel	-	-	-	73	76	-	-	149
	CUT	-	Matthew Fitzpatrick (a)	-	-	-	76	73	-	-	149
	CUT	-	D.A. Points	-	-	-	78	72	-	-	150
	CUT	-	Harris English	-	-	-	74	76	-	-	150
	CUT	-	Ian Woosnam	-	-	-	77	73	-	-	150
	CUT	-	Graeme McDowell	-	-	-	72	78	-	-	150
	CUT	-	Zach Johnson	-	-	-	78	72	-	-	150
	CUT	-	Ken Duke	-	-	-	75	76	-	-	151
	CUT	-	Dustin Johnson	-	-	-	77	74	-	-	151
	CUT	-	John Huh	-	-	-	75	76	-	-	151
	CUT	-	Hideki Matsuyama	-	-	-	80	71	-	-	151
	CUT	-	Matt Jones	-	-	-	74	78	-	-	152
	CUT	-	Graham DeLaet	-	-	-	80	72	-	-	152
	CUT	-	Derek Ernst	-	-	-	76	76	-	-	152
	CUT	-	Mark O'Meara	-	-	-	75	77	-	-	152
	CUT	-	David Lynn	-	-	-	78	74	-	-	152
	CUT	-	Angel Cabrera	-	-	-	78	74	-	-	152
	CUT	-	Matteo Manassero	-	-	-	71	81	-	-	152
	CUT	-	Patrick Reed	-	-	-	73	79	-	-	152
	CUT	-	Branden Grace	-	-	-	84	69	-	-	153
	CUT	-	Trevor Immelman	-	-	-	79	74	-	-	153
	CUT	-	Keegan Bradley	-	-	-	75	78	-	-	153
	CUT	-	Roberto Castro	-	-	-	73	80	-	-	153
	CUT	-	Lee Chang-woo (a)	-	-	-	80	73	-	-	153
	CUT	-	Y.E. Yang	-	-	-	77	77	-	-	154
	CUT	-	Jason Dufner	-	-	-	80	74	-	-	154
	CUT	-	Jordan Niebrugge (a)	-	-	-	81	74	-	-	155
	CUT	-	Scott Stallings	-	-	-	75	80	-	-	155
	CUT	-	Matt Every	-	-	-	77	78	-	-	155
	CUT	-	Garrick Porteous (a)	-	-	-	76	80	-	-	156
	CUT	-	Boo Weekley	-	-	-	73	83	-	-	156
	CUT	-	Tim Clark	-	-	-	79	78	-	-	157
	CUT	-	Peter Hanson	-	-	-	78	81	-	-	159
	CUT	-	Craig Stadler	-	-	-	82	77	-	-	159
	CUT	-	Tom Watson	-	-	-	78	81	-	-	159
	CUT	-	Michael McCoy (a)	-	-	-	78	83	-	-	161
	CUT	-	Ben Crenshaw	-	-	-	83	85	-	-	168

I was disappointed that Luke Donald missed the cut today after his mistake on round 1. Now I can only rooted for Adam Scott and Jordan Speith to win this Master...

Leaders cannot be too comfy.

Anything can happen no matter which day it is. 

Rooting for bubba, a truly nice guy!

The most disappointing one is Phil......thought he will win it this year but he is mile off from where he used to be when he came to Augusta to play previously     

Remember this from Patrck Reed?

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golftalkcentral/confident-reed-im-top-5-player-world/

Also cut.

Augusta is a stern test.

Lee36328 wrote:

Here's an Apr 9th article predicting the favourites...
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THE PICK
Jordan Spieth
He won’t be 21 until the end of July, which would make Spieth the youngest Masters winner in history — seven months younger than when Tiger Woods won his first green jacket in 1997. He’s a scoring dynamo and has finished in the top-20 seven times in 10 tournaments since the beginning of January.

result: very good, T3 after 2 days so far

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Jordan Spieth could turn out to be a VERY interesting story.

T1 w Bubba after day 3 in his Masters debut, and he is not even old enough to drink legally.

I guess one needs to be humble and not get arrogant after a few wins...

Bubba showing a bit of nerves....but still holding up well.

Hmm....Saw a few guys putting....seemingly do not really follow thru i.e. after striking ball just block it there, especially Justin Rose. 

Strategy to deal with fast greens?

asahi wrote:

Hmm....Saw a few guys putting....seemingly do not really follow thru i.e. after striking ball just block it there, especially Justin Rose. 

Strategy to deal with fast greens?

Yes, thats correct ... Technique for putting super fast green ...

Seemed like Jordan Spieth cant keep his coolness which is affecting his play.

Great win for Bubba Watson, he is able to keep his cool, layup and executed it well. Plus the best thing is that he is really a friendly guy where he hi-five the crowd...

willytan wrote:

Bubba Watson

What a wild guess!!
So good to see BW win the US masters with such commanding lead.

Wuwoo....   
BW won! 

Huge huge win for Bubba n Ping! Amazing driving from Bubba on par 5 holes 13 n 15 with his i25 driver leaving him with nothing more than a 9 iron and wedge onto the green for eagle opportunities.

Bubba Watson
The Masters
Driver: Ping G25 (8.5 degrees, Grafalloy Bi-Matrix Rocket Pink X shaft)
3-Wood: Ping G25 (16.5 degrees, Fujikura Motore Speeder Tour Spec 8.2 X shaft)
3-9 Irons: Ping S55 (True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shafts)
48-Degree Wedge: Ping S55 (True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shafts)
52-Degree Wedge: Ping Tour (True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shaft)
56-Degree Wedge: Ping Tour (True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shaft)
64-Degree Wedge: Ping Tour-S T/S (True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shaft)
Putter: Ping Anser Milled Anser 1
Ball: Titleist ProV1x

A truly nice guy! 

Great to see him winning it!

Fantastic performance by Bubba Watson ... One of the handful self-taught PGA Tour pros ...

Quite a final.

By Hole 2, Spieth made birdie and got a 1 stroke lead over Bubba.

By Hole 3, that lead became 2 strokes as Bubba dropped a shot.

Spieth kept a lead over Bubba until holes 8 and 9 where there was a 4-stroke swing, Spieth's bogey-bogey and Bubba's birdie-birdie.

That gave Bubba the lead which he cemented around Amen Corner (11, 12 13). Approaching Amen Corner, Bubba had a 1 stroke lead. By the time they swung around Amen Corner, Bubba's lead was 3 strokes. Bubba got his obligatory birdie on the short par 5 13 while Spieth found Rae's Creek at hole 12.

One could say, Spieth lost it at holes 8 and 9 and Bubba cemented the win at the Amen Corner with his prodigious length.

After that. it was a predictable romp home to the final stretch.

Bubba's length (and unusual accuracy) turned Augusta into a driver-wedge course.

Bubba birdied two of the par 5s while Spieth birdied one and bogeyed one.

Bubba and Spieth hit the same number of fairways, 40 out of 56 (71.43%).

Except that Bubba was 17.37 yards longer.

Spieth found the bunker 8 times to Bubba's 4. Spieth was exceptional at getting up and down from the bunker, 5/8 to Bubba's 1/4.

And Bubba took 4 putts less, even though Spieth had 3 more GIR, which means when Bubba missed the green, he missed it close and could get up and down.

So, it was quite close, until eventually Bubba's distance and accuracy won out.

There is a paper written recently which demonstrated statistically that distance and accuracy with woods and long irons were more important for scoring than the short game.

This final was an illustration why that is the case.

Happy to see BW win!

Miguel Angel Jimenez is just way too cool and talented to be in the Champion tour!

Lee36328 wrote:

Quite a final.

By Hole 2, Spieth made birdie and got a 1 stroke lead over Bubba.

By Hole 3, that lead became 2 strokes as Bubba dropped a shot.

Spieth kept a lead over Bubba until holes 8 and 9 where there was a 4-stroke swing, Spieth's bogey-bogey and Bubba's birdie-birdie.

That gave Bubba the lead which he cemented around Amen Corner (11, 12 13). Approaching Amen Corner, Bubba had a 1 stroke lead. By the time they swung around Amen Corner, Bubba's lead was 3 strokes. Bubba got his obligatory birdie on the short par 5 13 while Spieth found Rae's Creek at hole 12.

One could say, Spieth lost it at holes 8 and 9 and Bubba cemented the win at the Amen Corner with his prodigious length.

After that. it was a predictable romp home to the final stretch.

Yeah man, just finished watching the repeat telecast.
The 8 and 9 holes are the turning point for Bubba, from 2 strokes down, he twisted the game to a good 2 strokes lead.
Simply amazing play by BW!
Totally deserve his 2nd green jacket; and looking forward to see him put on the 3rd