whoa. so Tiger IS playing in the Par 3

i wonder why the change of heart?

4/7/2010 12:44:49 PM

the more work he can do and assess where his game is, the better. but i havent seen it listed anywhere that he is playing.

4/7/2010 1:04:12 PM

Golf Channel's "Live From The Masters"

Billy Payne on the mic right now

Tiger playing in Par 3

curse broken?

4/7/2010 1:07:09 PM

Great publicity move by Tiger playing the par3.

4/7/2010 1:52:17 PM

yep. it's a win-win-win situation for him

4/7/2010 1:53:33 PM

^^^^more likely it takes the edge off the attention put on his "first drive"...he's kind of pulled the rug out from under the spectacle. people are seeing him golf again live. it will blunt the attention to some degree on thursday's tee off.

[Edited on April 7, 2010 at 1:54 PM. Reason : .]

4/7/2010 1:54:10 PM

Tiger no showed for the par 3. Great publicity

4/7/2010 4:02:54 PM

Is he actually playing in this event? I can't find anything about it and i figured it would be everywhere.

4/7/2010 4:03:28 PM

holy shit arnie had a putt

4/7/2010 4:43:21 PM

i don't understand why tv is only showing the masters from 4-11 tomorrow. Most players will be done by then, so what's the use?

4/7/2010 6:26:06 PM

Show all the early action. Should come to Augusta. Nothing to do but come for this tourney.

4/7/2010 11:41:19 PM

the 700 channels on Directv will have a split screen Masters feature along with the amen corner channel, hole 15 & 16 channel, network channel, and featured group channel.

[Edited on April 7, 2010 at 11:47 PM. Reason : .]

4/7/2010 11:47:10 PM

got the live feed of Amen Corner streaming from masters.com right now. I dont think the first group has reached the hole yet, so its just a lot of birds chirping and the occasional commentator chiming in to get ready for some action

I love streaming the masters at work, its one of those "happy place" moments that comes along every so often for me.

4/8/2010 10:13:50 AM

damn, Bernhard! 3 under through 7

optimal scoring conditions early


______________________

Craig Stadler through 7: bogey, birdie, bogey, bogey, par, double, double

4/8/2010 10:31:20 AM

looks like the first couple of holes are playing pretty easy.

if tiger stays below par today, and it rains tonight, he could shoot a seriously low number with the greens being so receptive from the moisture.

4/8/2010 10:31:58 AM

Amen is live and streaming

Quality is immaculate

4/8/2010 10:33:20 AM

i like Phil's pants (no homo)

4/8/2010 10:34:56 AM

the wind is really starting to gust

4/8/2010 11:14:56 AM

Quote :

"Amen is live and streaming Quality is immaculate "

4/8/2010 11:22:30 AM

16 year old amateur leading the way at 2 under

4/8/2010 12:12:43 PM

Why can't ESPN actually show the tournament?

4/8/2010 1:30:05 PM

right down the middle of the fairway

I think there was a prop bet on whether he would hit it into the rough or not

oh yeah, at this live internet feed, it's gorgeous

[Edited on April 8, 2010 at 1:53 PM. Reason : probably the best stream i've ever seen]

4/8/2010 1:51:17 PM

Hell yeah, Tom Watson!!

C'mon Phil, you gotta win this thing so I get a free driver from Callaway.

And if you have an iPhone, be sure to download the free Masters app. It's pretty awesome, and the live streaming video is GREAT quality, especially for a mobile stream over 3G.

[Edited on April 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM. Reason : iPhone app]

4/8/2010 1:54:44 PM

^^^ because Masters controls the ever living fuck out of their broadcast.

they can't have any channel logos on the screen during their coverage, they have to use the Masters graphic set, not their own, and something absurd like 2 minutes of commercials per hour, no more.

you can watch on Masters.com though

i think they only allow 2 or 3 hours of broadcast time the first couple days so it's something special to be there the first couple days, i guess

[Edited on April 8, 2010 at 1:55 PM. Reason : ^^yeah this is probably better than watching this on regular cable, since i don't have ESPNHD here]

4/8/2010 1:54:53 PM

Anthony Kim with the first Eagle of the tournament

4/8/2010 1:56:34 PM

where is the Tiger feed? its not on masters.com is it?

4/8/2010 1:56:38 PM

might not be anywhere at the moment

4/8/2010 1:58:36 PM

there is no Tiger feed

4/8/2010 1:59:39 PM

not video, but its a play by play of his shots

http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/page/tiger-tracker

sounds like he barely missed a putt for birdie on the first hole, just killed a drive and might be putting for eagle on the par 5 second hole

[Edited on April 8, 2010 at 2:07 PM. Reason : adf]

4/8/2010 2:04:09 PM

hell yeah Phil! just stroked a nice Eagle putt to go to -3!!

4/8/2010 2:14:06 PM

apparently there was a plane hovering over with a banner that read

Tiger, did you mean bootyism?


[Edited on April 8, 2010 at 2:34 PM. Reason : cx]

4/8/2010 2:32:33 PM

fuck david toms!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4/8/2010 2:35:51 PM

^why, what happened?

^^Is that in reference to his Budhism comments during his press conference awhile back?

4/8/2010 3:32:17 PM

Quote :

"to make a long story short, me and my buddies were at the tournament a few years back and we had these passes for a hospitality house on the course. so naturally we get bombed out of our minds and find our way to the clubhouse where we sneak in and start having fun, etc. we need to pee so we all go to what we thought was an ordinary bathroom, though a bit lavish we're shitting in the urinal when David Toms yells at us to get the fuck out of the players only bathroom. so forevermore, we all hate David Toms."

Quote :

"the conversation went like this: Toms: "Who are yall?" Us: "Who the fuck are youarakjkjg?" Toms: "David Toms, I'm in this tournament" Us: "So are we (rabblerabblerabble) Toms: "Get the fuck out of the players only bathroom" (seriously, lol) it was funny, and last year he remembered us when we were yelling at him on the 14th fairway and he actually laughed but we still love to hate him"

4/8/2010 3:36:11 PM

nice eagle

4/8/2010 4:15:46 PM

he knows he's on tv so he's whooping it into gear

4/8/2010 4:19:43 PM

this is a bitch of a shot

4/8/2010 4:27:37 PM

wow

just wow

4/8/2010 4:28:57 PM

wow what a shot by Tiger on 9

4/8/2010 4:32:42 PM

What Happened? Damn you ESPN 360.

4/8/2010 4:35:49 PM

UH OH

4/8/2010 4:35:54 PM

here he comes!

if Tiger wins this tournament it will be one of the most unbelievable victories in the history of sport

4/8/2010 4:38:57 PM

I wouldn't go that far

Despite everything thats happened, he's still the favorite and still the number 1 player in the world

4/8/2010 4:41:39 PM

I can't get the Howard Stern interviews out of my head. I know way more than I ever wanted to about Tiger's sexual prowess...

4/8/2010 4:42:30 PM

if Tiger wins, I'll join the Tea Party

4/8/2010 4:42:31 PM

I fall somewhere in the middle of

Quote :

"if Tiger wins this tournament it will be one of the most unbelievable victories in the history of sport"

and

Quote :

"I wouldn't go that far Despite everything thats happened, he's still the favorite and still the number 1 player in the world"

[Edited on April 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM. Reason : regardless, it'll be HUGE]

4/8/2010 4:42:47 PM

yeah but he hasnt played competitively in 5 months, hell we dont know how much he's played period since all this happened. He might not have picked up a club until like a month ago. On top of all that, all the distractions on and off the course just adds to the difficulty. The Masters is hard enough to win when you practice everyday and have no distractions (see the last 4 years or however long its been since Tiger last won in Augusta)

4/8/2010 4:45:44 PM

I understand that

But even within the sport, I'd argue Watson winning last year would have been a bigger deal

[Edited on April 8, 2010 at 4:48 PM. Reason : I shouldn't say bigger deal, I should say more impressive...Tiger will always be a bigger deal ]

4/8/2010 4:46:53 PM

Budiss: He basically hooked, and i mean hooked, a 210yrd shot to within 10 foot of back pin placement. He had to keep it low due to wind and tree limbs. The shot looks like what a lot of guys do who play once a year at their company outing when they kill it but hook it.

4/8/2010 4:55:09 PM

lol tig

4/8/2010 4:57:08 PM