The other question of the week elicited some spicy responses, including one current pro predicting that Jon Rahm would win 10 majors. Here it is:
Out of the following group, who ends their career with the most majors and why: Rory (currently: 4), Brooks (4), Spieth (3), Morikawa (2), JT (2), DJ (2), Rahm (2) or Scheffler (1)?
The right answer is either Rory or Brooks because winning even one major is nearly impossible, but the sexy right answer is either Spieth (I’m convinced he’ll win like nine Opens) or Rahm (he’s basically DJ but with a better short game early in his career). Probably the most consistently great player since Tiger.
👉️ I always enjoy writing this final Masters thread.
👉️ Andy Johnson on playing ANGC for the first time is terrific.
👉️ This thread of Masters champions as Taylor Swift songs by Nikki Dunagan is extraordinary.
👉️ This Q&A with Scottie Scheffler by Dylan Dethier flew under the radar, but I learned some stuff about him (he like expensive tequila!) and enjoyed it quite a bit.
👉️ I wrote about Rory’s forever war last week. Sadly, nothing has changed.
👉️ Brendan Porath wrote what I thought was the best article of the entire tournament about Phil on Thursday.
👉️ This got a bit lost, but Jose Maria Olazabal absolutely stomping after his ball on No. 6 as it rolled off the front of the green amused me to no end.
True sicko behavior within the golf community.
Every time I hear Gary Player speaking these days — which is disproportionately a lot during Masters week — even as I'm watching his lips move and hearing the sound his vocal cords make, I still always think it’s KVV doing a voiceover impersonation instead of Gary Player himself. My brain is broken.
If you’ve never heard KVV doing GP, do yourself a favor.
I also enjoyed known sicko, JT, making sure everyone knows he’s a sicko.
4: That’s the number of golfers who have lived at 2.0 strokes gained or better since the day Jon Rahm turned pro. If you’re at 2.0 strokes gained or better, you’re almost certainly a top five player in the world. It means you’re two strokes better per round than the average PGA Tour player. Here are the four guys.
Rahm: 2.26
Rory: 2.12
DJ: 2.05
JT: 2.02
Quotes worth thinking about.
“You probably don’t write your best when you have sensory blitzkrieg.” -Brandel Chamblee
Come for Brandel using the term “sensory blitzkrieg” three separate times when talking about the final round of the Masters, but stay for Rich Lerner’s reaction to it.
Honestly might be turning into the Spieth meme of the week. Just an insane collection of snapshots that can and will be used at various times over the next several months. The Greller-ball one is an all-timer.
On Sunday, Spieth gave a quote that encapsulated his entire Masters experience, all of these memes and, honestly, most of his entire career.
“I made seven birdies, so I wish I posted a lower number.”
I can’t imagine Elon dreamed the golf content would be this good, even for $44B. The response below to my tweet about JMO hitting balls on the range with “Greller in 30 days” sent me into a tailspin. An all-timer.
I missed this Phil one from a few weeks ago, but it is perfect.
Here are the results from our Masters family draft. Jude got saved by Spieth’s seven birdies a the very end after enduring runs from Hannah and (against all odds) Sadie.
*Scoring was a player’s total score and then for the rounds they missed for a MC or WD, we take the round average and add three strokes. So Rory was +4 for Round 3 and +4 Round 4 because both rounds were a 73 scoring average.
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