Archive for April, 2007

The Champions Tour at the Masters amid the young guns

Yazan: mulligan | 05 April 2007 | Comments Off on The Champions Tour at the Masters amid the young guns
Categories: masters

Justin Rose and first-timer Brett Wetterich are leading the Masters at -3 after Day 1. Justin Rose has been in this position before in 2004, until he shot an 81 in the third round. The biggest props have to go out to Craig Stadler and Fuzzy Zoeller, both of whom shot +2 in very difficult […]

Greatest short-game round ever?

Yazan: mulligan | 05 April 2007 | Comments Off on Greatest short-game round ever?
Categories: masters

I am watching late-day Masters coverage, and the announcers reported that Justin Rose managed to shoot his first-round 69 despite hitting only 5 greens. That is, as detailed here, Rose had only 20 putts for his entire round and thus got up-and-down 13 times on Augusta’s famous “devilishly fast, diabolically sloping greens.” Should we start […]

Masters Update 1: Mickelson + Els start out with disaster

Yazan: mulligan | 05 April 2007 | Comments Off on Masters Update 1: Mickelson + Els start out with disaster
Categories: masters

Phil Mickelson +4 after 6 holes, Ernie Els +5 after 8 holes. It might be over before it even started for these guys unless they can stop the bleeding. Tiger’s still practicing. Leaderboard