# 2018 Masters **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 5, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878 "2018-04-05T17:08:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/41 "2018-04-08T23:12:29Z")
McIlroy has to be very disappointed - he never produced anything resembling his Round 3 brilliance. Sitting in beautiful position to go for the “Won all 4 majors” milestone, he came up pretty much empty. Each of his 3 birdies was immediately followed by a bogey. Five bogies in all, after just 4 in the first 3 rounds. Not how the great ones respond to historic opportunities. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/42 "2018-04-08T23:41:12Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > I said it would take something remarkable from Jordan Speith to seriously contend - and he produced that. A bad drive on the final hole led to his only bogey of the day (after nine birdies) and kept him from tying the Master’s record - and qualifying for a playoff with Patrick Reed. No. He finished at -13. Had he not bogeyed, he would have been -14, one shot behind, tied for second with Fowler. It WAS a very good charge. Reminded me of Nicklaus’ charge on Sunday in the 1983 PGA Championship, where he finished one back of Hal Sutton shooting 66. What he needed it to be was Nicklaus in '86 at the Masters. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/43 "2018-04-09T00:04:53Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Had he not bogeyed, he would have been -14, one shot behind, tied for second with Fowler. You are right - I was incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/44 "2018-04-09T02:24:20Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > My favorite shot of the day was Bubba putting off the green INTO A BUNKER! :eek: Man, I don’t think I ever managed to do that. I did it recently. I two-putted the hole. My putts were my 3rd and 6th shots (4 and 5 were bunker shots). ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/45 "2018-04-09T03:04:01Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > It WAS a very good charge. Yes: controlled, methodical, deliberate. I think “Jordan Spieth” is going to be the answer a lot of players give to “If you’re leading a tournament going into the final day, who would you least like to see 3 stokes back?” “Rickie Fowler” may get some play as well. As to the question whether Tiger can ever again deliver what the hypesters would like him to, there are two big problems: His aging, troubled body (he’s now 42, and it looks like an old 42) and the talent he’s up against. I think the chances are awfully low. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/46 "2018-04-09T12:38:25Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > I did it recently. I two-putted the hole. My putts were my 3rd and 6th shots (4 and 5 were bunker shots). Ouch! :smack:THAT must have been painful! Please tell me it wasn’t on #1! For some crazy reason I don’t find myself rooting for Spieth. Keep trying to talk myself into it. Awesome player, and everything suggests he is an upstanding young man. Funny how a crowd of “young” players can come and go. Like Keegan Bradley, Lumpy, and Webb Simpson a few years back. Hope Thomas, Spieth, etc all have more legs. BTW - I was FFing w/o sound for much of it. Why were they showing Webb Simpson and Paul Casey so much? The “problem” w/ Tiger is that he has just too much talent, and other intangibles, that it is likely that at some point he will get hot over some 4-day period. So the media will continue following him hoping that lightning will strike. But even tho he smiles not and deigns to speak to the press, I still think him an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/47 "2018-04-09T12:48:52Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > No matter who wins, I guarantee that tomorrow, the headline in every newspaper and sports web site will be, "TIGER ALMOST BREAKS PAR!!! The extensive coverage in this a.m.'s Chicago Trib DID NOT MENTION HIS NAME! 😃 It also said, tho, that Spieth did not look at a scoreboard until after his last putt dropped. Did not know if he was 2 up or 4 back! Man, I can’t imagine such focus! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/48 "2018-04-09T13:10:24Z")
[Why Do Golf Fans Hate Patrick Reed?](https://sports.yahoo.com/dont-like-patrick-reed-winning-masters-deal-005028745.html) I guess I’m not the only one! 🙂 I don’t “hate” him, it’s just that I don’t care for him. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/49 "2018-04-09T14:28:03Z")
[Patrick Reed is estranged from his parents/sister](http://www.golf.com/knockdown/2018/04/08/masters-patrick-reed-estranged-family-complex-mix-emotions). ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/50 "2018-04-09T15:07:53Z")
Sounds like some majorly weird family dynamics! ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/51 "2018-04-09T15:44:32Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Why were they showing Webb Simpson and Paul Casey so much?. They both were in range of the single-round scoring record. Simpson was -6 after 10 (with back-to-back eagles on 7 & 8), and Casey was -9 through 15. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/52 "2018-04-09T15:53:25Z")
I always hope Woods or another black guy wins so the KKK members who founded that place spin in their graves. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/53 "2018-04-09T17:08:15Z")
Thx - saw they were scoring well, but were not really close to the lead. Kinda weird that the announcers were talking about all the support Reed got from family - including BIL on the bag, as well as local/college ties. When, in fact he had troubles at 2 colleges, and someone (his wife?) had his parents physically removed from the US Open gallery. His parents have NEVER met their grandchildren! I mean, golf likes to keep its skeletons in their closets, but that was pretty ridiculous! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/54 "2018-04-09T17:57:05Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Patrick Reed is estranged from his parents/sister](http://www.golf.com/knockdown/2018/04/08/masters-patrick-reed-estranged-family-complex-mix-emotions). His sister is his mother? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/55 "2018-04-09T18:22:56Z")
Bill & Jeannette are Patrick’s father and mother. Hannah is Patrick’s sister Cooper & Murphy are their dogs ========= Justine is Patrick’s wife (and former caddie) Kessler is Justine’s brother (and current caddie) Janet is Justine’s mother Kris is Justine’s sister (and Nanny) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/56 "2018-04-09T19:43:45Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Bill & Jeannette are Patrick’s father and mother. > > Hannah is Patrick’s sister I was just joking at the way it was written: “parents/sister”. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/57 "2018-04-09T20:51:12Z")
Wouldn’t be the first golfer who was estranged from his parents. ISTR a young phenom golfer a few years back (Sean O’Hair), who broke w/ his domineering father. Never was as successful as expected. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/58 "2018-04-09T21:32:07Z")
The interesting question from the win by Patrick Reed is whether or not this year will continue the now three-year-old trend of first-timers winning (almost) every major? With the exception of the Spieth British Open victory last year, the last ten majors have been won by first-timers. Reminds me of the period shortly after Tiger’s last major in 2008, when 12 of 13 were won by first-timers (from the 2009 U.S. Open to the 2012 U.S. Open). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/59 "2018-04-10T20:54:07Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Wouldn’t be the first golfer who was estranged from his parents. ISTR a young phenom golfer a few years back (Sean O’Hair), who broke w/ his domineering father. Never was as successful as expected. Yeah, his dad was his caddie and made him sign some sort of “contract” that he would give him X% of his earnings. Daddy dearest. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878/60 "2018-04-11T01:15:18Z")
Speaking of Sean O’Hair, he is selling his house listed at 3.9 Million > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-masters/811878.md?page=4)