Golf is a cruel sport.
Golf commentators are almost as bad as baseball commentators when it comes to idiotic statistics.
“Only two of the past 24 Masters champions have scored an eagle in the last round of the tournament.”
Big fucking deal.
Fucking DJ. C’mon man! Making me remember my youth as a Weiskopf fan - never quite enough down the stretch.
I’m surprised at how ambivalent I am towards Spieth. Amazing talent, but glad this tourney got interesting.
Not much more I can add to that. Man oh man… 
Hey, they have to keep talking for 5 hours. They gotta say something!
It’s impossible now for Jordan to win.
If he aces 16, it’s a tie.
Don’t think I wasn’t hoping for it, even so!!
I guess Willet gets it. What sort of English accent is that? It’s not easy to understand…
Yorkshire.
Mmmm… Pudding! (We call it popovers, but same thing).
And now Spieth has to put the Green Jacket on Willett. That’s gonna be tough!
So what happened is obviously your fault. 
Relevant:
Willett: 13 birdies, 8 bogeys
Spieth: 22 birdies, 10 bogeys, 3 double bogeys, 1 quadruple bogey
Westwood: 1 eagle, 16 birdies, 16 bogeys
This truth never changes - the winner is whoever’s the best through 72 holes. Spieth was easily the strongest golfer in the field, but he just kept shooting himself in the foot. Turn those double bogeys into pars, and that misadventure on the 12th is just a funny little footnote. Westwood, I’ve commented on him before, and it looks like he’s just missing something. Consistency, drive, killer instinct, I dunno, but he looks like one of those guys who has plenty of heart but has no chance of cracking the elite echelon.
Always nice to see a relative journeyman get his day in the sun, though. Just a wild prediction here, but I think he’ll have FAR more success than Paul Lawrie. 
Turn 3 double bogeys into pars? Ok,Turn 8 bogeys into pars.
Are you calling the 12th ranked golfer in the world a relative journeyman?
And in the latest rankings he is ninth.
Just to fire up an old theme, because I’m sitting in the dentist’s waiting room with nothing to do:
He probably wouldn’t even have been eligible to play any of the three US majors in the 1960’s, since he had no majors and no PGA wins before last week, and there was no overseas qualifying for the US Open.
This is why it’s so ridiculous to compare majors won in the 60’s with majors won today. Out of the top ten and ties in last week’s Masters, nine players were from outside the US. I’d be interested if anyone can find ANY major played in the US in the 1960’s that had nine players from outside the US in the starting field, let alone in the final top ten.
I agree with you in general, but thought it would be interesting to check this out while waiting for my car to be serviced. I chose The Masters as possibly being most likely to invite overseas players. Wikipedia only has top tens and ties. From 1960 to 1969 there were 1 - 3 overseas players, averaging 2. Or, put another way, there was Gary Player plus 0-2 others. I can believe that the overseas portion in lower positions would be even lower. If the overall field is only 10% overseas plus Player, that would be close to your estimates.
It was also interesting to see the prize money. The 1960 winner, Arnold Palmer, got $17,500. This rose to $20k in 1961, where it stayed the rest of the decade. In contrast, Willett won $1.8m.
Median US family income in 1965 was $6,900. The median household income in 2014 was about $52,000.
So, Masters winners in the 1960s won about three times the annual household income. Now, they win about 36 times the median income.
The strongest golfer in the field usually doesn’t shoot his foot a bunch of times.
$20K was a very good purse in those days. In contrast, the 1960 British Open paid only about $3500 to the winner, which is why it was largely ignored by American pros – even if you won, the prize money wouldn’t even cover your expenses. There were a grand total of zero American touring pros in the field when Gary Player won his first British Open in 1959, and there were never more than a dozen Americans (and often more like half a dozen), even counting seniors and amateurs, all through the 1960’s. This, at a time when the US had at least 70 of the top 100 players in the world. Palmer, Player, and Nicklaus each racked up two “major” wins against those very weak fields (probably weaker than a John Deere today) in that decade.