The guy is 73 years old, for gosh sakes. Can't we give him a break? It isn't a simple hole to play. I would imagine a lot of us young-uns would put a few in the water on that hole.
I wonder how close he came to running out of balls for the round......
"The guy is 73 years old, for gosh sakes. Can't we give him a break? It isn't a simple hole to play. "
Please. It's a 7 or 8-iron. And that's only the tee shot. The drop area is no more than 110-120 yards. I could go out there right now and make no worse than a 5, and that only due to not being used to the blazing putting surface.
The guy shot a 106. This is disgraceful and insulting to the hundreds of other golfers slighted by non-invites so that past champions like this can go out there and embarrass themselves.
Keep the past-champion invites - fine. But open the field to other deserving golfers too, if you're gonna let guys hack their way to the embarrassing scores the senior past champions usually post.
I mean, c'mon - 106!?
Yeah...no kidding.
Anybody talking smack about Billy Casper is a tool.
He is 73 and was playing from the tips in wet and windy conditions at Augusta.
Let's see the people talking smack take that on....
And then let the people talking smack look in their closet and realize that they DONT have something that Billy DOES have......A GREEN JACKET.
Oh...and he has two other major championships as well.
The good thing about the Masters is the tradition. And Billy is part of that.
There are too many people who took up golf in the big recent trendy years who simply do not understand the traditions and gentleman attitude of the game.