Here are 18 reasons why the masters are the best.
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From the archives: This section was originally published in March 2018.
World Series? We like. Super Bowl? So good we buy new flatscreens every year. Olympics? Epic – but by chance! Therefore, let us present 18 reasons why Masters in Augusta National It is the biggest sport event.
18. The moments
Even if we weren’t there to see it, we are all first-hand witnesses of Jack Nicklaus! blow; to Larry Mishe’s chip; In the six iron of Phil Mickelson from the pine straw. Like no other tour, the masters leave a pronounced wrapping of the historical moments that play vividly in all our minds.
17. The website
There is almost nothing like masters. Literally. Witness The most excellent website of the game tournamentWith his interactive player tracking and high high broadcasting. Like Augusta’s greens, it is quiet-but a much easier whole to navigate.
16. The amateurs
From their arrival in the Crow nest to the closing ceremonies, they are sewn into the gentlemen’s fabric, as Bobby Jones aimed. The amateurs are welcomed in other degrees, but nowhere else are they so firmly embraced.
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15. Forecasting
They say the masters do not start up to the ninth rear on Sunday, but the construction begins months ago. The first promotions, filtering through the air waves in the winter heart, fill us with promises: spring is approaching quickly, and the great golf ritual will soon be here again.
14. Field
The sixty -seven -year -old Bernhard Langer of Germany will be there; So to want the best players in this sport in their 20 and 30 prime minister. Both represent an invitation with comprehensive geographical and generating extent. Other tours have tougher fields, but masters are the best illustration of golf as a beloved game of life, played with fire across the globe.
13. Mythology
Eventual sporting event is a form of escape. But this is especially true for masters. In this idealized environment, the world’s problems diminish, the bird of the bird never ceases and Jim Nantz considers them all “friends”. That we know this is a fabrication does nothing to disrupt fantasy or entertainment.
12. Bridges
The bases are numerous in historical monuments – a pond called a president, a plaque that honors Jack – but none stands like Bridges Hogan, Sarazen and Nelson. More than foot paths, they are exactly perfect metaphors: it includes the present with the past.
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11. Sounds
On Sunday afternoon, in the natural amphitheater of the national team, the craftsmen creates the most troubled golf sound, the silence of the pin-painting by moving to excited murmurs, and explosive celebrations that swell and sink. Things you hear – and you don’t listen – are as indicated and persuasive as any sporting action that your eyes can see.
10. Basic rules
No running. No mobile phone. None acting like a yahoo. Call them fuddy-duddies, but credit green jackets to maintain a reversible feeling of decor. There are many other places to organize caddy races, snaping selfie and cherishing “You da man!”
9. Competition par-3
It is the masters in miniature, without pressure, with children and women doubled like cadites, and players who go through the shots through the ponds. No one who ever won it claimed the green jacket in the same year, but just racing it is a victory.
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8. Minimum trading interruptions
No 60 -second stain that interprets the fredited beer boys or middle -aged men with erectile dysfunction. Just a short word, tasteful by one of the few sponsors, then again in action and the whispered comment.
7. Lane Magnolia
When is a beautiful car also a great approach? When you are facilitating the most fabricated entry of the game, a white club adapted to close distance from an arcade of sunny flowering trees.
6. Concessions
Excavation of prices in Grub is a long sports tradition. But not at the base of Augusta National, where a Pimento cheese sandwich receives $ 1.50. Never forget that it tastes like Elmer’s glue. The other $ 3 get you a beer to wash it.
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5. Green jacket
In any other context, a sports coat of color of a Jägermeister bottle would be a right -wing statement worthy of Al Cervic. But slipped into the tour winner, she wins an atmosphere of Arnold Palmer Cool.
4. Amen angle
The three -hole stretch where Rae’s Creek meets the golf course ranks among the most sacred games game. To watch it on TV is inspiring. To try it personally it is as close as spiritual as the observation of the sport receives.
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3. The theme music
It is a song that is inseparable from the occasion, the version of the golf world “Here comes the bride”. Happy? Perhaps but its types are also soothing and providing, a suggestion for all those who hear that something wonderful is developing.
2. Beginners of honor
Only their achievements are immortal. The power of these moments lies in that fact. Since 1963, when Jock Hutchison and Fred McLeod hit the first symbolic shooting, only seven other greats have played the role Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson fill today. Like Nelson, Palmer, Snead, Sarazen and Venturi before them, they will not be here forever. But we see them knowing that their legacy will last.
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1. The course, of course
For all the umbling tweaks made over the decades – greens and reconstructed teepaved and tight roads – The beautiful bones remainMajestic and incomprehensible, so much that Bobby Jones and Alister Mackezie arranged them. Other degrees can be staged in any number of courses. Masters can unfold nowhere else.
