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[Freddy Linn]

Tee times announced:

7:50 a.m.: Craig Stadler, Brendan Steele, Tim Clark
8:01 a.m.: Jose Maria Olazabal, Robert Garrigus, Randal Lewis
8:12 a.m.: Larry Mize, Paul Lawrie, Anders Hansen
8:23 a.m.: Ross Fisher, Ryan Palmer, Harrison Frazar
8:34 a.m.: Ben Crenshaw, Robert Karlsson, Bryden Macpherson
8:45 a.m.: Adam Scott, Bo Van Pelt, Martin Kaymer
8:56 a.m.: Steve Stricker, Padraig Harrington, Stewart Cink
9:07 a.m.: Aaron Baddeley, K.T. Kim, Lucas Glover
9:18 a.m.: Kyle Stanley, Jason Day, Bill Haas
9:29 a.m.: Trevor Immelman, Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose
9:40 a.m.: Tom Watson, Johnson Wagner, Hideki Matsuyama
10:02 a.m.: Matt Kuchar, Geoff Ogilvy, Y.E. Yang
10:13 a.m.: Gary Woodland, Henrik Stenson, Alvaro Quiros
10:24 a.m.: Charl Schwartzel, Keegan Bradley, Kelly Kraft
10:35 a.m.: Tiger Woods, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Sang Moon Bae
10:46 a.m.: Luke Donald, Francesco Molinari, Nick Watney
10:57 a.m.: Scott Verplank, Sean O'Hair, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
11:08 a.m.: Mark O'Meara, Chez Reavie, Martin Laird
11:19 a.m.: Sandy Lyle, Simon Dyson, Corbin Mills
11:30 a.m.: Ian Woosnam, Edoardo Molinari, Kevin Chappell
11:41 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Mark Wilson, Graeme McDowell
11:52 a.m.: Zach Johnson, Ian Poulter, Patrick Cantlay
12:14 p.m.: Kevin Na, Fredrik Jacobson, Ben Crane
12:25 p.m.: John Senden, Jonathan Byrd, Paul Casey
12:36 p.m.: Bernhard Langer, Jason Dufner, Charles Howell III
12:47 p.m.: Mike Weir, Brandt Snedeker, Webb Simpson
12:58 p.m.: Vijay Singh, Lee Westwood, Jim Furyk
1:09 p.m.: Thomas Bjorn, Scott Stallings, Rory Sabbatini
1:20 p.m.: Fred Couples, Darren Clarke, Ryo Ishikawa
1:31 p.m.: David Toms, K.J. Choi, Sergio Garcia
1:42 p.m.: Angel Cabrera, Rory McIlroy, Bubba Watson
1:53 p.m.: Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan, Peter Hanson



TV coverage:

Airtime on ESPN for both Thursday and Friday will be 3pm to 7:30pm, with a prime-time replay starting each night at 8pm.

CBS will air highlight shows Thursday and Friday nights at 11:35pm prior to David Letterman on both nights.

CBS' weekend coverage will be Saturday 3:30pm until 7pm. Then on Sunday it will be 2pm until 7:30pm, with the program able to go on longer should the event overrun.

Beginning Monday, Live From the Masters will provide more than 42 hours of comprehensive wrap-around news coverage of the Masters, including player interviews, analysis, up-to-the-minute leaderboard updates and daily features from Golf Channel’s team of anchors, reporters and contributors.

Live From the Masters will air Monday from 6-7 p.m. ET; Tuesday and Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. ET; Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. and 7:30-9:30 p.m. ET; Saturday from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. ET, and Sunday from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. ET.

CBS online coverage

Masters.com

Edited by Freddy Linn, 03 April 2012 - 12:58 PM.

[FL4WL3SS]

Online coverage always starts before the TV coverage. Usually stream Amen's Corner and 15&16.

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Online coverage always starts before the TV coverage. Usually stream Amen's Corner and 15&16.

They usually have a featured group or two that they follow exclusively. My guess would be Tiger's threesome would be such a featured group, especially since they'll be close to done by the time ESPN goes on the air.

Have to say if there's one drawback to the Masters, it's the TV coverage. I know it's Augusta National's call rather than the networks in this case, but for all the majors, they should all be on the air all day. The Open Championship coverage gets it right...8-10 hours of wall to wall coverage each day. Masters coverage on the air at 8 or 9am and running until the last putt falls would be awesome.

[FL4WL3SS]

I agree - the one thing I hate about the Masters is the TV coverage. Coming on at 3PM is just absurd. They should be televising the event at 1PM on Thursday and Friday and 11AM on Saturday and Sunday.

[Freddy Linn]

I agree too. You don't get as much of a feel for the first few holes with a 2:40 tee time for the final pairing. Tee ball on 2 is fantastic, as is the green on 3.

Four minutes of commercials kicks ass.

[RedOctober3829]

I do like the Mickelson-Mahan-Hanson one to end the day. A pair of intriguing ones to me are Jason Day-Kyle Stanley-Bill Haas and Immelman-Fowler-Rose.

Edited by RedOctober3829, 03 April 2012 - 01:10 PM.

[SouthernBoSox]

Angel Cabrera, Rory McIlroy, Bubba Watson should be entertaining as hell.

[Zomp]

Par 3 tournament. Martin Keymer skips it across the pond on 16 for a hole in one.

[PaulinMyrBch]

They usually have a featured group or two that they follow exclusively. My guess would be Tiger's threesome would be such a featured group, especially since they'll be close to done by the time ESPN goes on the air.

Have to say if there's one drawback to the Masters, it's the TV coverage. I know it's Augusta National's call rather than the networks in this case, but for all the majors, they should all be on the air all day. The Open Championship coverage gets it right...8-10 hours of wall to wall coverage each day. Masters coverage on the air at 8 or 9am and running until the last putt falls would be awesome.

The Masters website shows online coverage of Amen Corner, 15/16, + 2 Featured Groups. You would have to think one of those would be Tigers group. That coverage starts at noon, he's off at 10:35, so it should pick him up on 7 or 8.

[FL4WL3SS]

One of the featured groups will definitely be Tiger, he tees off at 10:35. I'm not so sure about the other group, I would have put my money on Rory, but he tees off at 1:42 and coverage starts at 3. Phil tees off dead last, so it definitely won't be him.

I could see it being one of these three groups:
8:45 - Adam Scott, Bo Van Pelt, Martin Kaymer
9:18 - Kyle Stanley, Jason Day, Bill Haas
10:24 - Charl Schwartzel, Keegan Bradley, Kelly Kraft

EDIT: Phil and Rory could definitely be the 2 groups on Friday, though. They tee off at 10:46 and 10:35, respectively.

Edited by FL4WL3SS, 04 April 2012 - 11:43 AM.

[Red(s)HawksFan]

One of the featured groups will definitely be Tiger, he tees off at 10:35. I'm not so sure about the other group, I would have put my money on Rory, but he tees off at 1:42 and coverage starts at 3. Phil tees off dead last, so it definitely won't be him.

I could see it being one of these three groups:
8:45 - Adam Scott, Bo Van Pelt, Martin Kaymer
9:18 - Kyle Stanley, Jason Day, Bill Haas
10:24 - Charl Schwartzel, Keegan Bradley, Kelly Kraft

EDIT: Phil and Rory could definitely be the 2 groups on Friday, though. They tee off at 10:46 and 10:35, respectively.

My money would be on Schwartzel's group being the other featured tomorrow. Defending champ plus the reigning PGA champ who has been one of the more consistent top-10 finishers this year. Makes too much sense.

[cshea]

Weather looks like it could be an issue. The par-3 just got called off, and there's rain in the forecast through Friday.

[FL4WL3SS]

If the conditions are going to be soft, I might have to change my tiebreaker prediction.

[Freddy Linn]

Weather looks like it could be an issue. The par-3 just got called off, and there's rain in the forecast through Friday.

Looks like the morning guys will be in decent shape, but the afternoon guys might be in for the worst stuff around 4 pm. Problem is lightning.

Azaleas also bloomed early.

Birdies aplenty.

[PayrodsFirstClutchHit]

The limited coverage bothers me to no end. It would be equivalent to ony broadcasting the World Series from the 5th inning on.

I would pay at least $20 for an app that would allow me to watch wall to wall coverage. I have to figure there are quite a few others that would as well.

There is no way that would impact attendance in the least.

I guess we need to wait for the current admin at Augusta to die off before we see this happen.

[Papelbon's Poutine]

Does the Masters package on DirecTV offer more coverage than the standard on ESPN or NBC? I keep seeing ads for the mosaic channel but not sure of the details.

[Freddy Linn]

Does the Masters package on DirecTV offer more coverage than the standard on ESPN or NBC? I keep seeing ads for the mosaic channel but not sure of the details.

Not more hours but more features. A bunch of different views - the standard ESPN/CBS feeds, two featured groups, Amen Corner, 15 & 16 - plus interactive stat stuff and some exclusive interviews/press room stuff. It brings some of the cool online streaming views together with the standard television feeds, but I don't think they are broadcasting anything outside of the standard windows.

At least this is my understanding.


Here are some more details on tomorrow's online schedule:

LIVE COVERAGE ON MASTERS.COM
10:45 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Amen Corner live video coverage
11:45 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Hole Nos. 15 and 16 live video coverage
12:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Featured Group 1 live video coverage
Featured Group 2 live video coverage
3:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Masters In-Depth live video coverage highlights

[Lupe Whalewatch]

In Haney's book, he mentioned in the week leading up to each of Tiger's four wins at Augusta there were heavy rains. Tiger apparently has terrible allergies and the rains helped to lower the pollen count.

[Freddy Linn]

Kevin Na and Ben Crane are in the same group. Hilarious. No question they will be put on the clock.

I feel for the guys behind them, especially because a delay is possible. Sabbatini is going to lose his shit.

Edited by Freddy Linn, 04 April 2012 - 10:07 PM.

[Freddy Linn]

Always strange to see them without hats on.

[Freddy Linn]

Here are the featured groups for online coverage Thursday:

Featured Group 1:

8:45 a.m.: Adam Scott, Bo Van Pelt, Martin Kaymer
12:47 p.m.: Mike Weir, Brandt Snedeker, Webb Simpson
1:42 p.m.: Angel Cabrera, Rory McIlroy, Bubba Watson

Featured Group 2:

8:56 a.m.: Steve Sticker, Padraig Harrington, Stewart Cink
12:58 p.m.: Vijay Singh, Lee Westwood, Jim Furyk
1:53 p.m.: Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan, Peter Hanson


No Tiger is very interesting. Link.

[FL4WL3SS]

No Tiger and no Charl - that's... odd.

[PaulinMyrBch]

Weather forecast has eased up.

http://forecast.weat...nit=0&dd=0&bw=0

[ibrewbeer]

My buddy is on Sandy Lyle's bag this weekend; he's pretty excited

[FL4WL3SS]

Weather forecast has eased up.

http://forecast.weat...nit=0&dd=0&bw=0

Rain this afternoon and early tomorrow morning - this sets up perfectly for Tiger. He's going to miss most of the rain both days, but benefit from the softer conditions.

[RedOctober3829]

Padraig Harrington has it to -2 with an eagle at the 2nd.

[Freddy Linn]

Rain this afternoon and early tomorrow morning - this sets up perfectly for Tiger. He's going to miss most of the rain both days, but benefit from the softer conditions.

And Sergio is on the other side of the draw. Clearly there is a conspiracy against him.

Edited by Freddy Linn, 05 April 2012 - 08:51 AM.

[cshea]

I was actually surprised so many people picked Segio in the pool. I don't think The Claw can handle 4 rounds of the Augusta greens.

[RedOctober3829]

Bogey-Bogey start for Jason Day.

[Bob Montgomery's Helmet Hat]

Bogey-Bogey start for Jason Day.

Make that bogey-bogey-birdie

[Freddy Linn]

Scott is +3. It looks awesome there.

Right here is a super cool leaderboard using the red/green numbers for the entire field.


Edit: really weird without the flowers.

Edited by Freddy Linn, 05 April 2012 - 09:40 AM.

[Bob Montgomery's Helmet Hat]

Adam Scott +3 through 6. The curse of the Aussies continues.

[cshea]

The PGA tour mobile app doesn't appear to be doing shot tracker. Disappointing since I can't steam the video on my work PC.

[Freddy Linn]

Masters fun fact: German POWs who served in North Africa under Rommel built one of the original bridges over Rae's creek.

[The Four Peters]

My god it looks absolutely beautiful out there.

[Bob Montgomery's Helmet Hat]

Keegan doubles #1.

[Bob Montgomery's Helmet Hat]

Tiger with a terrible drive on one. He then hit an amazing 3 wood from the pine straw and saved par.

[Freddy Linn]

Olazabal has played the 12th in even par for his Masters career. That is amazing.

[jmm57]

I am so annoyed I can't watch Tiger's round.

The coverage of Amen Corner on Masters.com has been very good, much better than the last time I watched it (a few years ago), but I still want to see Tiger's group.

[RedOctober3829]

It's time for The Walrus to give it up here. He is +7 thru 13.

[jmm57]

5 bogeys and an eagle for Adam Scott on the front

[RedOctober3829]

Tiger parred the par-5 2nd. Surprised at that.

[cshea]

He hit his tee shot into the hazard. 2 shitty drives.

[The Napkin]

O'Meara withdrew. Any idea what happened?

[jmm57]

Birdie on 3 for Tiger

[PaulinMyrBch]

You can go to Masters.com, click leaderboard, click on the player to expand his specific scorecard. Holes highlighted with a green box show video for that specific hole. Click on that an it shows the shots for that hole. Right now you can watch Tigers play on #1. I assume they'll add holes as he goes.

[Greg29fan]

O'Meara withdrew. Any idea what happened?

pulled muscle in his ribs

[Freddy Linn]

He hit his tee shot into the hazard. 2 shitty drives.

Left on 2 is known as the Delta Ticket Office.

[Average Reds]

It's time for The Walrus to give it up here. He is +7 thru 13.

He is apparently battling a herniated disc that has left him with nerves so badly pinched that he is losing the feeling in his right foot. Not surprisingly, his ball striking is a bit off these days.

When you can't break 80 on the Senior Tour, it might be a sign that you golfing glory is behind you.

[Greg29fan]

TW deserved a birdie on 4 - great pace, great line and just missed