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RedOctober3829

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Look at the names within 6 shots of the lead. It's a who's who of a leaderboard.
Justin Rose
Sergio Garcia
Rickie Fowler
Jordan Spieth
Adam Scott
Lee Westwood
Charl Schwartzel
Ryan Moore
Charlie Hoffman
Paul Casey
Matt Kuchar
Soren Kjeldsen
Rory McIlroy
Jon Rahm
William McGirt
 

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Shaping up to be an all time great Sunday at Augusta. I just hope nobody at the top puts up a crazy 63 and runs away with it. I want this to be absolute high level drama.
 

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I love the way Spieth talks in interviews when it comes to him and his caddy. It's never an individual thing. Every comment is "we" this and "we" that.
I like that as well. But mid-round, Spieth overruled him within mic shot on a handful of occasions. From the rough on 7 when he played that miracle punch shot that somehow ended up above the bunker, on his third shot on 15 they disagreed on the wind and he spun it back to a foot, and on 16 he seems to talk himself into a hard 7 (?) and ended up well short.
 

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Watch out for Charl
The conditions are too good, and the final pairings too good for anybody 4 strokes back to win this thing. They'd need to shoot a 63 or something. Winner will almost certainly be in the last three groups.
 

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The conditions are too good, and the final pairings too good for anybody 4 strokes back to win this thing. They'd need to shoot a 63 or something. Winner will almost certainly be in the last three groups.
Watch out for Charl
 

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Look at the names within 6 shots of the lead. It's a who's who of a leaderboard.
Justin Rose
Sergio Garcia
Rickie Fowler
Jordan Spieth
Adam Scott
Lee Westwood
Charl Schwartzel
Ryan Moore
Charlie Hoffman
Paul Casey
Matt Kuchar
Soren Kjeldsen
Rory McIlroy
Jon Rahm
William McGirt
I'm ready for either Sergio or Westwood to finally win one.

Seeing Rose, Fowler, Scott or McIlroy win would also be pretty awesome. Too bad Freddie fell out of contention.
 

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I used to hate Sergio, but I've come around on him in recent years. I'm fine him, and really everyone on the leaderboard winning. I'm not rooting for anyone in particular. Just looking for an awesome day of golf.
 

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I used to hate Sergio, but I've come around on him in recent years. I'm fine him, and really everyone on the leaderboard winning. I'm not rooting for anyone in particular. Just looking for an awesome day of golf.
That's pretty much where I am as well, although my first choice would probably be Rickie.
 

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I used to hate Sergio, but I've come around on him in recent years. I'm fine him, and really everyone on the leaderboard winning. I'm not rooting for anyone in particular. Just looking for an awesome day of golf.
I've taken a liking to Spieth but I'd love to see Fowler win. The sexy storyline is Sergio winning his 1st major on Seve's birthday.
 

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I love the way Spieth talks in interviews when it comes to him and his caddy. It's never an individual thing. Every comment is "we" this and "we" that.
I tend to think he is the most manufactured guy out there. Spieth has replaced Tiger on the guy I most like to root against list.

I'd love to see Sergio get it. Well for the contest I'd love to see Rahm come back and shoot 63 tomorrow and win it. For personal rooting interest I'd love to see Rory pull the 63 out (not even sure it would be enough). Aside from that I'd be pretty happy with Sergio, maybe Westwood
 

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I'd love to see plenty of these guys win it, absent Hoffman (I just have an ungrounded distaste for him), but if Freddie can't mount a comeback (doubtful) I'd like to see Fowler. Failing that, give me a career grand slam for Rory.
 

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For the whole of his round yesterday i was waiting for Serbgio's blow up and it never came. The guy averages 75 on the 3rd round at Augusta, so for him to get 70, i think that's huge for him and his fist pump when he saved his par on 18 with a testy putt was great to see. He's rightfully playing down the Seve stuff in interviews ans says he's feeling really good mentally and keeping his emotions in check (in general.) He said in his interview he didn't have his best stuff, he wasn't really feeling it, dialled it back a bit, wasn't as aggressive as he could have been with some of the pins, but he found something to get him through the round. (He wasn't asked what that was.) If he doesn't win, what's better, a dignified and slow fading away, heroic failure, or a full on back nine melt down? Butler cabin interviews have been pretty boring of late an aw.

It's a great leader board and some fearful symmetry in the final two pairings. Two Euros, two from the US, two major winners, and Fowler's kinda where Garcia was 10-15 years ago. Rose and Garcia are of the same era, so too Fowler and Spieth.

If winning one major gets you to the grand ball, winning two gets you a much better table, and for Speith he can really get to work building his legacy...Rory seems to have Stalled on that front. Adam Scott is too boring, even for a golfer, for me to seriously root for.

So much quality withing four shots of the lead, i can't see anyone on -1 or level winning.
 

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My brother and I are having a friendly wings and brews bet for Final Score. Is me setting the line at +/- 8.5 (with me the over, as in -9, -10, etc) tossing wings and brew his way?
 

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I tend to think he is the most manufactured guy out there. Spieth has replaced Tiger on the guy I most like to root against list.
You know, I could never quite put my finger on why I couldn't stand Spieth (besides the fact I think his swing sucks and he's really boring to watch). "Manufactured" really hits the nail on the head. All this "we" talk about his caddie and "team" is annoying and ridiculous. I'd like to see him take some responsibility for both his successes and failures, his caddie plays such a small role. It also seems forced and scripted, he's annoying.
 

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I think Spieth acts the way he does because that's how he was raised to act. And to a certain extent, he's similar to Tiger in that regard.

We saw how that conflict resolved itself with Tiger. And it will eventually resolve itself with Spieth. (Although I don't think it will end quite the same way.) Until then, the question is whether Spieth has the talent to win like Tiger did. We know he has the drive.

As for today, I'm just looking for a shootout coming down the stretch. No real rooting interest in the winner. Just in the contest. (If pushed, I'd root for Fowler.)
 

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So pumped for today. It's been said many times up thread, but this is what a leader board should look like heading into Sunday at a major. Fantastic.

I'd like almost anyone at the top of this leader board to win this thing, but I'm rooting for Sergio. I've changed course on how I feel about him, I'd like to see him win one now. I thought he was a dink when he was younger, but he is too good a of a talent not to take down a major.

I know this won't be a popular opinion here, but I'm rooting against Rickie. I appreciate that he is apparently a great guy who does things the "right way", unlike someone like Bubba. I probably am too hard on the guy but I don't like the way that he was anointed by the media before he ever won anything. I get why, he is was a young, marketable guy on the rise. But it annoyed me at the time. I'll likely get over this eventually, similar to how I'm in the pro-Sergio camp now.

This is a "get off my lawn" comment, but I also can't forgive him for wearing a hat with zero bend in the brim on the PGA tour. It made him look like a buffoon.
 

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So that means you hate Hoffman too?

Edit: That was to T&A.
 

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I think it will be Rose or Speith. I'd like to see Fowler or Sergio. The best case scenario is Sergio tied or with the lead going to 13. That would make for a fun afternoon.
 

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As for today, I'm just looking for a shootout coming down the stretch. No real rooting interest in the winner. Just in the contest. (If pushed, I'd root for Fowler.)
This is pretty much where I'm at. The leaderboard is so good that I don't care who wins I just want it to be entertaining. Give me the 2011 back nine drama and lead changes, except without Schwartzel winning again.
 

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Did CBS show Fred's 7 on 15 yesterday? I was following on the app, saw he made a dog's breakfast out of it. Looks like he chipped it in the drink off the front of the green. Mr. Google hasn't been able to produce a video highlight.
 

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I'm rooting Rickie or Sergio. Preferably Sergio. Whoever said earlier that they root against Spieth because he is too manufactured hit the nail on the head for me too.
 

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Did CBS show Fred's 7 on 15 yesterday? I was following on the app, saw he made a dog's breakfast out of it. Looks like he chipped it in the drink off the front of the green. Mr. Google hasn't been able to produce a video highlight.
Can't find a vid either. It's not on his leaderboard scorecard (which has select vids from his round). Net says he blew second shot right of the trap into gallery and hit chip "heavy" into the lake. So 3 in, 4 out, 5 on, 2 putts. The heavy part makes no sense because he wasn't going over lake with the 3rd. So I'm guessing he hit it thin or skulled it.
 

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So pumped for today. It's been said many times up thread, but this is what a leader board should look like heading into Sunday at a major. Fantastic.

I'd like almost anyone at the top of this leader board to win this thing, but I'm rooting for Sergio. I've changed course on how I feel about him, I'd like to see him win one now. I thought he was a dink when he was younger, but he is too good a of a talent not to take down a major.

I know this won't be a popular opinion here, but I'm rooting against Rickie. I appreciate that he is apparently a great guy who does things the "right way", unlike someone like Bubba. I probably am too hard on the guy but I don't like the way that he was anointed by the media before he ever won anything. I get why, he is was a young, marketable guy on the rise. But it annoyed me at the time. I'll likely get over this eventually, similar to how I'm in the pro-Sergio camp now.

This is a "get off my lawn" comment, but I also can't forgive him for wearing a hat with zero bend in the brim on the PGA tour. It made him look like a buffoon.
It's not like Rickie was writing the articles. I find it difficult to blame him for being anointed. That was out of his control. Fowler is great with the game of golf and the world, he's incredible with children and he's an accessible guy. Rooting against him is like rooting against Frodo.
 

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It's so very golf to root against Rickie Fowler for not having enough bend in his hat, while rooting for Sergio Garcia, who has been little but a petulant prick for twenty years, and is less than four years removed from a blantantly racist public comment about the greatest golfer of his time.
 

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You know, I could never quite put my finger on why I couldn't stand Spieth (besides the fact I think his swing sucks and he's really boring to watch). "Manufactured" really hits the nail on the head. All this "we" talk about his caddie and "team" is annoying and ridiculous. I'd like to see him take some responsibility for both his successes and failures, his caddie plays such a small role. It also seems forced and scripted, he's annoying.
Have you guys talking about the "we" stuff ever played with a caddie before? They ALL do that. Every shot is "we're on the green, we're in the bunker, we just need to get up and down", etc. I think if you listen for it, you'll hear a lot of guys talk that way.

I'd like to see any of the guys on the board win too but I'd like to see a Ricky/Spieth dogfight because when it's the same pairing it's even better than a dogfight separated by a couple of groups. If not them, then Sergio, even though I hated his stupid whiny face for a lot of years. It's enough. Either way, should be great golf to watch (on DVR after my own 18!)