I have had enough of Augusta , holes are too familiar to me now, the camera work compared to the British Technicians at our Open is poor, the commentarys are repetious, and CBS obsession on covering the leaders only and this mainly on the greens leaves me cold. Guys like me at times like to see a golfer in trouble , or struggling.

Closed for 5mths a year, imported pines , only defence is the doctored greens, and not a pepsi or burger stall to be seen,they gotta eat somewhere!! mind you I feel the Belfry will suit the Yanks.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

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Fore!!!!!

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

agreed... coverage was terrible. Covering the leaders? You mean covering Woods. Several times you'd see Woods hit a green only to see Mickelson's ball already there. A few mins later if they had a break in watching close up's of Tiger they's show Phil's shot. To$$ers

None of this can overshadow a tremendous achievement by Tiger. He's a canny golfer but he'd have struggled to beat me over the w/end ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

The website's canny though , www.masters.org. I think the problem is BBC wont pay enough to watch more of the tourney, I mean it started at 1pm our time yet we dont see any till 9pm at the earliest.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

The Japanese have the WORST TV coverage in the world. When there is a Japanese golfer about to take a shot - no matter who or by how many over par - they will automatically go over to them even if it means cutting off another player in midswing.

Having said that, it's better than their Olympic coverage where the coverage will concentrate in the Japanese swimmer, who is usually in 7th place and you have no idea who won.

I actually want Japan to lose everything just so that I can enjoy the rest of the tournament - of course it doesn't do myt relationship with my girlfriend much good :)

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

Kenny, fraid your wrong, the blazored Augusteans will only allow 2hrs of live coverage per day , not the Beebs fault

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

Talk in the papers at the weekend is that Augusta are going to let TV people cover 1.5 hours more next year. Apparently they only allow them to show the last 9 holes at the moment.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

I wasnt aware of that buff, but it sounds typical of them. I thought CBS had it all on I know you can watch the 9 back holes live on the website , Its just tooo damn slow tho.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

The Augusta National Club has a set of values which might seem anachronistic. As Buff pointed out only two hours of play are shown -- never the front nine. No advertising is allowed on course, and on television it is restricted to five minutes in the hour and only two advertisers -- Citigroup and Cadillac. Anyone interested in joining what is an absolutely gorgeous club? Sorry, you have to be invited -- trying to wangle a membership is sure to get you barred.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

Thoroughly enjoyed it!

I didn't think the actual coverage was that bad - except for the interminable commercial breaks that need to be filled in by Steve Rider and Ken bloody Brown endlessly reviewing the leader board.
To be honest, one thing gets my goat is the endless BBC search for something, anything positive to say about:-
1)the British failures - in particular 'foul-mouthed oaf' and prize Caddy abuser, Darren Clarke, who "wouldn't do anything differently" - presumably, not even avoiding double bogeys.
2)the European failures - not quite so bad as the Brit failures.

Frankly, I can't see anything wrong with focussing heavily on a 25 yr-old genius who was bidding to hold all four Major Championships, plus the World Numbers 2 & 3, who were placed 2nd & 3rd - by pure coincidence? Can we really expect CBS to be following Darren Clarke around Augusta?

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

When it comes to foul mouthed caddy abusers Tigers got to be up there with the best of em!. I find his immature slamming of the putter into the green a bit annoying , at my club id be hung drawn and quartered. His shouts of "BITE BITE BITE" p*** me off aswell , doesnt he know the ball cant hear him.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

Don't think so Kennyboy. Tiger and Steve Williams have a terrific relationship.
I followed DC around for a total of four rounds at two different tournaments last year, and can tell you he is a slug with a foul dark temper.
His treatment of his caddy, Billy Foster, was despicable - actually embarrassing at times.
He was also very sly about it on a couple of occasions, smiling for the TV cameras, while almost simultaneously slagging off the caddy out of the side of his mouth. On one occasion DC had left his cigar stub by the side of the previous green, and harangued his caddie and publicly humilated him by loudly insisting he walk back and "get the f***ing thing back". Tosser!

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

Some few years back, I was caddying for a mate of mine in what was then called the Wang Four Stars Pro-Celeb at Moor Park GC and on the Saturday we were drawn to play with the Australian golfer Roger Davis and against Darren Clark and Bernie Winters.

DC was being nowty to the caddy all the way round the course then, and when we were walking down the the fourteenth he suddenly turned to his caddy and said......"if you don't get it f***ing right this time, I'll carry the f***ing clubs myself and you can p*** off" You could tell by this point that the caddy had just about had enough and when DC hit the ball straight plum bang onto the green the caddy called out, "great shot boss, now lets see you finish it without any clubs" and he went to the edge of the fairway, pitched the clubs into the River Pinn and just strode off the course never to be seen again. As they had also heard some of the stuff that was going on previously the entire watching gallery gave him a massive round of applause as he walked off into the sunset. Class revenge or what!

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

Regardless of Eldricks relationship with his caddy , there is still no excuse for the pot holes he inserts in greens and fairways, because he isnt happy with his 1" miss from 40 feet.

Why cant he be more like Ernie Els, and dont tell me you played around with Ernie :-)

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

Nah....only South African I've played against was Fuzzy Zoeller

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

Great story, ITK - fits perfectly
Just watch the choir boy, "butter would melt in my mouth" smile next time you see DC interviewed on TV, and remember it is all front - the guy is a first class sh*t. He's got a fat @rse as well!

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

I dug out my old golf bag from the attic a few weeks back, The ticket on it (for the last time I played) was dated 1987. A mate of mine who was round at the time was pissing himseld laughing at the state of my clubs. The Irons deated back to the sixties and the woods I'd replaced around 1985. I hadn't really ever been very good at the game, possibly due to the clubs I was using.

Anyhow, I've treated myself to a cheap half set of these new fangled oversized clubs. Hey what a difference they make. My best ever round in the 80s was 95 but with these new ones, after trying them out on Gosfoth park driving range I reckon I'll manage a 90 before the end of the summer. Going for my first round in 14 years on Friday.

Who else is into it?

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

Scotland rik !!

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

Rick, I reckon my clubs are older than yours - and probaly a lot dustier. I'll try my niblick for feel and give you a game whne I'm back up in NE.

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

Why not organise a BBS society golf game at one of the courses up here , Slayley perhaps? Ive been a member of gosforth for two years now and played for 3 , I play off 16 unless Im playing my cousin when i have to play of scratch. I allways thought golf was a good walk spoilt , but now I play in rain or shine Its a brill game. One minute im Tiger the next Darren Clark :-0 No big ass comments please..

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I can appreciate your sentiments on the new clubs Rik.

I boughta new full set in January and they have improved my game dramatically and I wouldn't say I'm really used to them yet.

I play off grass!!

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001