The Masters Leader Board
With the planes, boats and trains all gone from Augusta leaving the lucky few Media hackers who won the Friday lottery to play the course set up just like the pros, I was scrolling through the final leaderboard and had these thoughts.
Scottie Scheffler : great news for the rest of the tour, "golf will now become my 4th priority" with wife Meredith expecting any day.
Ludvig Aberg : buoyed by his dream week 2nd place debut, the sky is the limit for this Swedish phenom
Bryson DeChambeau : T6 will now return to obscurity on the LIV, looked like he's grown up a little.
Tyrrell Hatton : T9 despite himself
Adam Schenk : T12 great week for this good guy and his emotional wife fulfilling their dream
Patrick Reed T12: never saw him, never want to..
Matthieu Pavon : T12 as his fairytale rags to riches story on PGA Tour continues
Rory McIlroy : T22 Rory was not the Story, as his Grand Slam quest continues..
Corey Conners: T38 had his moments early, but nowhere near his last 3 top 10's
Adam Hadwin : T53 at +12 just got blown off the course like many on Friday...
Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka : both T45, non factors, adios back to LIV...
Dustin Johnson : +13 over 36 holes MC, what ever happened to this world #1
Tiger Woods : Nice to see the legend, made the cut, but 82 Saturday, finishes dead last 60th
State of the game : In January we thought the talks between PGA Tour/ LIV might resolve the new normal for the state of the pro game by this week at Augusta. Rahm signing for $35,000,000 with the Saudi's did not sit well here, and the investment of $1,5 billion by the ultra wealthy men led by the Fenway Sports Group has silenced the need for any new world order.
The LIV will continue with their product in relative obscurity, former household names, stalwarts of this game happily playing their funky 54 hole team game amongst themselves for the endless generosity of their Saudi masters.
Meanwhile the beat goes onward and arguably upward for the PGA Tour even without Tiger, with more than enough stars, money, guaranteed TV contracts and sponsorship, to make moving to LIV just seem like it was and is, an easy format and pure greed.
Bryan Angus
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