Maybe he'll WD with back spasms or allergies.

Last year's Masters has "do not erase" status on my DVR so every once in awhile I'll replay those last few holes. There are a lot of great touches:

- COME ON AUSSIE...that may be the best spontaneous celebratory response I've ever seen in any sport
- Cabrera hitting that shot after having to watch the Scott celebration take place right in front of him
- his son caddying for him
- both playing the 10th hole better than anyone had played it in a playoff prior in the history of the event
- the Cabrera thumbs-up after the Scott shot
- the Scott thumbs-up in response...it was a little stiff but you could tell he was a stress case given the circumstance and having a whole continent sweat him
- as they both walked to the 10th green after hitting those shots the entire gallery surrounding the green gave them a long, loud standing ovation, a show of appreciation to both for their level of play
- all of this happening during a sustained rainfall

That said, I doubt in my lifetime I will ever see another event like 2011 with so many possible winners at the very end, so have to give that the nod. The only knock is that it was over once Schwartzel hit the green on 18; it didn't come down to a must-make winning putt or a playoff as it seemed destined to do.

Welp.

I think his WD reason is simply 80.

Did he WD? I was gonna get out there at 7:50 tomorrow and watch his group (DJ, Rory, Donald). Group immediately after them on same tee isn't bad, either. Sergio, Spieth, Stricker.

This trend of guys shooting bad rounds and WD'ing needs to stop.

Yep. People buy tickets based on who has "committed" to a tourney and playing 1 round then leaving isn't really a commitment.

you mean shrek.

the original oosty.

Damn, Peter really let himself go. I had no idea he used to look like that.

yes, i think peter led the masters in the early 1970's one year when he was very young (and looked it)

QFMFT. The slow play thing is bad enough, WD'ing sets an even worse example for kids.

withdrawing after a bad first round used to be much more prevalent -- one response the tour came up with was to disqualify a player from some year-end awards (e.g., vardon) if they had any withdrawals

plus these days you have to have a valid excuse for the withdrawal

by the way, one of jack nicklaus's early faux pas was a withdrawal from a pga tourney after two rounds when he was an amateur when he had a chance to win

My understanding is that this is only true if you withdraw mid round, such as Rory (toothache, lol) or Phil last week with his oblique injury.

If you complete the round and then decide to pull out, you don't have to provide a reason. This makes the recent withdrawals of Bubba and DJ after opening rounds in the 80s all the more suspect. As far as I know DJ has not given a reason for the WD, nor does he have to.

C'mon King James, don't leave people hanging like that.



This is the ass DJ is doing rails off of:



The rest of her pix here:

http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2...otos?slide=15#

Sergio is due for a win on this side of the pond. He's been playing well for a while now and doesn't get mentioned enough as one of today's elite.

Paulina looks like she would break in half if she took a big swing with that club.

Do you think she actually exercises, or is it mostly just starving herself?

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

Was out there today from about 8:30 until about 2:30. Beautiful day but very, very windy. I'm surprised the announcers keep talking about ideal scoring conditions right now. It was windy as **** out there. At least 3 club wind into their face on hole 18, which is a beast without wind. Rory blasted a low baby draw into the wind on 18 that made me jizz. Unreal how the ball comes off his driver. I saw Sergio got in at -12 and the wind got worse as the day went on and I figured nobody would get close to him by the end of today. We'll see.

I followed Rory and Luke from holes 13-18 then 1-7 then sat back and watched the Sergio group for their final few holes. Then sat in the stands behind 1 green and watched about 4 groups come through before heading out.

Rory hit a bad drive on one hole (I actually saw his ball in just about the same spot last year) and had a tree between him and the hole and he walked up to his ball and uttered "nice shot... Jesus..." about 5 feet away from me. lol. He then tried to blast a low cut under the tree and blasted a limb and came up well short of the green.

To nobody's surprise, when they hit drivers, he was between 20-50 yards longer than Luke Donald. He murdered a drive on a par 5 50 yards by Luke and had an iron into the par 5 but he didn't draw it and landed in the short-side greenside bunker.

First shot I saw him hit was on 14 a par 3 204 yards a bit downhill. He hit a ridonkulously-shaped ball that drew perfectly from the center of the green toward the tucked flag on the left side of the green. The group ahead all appeared to be in the bunker.

The thing that sucked about following Rory and Luke was that there was a lot of waiting around because obviously they were stuck behind threesomes and DJ withdrew. I was talking to some guy next to me and he said Dustin Johnson once withdrew from a pro-am he was playing with that guy's dad.

Man these guys are good. Sergio was wearing purple pants and a white shirt and looked flashy as hell. He hit his tee shot on par 3 9th and some fratboi types called over to him "I'm loving that color" and he turned his head up and away and kinda winced. lol.

Luke Donald and Henrik Stenson both finished bananas and chucked their peels into the tall grass.

Heard some crusty white patron walking by talking about the LPGA tour and he said "If you go to the LPGA all you see is lesbians and Japanese players." I can only assume he meant Koreans but he probably just calls all "those people" Japanese. STRAIGHT WHITE POWER. I think I saw that guy in the stands at Straight Dave's Heterofest.

It's like breaking putts. The more wind, the better the chance that a bad shot will get blown in the right direction.

Oh yeah more lines through the wind.

Might be windy to ARC, but wind does not affect tour players near as much as amateurs.

BO

Lol "Japanese players", I'm surprised he didn't think they were Chinese.

Probably a solid move to bet on Sergio to contend then flame out some time in the last 9 holes at Augusta this year. Has to be some money in that play.

I don't know where a 3-club wind on a course with a ton of water is "ideal". I saw all kinds of players coming up short all day long. I think it had some effect.

The course is generally a pretty good scoring course for the Tour, though, so even with a lot of wind it's not going to look like Doral or something ridiculous.

good update ARC

Yeah, this. I enjoyed your write-up ARC. Thanks for sharing.