This yr marks the primary time the Masters might be broadcast dwell and unique on Fox Sports activities, out there on Kayo Sports activities and Foxtel. Full broadcast particulars right here.
AUGUSTA, GA — The Brisbane Broncos are flying within the NRL, which makes Cam Smith the happiest golfer in Augusta.
If he’s not getting ready for or enjoying in tournaments, Smith is watching, listening, studying and devouring information of his beloved Broncos, and it’s a on condition that if he’s at house in Brisbane at any stage throughout an NRL season, he’ll be entrance and centre at Suncorp Stadium to observe the boys in motion.
The 2022 Open champion has struck up fairly the friendship with Broncos skipper Adam Reynolds, to the purpose that the pair of them go working collectively within the low season to arrange for his or her respective campaigns, which brings us to Reynolds’ present hamstring harm.
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Not solely is Smith not frightened in regards to the brief time period setback to Reynolds season, he freely supplied the thought that his low season coaching associate solely strained his hamstring “as a result of he’s making an attempt to maintain up with me”.
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There are such a lot of acquainted elements of Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership, from Amen Nook to the Sunday pin location on the par 3 sixteenth to the long-lasting clubhouse that has stood on the property from a time lengthy earlier than the concept of a golf course was ever thought-about.
You may add the Butler Cabin to that record, even though the one place you may see the basement room the place the inexperienced jacket is first offered to the Masters winner is on tv.
Tens of 1000’s of Masters patrons will stroll previous the cabin each day this week, however most likely don’t realise that the white constructing located adjoining to the follow placing inexperienced and the Tenth tee is the situation the place that ceremony takes place.
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Each golfer, regardless of their capability or lack thereof, has imagined sitting within the Butler Cabin, being interviewed by CBS host Jim Nantz, and having the earlier years champion slip the inexperienced jacket over their shoulders, so it was fairly the ‘pinch me’ second when Fox Sports activities golf analyst Paul Gow and I had the possibility to not solely document a bit to digicam within the cabin for the Masters protection, however to additionally sit in entrance of the hearth adorned with the portrait of Augusta Nationwide co-founder Bobby Jones.
Alas, no one appeared to measure us up for a inexperienced jacket.
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This yr’s Masters marks the seventieth yr because the match was first broadcast on tv, and it’ll come as no shock that instances have modified within the enviornment of beaming footage of the well-known course world wide.
Removed from the everyday TV compound you discover at most main sporting occasions world wide, the aim constructed ‘Content material Centre’ is so giant that it sits in it’s personal precinct throughout the street from the golf course itself, and homes the entire worldwide broadcasters who’re on-site to host their very own presentation of the Masters.
The common NRL or AFL sport requires only one Outdoors Broadcast truck to supply the protection you get pleasure from at house – for this week there are an unimaginable 22 broadcast vans parked within the Content material Centre.
It’s on a degree that makes this occasion really feel just like the Olympics of golf.
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Wednesday is Par 3 Match day on the Masters, and the 9-hole course that winds it’s method round two tranquil ponds at Augusta Nationwide has change into one thing of a celebration for the households of gamers who’re just one sleep away from the intense motion starting.
The occasion at all times offers a handful of holes-in-one, nevertheless it’s the gamers’ youngsters, dressed up of their mini white overalls identical to the caddies put on, who steal the present and supply lots of the smiles and cheers that emanate from the gallery.
One of many loudest roars of the afternoon got here when Shane Lowry’s daughter, Iris, holed a slippery downhiller for birdie on the fifth inexperienced.
Her soar for pleasure was price a inexperienced jacket in itself.
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Adam Scott is aware of what it takes to win the inexperienced jacket, his victory in 2013 making him the one Aussie to assert the title, and lining up for the twenty fourth time at Augusta Nationwide you’d suppose he’d know each blade of grass and all of the locations the place you simply can’t miss the inexperienced with an method shot.
Chipping hasn’t at all times been Scott’s robust swimsuit, so it should have been music to his ears when enjoying a follow spherical with legendary Spaniard Jose-Maria Olazabal a few years in the past, when the two-time Masters champion supplied this tip about how one can greatest method saving par from off the inexperienced.
“If I can putt it, I putt”, stated Olazabal, who like the good Seve Ballesteros, was famend for his tender fingers across the inexperienced.
Now that’s music to the ears of each hacker who begins to tremble simply on the considered having to nip a pitch off a decent lie!