What a tournament! Rory is now in the record books forever. What's next? How many majors?

Let’s share some of the best(worst) shots to look up on The Masters app this year

I’ll start.

Potgieter - Hole 1 - 3rd shot. Blade Runner

Fore Please! If you're like me, watching through work and can't hold your takes in any longer - don't! Send them here.

Early thoughts:

• I can't express how much I love seeing Jose Maria at -2 and Potgieter at +9 through 11. Not that I'm rooting for the Poty to play poorly, just that it demonstrates what makes this place awesome. Ballspeed is not a one size solution.
• 3 is playing spicy already.
• A lot of people are missing putts inside 5'.

Hello FEGC,

I created a league on the Masters website for anyone looking to join. This is completely casual and there is no money on the line. I'm really enjoying the One and Done league and I thought this would be a fun complement to it this week. Feel free to pass this along to anymore who might be interested!

https://www.masters.com/en_US/fantasy/?leagueId=30358&leagueJoinToken=2aeebe2398

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/john.cusick/viz/PGA_Signature_Events/EventPeformance

Sponsors get their first win of 2026

*based on Fedex points

This might be a stupid question, but I'm going to ask because I don't know answer.

Re Brian Rolapp's scarcity plan, why does he believe that is the path to previously unrealized financial benefits and a higher profile for the Tour?

The Tour may save operational money by eliminating tournaments but it seems to me its TV contracts are based on the abundance Rolapp wants to eliminate. The Cognizant might not attract a great field, but it did attract 2.5 million viewers for NBC. That's a number networks will pay real money for, especially in this day and age.

I'm skeptical that only playing 27 tournaments (give or take a few) is suddenly going to lead to dramatically higher TV audiences and rights fees for the tour.

Getting ahead of this before next week. I have lived here 17 years and do not remember drought conditions this bad. Over/under 2.5 rounds with preferred lies despite historic drought.

From today's SGS, via Michael Wolf aka BamaBearcat:

Masters Fun Fact: Augusta National almost had a 15 story tall radio tower on the property. Before Bobby Jones acquired the Berkman family estate, the property was briefly owned by Perry Stoltz. Stoltz was in the process of developing a string of resorts across the SE United States when he acquired the Augusta land. Each resort would have included a golf course and 15 story hotel with a large radio tower on top. Stoltz’s plan was to link together the towers at each resort to create one of the countries first radio networks. 

Hey everyone, after listening to the latest podcast where they were talking about old courses that used to host the Honda got me thinking, what are some courses from the past you would want to see back on tour? Could be good, bad, crazy, wacky, or all of the above haha. I wasn't a huge golf course fan back in the day so my opinions are pretty limited, but feel free to chime in!

https://x.com/mattracquet/status/2025970938014003309?s=20

Thought this was a great post, about the loss of variety in professional tennis driven by a combination of technology and playing surface homogenization. Don't really have a ton to add except that it feels like every part of this applies to the PGA Tour and professional golf.

Sorry to overlay this with a new post, but here's the latest iteration (with enhancements!).

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/john.cusick/viz/PGA_Signature_Events/Summary

The AON's are outperforming the Sponsors through 2 events.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/john.cusick/viz/PGA_Signature_Events/Summary

If there's a better way to post this, please let me know.

Lastly, thanks for the shoutout on the pod PJ!

It is a good thing the Tour's schedule changed. Puerto Vallarta is on lockdown over some major cartel activity. Vidanta has been between Riv and Palm Beach the last 2-3 years.

A question for Joseph LaMagna, or anyone else who can break down analytics. What were some key analytics for Morikawa that made him able to win at Pebble this year? This could be against the field this year, or compared to his own play from past years.

Fascinating survey and extremely cool project that the TFE Coop was able to pull together. Would be fascinating to see if types of survey takers tended to rate certain tiers/players differently - thinking do the current pros give their fellow players more/less slack in ranking someone like Brooks or Spieth, versus the broadcasters or caddies.

Was there a clear grouping of folks who took either the “Big Hall” or “Small Hall” approach with tier rankings (voting for more players in tiers 1/2, fewer up top, or more of an even spread)?

What is more likely moving forward?

AK wins a major

AK on the 2027 Ryder Cup Team

AK on lunch with the boys