Michael Wilbon
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So, you know, not that he knew he was going to be driving it that poorly as far as accuracy is concerned.
But as long as you keep it in play a little bit and not in the pines throwing in the trees all the time, missing the fairways at Augusta aren't as penal as, say, the U.S.
Open at Shinnecock or, you know, the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale later this year or Iran to make the PGA Championship next month.
You know, as often as he did at those three majors, that's not going to work out for you.
But McIlroy's short game, his putting when he needed it.
By the way, talk about the double bogey on the first nine.
How about that putt leaving it short at one?
I thought, ooh, that's not a good sign.
He left that ball like three feet short.
At least he didn't bogey it like he did on Saturday.
The driving accuracy, Tony, was outrageous.
the second worst driver of the ball, accuracy-wise, is absolutely remarkable.
Well, what the PGA Tour does every single week and what the Masters Tournament does every single day over its four days is
is they have four par threes, and they want them to play differently all four days.
So they want you to not only play 16 par threes throughout the course of the week, four times four, but they want you to play all four of those holes in completely different fashion all four days.
So they move the hole locations around.