The official start of spring is worthy of a separate thread, no?
I mentioned it elsewhere, but if you're looking to really get in the mood for the Masters, you really can't do any better than to watch old tournament footage from the final round broadcast archive recently made public. I've watched all of the tournaments between 1986 and 1991 in particular many more times than I can count, but I'm discovering all sorts of footage I've never seen from other years, and even when you know the ultimate result, watching how they get there for the first time can be amazing. The 1979 broadcast was particularly incredible for me, not least for what was surely the best-played sudden death playoff in major championship history but also for how Nicklaus played the final four holes. On 15 he laid up, sucked his third shot back off the green into the water...and made par, in a way that surely could never happen with the hole playing the way it does today. Check it out:
I mentioned it elsewhere, but if you're looking to really get in the mood for the Masters, you really can't do any better than to watch old tournament footage from the final round broadcast archive recently made public. I've watched all of the tournaments between 1986 and 1991 in particular many more times than I can count, but I'm discovering all sorts of footage I've never seen from other years, and even when you know the ultimate result, watching how they get there for the first time can be amazing. The 1979 broadcast was particularly incredible for me, not least for what was surely the best-played sudden death playoff in major championship history but also for how Nicklaus played the final four holes. On 15 he laid up, sucked his third shot back off the green into the water...and made par, in a way that surely could never happen with the hole playing the way it does today. Check it out: