POLL RESULTS: Is The Masters Overrated?
- Updated: April 2, 2019
Is the Masters overrated? A while back, one of our Twitter followers suggested this notion which took us by surprise … so we decided to ask you guys. Over 600 people voted and the results are in:
Is the Masters overrated?
— Two Inches Short (@TwoInchesShort) March 6, 2018
An overwhelming 95% of you said no it isn’t as expected. But there was 5% of you that think it is.
We have to be honest, some of the rhetorical questions made us laugh like “is this a serious question?” Yes, it was because we were genuinely curious about what people thought.
The Masters is the gold standard for how to run a golf tournament and yes, the traditions are literally unlike any other, but at the end of the day, isn’t that what it is? Just a golf tournament?
What Does A Real Golf Writer Think?
So we decided to ask an expert. Golf.com’s Alan Shipnuck’s was kind enough to respond to our question in one of his famous mailbags … and he articulated it perfectly:
Of course it is. It is merely a golf tournament, while the hagiographers and sycophants among us treat the Masters like an orgasmic religious experience. The treacly piano music, the silly old traditions — I mean, who really likes or cares about pimiento cheese? — the stupid code words that must be used, the worshipping of the white-washed good old days…it’s all a bit much.
This week’s #AskAlan, with riffs on Tiger’s World Ranking, PReed’s clothes, fan phones, how overrated the Masters is, the difference between a pitch and chip, Vijay as Prez Cup captain (lol), and Cink vs. Casey – who’s the bigger buzzkill?https://t.co/Jo5ybzUCsm
— Alan Shipnuck (@AlanShipnuck) March 16, 2018
The course has been diminished, too. (I was thunderstruck by the anecdote in Bamberger’s recent Nicklaus story in GOLF Magazine that Billy Payne was unaware that the playing characteristics of the Old Course inspired Augusta National, but this indifference to strategy and design by a recent chairman explains a lot.)
All that said, it’s still a helluva golf tournament. The course is undeniably beautiful and exciting, the fan experience is the best in sports, the finishes skew toward the thrilling. Overrated that it might be, the Masters is still great.
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!
Do you think the Masters is overrated? Let us know. We’d love to get your take!
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