Alan Bastable

📣 In homage to (no) Masters week, I recreated the 4 most eye-popping moments in Masters history. Big takeaway for me was that none of these shots are as hard as they looked. Here’s Bubba from 2012. (Volume ⬆️) Check back tomorrow for Phil’s derring-do from 2010. #playingthrough

incredible reporting from @JoelMBeall. If ur interested in the DC muni drama, it’s all here…

golf.com/news/staff-his… Good read here. Anyone that has walked through the pro shop knows who Country is. One of the many wonderful people who work at the golf courses in the District.

here are the 11 athletes/coaches in consideration for enshrinement in Trump’s Garden of Heroes no Bryson is stunner

Spoke to operations manager at East Potomac GL this am. The @NOTUSreports scoop about Trump admin starting prep work for Tom Fazio reno job next week was news to the manager and his colleagues. Wild. This project is all happening in the shadows. golf.com/news/staff-his…

spoke to a couple of corporate M&A/restructuring smarties to better understand LIV’s potential next steps as it seeks investors golf.com/news/liv-golf-…

Only the Mets could blow this lead

fixed it

in other news, Paddy projecting 1⃣0⃣more green jackets for Rory . . . before dialing back to a more reasonable5⃣

I wrote about Rory’s parents, Gerry and Rosie, who pulled up to the Augusta National clubhouse Sunday evening as their son was making his way up 18. Here’s what that scene looked like. golf.com/news/rory-mcil…

💀💀💀 Q. Were you surprised by the green speeds today or the conditions? HAOTONG LI: Yeah, greens definitely baked out. It’s just so firm and green runs so quick. The grass are almost died actually.

earlier today i wrote about rory's only weakness through the first two rounds, and whether it might catch up to him [movie trailer voice] it's catching up to him golf.com/news/rory-mcil…

Scottie Scheffler, who has exhibited testiness with the media of late, shot a 65 on Saturday to move to 7 under. Afterward, he met with a scrum of reporters and was asked what his score could have been or should have been. "That's just a terrible question. Next question. Awful."

Enjoyed this from 2011 champion Charl Schwartzel: "This golf course burns harder than most. You know, I think there's a big discrepancy between what it gives and what it takes."

Washington Road FedEx has been overrun by Masters gnomes. Asked the attendant how many they’d shipped this week. She laughed. “Hundreds.”

Unrelatable: What Rory can do with a golf ball Relatable: What he’s streaming

Sergio Garcia's tee shot on the 11th hole on Thursday came to rest atop a repaired divot hole. He called the lie "terrible," and things spiraled from there.

Q. Bryson, can you tell us a little bit more about the process of making the 5-iron? Where was it made? Just a little bit of -- BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: That's a longer conversation. It's not for here.

An insanely detailed pencil sketch of Rory McIlroy's winning Masters moment has been making the rounds. I spoke to the artist about how he created it. "In the middle [of the process], it's just brutal. You're just like, ‘I’m tired of this thing, man.’” shorturl.at/e1T38

REPORTER: Are there any shots, any holes that you think of like, hey, I really have to dial in the mental preparation for this shot? SERGIO GARCIA: Yeah, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18.