Playoffs? Playoffs.

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In todays email:

• Doin Lines Update

• Golf Fact: Masters Edition

• Flashback Friday

• Shots Heard Round The World

• A Watch

Update: Dell Matchplay

Thank you to the fine folks over at Golf Channel for putting together a summary of Dell Matchplay, so that we didn't have to, because it's freakin chaotic!

Here it is, group by group:

GROUP 1: Scottie Scheffler (2) vs. Tom Kim (1); Alex Noren (0) vs. Davis Riley (1)

• If Scheffler wins or ties, Scheffler advances.

• If Kim and Riley each win, it will force a three-way playoff between those two and Scheffler.

• If Kim wins and Riley ties or loses, it will force a playoff between Scheffler and Kim.

• Noren is eliminated.

GROUP 2: Jon Rahm (1) vs. Billy Horschel (1.5); Keith Mitchell (0.5) vs. Rickie Fowler (1)

• If Horschel wins, he advances.

• If Horschel ties and Fowler wins, it will force a playoff between those two.

• If Horschel ties and Mitchell wins or ties, Horschel advances.

• If Rahm and Fowler each win, it will force a playoff between those two.

• If Rahm wins and Fowler ties or loses, Rahm advances.

• Mitchell is eliminated.

GROUP 3: Rory McIlroy (2) vs. Keegan Bradley (1.5) Denny McCarthy vs Scott Stallings

• Rory advances with a win or tie

• Keegan advances with a win

• Stallings and McCarthy are eliminated.

GROUP 4: Patrick Cantlay (2) vs. Brian Harman (2); K.H. Lee (0) vs. Nick Taylor (0)

• The winner of the Cantlay-Harman match advances. A tie would force a playoff.

• Lee and Taylor are eliminated.

GROUP 5: Max Homa (2) vs. Hideki Matsuyama (1); Kevin Kisner (0) vs. Justin Suh (1)

• If Homa wins or ties, Homa advances.

• If Matsuyama and Suh each win, it will force a three-way playoff between those two and Homa.

• If Matsuyama wins and Suh ties or loses, it will force a playoff between Matsuyama and Homa.

• Kisner is eliminated.

GROUP 6: Xander Schauffele (2) vs. Tom Hoge (0); Aaron Wise (1) vs. Cam Davis (1)

• If Schauffele wins or ties, Schauffele advances.

• If Schauffele loses, he can still advance if Wise-Davis tie.

• If Wise wins and Schauffele loses, it will force a playoff between those two.

• If Davis wins and Schauffele loses, it will force a playoff between those two.

• Hoge is eliminated.

GROUP 7: Will Zalatoris (0) vs. Ryan Fox (1); Harris English (1) vs. Andrew Putnam (2)

• If Putnam wins or ties, Putnam advances.

• If Fox and English each win, it will force a three-way playoff between those two and Putnam.

• If English wins and Fox ties or loses, it will force a playoff between English and Putnam.

• Zalatoris is eliminated.

GROUP 8: Viktor Hovland (0) vs. Chris Kirk (0.5); Si Woo Kim (2) vs. Matt Kuchar (1.5)

• If Kim wins or ties, Kim advances.

• If Kuchar wins, Kuchar advances.

• Hovland and Kirk are eliminated.

GROUP 9: Collin Morikawa (1.5) vs. Jason Day (2); Adam Svensson (0.5) vs. Victor Perez (0)

• If Day wins or ties, Day advances.

• If Morikawa wins, Morikawa advances.

• Svensson and Perez are eliminated.

GROUP 10: Tony Finau (2) vs. Kurt Kitayama (1); Adrian Meronk (1) vs. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (0)

• If Finau wins or ties, Finau advances.

• If Kitayama and Meronk each win, it will force a three-way playoff between those two and Finau.

• If Kitayama wins and Meronk ties or loses, it will force a playoff between Finau and Kitayama.

• Bezuidenhout is eliminated.

GROUP 11: Matt Fitzpatrick (1) vs. Sahith Theegala (0); Min Woo Lee (1) vs. J.J. Spaun (2)

• If Spaun wins or ties, Spaun advances.

• If Lee and Fitzpatrick each win, it will force a three-way playoff between those two and Spaun.

• If Lee wins and Fitzpatrick ties or loses, it will force a playoff between Lee and Spaun.

• Theegala is eliminated.

GROUP 12: Jordan Spieth (1) vs. Shane Lowry (0); Taylor Montgomery (2) vs. Mackenzie Hughes (1)

• If Montgomery wins or ties, Montgomery advances.

• If Spieth and Hughes each win, it will force a three-way playoff between those two and Montgomery.

• If Hughes wins and Spieth ties or loses, it will force a playoff between Montgomery and Hughes.

• Lowry is eliminated.

GROUP 14: Tyrrell Hatton (0) vs. Russell Henley (1); Lucas Herbert (2) vs. Ben Griffin (1)

• If Herbert wins or ties, Herbert advances.

• If Henley and Griffin each win, it will force a three-way playoff between those two and Herbert.

• If Griffin wins and Henley ties or loses, it will force a playoff between Griffin and Herbert.

• Hatton is eliminated.

GROUP 15: Cameron Young (2) vs. Sepp Straka (0); Corey Conners (1) vs. Davis Thompson (1)

• If Young wins or ties, Young advances.

• If Young loses, he can still advance if Conners-Thompson tie.

• If Conners wins and Young loses, it will force a playoff between those two.

• If Thompson wins and Young loses, it will force a playoff between those two.

• Straka is eliminated.

GROUP 16: Sungjae Im (1) vs. Tommy Fleetwood (0.5); J.T. Poston (2) vs. Maverick McNealy (0.5)

• If Poston wins or ties, Poston advances.

• If Im wins and Poston loses, it will force a playoff between those two.

• If Im ties or loses, Poston advances.

• Fleetwood and McNealy are eliminated.

Notes

💰Shanks Picks Update💰

Max Homa +2000: 2-0

Jason Day +3300 2-0

Sahith Theegala: Eliminated

Tyrell Hatton: Eliminated

RICKIE FOWLER +5000 STILL LIVES

We recommend seeing how the chaos of today plays out, and then making more bets once the last 16 are finalized today. Please gamble responsibly. lol

Golf Fact: Masters Edition

Record holders: Jack Nicklaus holds the record for most Masters wins, with six titles between 1963 and 1986. Tiger Woods holds the record for the lowest 72-hole score, finishing 18-under par in 1997. Jordan Spieth matched this score in 2015.

Flashback Friday

Dare we honor LIV Golfers here? Yes, we dare. In 2012, Louis Oosthuizen hit this absurd albatross in the final round. Unfortunately for him, Bubba Watson hit an even more absurd shot to win it all. Just the kind of sh*t that happens Masters weekend.

*Fun Note from a commenter*

Louis threw his ball into the crowd when he walked off the green. The guy who caught it was immediately approached by a member, invited up to the clubhouse and asked to name his price. He exchanged it with Augusta National for four weekly lifetime passes for the tournament and a round on the course after to the following years tournament. The ball now sits on the wall of the clubhouse with the other three that have been made in the Masters.

Golf Shots Heard Round The World

• Tom Watson is building a course right near Augusta.

• Rory hit one of the best drives you will ever see yesterday. 

• An online golf community is buying a Scottish Links.

• Hole 13 at Augusta is MUCH more difficult this year.

For The Group Chat

Golf Thing We'd Buy If We Weren't Broke

This is one of those times where I thought “hey, that’s a cool thing. I wonder if I should add this to my golf collection” and saw the price tag and wanted to jump off a bridge. This watch from TAG Heuer is so unbelievably sick (and $2,650) and I have no idea in what world I think I’m living in, where this could be in my price range. Even the advertising is suupppeerrrr dope.

This watch, is like an Apple Watch on juice, it tracks heart rate, has a compass, an accelerometer (is this a thing?), gyroscope (like the Greek food), NFC (ok this is football), has a microphone (watch your language), and barometer (finds the… nearest bar?). It also comes with an exclusive TAG Heuer Golf app to track your performance on over 40,000 golf courses. Also I hear you can use this thing to tell the time.

Here’s a side-by-side comparison between this watch and others.

That's all folks! See you Monday for a recap of the weekend.