Masters trivia you can’t get anywhere else

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Categories: Miscellaneous • PGA Tour

Did you know that the microphone used in the Masters press room is an ElectroVoice ND-408? It’s a dynamic supercardiod (narrow pickup pattern) instrument microphone. It’s designed for musical instruments. The coil in the microphone contains a neodymium magnet which has a very high charge and thus makes the microphone very sensitive.

Bet you didn’t know that…

By the way, I own 5 of them.

Phil Mickelson Wins 2nd Masters, 3rd Major

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf • The Masters • Tiger Woods
Tags: Fred Couples • Masters Tournament • Phil Mickelson • Rocco Mediate

Alternate titles:
“If Freddy could putt, he might have a 2nd green jacket”
“If Tiger could putt, he might have his 5th green jacket”
“The ‘Phil Slam’ is only two major wins away”

Phil Tiger Masters Remember when everyone called Lefty “The best player to not have won a major?” Those days are long gone.

Phil took his TWO drivers and won is 2nd Masters with a well played 69. There’s a rumor floating around the web that one apparently isn’t on the USGA conforming list. More info on that later. His only bogey of the day was on 18 when it didn’t matter since he had a 3 stroke lead.

Nuggets

Rocco Mediate was in the hunt until he carded a 10 on #12 en route to a meltdown 80.

Fred Couples was very close to winning and would have been the oldest Masters champ had he done so. If only he could have made some putts today he and Eat would be happy.

Press Room

Press to Fred Couples: “Is there an optimum age for golf”
Freddy: “For Tiger it’s 16 and on…”

Press to Phil: “What do you think of the lengthening of Augusta National”
Phil: “I like it.” DOH!

Press to Phil: (paraphrasing) “Like Arnold and Jack you are trading Masters championships with Tiger.”
Phil: (paraphrasing) “I’m not interested in trading.”

Masters Final Leaderboard

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Categories: Pro Tips

Pos	Player Name First/Last	Scoring			Rounds				Total Score
Pos	Player Name First/Last	Today	Thru	To Par	1	2	3	4	Total Score
1	Phil Mickelson	-3	F	-7	70	72	70	69	281
2	Tim Clark	-3	F	-5	70	72	72	69	283
3	Jose Maria Olazabal	-6	F	-4	76	71	71	66	284
3	Retief Goosen	-3	F	-4	70	73	72	69	284
3	Tiger Woods	-2	F	-4	72	71	71	70	284
3	Chad Campbell	-1	F	-4	71	67	75	71	284
3	Fred Couples	-1	F	-4	71	70	72	71	284
8	Angel Cabrera	-4	F	-3	73	74	70	68	285
8	Vijay Singh	-1	F	-3	67	74	73	71	285
10	Stewart Cink	-2	F	-2	72	73	71	70	286
11	Mike Weir	-2	F	-1	71	73	73	70	287
11	Miguel A. Jimenez	E	F	-1	72	74	69	72	287
11	Stephen Ames	+1	F	-1	74	70	70	73	287
14	Billy Mayfair	E	F	E	71	72	73	72	288
14	Arron Oberholser	-1	F	E	69	75	73	71	288
16	Scott Verplank	-1	F	+1	74	70	74	71	289
16	Geoff Ogilvy	-1	F	+1	70	75	73	71	289
16	Rod Pampling	E	F	+1	72	73	72	72	289
19	Nick O'Hern	-1	F	+2	71	72	76	71	290
19	Stuart Appleby	-1	F	+2	71	75	73	71	290
19	David Howell	E	F	+2	71	71	76	72	290
22	Darren Clarke	+5	F	+3	72	70	72	77	291
22	Robert Allenby	-1	F	+3	73	73	74	71	291
22	Davis Love III	E	F	+3	74	71	74	72	291
22	Mark Hensby	+2	F	+3	80	67	70	74	291
22	Jim Furyk	+3	F	+3	73	75	68	75	291
27	Adam Scott	-1	F	+4	72	74	75	71	292
27	Carl Pettersson	+1	F	+4	72	74	73	73	292
27	Padraig Harrington	+2	F	+4	73	70	75	74	292
27	Shingo Katayama	+2	F	+4	75	70	73	74	292
27	Ernie Els	+4	F	+4	71	71	74	76	292
32	Brandt Jobe	-4	F	+5	72	76	77	68	293
32	Thomas Bjorn	-3	F	+5	73	75	76	69	293
32	Zach Johnson	-2	F	+5	74	72	77	70	293
32	Ted Purdy	-1	F	+5	72	76	74	71	293
36	Rocco Mediate	+8	F	+6	68	73	73	80	294
36	Rory Sabbatini	+2	F	+6	76	70	74	74	294
36	Tim Herron	+4	F	+6	76	71	71	76	294
39	Justin Leonard	-1	F	+7	75	70	79	71	295
39	Ben Curtis	+1	F	+7	71	74	77	73	295
39	Jason Bohn	+2	F	+7	73	71	77	74	295
42	Larry Mize	E	F	+8	75	72	77	72	296
42	Luke Donald	+2	F	+8	74	72	76	74	296
42	Rich Beem	+7	F	+8	71	73	73	79	296
45	Olin Browne	+2	F	+9	74	69	80	74	297
46	Sergio Garcia	+1	F	+10	72	74	79	73	298
47	Ben Crenshaw	+7	F	+12	71	72	78	79	300

Masters Sunday Modified TV Times

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Categories: PGA Tour

Extended Television Coverage Announcement: The conclusion of Saturday’s third round will be broadcast live on USA Nework beginning at 8:00am Sunday morning until its completion. The CBS broadcast will begin at its regularly scheduled time of 2:30 p.m.

Better check your TIVO settings….