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Old 04-13-2025, 09:28 PM
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While I really enjoyed watching the Masters today, I was taken back by their score keeping technology. The most prestigious and, possibly, the richest tournament in America was using scoreboard technology from the 1940’s at best. Having worked the Arnold Palmer for a few years and have seen that tournaments with large screen electronic updates, I was surprised to see the mechanical updates to the scoreboards at Augusta.

In spite of all that, I was really torn between seeing Justin Rose, or Rory win the tournament. What a display of what it means to be a gentleman. Of course, they both came from the UK. And this is from a true blue American, though I am not sure that my great grandfather was a legal immigrant.
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