OT: Official Golf Thread - 2025

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The game in question was on Sunday, April 13, 1969.

It was an afternoon game in Montreal and on a Sunday which was unheard of back then because CBS was showing the game in the US.

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CBS gave the game a 3-hour window which would be fine UNLESS the game went into OT.

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At 4 PM CBS was going to some golf tournament in Georgia........

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The Celtics PLAYOFF game with New York was aired on TAPE DELAY on FM and this was the last year of the Russell dynasty and they were an afterthought to the Bruins and Red Sox.

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The Masters to this day tells the network (CBS) what to do and when. The number of commercials is limited and the sponsors must be approved by Augusta National.

The Masters was to start at exactly 4 PM and CBS would not even attempt to ask Augusta National if they could stay with hockey past 4 PM. CBC had the same problem as they also had an ironclad contract but at least in Canada, they had French SRC still carrying the game. The Hab's Mickey Redmond scored at 3:58 PM after a very questionable penalty to Boston's Ted Green. Red Fisher of the Montreal Star found out later the officials were told by Clarence Campbell the game needed to be over by 4 PM or there would be problems.

BTW tapes exist of all the other games in that series but not Game 2.

I heard the story that night at the Metro Bar at the old Sheraton Mount Royal Hotel from CBS people who were there after the game. The bottom line was both CBS and CBC were going to golf at 4 PM. CBC was seething that the game was in the afternoon but even then the NHL would sell its soul to be on US television. Ironically this happened a few months after the infamous Heidi game on NBC.

Augusta National is the ultimate secret club and its members control commerce in North America. There is no application process, they invite people to join and if you lobby in the media that you would like to be invited you will never get the invite.


The only good memory of that night was the bartender took pity on us young Bruins fans and gave us tickets to the baseball game the next afternoon. It was the very first Expos home game.



 
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And then he makes the dumbest decision of his career to turn a very gettable par 5 into a 3 shot hole, and butchers the 3rd shot to end up with a double bogey on a hole he absolutely should have been on the green in 2. This might become one of the most epic collapses of all time
If Rory loses this tournament, its gonna be because of his Wedge play today. He's been all over the place inside of 120yds. I've never seen anything like it....Started at 1 and continued through 18.
 
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So happy for Rory, if he had lost that one, it would have been hung around his neck the rest of his career.

So very happy for him. Kid hit some amazing shots, and some unbelievably bad shots
 
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So happy for Rory, if he had lost that one, it would have been hung around his neck the rest of his career.

So very happy for him. Kid hit some amazing shots, and some unbelievably bad shots
Yeah. His reaction at the end said it all. He had the weight of the world on his shoulders today, ESPECIALLY after 13 and 14. I'm really happy for him.
 

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