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Mike EhrmannWhile golf fans keep their fingers crossed for a November Masters, it's difficult to keep their spirits high during what would have been Masters week. But we here at Golf Digest and The Loop have done our best to fill this void with content ranging from Masters Rewatches to Masters Rankings to Masters Debates to Masters Did You Knows. We even ran our own Masters simulation to see who would have won this year's tournament. But you don't need to be good at math to predict a lot of things that would have been happening on Day 1 at Augusta National. And no, I'm not referring to the dent I would have already made in the media center's chocolate-chip cookie supply.
1. People would be bitching about TV coverage not starting yet.
A tradition unlike any other, even good friends who are big golf fans will text me around noon on Masters Thursday saying, “WAIT, WHY ISN'T IT ON TV YET?!” Should it be on TV by then? Of course, but that's not how it work..

Mike EhrmannCharley Hoffman putts on the 13th green during the first round of the 2019 Masters.Augusta National is paradise to golf fans, but paradises aren't immune to the pandemic. This week was supposed to be Masters week; that week will now be in November. A fall stroll down Magnolia Lane will be majestic in its own ways should that come to pass, yet there's a palpable void without the sweet tones of Dave Loggins and gratuitous azalea panoramas.
But while the coronavirus canceled our rite of spring, Golf Twitter's spirit is a bird that cannot be caged. Which is why social media stood up in one voice on Thursday and shouted, “You may take our Masters, but you can never take our Charley Hoffman jokes!”
Hoffman, of course, is the affable PGA Tour pro who's enjoyed a solid career, with four Tour wins and more than $28 million in earnings over 398 starts. But when it comes to the first round of a major, especially the Masters, Hoffman transforms into 2000 Tiger Woods..

To be clear, nothing can fill the void in this week's TV schedule with the Masters being postponed. Not the re-run of Tiger Woods winning last year that CBS will air on Sunday or even Netflix's spectacular docuseries, “Tiger King.” But an entertaining combination of the two caught our attention on what was supposed to be Day 1 from Augusta National.
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Check out this fantastic Tiger Woods-Tiger King mashup that will really hit you right in the feels:
https://twitter.com/DrewFranklinKSR/status/1248058813971861510
Absolutely beautiful. And Am I crazy, or does Joe Exotic really bring it on those vocals?
Anyway, well done, Drew, and thanks for that. We just hope you don't get sued like, well, Joe Exotic.
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Raise your hand if you're missing baseball. Yep, that's what we thought. Pretty much the whole room. Spring baseball and fall baseball are the best baseball and this year we're getting robbed of at least half by the COVID-19 pandemic. We're missing the hot dogs and homers, the beers and bombs. Hell, we're even missing the bad stuff too. What we wouldn't give to watch Joe West toss a manager out for arguing his own blow call right now. The good news, however, is that no matter how alone you might feel drifting through your meaningless, baseball-less void, you are anything but. Just take this lengthy reddit thread weird baseball fields that popped on r/baseball this week as proof of we are all together on this giant spinning Rawlings in the sky.
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