1. Masters ratings are in

• “CBS Sports’ telecast of Sunday’s final round averaged a 3.4 TV rating and 5.59 million viewers, according to Sports Media Watch. That was down 51% in ratings and 48% in viewership from Tiger Woods’ epic victory in 2019.”

• “Dustin Johnson’s first Masters win generated the lowest-rated Masters Sunday since the pre-Arnold Palmer days of 1957, and the least-watched final round since that number started being tracked in 1995.”

• “CBS’ Sunday Masters coverage was still the highest-rated and most-watched golf event of the year thus far, beating the 3.3 rating and 5.15 million average viewers for the final round of the 2020 PGA Championship won by Collin Morikawa in August.”

2. The pain of being a diehard Rory fan

• “That’s the problem, of course. Not that he never had it, and not even that he had it and lost it. It’s that he had it, and only kinda lost it.”

• “When you combine his former glory with his personality—the following words have been written so much that they’re practically a cliche, but Rory is very intelligent and introspective by golf standards—it makes this shadow phase of his career, in which he is neither superlative nor merely good, tough to bear. To vanish for a period of years, as Spieth has, or as Martin Kaymer or countless others have done, is understandable. Golf is a hard game, and a psychological game, and even its great players are prone to disappearances and burnouts. But to seemingly lose about 7% of what made you great, and for that 7% to starkly redefine your professional experience for six years and counting, has to be the sharpest form of frustration. It is for his fans, at least—clearly, we still hold a torch. But for every late charge, for every “Rory comin’!” .gif, there’s always that errant shot to scuttle the fantasy, always that Thursday 75 to make the gap just a little too large.”

3. DJ’s plan

• “He’s got Johnny Miller career numbers now. If he maintains his drive and his health, it could be a Tom Watson-type career (39 Tour wins, seven majors).”

• “I feel like I’m not going to dial anything back. I feel really good about everything that I’m doing. I feel really confident in the golf game,” Johnson said. “I want to – my goal is to play for about, I don’t know, keeps getting shorter, but eight, nine, maybe 10 years, and then hang out with my kids and [fiancé] Paulina [Gretzky].”

• “So until then, I’m going to work my butt off to be as good as I can.”

4. How Dustin got it done

• “Johnson was long off the tee and accurate into the green, yet he still had to make putts and that’s an advantage he has never really taken during his career so far. Augusta’s putting surfaces are undulating and typically lightening fast. Bringing even the best putters in the world to their knees. Johnson has always been a streaky putter but his performance at Augusta was sensational. For the week, he had just a single three putt. He made all of his putts of six feet or less. He gained strokes putting for all distances less than 15 feet.”

5. The final word on Tiger’s Masters (and unfortunately that word is “pogostick”)

• “But having the raw materials isn’t enough. So much needs to go right for Woods to win these days. The course needs to be right. He needs to be on the right side of the draw. He needs to have four good body days in a row, which is far from a guarantee. And he simply cannot afford to have a disruption like the thunderstorm that delayed play on Thursday morning. With the shortage of daylight in mid-November, that three-hour delay meant Woods was going to have to play more than 18 holes on Saturday. The way it worked out timing-wise was awful: He had roughly an hour break between the last eight holes of his second round and the first hole of his third round—too much time to keep the foot on the gas, not enough time to do a full reset and restart the multi-hour process he needs to warm his body up.”

• “Woods emerged from the clubhouse looking stiff as an old rusty pogostick, and that was that.”

7. Cabot to build B.C. resort

8. (Way too) early look at 2021 Masters odds

• Dustin Johnson +600
• Rory McIlroy      +850
• Bryson DeChambeau      +850
• Justin Thomas                 +900
• Jon Rahm           +900
• Brooks Koepka                +1300
• Xander Schauffele          +1500
• Patrick Reed      +2300
• Patrick Cantlay                +2300
• Collin Morikawa              +2800
• Hideki Matsuyama          +2800
• Tony Finau         +2900
• Bubba Watson                +2900
• Tyrrell Hatton                  +2900
• Webb Simpson                +3000
• Matthew Wolff               +3500
• Jason Day           +3500
• Daniel Berger    +3500
• Tiger Woods      +4000