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With The 2024 Masters finally arriving, not just the golf world but the entire sports world has their eyes fixed on Augusta National Golf Club to see if the #1 player in the world Scottie Scheffler can win another green jacket, to see if Tiger Woods’ body will hold up through brutal weather in the Southeast and if he can capture lightning in a bottle one more time, and the storylines go on and on and on.
Annie Agar used her ‘team meeting’ format that she’s been so successful with on social media during the NFL season and applied it to The Masters.
Everyone in the golf world and at Augusta caught strays from Annie Agar but man, Rory McIlroy really took it on the chin when she basically explained that a $100 bet on Rory McIlroy is a guarantee that you will lose $100…
For anyone thinking the Rory McIlroy criticism isn’t warranted, let me show you this list compiled by Jamie Kennedy of every Major Championship winner in Golf since Rory McIlroy last won a Major Championship:
• Jimmy Walker
• Zach Johnson
• Jason Day
• Brooks Koepka (x5)
• Henrik Stenson
• Jordan Spieth (x3)
• Danny Willett
• Justin Thomas (x2)
• Sergio Garcia
• Patrick Reed
• Dustin Johnson (x2)
• Francesco Molinari
• Tiger Woods
• Gary Woodland
• Collin Morikawa (x2)
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Phil Mickelson
• Jon Rahm (x2)
• Shane Lowry
• Hideki Matsuyama
• Matt Fitzpatrick
• Cam Smith
• Scottie Scheffler
• Brian Harman
• Wyndham Clark
This was Annie Agar’s first video (on YouTube) in over a month. She nailed it and that’s no surprise. Over 90% of her videos are gold.
Agar’s Masters video got me thinking though about how The Masters maintains such a level of prestige over other sporting events and how at least some small part of that is due to the fact that influencers and content creators cannot film anything on the Augusta National GC grounds. They have the most perfectly curated image of any sporting event and golf club on earth because the public sees only what they allow. It’s incredible, really.