Good morning, Hoddlers! I am a bad Hoddler because I keep forgetting that I need to actually write the Hoddle. This is why I am in awe of Fitzie, Pardeep, Salmon Chase, Vince, and all the past Hoddlers for churning out content like this on a strict schedule every day. I run the damn blog and I can’t manage to do that.
Anyway, did anyone else watch the Masters final round yesterday? I have a complicated relationship with the Masters. It’s indisputably the best major golf tournament, but it’s hampered by its past — I can see behind the thin veneer of Augusta’s beauty and note that it did not allow Black members until 1990 and women members until 2012!
Unfortunately, it’s still a compelling golf tournament, and yesterday Rory McIlroy did something incredibly difficult — he won his 2nd green jacket in a row by a stroke after carrying a two shot lead into the 18th. I’m not really a golf fan and don’t have a favorite player or anything, but I like watching Rory play — he was just a machine on that last round, and watching him celebrate after tapping in the winning putt was really really cool. My dumbest golf take is that if you win your second Masters, you get green pants instead of a jacket, and you’re forced to wear them anywhere you go in public.
Anyway, it was a close finish with a number of players finishing within a shot or two of McIlroy, and that makes the tournament much more fun.