Absence of the Masters has left us green with envy

Golf fans watch on the par three 16th hole during a practice round for the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., on April 4, 2011.You may be familiar with the colour green, but you haven’t really seen it until you’ve been to the Masters.

Saturday storylines at Augusta are predictable – the top guy who’s never won it and is in the pack; the nobody who’s leading after 36 holes; Tiger Woods.The weather in Georgia is a few weeks ahead of us up here. As a kid, my clearest memories of the Masters are those pan shots across the course that lead you into and out of ad breaks. Often, they’d focus on a dewy bush or give you close-ups of hundreds of feet in motion across the walking paths. It’s not exactly Kubrick-level camera work.

Temperamentally, I have strong mole-like tendencies. I like being indoors, wedged into small spaces with my back against a wall . This is I assume why people go there. It can’t be to watch golf. Most sports are better on television than they are live, but golf is functionally impossible to watch in person. The golfer takes a shot, which lands out of your range of sight. Would you pay to watch hockey if you never got to see if the shot hit the net?

The viewing auditorium looks like a NASA control centre, but with nicer wood finishings. There are massive windows fronting it, which look out onto the driving range. Someone is cleaning those windows every minute of the day. It was the feeling of being at sports. That moment when you come out of the darkness of a concourse, the aperture of your internal lens widens abruptly and the full glory of a playing field hits you. For urbanites, it is the ultimate experience of being outside.

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