Hidekis tour de force, Billy Hos masterpiece, and contender/pretender for Sunday

Published: April 11, 2021, 12:47 a.m.

A lively virtual Bixby House results in this punch-drunk Masters table-setter for Sunday. Andy and Brendan react to that outrageous inward 30 from Hideki Matsuyama, but not without first pondering a preposterous rules hypothetical related to JT. Then they run through the leaderboard with a manichean contender/pretender judgment for each player. Two of the four players at 7-under are dubbed pretenders, while the head and the heart battle for a Spieth assessment six shots back. Jose Maria\u2019s valiant fight is praised. \xa0Billy Ho\u2019s absolutely ridiculous circus act is re-told, with a full notebook of details on the hole-by-hole indignities (pardon our language but it\u2019s not ours, it\u2019s his). They close with their picks to win and some rambling about a section of the English language that befuddles Andy.