ESPN deserves plenty of the blame, but they’re not alone.<\/p>\n
PublishedApril 10, 2026 8:29 AM EDT\u2022UpdatedApril 10, 2026 8:29 AM EDT<\/p>\n
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Welcome to Friday, at The Masters.<\/a> Can you feel it? The anticipation is building towards the weekend. We’ve got a solid leaderboard. We’ve got drama. Balls are flying left and right.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bryson DeChambeau is vigorously printing new irons as we speak as he tries to make the cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s been a wonderful Masters week thus far, and we’ve barely dipped our toe in. We still have Moving Day. We still have the final round. First, we have to cut the field way down, and we’ll do that later today.\u00a0<\/p>\n But first, before we head into the weekend and hand everything off to Jim Nantz and CBS, I have a question for everyone, because I’ve seen a TON of chatter about this.\u00a0<\/p>\n Has ESPN defiled <\/a>Augusta National? Have they officially ruined the moment? Have they destroyed The Masters, and, really, the sanctity of the event?\u00a0<\/p>\n I’d argue this has been the No. 1 topic on Golf Twitter this week, and, frankly, it’s probably a fair question after some of the crap I’ve seen:<\/p>\n ESPN and Augusta National are both to blame<\/p>\n Look, it’s been a lot. I’ll just say that. It’s been a lot. I knew the second I saw Jason Kelce on the scene, this was going to go south for ESPN, and that’s exactly what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n