Masters Made for HDTV

Masters made for HDTV?  You bet!  The Masters golf major is the best sport to watch in high definition.  The event puts your TV to the test and lets every detail and every ability of your TV shine through.  Every color pixel jumps off the screen.  Every sound, from the birds chirping to the caddies talking strategy with the golfers, to the music dancing through your sound system, the Masters was made for HDTV.

I'm old enough to remember watching 46 year old Jack Nicklaus win the Masters.  I watched it on a square non-high def TV.  It was a bit grainy and the colors didn't pop the way they do now.  But we were used to it so we did not know what we were missing. Fast forward to the early 2000's when I purchased my first HDTV and it was a plasma set.

To this day I still think the color on the old plasmas was better than the flat screens we watch today.  But I got my plasma TV in late March.  I christianed it with a Final Four and then I was blown away a week later by the detail of the Masters broadcast.  I could see every blade of grass and every grain of sand.  I'm surprised the box it came in didn't say -Masters Made for HDTV.

Another beautiful Masters is in the books and it's time for one more round of Masters Trivia on Craig Shemon and Company on ESPN Southwest Florida.

Scottie Scheffler is walking away from the Masters with the biggest winners' check ever, but how much Masters prize money did everyone make in the tournament this year?

Scheffler's 11-under four-shot win over Ludvig Aberg gives him $3.6 million of the $20 million prize pool this time around.

Last year, Jon Rahm earned $360,000 less than this year's winner, as golf starts to contend with the massive prize (and pay) pools in LIV Golf.

Both of the top golfers had huge paydays this year. Aberg will take home more than the winners from 2015 and 2016, for example.

Before the 2024 Masters even started, something about "Scottie Scheffler Masters Champion" just felt right.

He's been the best golfer in the world for a while now, and even though Rahm won it last year, you could make a reasonable case that the 2022 winner Scheffler felt more inevitable.

And so it was all about Scottie Scheffler. The most consistent golfer in the world right now did just that over four rounds at Augusta National.

And that led to a flip of last year's Butler Cabin Green Jacket ceremony. Last year Scheffler put it on Rahm. This year Rahm had to put it on Scottie.

Now he can safely get home to his pregnant wife, with a second Green Jacket to wrap his new baby in when they get here.

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