Masters Online: Featured Group Coverage?

After reading Ed Sherman's point about ESPN's coverage window likely not capturing Tiger's return in its entirety, I tried to recall if the recent online coverage that has included Amen Corner Live and 15/16 coverage, also included 18-hole "Featured Group" coverage? Anyone recall? I'm drawing a total blank.

Of course if there is a featured group and it's Tiger along with the unfortunate chaps paired with him, I don't see how the already fragile (but greatly improved) online coverage will have the capacity to handle the number of viewers.

Update on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 08:12 AM by Geoff

**I woke up and had a brilliant revelation: go to Masters.org to answer this question!

It was Masters Live I was thinking of and it was only an hour of bonus coverage.

Comments

[Fred]

No it hasn't. Not for the Masters.

[Russell]

Surely a live SportsCenter special can be negotiated for his first couple of holes at least...if only to discourage a TMZ or Radar from getting any ideas about an exclusive hidden camera/microphone webcast. Someone's probably got the number of unique page views needed to cover the rights violation lawsuit worked out in their heads already!

[M]

Masters online coverage was first Amen corner, then added 15&16 then added 1 hour pre-tv tv coverage. They have never done a feature pairing for 18 holes.

[Tim in Hoylake]

Perhaps mistaken with BBC; they do a featured group or two option on their feeds during the Open.

[AA]

Not being able to air all of Tiger's holes in his first round back would have to go down as the biggest mistake in television since inventing the stupid machine!

[thusgone]

bad idea. it endorses the notion that tiger is bigger than the masters. while this may in fact be true, i'm not ready to swallow it.

[jjshaka]

Maybe ESPN can torture me even more than they already are going to with their Woods slobber-a-thon and assign Chris Berman or Stewie Scott to follow him.
It would be like Fantasy Gitmo camp.

[d.b.cooper]

If Berman and his buffoonery ever gets involved with the Masters then I just totally give up.

[Boyer]

"Many will now appreciate the delicious irony of a black man who is said to have slept with lots of white women now using what was reputed to be a bastion of racism (and which doesn't have a female member) to protect himself."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10633323

[hottestgolfnews]

Masters as the biggest event in golf should have full 18 hole coverage all 4 days

[Derek]

Augusta is doing featured group coverage

http://www.masters.com/en_US/about/schedule.html

if you click on the individual days, it seems as if the window will allow coverage of 2 groups. Probably Tiger and Phil's groups