OutKick⁠97%

Patrons Hit The Deck As Jack Nicklaus Yanks Ceremonial Masters Tee Shot ⁠76%

By Zach Dean⁠88%

4/9/2026, 12:51:07 PM

Topics: Golf

BS Summary: This article contains 26 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 69.1% saturation with 277 hits. Analysis detected 1,057 faulty-reasoning hits from 401 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠76% (5,209 of 21,188 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.40% of the article peer group.

It's Thursday, at The Masters. 
The best five words in golf, baby! 
We are BACK. 
Augusta is open for business, The Masters is underway, and all is well with the world. 
The forecast looks great all weekend. 
Jim Nantz is at the ready after having a few months to reset after 22 straight weeks of Tony Romo. 
It's just a beautiful time of year. 
The unofficial launch of springtime. 
Sure, it technically started a few weeks ago … but did it? 
I don't think so. 
In my mind, spring hasn't sprung until Jack Nicklaus tees it up at Augusta, and hits the ceremonial first shot to start the tournament. 
Just a nice, easy, beautiful ball right down the middle of the fairway. 
The Golden Bear never misses! 
Absolute stripe show every time. 
… I said EVERY TIME! 
Jack Nicklaus at 86 is better than anyone else at 86 
One of us! 
One of us! 
One of us! 
For starters, how good does Jack Nicklaus look for 86? 
I'd KILL to be hooking shots into the pines at 86. 
If that's the case, I've done something right. 
I have my doubts, though. 
Look, it's not Jack's best, but it's probably his most relatable. 
We've all been there before, especially with an early tee time. 
Those are the worst. 
I've long said that I'm an afternoon golfer. 
I despise rolling out of bed and having to hit a golf ball. 
It's miserable. 
One time, I had an especially early tee time whilst on vacation in St. 
Augustine. 
The sun hadn't even come up fully yet. 
I stepped up to the first tee, still half-asleep (hungover), and shanked one so violently to the right, that I nearly took out a little girl who was there with her class on a trip. 
They were all on the putting green, which was to the right of the tee box, and I nearly sent her to the hospital. 
I was so scarred, I don't think I hit another shot until the turn. 
It was miserable. 
Anyway, I say all that to say this … Jack Nicklaus yanking one into the woods at 86 and nearly decaptiating someone is more impressive than anything any other 86-year-old on the planet will do today. 
Get that man a breakfast ball and get him back in the fairway, stat! 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 15.0%Zach Dean: 3.9%Outkick: 8.8%Confirmation Bias15.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.7%Outkick: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 23.9%Zach Dean: 4.9%Outkick: 5.3%Availability Heuristic23.9%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.9%Outkick: 2.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.7%Outkick: 1.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 2.8%Outkick: 6.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 3.0%Zach Dean: 4.9%Outkick: 12.5%Framing Effect3.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.4%Outkick: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 1.0%Outkick: 1.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 2.0%Zach Dean: 0.4%Outkick: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect2.0%This article: 5.5%Zach Dean: 2.1%Outkick: 4.4%Optimism Bias5.5%This article: 4.2%Zach Dean: 1.9%Outkick: 2.5%Pessimism Bias4.2%This article: 2.2%Zach Dean: 11.4%Outkick: 12.8%Negativity Bias2.2%This article: 4.7%Zach Dean: 1.1%Outkick: 3.2%Self-Serving Bias4.7%This article: 2.7%Zach Dean: 1.8%Outkick: 3.2%Fundamental Attribution Error2.7%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.4%Outkick: 0.6%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 8.5%Zach Dean: 2.1%Outkick: 5.1%In-Group Bias8.5%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 1.2%Outkick: 2.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 7.7%Zach Dean: 4.3%Outkick: 5.2%Halo Effect7.7%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.5%Outkick: 1.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.0%Outkick: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 2.5%Zach Dean: 2.8%Outkick: 3.4%Recency Bias2.5%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.8%Outkick: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.2%Outkick: 0.4%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 3.8%Outkick: 4.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 1.0%Outkick: 2.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 2.7%Zach Dean: 2.0%Outkick: 3.6%Appeal to Authority2.7%This article: 2.7%Zach Dean: 1.6%Outkick: 2.3%False Dilemma2.7%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.7%Outkick: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.2%Outkick: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 12.5%Zach Dean: 9.0%Outkick: 11.5%Hasty Generalization12.5%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 1.0%Outkick: 1.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 1.7%Outkick: 2.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 17.7%Zach Dean: 7.2%Outkick: 10.0%Appeal to Emotion17.7%This article: 3.0%Zach Dean: 0.6%Outkick: 1.7%Begging the Question3.0%This article: 2.0%Zach Dean: 2.4%Outkick: 2.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)2.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.2%Outkick: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.3%Outkick: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.1%Outkick: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 2.7%Zach Dean: 0.1%Outkick: 0.3%Composition/Division2.7%This article: 34.7%Zach Dean: 3.5%Outkick: 4.3%Anecdotal34.7%This article: 6.0%Zach Dean: 0.2%Outkick: 0.4%No True Scotsman6.0%This article: 7.0%Zach Dean: 2.2%Outkick: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)7.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.0%Outkick: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.1%Outkick: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.6%Outkick: 0.7%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.4%Outkick: 1.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.2%Outkick: 0.7%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 2.3%Outkick: 2.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 9.0%Zach Dean: 1.1%Outkick: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection9.0%This article: 69.1%Zach Dean: 19.6%Outkick: 18.0%Biased Writer Voice69.1%This article: 9.0%Zach Dean: 2.4%Outkick: 2.4%Indoctrination9.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 0.1%Outkick: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zach Dean: 2.3%Outkick: 2.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 3.5%Zach Dean: 1.9%Outkick: 0.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…3.5%

401 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker5.0%attributed speech381writer words
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Selected voice

Jim Nantz

0%flagged-word coverage
20 attributed words100% of attributed speech92% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Biased Writer Voice-72.7 ptsWriter: 72.7%Jim Nantz: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-9.4 ptsWriter: 9.4%Jim Nantz: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-9.4 ptsWriter: 9.4%Jim Nantz: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -3.7 ptsWriter: 3.7%Jim Nantz: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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