what the hell is that alarm?

That was ballz by Day. Putter from that angle?

That putt by Day is the best of the tournament by far and it's six feet away from the hole.

FWIW, Azinger is full of shit. Spieth is flat out bad inside of 10'

Curtains for Spieth and Shrek blades his pitch on 17. Day is the only thing saving us from the most boring Open playoff in memory. And Day blows his pitch 30 feet by the hole. :facepalm:

Nice play, Spieth

Day didn't get the backup on that. Thought for sure that would spin back to the cup.

Nice putt, Shrek. Please, birdie the last and vanquish those two other milquetoast ****s in the PO.

Helliva pressure putt by Oost

THAT close!!! Ugh!

Short?
Hahaha gotta secure that T3

You have to hammer that putt, even if it goes six feet by. Damn, Day.

Amazing that no one can birdie this hole.

Great shot, Shrek.

What is the playoff format?

Suck it, Spieth.

Four holes: 1,2,17,18. Lowest score wins. After that it's sudden death.

1,2
17, 18

Thx guys

Leishman takes one hole to show why he doesn't belong.

ZJ gonna need that wedge now.

Hamas is correct. These guys are pretty bland.

Oosthuizen is fun at times. Johnson less so.

Leishman just ran out of gas. He played his ass off yesterday too. He was also making some pretty incredible shots. He came out of nowhere and was playing some really entertaining golf. The problem is that he just isn't quite that good and midnight was going to strike at some point.

You knew he wasn't winning a playoffs, with or without Oosthuizen.

Spieth was going to have to provide the sizzle. The damn shame of it is that ball that rattled off the stick and out. If that ball would've dropped and he followed it up with that put on 16 there's no doubt in my mind he'd have coasted in the playoff (if it even got there) and it would've been among the most legendary charges in golf history.

Instead it's just a couple of great shots that will be lost to time.

Oosthuizen can go as low as anyone on tour. He's got a near perfect swing, too.

I really hope he can make this, just to **** over Azinger for him jinxing the balls off of every one who isn't Johnson.

*Edit* Goddammit.

Boring ass plodding ****.

Credit to Johnson - he just went out there and Tim Duncan'd the field to death. That was as methodic a championship round as you'll see. I didn't stare at it all day, but I never saw him take/hit a tough shot. Then again, the course didn't seem to be lending itself to tough shots anyway. It didn't seem terribly taxing.

Great job Zach. And WOW, that emotion is nice to see...

Wonderful WONDERFUL tournament!

St. Andrews without high wind is the easiest course in championship golf. Johnson hit two poor shots on 17 and didn't really pay much of a price for them. Oosthuizen hit two mediocre shots and ended up with the same score. That's golf, though.

Seemed like all of the -9 under guys caught the course at the right time today (before the weather conditions kicked in).

Oos missed two putts I thought he'd make for sure on 17 and 18. I think he lost it more than ZJ won it. Hell, even the putt on 2 was super makeable. No choke or anything, just surprised he didn't make those. He seems like a real cool customer.

He didn't really lose it. He said himself that he hit good putts. He just misread them. He hit the ball better than Johnson in the playoff, the putts just missed.

The margin between a ball going in and out is so small if a ball is hit with good pace.

He's lost two majors in playoffs now and won another major by seven shots. He's a really good player.

I totally agree. I even said "no choke or anything." I had my $$$ on him in the playoff without a doubt. I was pretty entertained nonetheless.

It's too bad that the layout of the course doesn't lend itself to playing a par 5 and par 3, because 1,2, and 18 are too much alike. I'd rather see them go 8, 14, 17, 18. It would be a better test of a complete game rather than just laying up to a distance and hitting a wedge into every green.

Did having him and DJ play out that hole before the wind stoppage end up having an impact on the scoring? I wasn't following it that closely when it picked up and they got stuck right in the middle of the worst part of the winds. Didn't they make him put out that ball after it had been stopped for several minutes and the wind proceeded to blow it another 12 feet or so?

When you lose in a playoff, suddenly getting hung up in the elements like that on day 2 matters a great deal.

To me it makes no difference because they played in the easiest of conditions on Thursday, and that made a significantly bigger difference on scoring than them playing two holes in really tough conditions when other guys played 18 in tough conditions.

That's the only flaw with this tournament--the fields are so big that the draw ends up cutting the field in half many times. Had they let the grass play at its normal length the wind wouldn't have been an issue.

Oosthuizen was probably the best golfer over the course of the whole week because he played in the hard conditions on Thursday, whereas Johnson got the easy conditions, as did Spieth.

I was really wanting Spieth to pull it off but having Zach Johnson win was the next best thing. Go USA!

That was me today as well. Good stuff.

Spieth is shit from 4-8', ranking 169 on Tour. He does well on strokes gained for those bomb putts he keeps hitting.

Apparently 810 sports is having a golf tournament on August 10th at The Deuce. Food by Hereford House and prizes, etc, etc. Cost is $81 per person. Anybody interested in playing?

Just booked back to back rounds at True Blue & Caledonia in September. Pumped!

And she was an American Girl.....

These girls rock!

http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/EE07/produ...mcup_getty.jpg

Not enough diversity

This past Friday, I played in an industry event scratch and scramble at a country club in Germantown MD on the Potomac. All the beer and food you could drink, a margarita machine on one hole that was strong as hell, shots of oak cask whiskey and scotch on another, free Nike Windbreaker or Nike Golf Shoes, bloody marys and mimosas with breakfast, full BBQ pork dinner, free cigars, and a beautiful day....or so I thought.

I signed up as a single and they paired me with three other members. Sadly, two of the guys from one company failed to show up and me and the guy I was with spent the whole scramble hitting TWO SHOTS each holes for around 150 shots, including me warming up on the range. After nearly 6 hours on the course, I felt like a bag of jello. I wound up sleeping 12 hours Friday night, hitting the sack at around 7pm. Never again........:doh!:

Serious question, was it the walking? Let's hope 150 strokes didn't kill you.. Hell I take 3-4 warm-up swings in at the tee, and 1-2 from wherever the hell else I hit it. And I've done what you did, I was A-OK with dropping the 2nd ball at the point where the 1st drive landed.

The walking to and from the golf cart was the easy part. Practice swings are just not the same as a full shot. What else sucked was that a lot of the holes we were hitting long irons or 3 and 5 woods in addition to having to track down 3 balls after each drive and iron shot that were all over the place. It was just a lot of extra work for every aspect of what we were doing. Even trying to find a lost ball every 3-4 holes. The guy i played with was horrible from tee to green but he did most of the work on the green.

It was also hard to concentrate and focus on the greens even though each of us got two putts per hole. Also waiting 5 minutes on every shot sucked. :doh!:

I don't know if I could ever play a round of golf with you as I play fast and people who take a lot of practice swings all the time drive me crazy....

Yes you could, I walk so I'm usually faster, even if I take a few practice swings. What I can't stand are the cart types on CPO days, or even 90/degree days. I've learned one thing about walking and a GPS watch, if you know your clubs (especially the distance you lose when it's not in the fairway...) walking the line and knowing where to start looking makes it all go a lot faster.

Now I know I'm prolly the only one on the board who's not hitting fairways 80% off the tee, but a course like Adams Point is one where you can spend a LOT of time looking for a ball that's a yard off the fairway. Not because it's "tough", but because they don't mow. I've told them there's a difference, and they just laugh...

Anyway, I think we'd be just fine, I've never been the holdup.

I used to belong to a country club in New Jersey that had caddies and I loved using them to walk. If you have never played a round walking with a caddie, it's the BEST way to play!

Walking also helps you "walk" off a bad shot instead of getting in the cart and flooring it to the ball. I just enjoy it more. You feel the course and atmosphere more when you walk.

I've never done that, but I sure hope I get the chance to carry my son's bag, at some level, some day... But I do the push cart thing, and I rather like it.

Funny story, I played a round with a couple in Minneapolis in the spring and the guy in the couple is bringing 290, maybe 300. The marshal drives up and reminds us to not take the carts (with three 3-inch-wide wheels each) onto the greens. Odd because the carts were about 25' off the green and about 2' off the cart path! But big 'ol boy (a member), after a dumb look at the marshal and me, tells the marshal that's great advise because he was sure the carts would damage the greens more that his 6'2", full-figured 390lb, with size-9 shoes, might be. It was all the more funny because it was really wet that week and two green before he was mentioning that they should fill in his "feet marks" with sand and call them traps.

This just came to my attention. Nat!

Anyway I'm getting ready to go to Hilton Head in about two weeks. I'm going to play the Robert Trent Jones Course at Palmetto Dunes and also Dolphin Head which was designed by Gary Player and built back in the 70's. Maybe his first course. I'm starting to get stoked.

I loved being a caddie at 13. Learned a ton and got to play for free on Mondays!

I only really caddied once. I was spotting balls in the MGA Men's SR tournament back in the 70's. I was probably 15 or 16 years old. I'm spotting balls on 18 and the pro shouts and waves at me to come to the pro shop. I get there and he says they need a caddie. I walked golf every day so I was like Okay. Then I learn I'm caddying double. It's for two SRs on Hickory Hills CC which is long and hilly. That was a long day. In the end they paid me $8.00 each and I got a dozen balls for being a volunteer. I only lost one of their clubs so I thought I deserved a tip.

So I read this and cyphered out that for 1000 ft of elevation change there is about 1.5% difference in how the far the golf ball travels. So if I hit a 9 iron 150 yards in Springfield, MO at about 1200 ft elevation that same shot will only go 147 yards on Hilton Head Island. All other things remaining then same of course. That could be significant. Drop the temp to in the 50's and that's another half of club.

http://www.usgtf.com/articles/summer12/page33.html

Woot, playing Ironhorse tomorrow... Got the older son home from college, so the three guys are going to have a golf day at the horse! I don't think the 11-year-old will appreciate Ironhorse, but what the hell, he's nothing but awesome at golf (he's earned it).

Amazing places to eat on and near HH. We go every spring for 2 weeks.

Just found out that I'll be witnessing the USA defeat at the 2016 Ryder Cup in person...

:thumb:

Pretty stoked. Have Saturday and Sunday tickets.

I've been to the Masters, and now a RC. Probably the end of my Major Golf Event travel - maybe I'll get lucky and a US Open will get close to STL. British Open is a pipe dream.

Could give two shits about the PGA.

LMAO

Not been to any major, but if I could go to one, and only one, it would be the British Open.

Hell, I'd just love to play a round with one of the world's top golfers. I've played with some folks who are close to scratch golfers from the blues, and it's pretty amazing to watch!

So have a great time, it sounds like a billion pounds of fun!

So we're going to be headed to Florida for a work deal next week/weekend, gonna get to play the Stadium Course at Sawgrass I think.

Over under on how many balls I put in the drink on 17?

I'll set it at 2.

0.5. It's probably a pitching wedge to a wide green for you and you're a scratch golfer.

Well, with the new little one, i haven't gotten to play much the past few months.

I'd guess I'm a 4 or 5 right now, tops.

I took advantage of the weather and hit the range today. It felt good to be back out there.

Been to a couple of US Opens and got to watch an epic US Saturday and disaster US Sunday at the RC @ Medinah

You'll love the RC atmosphere though. There's a lot more noise and intensity. It's much different from a major, in a good way.

I'll be there as well. Lets get together for beers?

I'm also gonna get to witness Augusta National this year.

Such an awesome and beautiful place....bitch of a course to walk though lol.

72 degrees here today, the sticks are coming out. The grass won't be green but my younger son and I will be cutting-up some non-green fairways, and denting some (hopefully) green greens...

Woot!

I'm going in 15 min Glory. How can anyone not golf on a day like this

Enjoy, guys. Great day for it.

How did you do at TPC Sawgrass? :hmmm:

Sounds like you have had a full plethora of great courses you played over the years. I used to be a 7.8 handicap when I lived in CA but over the last 15 years I play less and less, have gained weight, and probably are around a 22-25 because I never practice plus out of shape.

I want to retire in Scottsdale and play 4 days a week.

I was at the 100th US Open and that was really good

I did a Senior US Open at Ridgewood NJ with Nicklaus, Palmer, and Player. Trevino did not play.

I also did the Dean Witter Memorial Tournament in Columbus Ohio and had to pass on a chance to play one hole with Jack Nicklaus after the tournament.

Played pretty well, for not having played much this year. I was even par thru 12 holes, kind of fell apart late, ended up shooting 77.

Played from the tips as much as we could, some of the back boxes the tour guys play aren't available all the time.

Played Teetering Rocks today. Not very impressed with the course. Weather was fantastic today. I think the course may be more fun the second time as I have an idea what the holes are like now.
For a person playing it for the first time, the design is ****ing awful.

10-4. It was awesome, and even golfed on my flip-flops... Wow, that's awesome!

IDK man, I love that place. Yes, the second time will prolly help, but get a GPS watch and 1st-time courses become a lot less impossible. The cliff hole (as my son calls it) is fun, and I really like the back 9 when you're teaching a 9-year-old how to play.

So play it again, it's not pricey, and it should be better.

7,400 or more from tips? That's a long course with water.

Great score but it sounds like you shoot in the low 70's to high 60's often.

Was the course in good shape?

Ever play Troon North or Greyhawk or the Boulders or Raven at South Mountain or Gold Canyon or any other great Phoenix/Scottsdale course?

We figured we played it about 7100 from the tees we played.

It was in good shape, but my experience with most TPC courses is they get alot of play for being TPCs. Sawgrass was probably the best one I've played, but I think Southwind in Memphis is the toughest.

I've never played any in arizona, have heard good th8nk about Troon though

I'll probably give it a shot again later this year, but I lost a bunch of golf balls today on shots where I had no idea where to aim.

There are a lot of free golf GPS apps for your phone that should help you out....

This too is true...

Nut I'm a day who's gone through one son learning the game, and I'm on son #2. Son #2 is pretty darn good for being 11 years old, started just after his 9th birthday, but we're still hitting $0.50 golf balls off Amazon.

And it's worth every cent. Heck, every .243 round he shoots is $0.62, so losing a few fiddy-cent golf balls on golf day worries me little. Yeah, we're gunna start reloading! Add to it the cost of hockey gear and the gas I put into the truck for him playing Hockey now, and it's hardly a thought...

Sure wish I could have got out today. To much work to do outside the house to pass up the chance unfortunately.

Anyone ever hang out over here? http://www.thehackersparadise.com/forum/

Yeah, I had to keep the boys today as the wife had a work functiin.

We got to hang out outside all day though so that was nice

So Day threw up a 63 at Sawgrass yesterday. Thats just a ridiculously good score on a really tough course.

There were quite a few 65's so it was playing pretty easy yesterday, but still, damn.

Shouldn't you be recommending needless root canals on teenagers to pay for your mistress's cocaine addiction or something instead of watching golf?

/s