Okay, here is a place for the Golfers to talk about tournaments, clubs, swing help or thoughts.
Today is the Players Championship, which I think ought to be the 5th Major. Largest pot in the PGA. The daunting 17th, which seems to bring excitement every year. At least we will get to see Sergio blow up yet again.
Originally Posted by suzzer99:
Guan gets first slow-play penalty in a major since 2004.
John Paramour is probably old enough to remember yelling at 14-year-old Chinese boys to hurry up laying down that railroad track. Instinct just kicked in.
Originally Posted by MahiMike:
Yeah the kid DOES play really slow but damn, he's just a kid. Hope he makes the cut.
Part of you feels bad because he's a kid, but slow play is an epidemic and it's one of the things that causes declining participation in golf; furthermore, it's absolutely pathetic in junior golf. Far too many hackers labor over each shot as though it's the 72nd hole of the US Open, and it's largely due to glacial cocksuckers like Jim Furyk, who's never seen a 14 inch putt he wouldn't back off of.
Threesomes should not take six hours to play a round of golf...ever.
Throw a clump of grass up in the air, look at the trees, pick a club and pull the fucking trigger. It's called Ready Golf. [Reply]
They could have called that penalty so many times on so many guys over the years (and didn't) that it's hard to get it now. If Guan misses the cut over that (and it looks like he very well could depending on how Tiger finishes), it will kind of suck. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
They could have called that penalty so many times on so many guys over the years (and didn't) that it's hard to get it now. If Guan misses the cut over that (and it looks like he very well could depending on how Tiger finishes), it will kind of suck.
Well, he's safe, but that's immaterial. Golf is a sport that is supposed to exist without gray areas. As bullshit as it was, the ruling against Craig Stadler using a towel years back was correct.
They need to be far more militant in enforcing slow play penalties because it absolutely ruins the game.
I can go out and walk 18 and play in three hours without rushing over shots, but because hackers see the pros do it, they start plumb-bobbing straight two footers, stepping off of shots, and taking five practice swings.
They're going off his presser where he said he dropped 2 yards back, but looking at the replay, he's within 2 feet of where his first shot was. [Reply]