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 BWillie:
Guy misses every green. Makes pars. I want to see ball striking succeed.
I find it interesting that a guy who has been caught cheating by improving his lie multiple times somehow always has a great lie when he's missing fairways in 4+ inch rough. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
I find it interesting that a guy who has been caught cheating by improving his lie multiple times somehow always has a great lie when he's missing fairways in 4+ inch rough.
I don’t follow the PGA all that close outside of the big tournaments and didn’t realize he had a this history until now. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Miles:
I don’t follow the PGA all that close outside of the big tournaments and didn’t realize he had a this history until now.
He was also kicked off his college team for stealing and cheating.
Peter Kostis made news for talking about it earlier this year:
"I’ve seen Patrick Reed improve his lie up close and personal four times now. But putting…. You can go on YouTube. It’s the only time I’ve ever shut McCord up, he didn’t know what to say when I said ‘the lie that I saw originally wouldn’t have allowed for this shot.’ Because [Reed] put four, five clubs behind the ball, kind of faking whether he’s going to hit this shot or hit that shot – and by the time he was done, he hit a freaking 3 wood out of there. Which, when I saw it, it was a sand wedge layup originally, right?"
He caught a penalty for improving his lie in a waste area last year here:
His relationship with his parents is completely toxic. He even said he'd have them thrown out of a tournament if he knew they were there early in the round.
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
He was also kicked off his college team for stealing and cheating.
Peter Kostis made news for talking about it earlier this year:
"I’ve seen Patrick Reed improve his lie up close and personal four times now. But putting…. You can go on YouTube. It’s the only time I’ve ever shut McCord up, he didn’t know what to say when I said ‘the lie that I saw originally wouldn’t have allowed for this shot.’ Because [Reed] put four, five clubs behind the ball, kind of faking whether he’s going to hit this shot or hit that shot – and by the time he was done, he hit a freaking 3 wood out of there. Which, when I saw it, it was a sand wedge layup originally, right?"
He caught a penalty for improving his lie in a waste area last year here:
His relationship with his parents is completely toxic. He even said he'd have them thrown out of a tournament if he knew they were there early in the round.
By most accounts he’s a loathsome person.
That’s a bit of a bummer about him. I know a fair number of members of his local club and they always have good things to say about him but easy with limited interaction. [Reply]
One of the guys I play with a lot played at South Carolina collegiately. Still is a stick, really good player. He played with matt kuchar a lot when he was at Georgia tech. Interesting to hear him talk about how the guys who were the best players in college generally aren’t the ones who made it on tour. A lot about luck and development I guess [Reply]
I don't know if I can watch the final group much today. Two weird swings that are not really nice to watch. One guy just tries to gorilla it on every swing and the other guy has a really awkward twitchy forward press or something combined with a funky takeaway and rerouted swing. The Gorilla vs Twitchy. [Reply]
One of the guys I play with a lot played at South Carolina collegiately. Still is a stick, really good player. He played with matt kuchar a lot when he was at Georgia tech. Interesting to hear him talk about how the guys who were the best players in college generally aren’t the ones who made it on tour. A lot about luck and development I guess
I mean the guys who are good enough to make the PGA (or even Nationwide) are probably at that level by their middle college years if not earlier. Wouldn't you rather get paid to play golf rather than pay tuition to play? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower:
I mean the guys who are good enough to make the PGA (or even Nationwide) are probably at that level by their middle college years if not earlier. Wouldn't you rather get paid to play golf rather than pay tuition to play?
Some are but not most.
The biggest breaking point on it is always cash. It costs a fuck load to go out and try to make it. Most of those guys who are that good aren’t paying tuition anyway and the amount of experience they get in college without having to be paying for it is worth it.
It’s a lot different that the other sports. Very few if any guys come out and are ready to do it halfway thru college. [Reply]
