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3 of Shefflers wins :

The Players - (-20) 1 stroke ahead of 3 players (Brian Harmon, Wyndam Clark, and Xander Schauffele)

The Memorial - (-8) 1 stroke ahead of Collin Morikawa

The Travelers - (-22) beat Tom Kim in a playoff, 3 players finished 2 back.
 
Covid hurt golf big time. Way too many people decided to pick up the sport because it was a safe outdoor thing to do.
I never understand what would make a person want to swing it 130 times in 90 degree heat.
Makes no sense to me.
 
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So we tried the regular Callaway Chrome Soft 22 Triple Track yesterday and it seemed to be a decent mix of stopping power on the greens without much if any distance loss over the Bridgestones. She has only missed 3 fairways and not lost any balls in her first 2 tournaments and they were all barely out of the fairway. Accuracy off the tee hasn't been the issue as much as short game. Until she realizes that short game practice is just as much or more important than hitting a bucket of balls with a driver her scores are about as good as they will get I'm afraid.
 
catsfanbgky said:
I hope this is not a serious post. While Sheffler has won 6 times, there are SEVERAL guys winning / contending. A guy named Xander Schauffele seems to be doing pretty good. A host of other top players. Sheffler boring ? LOL. Maybe you meant boring with him winning so many times, but they where hardly run away wins, one was in a playoff.

How many of the top 20 ranked golfers are from the LIV tour ? If by watching guys like Mickelson and several past their prime / never was guys play is your idea of exciting, have at it. Money chasing is the ONLY reason even the best LIV players switched sides. Guys who could not win or make top money because they can't hack the PGA tour, that is LIV golf. Oh and the stupid team concept makes even more unwatchable.
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Cold Stout Beer will side with anything MAGA likes. Trump is a LIV guy, hence CSB is. He’d be pretending to love the WNBA too if Trump liked it. Par for the course.
 
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Pretty much a sham that Olympic golf has eliminated over half the field with not even 36 holes completed. Essentially pointless from this point on for those out of contention, but you get to play 36 more holes and have fun I suppose. If you're going to do golf, it needs to be a team event to at least have some resemblance of a 4 day competition.
 
It appears Cole is not familiar with how the Olympics work. There are many sports where not all the best are represented at the Olympics because of limitations on who and how many from each country can qualify. To complain about golf, which should not even be in the Olympics, is proof of your high theatre performance status in every thread.
 
CAT Scratch FVR said:
It appears Cole is not familiar with how the Olympics work. There are many sports where not all the best are represented at the Olympics because of limitations on who and how many from each country can qualify. To complain about golf, which should not even be in the Olympics, is proof of your high theatre performance status in every thread.
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It appears you are not familiar with how the Olympics work. Most every event has qualifiers to determine who will represent their country. The other events also have multiple competitions/events/medaling opportunities. If golf is going to be included, then there are massive improvements to be made, outside of just using the top 3 out of 60.

My apologies for not putting this on a more simplistic scale for you.
 
Really shocked to hear that Greenbrier Resort in WVA, owned by Jim Justice, has not paid its bills and is at the moment scheduled for public auction.

Actually, not surprised at all. At one time (may still be), Justice and his companies owed the most money to the state of Kentucky of any single taxpayer. And he is running for Senate in W Va, as a Repub, meaning he has about a 98% chance of winning. Go figure . . .
 
Sigh, can’t believe I agree with Cole but yes, a standard 4 round stroke play event is the lazy way out. Do a mixed team event one day. Then 18 hole individual stroke play, then match play for medals or something.

The canvas is wide ass open.
 
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Rahm imploding. Blew a 4 shot lead in about 5 holes.

3 straight birdies for Scheffler. Into the lead
 
Bogey for Fleetwood on 17. Has to birdie 18 or Scottie 62's a gold medal on Sunday.
 
Everyone talks about the money aspect of the game but there is no doubt this meant a ton the players. Back 9 was very entertaining and I had as much investment in Scottie winning as I would watching a major.
 
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ukalumni00 said:
Everyone talks about the money aspect of the game but there is no doubt this meant a ton the players. Back 9 was very entertaining and I had as much investment in Scottie winning as I would watching a major.
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Same here. And you could tell how dejected Rahm and Rory were.

I agree with an above poster that a team or mixed type event would add some juice here, but it’s tough to complain about how this turned out.
 
Who's the Player of the year?

Scottie Scheffler
6 PGA Tour Wins including The Masters and The Players
Olympic Gold Medal
14 Top 10s

Xander Schauffele
2 Major Wins (PGA and The Open), but no other wins
12 Top 10s
 
Great win today for Scheffler and he is obviously a very proud American. Really hope he becomes one of the all-time greats.
 
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Scottie is unreal. Just a casual 62 while everyone else imploded. Dude doesn’t know what pressure is.
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Would never had believed that Rahm, Schauffele and Rory would blow up on the back nine (Rory only on one hole, tbh), Rahm literally had it won, was -20 after the 10th hole, which would have taken Gold.

But I definitely do believe in Scheffler's 62. He has been unreal the last 24 months or so. Since Tiger, never seen anything like it.
 
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Rahm's elite game has cratered since going to LIV. I am sure the money is really nice but I bet there is a part of him that regrets leaving the PGA Tour. Scottie may end up being the best player of the post Tiger generation of golfers.
 
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ukalumni00 said:
Rahm's elite game has cratered since going to LIV. I am sure the money is really nice but I bet there is a part of him that regrets leaving the PGA Tour. Scottie may end up being the best player of the post Tiger generation of golfers.
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SS has a long way to go to catch Rory and Koepka and even DJ, but man, this has been a season for the ages.
 
1994 Bank One Senior Classic was a treat to watch....

LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 17 -- Japan's Isao Aoki, buoyed by an eagle on the third hole, shot a final round 3-under 69 Sunday to register by three strokes his first PGA Senior Tour victory since 1992 -- the $550,000 Bank One Senior Classic at the Kearney Hill Links. Aoki, who held a one-stroke lead over Jimmy Powell and Jim Albus heading into the final round, finished with a 14-under 202, one stroke shy of the tournament record set by Rives McBee in 1990.

Aoki earned $82,500 for the victory, his second on the Tour and first since winning the 1992 Nationwide Championship. Aoki grabbed control of the tournament early in the final round. Through the first two holes, Aoki held a one-stroke lead over Albus at 11-under. But Aoki scored an eagle on the par-5 third while Albus put himself out of contention with a triple-bogey 8. Chi Chi Rodriguez closed out his best performance of the year with a final round 6-under 66. He scored an eagle on the 18th to finish at 11- under 205. Jim Dent, Gay Brewer and Jack Kiefer finished tied at 207. Finishing at 208 were Powell, Albus, DeWitt Weaver and Dave Eichelberger, who won last week's Quicksilver Classic. Last year's champion Gary Player finished 13 strokes back at 215. The Kearney Hill Links is a par-72, 6,798-yard layout.
 
Anyone ever played Fox Hollow in Glasgow? Trying it out tomorrow. My course (Shady Hollow) is closed for a tournament so figured I’d try somewhere else.

Got my second under par round ever today. 70 at Shady Hollow.

Anyone played Mineral Mounds this year? Condition?
 
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PGthirteen13 said:
Anyone ever played Fox Hollow in Glasgow? Trying it out tomorrow. My course (Shady Hollow) is closed for a tournament so figured I’d try somewhere else.

Got my second under par round ever today. 70 at Shady Hollow.

Anyone played Mineral Mounds this year? Condition?
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Fox Hollow is a very solid track. You will enjoy it. Haven't played their in a couple years, if the course / greens are in good shape, I think you will really like it. Another really solid course nobody mentions, Rolling Hills in Russellville. But I did see a guy playing in gym shorts, a tank top, and flip flops one day while playing. I had to do a double take and thought "how in the hell can someone play golf in flip flops ?
TMFS.
 
Played Rising Star Casino. Course was in decent shape. Watered it well. They saved the greens by watering religiously but made them slower. Good scores can be had as usually faster.
 
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