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it may be the air/sky or something but the camera work following the ball on the coverage this morning is not good
 

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First time really watching Champ. He goes driver, 8-iron to 15 feet on a 560 yard par 5. Ok then. Hit is drive 360, 50 yards past JT.
 
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His swing is literally perfect. He's the new age prototype.
 

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Was watching a bit of the Saudi International this morning. Haotong Li made 4 eagles in his round, 3 of which were on par 4’s. Wild.

And apparently Sergio got booted for “serious misconduct on the course”
 

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Was watching a bit of the Saudi International this morning. Haotong Li made 4 eagles in his round, 3 of which were on par 4’s. Wild.

And apparently Sergio got booted for “serious misconduct on the course”
2017 Masters champion suffered the ultimate sanction by the tour after damaging multiple greens in frustration during his third round. Players in the groups immediately behind García are understood to have voiced their upset after being forced to encounter this spoiled turf.

García, who is no stranger to fits of pique on the golf course, had narrowly made the Saudi cut following rounds of 69 and 70.

Saturday saw him sign for a 71, one over par, but he was duly called before European Tour officials after details emerged of clubs being smashed into putting surfaces on several occasions. The tour duly took the highly unusual step of implementing their rule 1.2a which permits disqualification for cases of “serious misconduct”.

In a statement, García said: “I respect the decision of my disqualification. In frustration, I damaged a couple of greens, which I apologise for, and I have informed my fellow players it will never happen again.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/02/sergio-garcia-disqualified-saudi-international-smashing-greens-golf
 

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Been a great 1:1 interview with Johnny Miller now on morning drive at the 16th green. Just a good conversation about his career and being on tv and golf. Some great questions from the guy interviewing him (who I don’t know his name) and it got pretty sentimental too.

I’m far from his biggest fan, but I’ll admit I’ll miss him on tv.
 

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Been a great 1:1 interview with Johnny Miller now on morning drive at the 16th green. Just a good conversation about his career and being on tv and golf. Some great questions from the guy interviewing him (who I don’t know his name) and it got pretty sentimental too.

I’m far from his biggest fan, but I’ll admit I’ll miss him on tv.
I've never understood the Miller hate. Sure he can be a smug asshole and has lost a bit of his fastball, but he was as good as it got (outside of Ken Venturi) during his heyday. If you paid close attention, you could learn a lot from Miller during the broadcast, the guy knew how to play.

I'll miss him, for sure.
 

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Yeah, I’m going to miss Johnny.

This is shaping up to be a great weekend. Fantastic leaderboard, great course and especially the closing holes.

It would be pretty funny if Fowler won Johnny’s last event.
 
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Good question. I’d guess he wanted to stop after last season but they tried convinced him to do 1 last event and the compromise was 1 round.

We really dodged a bullet with Leonard. He is terrible.
 

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This was a dumb rule.
I don’t even understand the point of it. They went for simplification (which I like) then made this Rule way more complicated for no real reason I can see.

In other news, Rickie is locked in right now.
 

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I tuned in at the tail end of the conversation and interview with Slugger or whatever his name is. What's the rule they are talking about? What happened?
The rule where caddies couldn’t stand behind the player. Denny McCarthy got a 2-shot penalty yesterday. He took a stance while the caddie was behind him, then the caddie moved and McCarthy backed off and reset before playing the shot. They rescinded the penalty today. Apparently JT was involved in a similar incident today that did not result in a penalty, but they haven’t shown it on the broadcast.
 

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16 gets all the hype but the 17th hole at Scottsdale is the best on the course.
 

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Bones is really really good as an on course guy. Right blend of knowledge, humor, and insight.
 

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Fowler left the door open on the front 9 but JT and Kuch couldn’t do anything either. Hard to see him blowing this now.
 

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He got a penalty for it. Wow. He’s got like 20 feet for a quad.

He made the putt. Final verdict is that was a triple. Broadcast is confused. 3rd shot in the water, relief was 4th shot, 5th shot was the ball rolling into the water, 6th on the green and then made putt.
 
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This is crazy. Apparently he got a stroke back too?

I didn't see how he ended up in the water originally... he chipped in?
He chipped in, dropped, then it rolled in so had to take a 2nd drop. Cost him one stroke in the end.
 

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I’ve never seen that.
I’ve seen balls at rest roll into a hazard. Which is weird, but ultimately understandable. But I’ve never seen a ball that was placed after taking relief from a hazard, rolling back into the same hazard.

That’s simply awful luck.
 

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Now that he is 30 Is this the year that Rickie’s no wins at majors becomes a big story at every major or does that still only get casually mentioned? Seems like a good, likable guy and he is a very very good player but his record at majors and Ryder cups speaks for itself. The guy hasn’t been a closer in the biggest stage. Maybe he gets one and then goes on a run like Phil did but for the amount of attention the guy gets you’d expect there to be more big wins on his board.
 

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It is already a big story. He’s also 1-6 with 54 hole leads. That talk won’t go away.

Too bad Johnny isn’t doing this round.
 

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It is already a big story. He’s also 1-6 with 54 hole leads. That talk won’t go away.

Too bad Johnny isn’t doing this round.
Yep, ironic that yesterday was Johnny's final round, and he left with Fowler having a huge 54 hole lead. I'll bet one of the last things Miller said when he left yesterday to those around him was something like "I'll bet Fowler gives it away tomorrow."
 

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The PGA Tour always has a few players who are very good at making lots of money but don't win as much as you would think they would given how often their name is on the leaderboard. Rickie looks a bit like one of those guys. $34M in earnings, 4 wins, 0 majors.

He hasn't loaded up on John Deer Classic wins, fwiw. A pair of his wins were at plus events. Quail Hollow wasn't slouchy either but I'm not sure the deep field shows up for it.