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Byrdbrain

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I saw his index history posted on twitter, he was a 9.0 in December then went to over an 11 in January and played at something like a 10.6 index getting 13 strokes
It didn't have individual scores but a 9 going up two strokes in one revision period is interesting.

Fitzgerald played 4 rounds on difficult courses and helped his pro with 30 strokes.
 
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Byrdbrain said:
I saw his index history posted on twitter, he was a 9.0 in December then went to over an 11 in January and played at something like a 10.6 index getting 13 strokes
It didn't have individual scores but a 9 going up two strokes in one revision period is interesting.

Fitzgerald played 4 rounds on difficult courses and helped his pro with 30 strokes.
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Fitzgerald's season ended 12/31 and my guess is that he began playing a lot of golf. So that kind of jump in handicap doesn't raise red flags. (Scores balloning at outset of golf season + lots of rounds = large jump in index.)

What does raise red flags is that he's got about the best swing I've ever seen for someone carrying a 10.6 index. But who knows, he may just have had a good week. (/sarcasm)
 
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Average Reds said:
Fitzgerald's season ended 12/31 and my guess is that he began playing a lot of golf. So that kind of jump in handicap doesn't raise red flags. (Scores balloning at outset of golf season + lots of rounds = large jump in index.)

What does raise red flags is that he's got about the best swing I've ever seen for someone carrying a 10.6 index. But who knows, he may just have had a good week. (/sarcasm)
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The handicap system only works for certain types of players. Players who are inconsistent in-round—e.g. can ramble off a bunch of pars in a row but then go squiggly and double/triple several holes—usually seem like they get too many strokes in team tournaments.
 
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Oh man, I forgot this is the year the murder’s row of US Open courses finally begins. Going forward:

Shinnecock, Pebble Beach, Winged Foot, Torrey Pines, The Country Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Pinehurst, Oakmont, Shinnecock, Pebble Beach...

Torrey is probably the weak link and it’s still a pretty good championship track.

Anyway, I’ve heard Shinnecock is visually stunning when you’re there.
 
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Comfortably Lomb said:
Oh man, I forgot this is the year the murder’s row of US Open courses finally begins. Going forward:

Shinnecock, Pebble Beach, Winged Foot, Torrey Pines, The Country Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Pinehurst, Oakmont, Shinnecock, Pebble Beach...

Torrey is probably the weak link and it’s still a pretty good championship track.

Anyway, I’ve heard Shinnecock is visually stunning when you’re there.
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It's an awesome course. You can literally drive right up to the clubhouse and through the course off of Sunrise Hwy.
 
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Comfortably Lomb said:
Anyway, I’ve heard Shinnecock is visually stunning when you’re there.
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I played 72 holes at Shinnecock one weekend with some friends back in 1993. I've had some unbelievable golfing experiences in my life, but this one will almost certainly never be topped...Shinnecock is my second-favorite course I've ever played, and to get that much time with it in such a compressed period was truly unreal.

Anyway, back on topic: holy hell, I never would have believed how unwatchable you can make the final round of a golf tournament at Pebble Beach before yesterday, but that was ridiculous. The golf itself was fine, but they HAVE to do something about slow play in general, and in the pro-am format specifically. And the number of ad breaks is getting horrific - what other sports have a worse ratio of coverage to ads?
 
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Comfortably Lomb said:
Oh man, I forgot this is the year the murder’s row of US Open courses finally begins. Going forward:

Shinnecock, Pebble Beach, Winged Foot, Torrey Pines, The Country Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Pinehurst, Oakmont, Shinnecock, Pebble Beach...

Torrey is probably the weak link and it’s still a pretty good championship track.

Anyway, I’ve heard Shinnecock is visually stunning when you’re there.
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I played National Golf Links of America (which abuts Shinnecock and Sebonack) once about 12 years ago and while I didn't step foot on it, there's holes you can see it through the trees and it looked amazing. That's all I got.
 
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Bill Haas was in a car accident that killed the driver of the Ferrari Haas was riding in. Luke Wilson was also involved. Haas was released from the hospital this morning.
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/bill-haas-actor-luke-wilson-involved-in-fatal-crash-golfer-expected-to-live
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This is obviously speculative, but the story makes it appear as if it was a chain-reaction accident: the Ferrari clipped Luke wilson's vehicle and, as a result, veered into the Mercedes.

From the picture of the Ferrari, Hass is lucky his injuries are not more serious.
 
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The announcers on PGA Tour Live are a mess. They didn’t understand how he was hitting 3 off the tee after the lost ball and then kept mixing up his strokes.
 
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Not watching but I just saw this tweet speculating that Tiger's tee shot off of 11 was pocketed by a fan.
 
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Don’t believe it. These announcers are a mess. They alternated between it being stuck in a tree, lost in the long grass, and then pocketed by a fan. They have no clue.
 
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Are the PGA Tour Live announcers back at PGA Tour Entertainment in St. Augustine watching in a studio or actually at the event?

During my tours/visits with students, the live app content for the various PGA sponsored tours was technical directed and announced from control rooms and studio facilities in St. Augustine. It's quite the setup.
 
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They have on course reporters following the groups like Feherty and Bones do, but I believe the hosts aren’t on site.

The old birdie, double, bogey, birdie start for TW. Getting a lot of geometry work on the scorecard.
 
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Clears Cleaver said:
National > Shinne > Maidstone > Sebonack
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I played perhaps the worst round of my life at National. I was using brand new clubs (which subsequently were dumped after about twenty rounds) and had no idea how prestigious it was and got so fucking nervous it took me probably seven holes to get a ball in the air higher then three feet. This was when I was playing as an 11. A sales rep literally asked me ‘hey can you take tomorrow off to play golf?’, I said yes, and next thing I knew we were on a plane to Long Island in the morning to play with this guy and the son of some huge Wall Street guy that was a member at all four despite only living in the US three months out of the year. I was way out of my comfort zone. They both played collegiately at UNC and one of them had dated one of Bush’s daughters at some point. It was a beautiful course though and it was pretty cool to be walking into the locker room and run into a guy I went to high school with in NH who was the assistant groundskeeper. Small world and all.
 
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Also, I have a really good friend that was an assistant at Maidstone. Some of the stories he tells about the female members there are insane. He used to run the woman's tournaments and give them lessons. Those rich clubs have some crazy shit that goes down.
 
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Par on 1 is kind of like a bogey, but he gets it back with a birdie on 3. Cut will likely stay at +1, chance to move to +2.

Tiger also has to decide if he is playing next week right after his round.
 
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Riding the roller coaster. Birdie, bogey, birdie, bogey. Missing left with irons off the tee. First few were by a few feet, last one off 7 was a bigger miss.
 
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Comfortably Lomb said:
Missing fairways, leaving tough shortsided up-and-downs, and missing lots of 6-footers is a recipe for a rough day. He's killing himself off the tee though, that's the main problem.
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The short sided up and downs are really the worst part of this. Tiger should know better where to miss.
 
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