Who is playing well?NO! It's unfair. Players are being punished and it's unfair. This isn't golf, it's luck, and anyone playing well is just ultra lucky and obviously rubbed a rabbit's foot this morning and the star players who missed the cut were just screwed over by the course.
I wasn’t able to watch every shot every golfer hit, as you obviously were, so I can’t comment on particulars like that. Perhaps somewhere on an earlier hole one of those guys hit what would be a perfect shot or what would normally be a tough leave but workable and instead it ended up being a double because the conditions were so hard that it ended up rolling into a swell forty yards away. Then that putt Speith missed doesn’t mean as much.So Rory playing horribly isn't the reason he missed the cut? It was the course.
And Spieth three putted on 17 yesterday and then missed a moderately short putt on 18 to make the cut. That was the course.
This course is the bogeyman. Thrashing children while they sleep.
To say it’s too hard. Guess he’s just a crybaby like some of us here.Oh and here’s Mike Davis!!
They acknowledged things got out of hand with pin placement on 3 holes. They admitted they did not foresee the strength of the wind. They promised to remedy this tonight.I fall in the camp where this is probably unfair but is still wildly entertaining. Looking forward to tomorrow.
I thought they were pretty good, especially DuvalDuval, Nobilo and Chamblee giving the usga the business
Absolutely...all valid pointsI thought they were pretty good, especially Duval
Absolute fire.(paraphrasing) “Show me the video of Hogan, Snead, Palmer (other legends) doing something like this. This was Phil Michelson disrespecting his position in the game, the game.”Chamblee spitting fire at Phil
Maybe presumptuous to grant Phil a position among that triumvirate, which I don’t recall Phil ever claiming for himself.Absolute fire.(paraphrasing) “Show me the video of Hogan, Snead, Palmer (other legends) doing something like this. This was Phil Michelson disrespecting his position in the game, the game.”
He was talking about all time greats, and by any definition, Phil is in that group.Maybe presumptuous to grant Phil a position among that triumvirate, which I don’t recall Phil ever claiming for himself.
Quick — someone send a camera crew over to Tom Watson’s house for a hot take.
The explanation doesn’t ring true. What rings true is that Phil lost his composure. He then felt more embarrassed about that than about offering an explanation that doesn’t pass the smell test but casts him in a composed and calculating light.There is an interview with Beef where he says that he and Phil were taking before the rules official spoke to Phil. Beef said that they talked about neither of them knowing what the penalty for that was going to be.
Phil’s I’m taking advantage of the rules line is BS. And if you can’t trust a guy named Beef to be honest then who can you trust?
The standard bearer also heard Phil say “whatever I get, I get.”There is an interview with Beef where he says that he and Phil were taking before the rules official spoke to Phil. Beef said that they talked about neither of them knowing what the penalty for that was going to be.
Phil’s I’m taking advantage of the rules line is BS. And if you can’t trust a guy named Beef to be honest then who can you trust?
Not every great deserves a spot on Rushmore.He was talking about all time greats, and by any definition, Phil is in that group.
No one put him on Rushmore. In context, the statement was perfectly fine. Maybe listen to what was said before pontificating about it.Not every great deserves a spot on Rushmore.
We’ll all get over this b move, and the world will go on.
2015 was competitive, but it was played in a freaking amusement park, where you were often better off aiming at some mound 20 yards past the hole, and 25 yards to the right, rather than hitting a shot towards the cup, I know good courses sometime have the occasional backstop (ridge), behind the whole which can be used, but that course was unforgivably silly.Definitely. 2015 was pretty good but the US Open has had some clunkers(2017, 2016, and, the worst golf tourney ever. in 2014, in particular) in recent years. At least watching today, you've got a lot of people to root for. Could be very tight tomorrow.
That's a bit disingenuous. 2 guys shot 66, and one guy shot 68. That's it. There was a grand total of 3 golfers out of 67 that were below par today. The same amount of golfers shot 80+ as shot +1 or better today.2015 was competitive, but it was played in a freaking amusement park, where you were often better off aiming at some mound 20 yards past the hole, and 25 yards to the right, rather than hitting a shot towards the cup, I know good courses sometime have the occasional backstop (ridge), behind the whole which can be used, but that course was unforgivably silly.
We are talking about a course being unplayable where the 2 new leaders shot 66 today. I know they went out early and the course played harder as the day went on, but the course was set up to be playable today.
Especially given that the guys in the last 5 groups were playing considerably better than the guys in the first 5 for the first two full rounds.The last five groups averaged scoring was 3.5 shots higher than the first five groups. Typically courses do get harder as the day goes on, but that an enormous difference.
As everyone else on tour will tell you, just ask him.He was talking about all time greats, and by any definition, Phil is in that group.
Yeah, his 43 wins and 5 Majors don't mean much. It's all about his bravado.As everyone else on tour will tell you, just ask him.
FIGJAM, indeed.
It’s amusing how many people choose to ignore/forget that sans Tiger, Phil would easily be the best golfer of his generation.Yeah, his 43 wins and 5 Majors don't mean much. It's all about his bravado.
He's definitely great. He's also definitely full of himself and annoyingly arrogant.Yeah, his 43 wins and 5 Majors don't mean much. It's all about his bravado.
I want his pro card revoked and him banned from the PGA for at least two years. He shamed everything the game stands for.Joe wants Phil DQ'd so bad
The rules of golf are complicated, often contradictory and asinine.Great, no DQ ... they are not going to Roger Goodell this thing when they have a rule on point.
Fuck you Buck with your “feel.”
14-5 Very Clear
Rule 1-2 is all about intent, so the reality is that this distinction exists now. The USGA just chose not to apply it.The rule needs to be clarified, 14-5 should be for inadvertently hitting a ball in motion and should be a 2 stroke penalty. Purposely hitting a ball in motion to gain an advantage should be a DQ and should be covered by a different rule.
Yeah that is why I said clarified and not changed, obviously there is some wiggle room that allowed them to apply 14-5 which they used to supersede 1-2, the wording should be changed so that wiggle room goes away.Rule 1-2 is all about intent, so the reality is that this distinction exists now. The USGA just chose not to apply it.
Moving on. Should be a great last round, with tons of players in contention.