Just no need to hit driver on 16 at all, especially when he is hitting the 2 iron as well as he is.
2018 PGA Tour
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I don't know why Tiger hit driver there. I know he's going for the win, but damn. Hit the 3 wood stinger, and he probably has about 175 in. He had wedge in after his 2nd drive. I would have kept the driver in the bag.
He hit driver there all 4 days. He doesn’t usually deviate from how he’s mapped a hole out. His miss is usually right,and he birdies from the right rough and bunker this week.
Whatever happens, these last two weeks have been fucking awesome. If I could have had one non-Boston related sports wish, it would have been Tiger coming back and competing for wins.
This is his 5th start on Tour this season, and 4th in 5 weeks. Hadn’t played regularly in over 2 years and had his back fused less than a year ago.
T22, MC,12, T2, and probably a top 5-10 here. In the mix 2 weeks in a row.
T22, MC,12, T2, and probably a top 5-10 here. In the mix 2 weeks in a row.
Assuming Rory hangs on, calendar year winners in 2018:
DJ
Kizzire
Rahm
Day
Woodland
Potter Jr.
Bubba
JT
Phil
Rory
Christ the Masters is going to be awesome.
DJ
Kizzire
Rahm
Day
Woodland
Potter Jr.
Bubba
JT
Phil
Rory
Christ the Masters is going to be awesome.
The putts on 16 and 17 easily could have dropped as well, basically hung on the lip. 62 was very much in play.
Shaky finish for Stenson, and you don't know why? I'll tell you why. Because all I needed was for him to finish 3rd, and I would have won the fantasy week.
That’s the beauty of the tour right now. Rory plays tremendous round today and gets a great win. Many golfers can win the masters and that is exciting. Rory has been up and down as have many of the top players. It’s relatively anyone’s masters
Tiger moves to 105 in the OWGR, 35th in the FedEx Cup, and 24th in the US Ryder Cup standings. Crazy. Any noise in the majors and he could actually qualify for Paris on points despite spotting everyone a season.
Poults breaks out the putter from Medinah and beats Fleetwood 3&2. I think Poults needs a QF appearance or better to play his way into Augusta.
I freaking love this tournament. And they've finally found a good venue for it - I loved the desert venue but the players apparently hated it, and Harding Park clearly didn't work for anyone. Now we have a proper matchplay golf course, and a round-robin format that gives everyone at least three days of pre-Augusta practice, and three days (Wednesday/Thursday/Friday) of golf that are all ridiculously watchable. The fact that Saturday and particularly Sunday can be somewhat less watchable is the only flaw in the format, but when you do get a final match like that Dubuisson-Day match from a few years ago, even that can work very well.
Unfortunately, the TV conundrum for Saturday and particularly Sunday means we'll never again get a major championship conducted at matchplay, and even this tournament will remain the ugly stepsister of the WGC rotation for that reason. Have you ever considered possible solutions to make the matchplay format work better for television? I certainly have, and here's a radical idea:
But what - if anything - would you do to fix the matchplay format in this regard?
Unfortunately, the TV conundrum for Saturday and particularly Sunday means we'll never again get a major championship conducted at matchplay, and even this tournament will remain the ugly stepsister of the WGC rotation for that reason. Have you ever considered possible solutions to make the matchplay format work better for television? I certainly have, and here's a radical idea:
When you get to Sunday, abandon matchplay altogether and have a single, one-round shootout, like the now-old US Open playoff model but with more participants. Using this week's event as the example, have all of the 16 group winners advance to one set of matches on Saturday from which eight players advance to Sunday...and then on Sunday, put those eight into four twosomes - the two highest-seeded players in the last twosome, the next two in the second-last twosome, and so on - and have them play one round of strokeplay, winner takes all. Or you could do substantially the same thing with a larger field, even at a major, and advance 32 or 40 group winners to Saturday and then 16 or 20 to Sunday for the same final-day shootout, with the final pairings determined by Official World Golf Ranking. The old International tournament at Castle Pines used to reset everyone's Modified Stableford scores for a final-day shootout, so there is some precedent in this regard...and I think the Saturday's play in this hypothetical major would rival Sunday at the Ryder Cup as the best day of matchplay golf you can get. And heck, if you did this at the PGA Championship - the major most in need of a makeover - you could even put the 16 best club pros into their own separate single-elimination side event from Wednesday to Saturday from which one player would advance to the first shootout group on Sunday.
But what - if anything - would you do to fix the matchplay format in this regard?
I don’t think I would change anything. The current format is probably the best they can come up with. Match play to stroke play kind of seems to defeat the purpose of match play, so I’m not too enthused by that. I could see maybe 2 days of stroke play to qualify for a match play finals type scenario. I’ve said it before, and I know it will never happen, but in a dream world I would like to see the Tour Championship be match play. Start with 30 guys, stroke play Thursday and Friday, whittle down to 4 based on fedex points, then semi’s on Saturday and 36 holes for $10 million on Sunday.
Anywho, Romo is on the course in the DR. He’s bogeyed the first 2 holes.
Anywho, Romo is on the course in the DR. He’s bogeyed the first 2 holes.
Wheels off for Romo. Bogey, double, bogey in his last 3 holes and just blew a tee shot into deep shit/bushes on 16. Re-loaded on the tee.
What, do you want Phil Simms teaming back up with Jim Nantz on Sundays in the fall? What kind of monster are you???
5 winner take all matches today-
Sergio vs. Schaufele
JT vs. Molinari
Noren vs. Finau
Spieth vs. Reed
Simpson vs. Kim
I believe 18 of the 64 players have been eliminated.
Sergio vs. Schaufele
JT vs. Molinari
Noren vs. Finau
Spieth vs. Reed
Simpson vs. Kim
I believe 18 of the 64 players have been eliminated.
Spieth has had to reload twice in 2 holes. Good thing this is match play.
Edit: make it 3 for 3, though Reed followed him in. Wind is really blowing.
Edit: make it 3 for 3, though Reed followed him in. Wind is really blowing.
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Poulter is one of the greatest match play players of all time. I'd have no problem with him making the hall for that alone and I'm not even joking. He's so sick at match play.
Stanley and Casey are in a playoff and are wearing basically the same thing. Confusing.
Meanwhile, Romo is +9 through 13 in the DR today.
Meanwhile, Romo is +9 through 13 in the DR today.
I'm glad someone doesn't have a microphone around me at all times on the golf course.
However, I totally agree he sounds like a whiney snot nosed kid.
However, I totally agree he sounds like a whiney snot nosed kid.
I'm by no means a Tiger Woods fan, but would anyone oppose a rule whereby any player with 10 or more major championship victories who is under the age of 50 automatically qualifies for any WGC event he wants to enter? It's a shame that Tiger wasn't teeing it up this week.