2022 US Open (Golf) - The Country Club in South Brookline, MA

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Koko the Monkey
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I am here once again to complain about the USGA not allowing a drop when in a divot in the fairway.

My home course has several false fronts followed by quick journeys to small collection areas filled with divots and this remains a stupid rule.
 

Doug Beerabelli

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I spent roughly 6 hours within 20 feet of that spot on the deck yesterday. Saw almost every group go through there. Bryson hooked his tee ball left, and was up against the grandstand, so he got relief out to the ropes, but still had to come right over a corner of the deck to hit his 2nd. I was standing on the corner of the deck, and he basically hit it about 5 feet from us. I have it all on video, but I don't know how to post videos. I should say I have it on 4-5 videos, because that's how fucking slow Bryson is.
First shot I saw all day was Xander from same area. Up against the stands, took relief. Low punch below trees to about 140. I have a photo, bit too big to upload.
 

Senator Donut

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I am here once again to complain about the USGA not allowing a drop when in a divot in the fairway.

My home course has several false fronts followed by quick journeys to small collection areas filled with divots and this remains a stupid rule.
Sounds like your course has a member problem (not fixing their divots) not a rule problem. Playing the ball as it lies has worked for game of golf for literally centuries at this point, I think it’s here to stay.
 

johnmd20

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History! Tradition! The way things have been! Let's just keep fucking that chicken.
Lol. What a perfect answer.

It is absurd that people get penalized for keeping the ball on the course because it's in a divot. There is no reason for it and if the ball is moved 3 inches, it doesn't change a single thing.
 

cshea

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The problem is there's some grey area in defining what is and isn't a divot. The cleanest way to do it just play the ball up in the fairway.
 

Senator Donut

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The problem is there's some grey area in defining what is and isn't a divot. The cleanest way to do it just play the ball up in the fairway.
Yeah, would be moving in the opposite direction of what a simplification of the rules of golf is supposed to accomplished. Similarly, it was silly that only ball marks, but no other green damaged could be repaired.

There are only two real solutions. One remedy is to play preferred lies in the entire fairway. The other remedy is to play better; hitting out of divots is not impossible.
 

voidfunkt

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They're going to get rained off the course in about 10 minutes... I just drove through the storm heading that way and holy shit was there a lot of rain and lightning.
 
Yeah, would be moving in the opposite direction of what a simplification of the rules of golf is supposed to accomplished. Similarly, it was silly that only ball marks, but no other green damaged could be repaired.

There are only two real solutions. One remedy is to play preferred lies in the entire fairway. The other remedy is to play better; hitting out of divots is not impossible.
We've had this conversation before. The history of golf is "play it as it lies"; the desire for golf to be perfectly fair to everyone all the time is a relatively recent phenomenon. I'm thinking back to Tom Weiskopf, talking about his only major championship at Troon in 1973 - he used to get so frustrated by the rub of the green going against him, and in that one British Open he just decided that the ground was so uneven that absolutely everyone was going to get bad bounces. He embraced the chaos rather than getting frustrated by it, and it freed him to play his best golf.

(I totally understand the counter-argument - you don't need to try to convince me of it. Just stating this again for the record.)
 

absintheofmalaise

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IIRC, at the Open Championships that I've seen the players couldn't rake the sand in the pot bunkers. From my days as a shitty golfer that has to be much worse than hitting out of a divot.
 

TFP

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Absolutely gorgeous weather day out here today. Got maybe 5 drops of rain total.

This course is just incredible. So much fun to watch.
 

TomTerrific

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Suddenly graced with tickets for Sunday. I'm interested in any recommendations as to a) viewing areas to camp out at, b) things not to miss while there. Other than a couple of nighttime events I have never been to the CC before, so pretty ignorant on what to see or do.
 
Tee times are absurdly late tomorrow. Leaders tee off at 3:45pm!
I could not be happier about this - I've been slightly annoyed all week at myself for signing up to commentate on a football game that starts at noon ET, thinking I was going to miss a bunch of the final round. And now the leaders won't be teeing off until well after I'm done!

By the way, I finally thought to pause my TV last night during one of the overhead blimp shots to marvel at the amount of infrastructure on the property. Primrose #5 green and the bunkers around it appear to have been left untouched, but the rest of the Primrose nine is utter carnage - in particular, Primrose #3 is a short, uphill, really claustrophobic par 4 in the trees that I'd have thought was totally unsuitable for anything, and yet it appears to be totally covered by trailers. No wonder the members are going to be playing the tournament routing for the rest of the year.