2023 PGA Tour

[cshea]

On the flip side...Zalatoris. Woof. Played 5 holes and missed birdie putts from 4 feet 6 inches, 4 feet 10 inches and 8 feet 4 inches.

I guess the good news is the ball striking appears to still be really good.

 

[cshea]

Spieth with an absurd hole that basically only happens to him. He flew the 7th green by a mile and the ball rattled around the gallery striking two fans and breaking a cell phone in the process. The ball came to rest on the curb of the cart path. He got relief which put him next to a boulder but juuuuust enough clearance to take a swing. The Trackman / Shotlink equipment was kind of in the way and apparently is immovable so he explored TIO, but those options weren't good so he decided to play it. After about a 10 minute process to get this all straightened out, he gassed the chip about 30 feet past the hole. Made the putt. Halves the hole.

Edit: Here it is. The tee shot was so bad he even hit a provisional

View: https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1638963685736476672?s=20

 

[cshea]

Rory with an unbelievable tee shot on 18. Hit it to 3 feet 9 inches.

It is a 375 yard par 4.

 

[Over Guapo Grande]

Rory with an unbelievable tee shot on 18. Hit it to 3 feet 9 inches.

It is a 375 yard par 4.

And, at least from when I was watching earlier, playing into about a 15mph wind.

 

[jercra]

And, at least from when I was watching earlier, playing into about a 15mph wind.

18 was downwind, but the winds had mostly calmed by the late afternoon. Either way, it was an amazing shot. Wish I could have followed the whole round today.

 

[cshea]

View: https://twitter.com/nolayingup/status/1639053501018849282?s=46&t=23orJRFkAhpzRtm4p3-oEw

 

[ezemerson]

Zalatoris WD today with an "illness".......are the yips an illness?

 

[cshea]

Jason Day is looking like a top 10 player in the world again. Currently 2-up on Morikawa in a winner-take-all match.

Elsewhere, Lowry is in the process of blowing a 5-up through 10 lead over Spieth. Spieth has won 11,12 and 13 to cut it to 2-up and just hit it to inside 5 feet on 14. Lowry did hit a good shot to 12 feet so a halve is possible but this match has really swung around.

 

[Squeteague]

View: https://twitter.com/nolayingup/status/1639053501018849282?s=46&t=23orJRFkAhpzRtm4p3-oEw

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQV4A9dGrA

Off topic but Rory’s clip and all the talk of equipment and rolling back distances got me thinking about Arnold Palmer driving the green on the 346 yard first hole final round of the 1960 US Open at Cherry Hills, where he started seven shots back. The only highlight I can find shows his tee shot, along with Hogan, Nicklaus, Boros (all of which I could watch all day), but 346 yards with a persimmon head on a 43 inch steel shaft and a balata ball Is amazing.

 

[cshea]

Got as good a final 4 as they could ask for. Scheffler/Burns and Rory/Cam Young or Kurt Kitayama (Young is 1 up through 17 at the moment).

 

[Zomp]

I’ve watched most of the coverage today and it’s been a fantastic day of golf

 

[E5 Yaz]

Rory and Scottie with 1-up leads. Does anyone want to see a different final?

 

[cshea]

I love watching Cam Young, but yeah. Rory v. Scottie is the ideal title match.

I'm indifferent towards Burns, he is a heck of a player and seems like a good dude, but it does annoy me that he tucks his glove under his belt when he is putting as opposed to in his back pocked like everyone else.

 

[cshea]

Burns and Scheffler are all square headed to 17. Rory is 2-up with 3 to play. Been good matches.

 

[cshea]

Burns stuffed one on 17 to go 1-up but Scottie answers with a birdie on 18 to tie the match. Extra holes.

 

[cshea]

Rory and Cam headed to extra holes too. Great golf this morning.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Unreal. The drive on 18 ended up being the shot that killed Rory, due to the kick it got into a bad lie. Young won it with the third shot on the extra hole, but this was Rory's to win

edit: welp, we get Rory/Scottie ... just not how it looked at one point

 

[FL4WL3SS]

https://mygolfspy.com/news-opinion/liv-golf-and-pga-announce-new-inter-league-match-play-event/

 

[Comfortably Lomb]

It's April 1 dude.

 

[FL4WL3SS]

It's April 1 dude.

Ayyyy you got it. Obviously posted as a joke

 

[TFP]

Sorry, @cshea

View: https://twitter.com/WillGrayGolfbet/status/1645417489998704643

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Cool logo

 

[cshea]

Rory WDs from the RBC Heritage this week, which is a designated event. Not sure what's going on, if there is an injury or just some burnout and he wants rest. He also skipped Kapalua which was designated. I may be wrong but my understanding was that for this year the players were supposed to only get 1 hall pass for the designated events. The communication was lousy on this so I may well have missed something. I know going forward with the new structure there is no requirment for players to play so maybe that quietyly got changed.

I also wonder if we'll see a few more WD's. The schedule has been pretty heavy for the past two months. Genesis, Honda, API, Players, Valspar, Match Play, Valero, Masters, RBC Heritage. 5 of the last 8 weeks have featured a designated event, 6 of 9 including this week. That is a lot of high level golf in a short amount of time.

View: https://twitter.com/PGATOURComms/status/1645447751319027714?s=20

 

[E5 Yaz]

Cool logo

True, and it's one of those things that would be on my list if I had enough money to buy an elephant

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Rory WDs from the RBC Heritage this week, which is a designated event. Not sure what's going on, if there is an injury or just some burnout and he wants rest. He also skipped Kapalua which was designated. I may be wrong but my understanding was that for this year the players were supposed to only get 1 hall pass for the designated events. The communication was lousy on this so I may well have missed something. I know going forward with the new structure there is no requirment for players to play so maybe that quietyly got changed.

I also wonder if we'll see a few more WD's. The schedule has been pretty heavy for the past two months. Genesis, Honda, API, Players, Valspar, Match Play, Valero, Masters, RBC Heritage. 5 of the last 8 weeks have featured a designated event, 6 of 9 including this week. That is a lot of high level golf in a short amount of time.

View: https://twitter.com/PGATOURComms/status/1645447751319027714?s=20

Spieth talked about how much golf he had been playing in his post round presser. He said that he needed to rethink his schedule leading up to the Masters going forward. They’re definitely all feeling out this new schedule.

 

[johnmd20]

Spieth talked about how much golf he had been playing in his post round presser. He said that he needed to rethink his schedule leading up to the Masters going forward. They’re definitely all feeling out this new schedule.

Imagine how brutal it is to have to play golf in hopes of winning hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of dollars?

I really feel for these guys.

 

[kenneycb]

I don't think Spieth was asking for pity.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

I don't think Spieth was asking for pity.

He wasn't. And we all know these guys have a good thing going. It's also irrelevant.

 

[jercra]

Spieth talked about how much golf he had been playing in his post round presser. He said that he needed to rethink his schedule leading up to the Masters going forward. They’re definitely all feeling out this new schedule.

The schedule will be different next year with more even spacing between the designated events, and they have more options to skip designated events if they want to.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Quite a finish shaping up

 

[cshea]

Cantlay catching more heat for slow play.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Cantlay catching more heat for slow play.

Speith and Fitzpatrick were shown laughing at one point

 

[Comfortably Lomb]

Cantlay catching more heat for slow play.

Did these guys tee off at 1 or 130? Pace has been brutal since I tuned in around 5.

 

[cshea]

Spieth has a 5-footer to get into a playoff with Fitz.

Dottie and Immelmann roasting Cantlay

 

[cshea]

Did these guys tee off at 1 or 130? Pace has been brutal since I tuned in around 5.

1:00. 5:15 round

 

[E5 Yaz]

Was Cathay always thought of in this way? I don't remember hearing about this in previous seasons

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Wow, I don't know how Spieth's putt didn't go in

 

[E5 Yaz]

Wow, I don't know how Spieth's putt didn't go in

That was unfair

 

[Comfortably Lomb]

This par 3 is fun.

 

[E5 Yaz]

This par 3 is fun.

This has always been one of the Tour courses that I'd love to visit or play someday

 

[E5 Yaz]

OMG

 

[Dollar]

This is great aside from the increasingly annoying crowd.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Speith is going to be thinking about those two missed putts a long time

 

[PC Drunken Friar]

This is great aside from the increasingly annoying crowd.

HH gonna HH!

 

[cshea]

Fitzy to inside a foot.

 

[Sandwich Pick]

This is great aside from the increasingly annoying crowd.

A crowd did the same chant towards Fitzpatrick in the Full Swing episode.

 

[cshea]

Looks like Fitzy uses a poker chip as a ball mark.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Speith is going to be thinking about those two missed putts a long time

Just the slightest bit of additional speed on either

 

[Comfortably Lomb]

Tiger with another surgery, this time fusing a joint in his right foot. Likely done for the year.

 

[voidfunkt]

Poor guy is made of stitched together glass at this point.