I thought you were joking, but Google'd to make sure this is not a thing... It's a thing. I'm getting my daily disappointment with humanity out of the way early today.
The British Open- Royal St. George's
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Their ads are truly awful. And the company is truly awful and a bunch of the insurrectionists were wearing Black Rifle T Shirts and so was Kyle Rittenhouse. It's the coffee you drink when you want to overturn an election or murder some people.
He has been, but I have to hand it to Jordan for pulling himself together and mounting a charge. Love him or hate him, Spieth is a gamer.
Morikawa is nails. He's saved himself like 5 shots today with great play, great recovery, great putts, or great bounces.
It's just working, truly an impressive performance so far today.
It's just working, truly an impressive performance so far today.
For the first time all day, Morikawa didn't get a break. We'll see what he can do with that ball in the cabbage.
Nails. Morikawa's performance today has been really inspiring and impressive. He's doing the opposite of choking. Every time there was a chance to fall back, he's delivered.
And it's like his second tournament ever on a links course.
The putt he made to get to 15-under, after not getting the approach up on that ridge, was just terrific
I think what happened at the PGA was a wake-up call, and we’ll see better crowd control moving forward. Also, a good part of the local crowd is probably nonplussed by an American winning the Open.
Extremely impressive finish and win. He’s got all kinds of game and a great mental approach. He’s going to win quite a few more majors I think. Can’t wait to watch him on the Ryder Cup team.
Shoutout to Rahm, finishing 3rd after a meh round 1 is pretty incredible.
Will Louis ever be able to close?
Will Louis ever be able to close?
One cannot love him more than golf announcers do. Its amazing they can even speak with their tongues on his Titleists.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought this. I get that they look for stories, and Spieth’s was a compelling one, but Morikawa’s was no less compelling, and Oos (before he fell off) was a great story too, though perhaps less interesting to an American audience. The single-minded focus on Spieth’s run for the better part of the day was annoying.
Well, to be fair, Spieth DID have a remarkable day - especially over the 8-hole span between 7 and 14, going 6-under over those holes. Morikawa started the day at -11. Spieth started -9. Through 6, Morikawa was still at -11, but Spieth fell to four back at -7. Then that 8-hole span. That's something I think would draw the attention of any broadcaster, regardless the player.
Spieth:
Plus, Spieth made history. His 267/ -13 tied him for the lowest score for a runner-up.
Morikawa:
Spieth:
Plus, Spieth made history. His 267/ -13 tied him for the lowest score for a runner-up.
Morikawa:
They showed every shot by Morikawa today. It's not like he wasn't part of the coverage.
And Oos got a massive amount of coverage these past two days. Spieth, at present, is a more compelling story because he entered the PGA and dominated and then went four years without a victory. And, at times, looked completely lost. Now he's back and playing well. It is a great story. This is no different than Tiger's coverage after all the drama in 2009. Everyone loves a comeback story.
Yeah, the others got their shots covered, too. (Even pro golf coverage couldnt screw up showing all the shots of the only 3 or 4 guys in contention for a major on Sunday.) I just found the fawning over Spieth somewhat Jeteresque. That's obviously not his fault.
I think, without realizing it, Hicks and Azinger spoke to this today. When discussing Speith and Morikawa, they talked about how different their games are -- that Morikawa was the steady consistent player who, while he had some close calls, rarely got himself into the wrong position ... while Speith was more likely to be scattershot, scrambling more to get pars and birdies.
That less consistent approach leads to more colorful, even if exaggeratedly so, commentary. Meanwhile, there's only so many times you can say "there's another perfect tee shot." The commentary became more Speith-like, if you will, on the greens ... they seemed more animated when Morikawa was facing and draining putt after putt.
Morikawa was the better player and what he did on the back nine was amazing; but I guess NBC figured Speith was better TV
That less consistent approach leads to more colorful, even if exaggeratedly so, commentary. Meanwhile, there's only so many times you can say "there's another perfect tee shot." The commentary became more Speith-like, if you will, on the greens ... they seemed more animated when Morikawa was facing and draining putt after putt.
Morikawa was the better player and what he did on the back nine was amazing; but I guess NBC figured Speith was better TV
Yep. Set by Henrik Stenson in 2016 at Royal Troon. He shot a final round 63 and won the tournament by three strokes over Phil Mickelson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Open_Championship
https://thegolfnewsnet.com/golfnewsnetteam/2019/06/14/british-open-championship-winning-scores-a-history-of-the-72-hole-winning-totals-115084/
I mean one of the other commentators on the heels of this conversation came right out and said that Jordan is the more interesting or compelling player to watch.
A fellow member of my son’s HS golf team has PXG clubs, which surprised me because of the price. They took advantage of the sizeable discount the give to members of the military, veterans and first responders. His dad is a veteran.
The founder is a former member of USMC and the names of the various clubs are in its honor.
https://www.pxg.com/en-us/programs/pxg-for-heroes
Here’s the group of pros on the various tours who use/endorse PXG clubs. Didn’t know there were so many extremists of Asian descent. Darius Rucker, too!
https://www.pxg.com/en-us/pros
The commercials are a bit grating, and do seem to market to certain groups. Yet they also are giving a sizeable portion of the members of those groups a discount.
What a truly awful company, indeed.
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Nit: I think Johnmd20 was referring to Black Rifle Coffee in his post. Although this sidetrack started out by saying PXG ads were targeting the same demographics as Black Rifle Coffee.
I was clearly talking about Black Rifle Coffee. But I appreciate Doug's sarcasm. Nothing better than someone who is confused and not paying attention attacking someone else with a high and mighty attitude.
What a truly awesome post, indeed.
Yep - I did that. My bad. It was a doozy, though.
In my defense, it’s hard accurately track all of the vitriol for the right wing on this site sometimes.
Now back to the regularly scheduled links golf post-game programming.
When Morikawa is on his game, he can be boring to watch from a viewing standpoint. You have to really appreciate his ball striking, which probably doesn't come across to the casual fans. When he is on, he drives it in the fairway, hits his approach to 20 feet flag high in the fat part of the green. He does that on repeat. That's what he did on like 27 of his last 30 or so holes this weekend, after a wobbly start on Saturday. Despite what Azinger wants you to believe, Morikawa is a lousy putter. He wins because his ball striking is so good that the volume of good looks he gets compensates for the lousy putter. He's an absolute machine, one of the best ball strikers I've ever seen and it's even garnered comparisons to Tiger.
I know some people disagree, but Jordan's always played a more "exciting" brand of golf. At his peak, he was a good putter and en even better ball striker. He was always loose with the driver which led him to getting into odd spots and then escaping out of them. For him, it never really was fairway, green, 2-putts. He's kind of unintentionally Phil-like. It's not anything measurable, but Jordan also seemed to have a flare for the dramatic. Jordan also started his career on a Tiger-like pace. Jordan had 11 wins with 3 majors before he turned 24 (Morikawa's age). Tiger was 15 and 2 when he turned 24.
I downloaded the Open app this week and became a "One Club" member. That allowed me to apply for tickets to next year's Open at St. Andrews. It's a bit different than the lottery for the Masters. In the Masters lottery, you usually get one day's tickets even though you undoubtedly sign up for every day to get a better chance of hitting. In the Open lottery, if your application gets picked for tickets you get all of the days you sign up for. I signed up for Friday through Sunday. The ticket ballot runs until I believe October.
For reference, Collin is 130 of 208 in strokes gained putting. He's the best player on the planet from tee to green.
Absolutely. His strokes gained approach is off the charts. He leads at 1.503. Paul Casey is 2nd at .908 strokes gained. Morikawa is picking up over half a shot on the next best player, let a lone everyone else in the field. Insane. Morikawa's ball striking gains more than Bryson's driving (~1.1 SG off the tee).
If he can get his putting up to average and not lose strokes (believe he's like -0.318 or something) he's going to be even more of a monster. The weeks he putts well he cruises to victory and makes it look so effortless and easy.
Anecdotal viewing evidence, but had Rahm putted to his normal standard this past weekend, he would have won ... whereas Morikawa putted far better than usual.
I'd like to see Morikawa's week-to-week variance, though. Some guys in that range are just mediocre putters most of the time, whereas I think Morikawa has some weeks when he's horrid and some weeks when he's good to brilliant; both paths lead to the same destination in the putting rankings, but the latter path is much more conducive to winning golf tournaments.