PGA Tour Thread

Ya I havent watched a jot this weekend but had been following scores never expected that from DJ, even when he is off if is usually grinding it out well

Rikand

Anyone can have a bad day at the office

Rikand

Rikand wrote: »

Anyone can have a bad day at the office

Ah ya I know its just DJ has been so super solid for such a long time, except at match play

eagle eye

Nice for C.T. Pan, been up there a few times but blew it up to this. Looked like Lowry at one stage, looked like Pan, then Kuchar then Pan again. It's a tough course, DJ got owned by the course today, Poulter too.

Very early days but Sungjae Im trying to lock up a tour card for his buddy Whee Kim is nice to see

charlieIRL

Louis and Charl are having some nightmare on the first hole, two balls out of bounds. 5th shot off the tee

tobsey

https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1122264795552440321?s=20

eagle eye

I just watched all of Rory's round, back nine ridiculous 31 to finish -5 and one shot ahead of the field right now.
Great to see Seamus Power off to a good start as well, he's had a couple of good weeks. If he gets in a position where his tour card is safe you'd never know how good he could get with the pressure off.

Aurora1966

eagle eye wrote:

I just watched all of Rory's round, back nine ridiculous 31 to finish -5 and one shot ahead of the field right now. Great to see Seamus Power off to a good start as well, he's had a couple of good weeks. If he gets in a position where his tour card is safe you'd never know how good he could get with the pressure off.

Spot on eagle, Power has huge ability and it will show more when the pressure comes off him for sure. Every round he plays must feel like the back 9 on Sunday in a way. Also Rory has an affinity with the Wells Fargo and the fans love him there. He's always up there, course suits his game.

eagle eye

Rory let a potential great round fall apart with a double bogey and then single bogey over his last two holes.
Seamus Power is -1 today after four holes for -3 and a tie for tenth.
I just feel like Jason Day is going to go low today.

GreeBo

eagle eye wrote: »

I just feel like Jason Day is going to go Slow today.

FYP.:pac:

eagle eye

How is Dufner who shot 71 yesterday in the last group today and Dahmen who shot 70 in the second last group?

First Up

eagle eye wrote:

How is Dufner who shot 71 yesterday in the last group today and Dahmen who shot 70 in the second last group?

If they are on the same score, it is based on who put their card in first yesterday. Presumably Dufner did.

Trampas

eagle eye wrote: »

How is Dufner who shot 71 yesterday in the last group today and Dahmen who shot 70 in the second last group?

In same group so who finished first

PokeHerKing

Poor bogey from Seamus on 2. Hopefully not the start of a Sunday capitulation.

Barnaboy

This event is so f###ing slow! Must be at least 20 minutes since Rory finished 6. Only played second into 7 now. If he can make eagle this gets interesting.

First Up

Barnaboy wrote:

This event is so f###ing slow! Must be at least 20 minutes since Rory finished 6. Only played second into 7 now. If he can make eagle this gets interesting.

Even birdie would have helped. His putting is woeful; neither line or pace.

eagle eye

Rory having a bit of a tin cup moment there.

eagle eye

Max Homa was a consistently average to poor on the PGA tour up until today. A fantastic performance in every facet of the game today. Credit where it is due, he could be a new big name to keep an eye on, has been working in his confidence and mental game.
Really enjoyed watching Joel Dahmen too, I've seen him a couple of times but we got to see a lot of him today and yesterday. He sees like a nice guy, never loses the plot, does some human things when he shaves the hole with a putt and there's the hat.

Edit to add: Very impressed with Homa's caddy too.

Rikand

Homa played class from start to finish. Deserved winner!

Dahmen was dah man all day. Love a guy that just plays with his heart on his sleeve.

Rory did a Rory

Seamie did a Seamie

Remind me

Harrington just held his second to go into top 30 after a great finish to his round yesterday.

Power just made birdie to move inside cut mark.

Edit: eagle followed by birdie for Harrington into top 20

Dr. Bre

Some round from Kang

Deeper Blue

There's something so hollow about these tournaments where everyone is 15 or 20 under. Hollow isn't the right word but they're missing something when it's this easy.

eagle eye

The rain made it easy for them. This course is normally a lot tougher than that.
The one thing I took out of that tournament is the improvement in Koepka's putting. It makes a hell out for a difference going into next week, he is my favourite for the PGA Championship.

eagle eye

eagle eye wrote: »

The rain made it easy for them. This course is normally a lot tougher than that.
The one thing I took out of that tournament is the improvement in Koepka's putting. It makes a hell out for a difference going into next week, he is my favourite for the PGA Championship.

The rain may day 3 a shoot out but last years score wan't far off.

Its a course with wide open fairways and massive greens it kinda is what it is but defiantly feels quite souless.

Kopeka putted well alright but he was on his favorite surface nexts weeks is bent I think he does gain less on them.

I wouldn't imagine visually(mentally) this would be good prep for next week but these guys are top professionals so it may not matter

Rikand

Some 4 days from Piercy. not a single drop shot in the 72 holes. first time its happened in 9 years on the PGA tour

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

The rain may day 3 a shoot out but last years score wan't far off.

Its a course with wide open fairways and massive greens it kinda is what it is but defiantly feels quite souless.

Kopeka putted well alright but he was on his favorite surface nexts weeks is bent I think he does gain less on them.

I wouldn't imagine visually(mentally) this would be good prep for next week but these guys are top professionals so it may not matter

I was wrong about the putting surface its 95% POA (with some bent)

Dr. Bre

Who will win the PGA at Bethpage?

HighLine

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Who will win the PGA at Bethpage?

Brooks, unfortunately.

eagle eye

HighLine wrote:

Brooks, unfortunately.

Why say unfortunately? The guy is a breath of fresh air. He doesn't do tantrums, always seems like he wants to win like Tiger.

HighLine

eagle eye wrote: »

Why say unfortunately? The guy is a breath of fresh air. He doesn't do tantrums, always seems like he wants to win like Tiger.

Because he is boring. Look at the "hype" surrounding his previous wins... there was none. No excitement, no crowds going crazy, he is subdued after winning.

Now think about the contrast of last month.

Potential Underachiever

HighLine wrote: »

Because he is boring. Look at the "hype" surrounding his previous wins... there was none. No excitement, no crowds going crazy, he is subdued after winning.

Now think about the contrast of last month.

I remember one of his major wins he tapped in a 2 footer instead of letting his playing partners finish out first, everybody waits until the stage is clear, it was a bizarre finish.

Remind me

Justin Thomas out injured.

https://twitter.com/EvinPriest/status/1128838801114243075

LuckyGent88

I see Bryson got put on the clock twice yesterday for slow play.

He took a minute and 40 seconds to hit a 108 yard shot at one point!!!!

eagle eye

Spieth is really threatening to return to form over the last few weeks. If he can get his drives and shirt irons sorted he will be unstoppable with his scrambling and putting ability.

Donald Trumped

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

I see Bryson got put on the clock twice yesterday for slow play.

He took a minute and 40 seconds to hit a 108 yard shot at one point!!!!

I wish Bryson no luck for the rest of his golfing career. That is so selfish, arrogant and to be honest it gives him such an unfair advantage against the rest of the field. He has notoriously been a very slow player. But to take 100 seconds to play a shot that is meat and drink for a player of his calibre, is really pushing the boundaries.

In other golf news, Hank Haney, Tiger Woods' former coach has been suspended from his role as co-host of a PGA Tour radio show, after making comments that were deemed inappropriate and racist when referring to this week's US Women's Open.

Haney is the greatest conman of a swing coach that I can remember, on a par with Nick Bradley. He is also a bit of a mouthpiece too and would constantly have a go against Tiger on many occasions. I never liked what Haney was doing to Tiger's swing and to be honest there is a correlation to the injuries that Tiger had, while Haney was still his coach during that time in the mid 00's.

Thankfully for Tiger fans, he is gone from Haney and is now swinging it the best he has ever done during his professional career.

Potential Underachiever

What do we think of the Kuchar situation?

It looked possible to me that it hopped up and came back into it's own pitch mark, the ball certainly wasn't far from it's own pitch mark so surely there would have been another pitchmark close by but I didn't see any. Sky kept saying it spun to the right, I didn't see it like that at all. Thing is Kuchar wasn't even claiming it was his own, what he was actually claiming was ridiculous in fairness.

Eddie Pepperell only pro I've seen tweet about it....

https://twitter.com/PepperellEddie/status/1134225866848911360

eagle eye

I thought Kuchar had a very good point. I thought the ball buried, there was a hole but when his ball hit it the hole got bigger so imo that is a plugged ball.

On the Bryson thing, I'm not a big fan but wishing him no luck for the rest of his life is way ott imo.

And Eddie Pepperell just took a nose dive in my estimation with that tweet.

Donald Trumped

eagle eye wrote: »

I thought Kuchar had a very good point. I thought the ball buried, there was a hole but when his ball hit it the hole got bigger so imo that is a plugged ball.

On the Bryson thing, I'm not a big fan but wishing him no luck for the rest of his life is way ott imo.

And Eddie Pepperell just took a nose dive in my estimation with that tweet.

Instead of accepting that he has a problem re slow play, De Chambeau goes on in this rant that he is not the problem, but the tour officials are not being fair to him. He even tries the narrative of being "a victim" here.

Even Tiger who was his playing partner along with Justin Rose in the 1st round of the Memorial Tournament yesterday said that it had a negative effect on the group in general as the last eight holes of their round, they were put on the clock.

Imo Bryson does some unusual things. Slow play should not be one of those things. He is putting the blame on others about this issue and he should be taken to task about it. Finally I never said that I wish him no luck for the rest of his life. I just think that if he continues in that way of not admitting that he has a problem about this most sensitive of issues then that reflects extremely badly on him.

If he continues with this reticence and having a bad attitude then quite frankly he deserves little or no respect for the rest of his golfing career.

JCDUB

eagle eye wrote: »

I thought Kuchar had a very good point. I thought the ball buried, there was a hole but when his ball hit it the hole got bigger so imo that is a plugged ball.


And Eddie Pepperell just took a nose dive in my estimation with that tweet.

Kuchar is an a$$hole, plain and simple. He didn't like a perfectly legitimate ruling, so he threw the toys out of the pram and asked for a second opinion.
When the second opinion was the same as the first, he actually asked for a third. What an arrogant, self-absorbed pr1ck.
And the El Tucan incident.......

Eddie Pepperell is deadly, very funny on twitter and tells it like it is, including when talking about himself and his game.

Blinky Plebum

JCDUB wrote: »

Kuchar is an a$$hole, plain and simple. He didn't like a perfectly legitimate ruling, so he threw the toys out of the pram and asked for a second opinion.
When the second opinion was the same as the first, he actually asked for a third. What an arrogant, self-absorbed pr1ck.
And the El Tucan incident.......

Eddie Pepperell is deadly, very funny on twitter and tells it like it is, including when talking about himself and his game.

More golfers like Eddie Pepperell would be great for the game, at least he has some personality unlike the likes of Kuchar.

PhuckHugh22

JCDUB wrote: »

Kuchar is an a$$hole, plain and simple. He didn't like a perfectly legitimate ruling, so he threw the toys out of the pram and asked for a second opinion.
When the second opinion was the same as the first, he actually asked for a third. What an arrogant, self-absorbed pr1ck.
And the El Tucan incident.......

Eddie Pepperell is deadly, very funny on twitter and tells it like it is, including when talking about himself and his game.

Did ye see when he said this. Rickie nearly fell over laughing. Was comical really.

SeeMoreBut

Did Kuchar not agree that it wasn't the pitch mark from the first bounce but on it's second bounce. Stinks of if I ask enough refs one of them will be intimidated and give him what he wants.

Bryson is just painful to watch. His way of thinking of the game is interesting but unbelievable slow.

Eddie is great for the game.

PhuckHugh22

SeeMoreBut wrote: »

Did Kuchar not agree that it wasn't the pitch mark from the first bounce but on it's second bounce. Stinks of if I ask enough refs one of them will be intimidated and give him what he wants.

Bryson is just painful to watch. His way of thinking of the game is interesting but unbelievable slow.

Eddie is great for the game.

Yes he was arguing that it may have made an indentation on the second bounce inside the already formed pitch mark it was brutal tbh.

To my eye it looked like the pitch mark he landed in was his actual pitchmark. Ball bounced backwards on first bounce and then kind of hopped forward. But it was hard to see on the angle i seen and i seen some arguing that it definitely bounced right after the first bounce.

Either way it was clear he was looking for something that wasnt there.

eagle eye

JCDUB wrote:

Kuchar is an a$$hole, plain and simple. He didn't like a perfectly legitimate ruling, so he threw the toys out of the pram and asked for a second opinion. When the second opinion was the same as the first, he actually asked for a third. What an arrogant, self-absorbed pr1ck. And the El Tucan incident.......

Well and m pretty confident that Kuchar was right as regards a plugged ball.

LuckyGent88

Rory and his wedge shots would drive you mad. He is just brutal with them really for his level.

We all question his putting but for me it’s his wedges that are the main issue. Doesn’t take advantage of his driving strengths enough

The_Kew_Tour

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Rory and his wedge shots would drive you mad. He is just brutal with them really for his level.

We all question his putting but for me it’s his wedges that are the main issue. Doesn’t take advantage of his driving strengths enough

I thought I was only one who thought that.

His Wedges are actually so so poor but its not the part that gets highlighted enough

eagle eye

Kaymer looked great yesterday, back to his too European days. Some top notch golfers chasing him, should be a cracking final round unless Kaymer can check out like he did yesterday.

JCDUB

eagle eye wrote: »

Well and m pretty confident that Kuchar was right as regards a plugged ball.

In what way was he right?

The ball stopped in a pitch mark that was there before his ball landed. It clearly wasn't his own pitch mark.

He tried to say that his ball rolling into it made it bigger and deeper.

Two rules officials told him to get off the stage and play it as it lies and he asked for a third opinion, like a petulant child.

A very poor example to set for youngsters watching on TV. "If you don't agree with a rules official, try to bully him into the decision you want."