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Season long PGA tour thread--the presidents cup from south korea

Yeah, he fell apart on the back 9 once he got the lead. With a guy behind him who had never won a tournament. Not exactly a clutch performance down the stretch.
 
DCDeac said:
I'm always jealous of the courses these guys play. Not just the conditions - but you can hit drives 50 yards right and go find it and hit it again. 80% of the semi-private/public courses we play tournaments on might have nice fairways - but 20 yards left or right it's OB, or just overgrown lost ball junk, or if you're lucky marked as hazard. I got to play Congressional once and you could hit it anywhere. I think it was Merion where Sergio hit multiple consecutive drives out of bounds just because pros so rarely run into those situations. Think if the Old Course had trouble left on the closing 2 holes - half the guys bailed out into the parallel fairways. Really I just think more courses should ditch OB in favor of lateral hazards, since safety golf is boring to play and to watch.
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This is the truth. Too many DC region courses (especially the newer ones) have death awaiting everywhere. I recall playing CrossCreek in a GolfStyles tournament a few years back. That course had 15-20 yards wide fairways with penalties everywhere else. I had a solid round but for an 8 on one particular doozy (14?), even after playing safe with a 5-iron off the tee on a 400-plus yard hole. There were literally no bailout areas, and you can't punch out of a swamp. The Norman course at Landsdowne is particularly bad as well, but really, just pick a name out of hat for newer public courses in the area.
 
I don't play much on the public courses any more but I think some of the pay to play courses in the DC area have very reasonable landing areas--Westfield, Laurel Hill, Raspberry Falls come to mind. Maybe I am forgetting the bad ones. Old Hickory is just a stupid course.
 
DCDeac said:
I'm always jealous of the courses these guys play. Not just the conditions - but you can hit drives 50 yards right and go find it and hit it again. 80% of the semi-private/public courses we play tournaments on might have nice fairways - but 20 yards left or right it's OB, or just overgrown lost ball junk, or if you're lucky marked as hazard. I got to play Congressional once and you could hit it anywhere. I think it was Merion where Sergio hit multiple consecutive drives out of bounds just because pros so rarely run into those situations. Think if the Old Course had trouble left on the closing 2 holes - half the guys bailed out into the parallel fairways. Really I just think more courses should ditch OB in favor of lateral hazards, since safety golf is boring to play and to watch.
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Anybody catch the Web.com event this weekend? I glommed onto just b/c there was a playoff so a lot more drama than the PGA event. It was somewhere in Utah; no other way to describe the course than ugly. It looked like some of the public nine-holer where you put your $5 in an honors box at the first tee.
 
The Web.com played at the University of Maryland course a while back. They play some decent courses but they also play plenty of 2nd tier junk. Talk about a tough way to make a living.
 
cville deac said:
Was watching some of the women's British and the Euros in Aberdeen while working out and over lunch. Inbee Park is the Nick Faldo of women's golf. She lurks and wins majors when someone else chokes on the back 9 on Sunday. Nice to see Aphibarnrat win a Euro event.

Anyway, I love to watch tournaments played on links courses in Scotland and Ireland. Never been to either. Those of you who are good and have played over there, what are your favorite courses, and what is the best Open venue? Watching on TV, Turnberry seems to me to be up there.
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My favorite courses in Scotland are Royal Dornoch and Western Gailes. I would rank the Open venues I have played: Carnoustie, Troon, Old Course, Turnberry. Prestwick used to host it a ton and was a fun course.
 
Weird not seeing Tiger in the Bridgestone.
Hopefully Haas can build on the momentum of his 1st 65 holes last week. He jumped from 16 to 13 in President's Cup standings. Going to be really awkward if he doesn't automatically qualify with his Dad as captain.
Reifers fighting to make the FedEx playoffs/keep his Tour card in the "other" Tour event this week (out in Reno). He only picked up 11 FedEx Cup points in June & July, but got 23 last weekend which were huge. Moved him up to #118.
 
DownEastDeac said:
Anybody catch the Web.com event this weekend? I glommed onto just b/c there was a playoff so a lot more drama than the PGA event. It was somewhere in Utah; no other way to describe the course than ugly. It looked like some of the public nine-holer where you put your $5 in an honors box at the first tee.
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Yeah - didn't look too good on TV. It is Tony Finau's home course so it must be a good track if a tour pro (and budding star) calls it home....
 
qcdeac said:
Weird not seeing Tiger in the Bridgestone.
Hopefully Haas can build on the momentum of his 1st 65 holes last week. He jumped from 16 to 13 in President's Cup standings. Going to be really awkward if he doesn't automatically qualify with his Dad as captain.
Reifers fighting to make the FedEx playoffs/keep his Tour card in the "other" Tour event this week (out in Reno). He only picked up 11 FedEx Cup points in June & July, but got 23 last weekend which were huge. Moved him up to #118.
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I would be surprised if Haas feels a lot of momentum after he pretty much fell apart on the back nine at RTJ. Don't recall him collapsing like that in recent years---had to be very disappointing. That one was there for the taking.
 
Troy Merrit isn't exactly riding his wave of momentum at the moment...
 
Sergio had a nice start going today and proceeded to make a 9 on 17 (he started on 10)
 
RattlerDeac said:
Yeah - didn't look too good on TV. It is Tony Finau's home course so it must be a good track if a tour pro (and budding star) calls it home....
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I remember years ago the Web.com Tour, then it was either the Hogan Tour or Nike Tour had an event at Sedgefield in Jamestown, NC (where the PGA tour's Wyndam Championship is now) and the fairways had been lost prior to the event and the guys were basically playing off dirt. The players were allowed to lift clean and place and it was bone dry, that's how bad the fairways were.
 
simosfrostyone said:
I don't think great courses are begging to host web.com events.
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Definitely not. I know U of M lost a ton of money overall on their run of Web.com hosting. It's not like getting a US Am or some other USGA event where they cover course improvement expenses. The hope is it increases local prestige and draws more members...
 
T2 now. That didn't take long. JJ Henry birdied.
 
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