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Watched the 3 rounds of LIV this week. Great course. Love the desert. Spectacular scenery. Fantastic condition.
Golf wasn’t too bad but to quote Tony Kornheiser, the format is confusing and junky.
Get rid of this tacky, cartoonish teams thing. Nobody cares. Get rid of the shotgun start. You’ve got guys in contention all over the course, nobody knows what holes they’re on and what’s ahead for them. Ffs …you’ve got winners or potential winners finishing on the 15th hole or whatever with nobody watching them ! Ridiculous.
Scoreboards are all over the place trying to keep track of everything. The coverage keeps flipping between individual stuff and then team stuff. It’s all over the place. Silly, annoying music. A lot of the big stars they’ve paid hundreds of millions of dollars to continue to play poorly eg De Chumpo, Cupcakes Koepka etc
PGA Tour has it well and truly covered - for now - I believe.
Golf wasn’t too bad but to quote Tony Kornheiser, the format is confusing and junky.
Get rid of this tacky, cartoonish teams thing. Nobody cares. Get rid of the shotgun start. You’ve got guys in contention all over the course, nobody knows what holes they’re on and what’s ahead for them. Ffs …you’ve got winners or potential winners finishing on the 15th hole or whatever with nobody watching them ! Ridiculous.
Scoreboards are all over the place trying to keep track of everything. The coverage keeps flipping between individual stuff and then team stuff. It’s all over the place. Silly, annoying music. A lot of the big stars they’ve paid hundreds of millions of dollars to continue to play poorly eg De Chumpo, Cupcakes Koepka etc
PGA Tour has it well and truly covered - for now - I believe.
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I reckon Rahm is a bit of an *smile*. All smiles when he’s playing well. Nasty when he’s not.
That's awesome. What a great experience for young and old alike.
One of golf's true gentlemen he is.
Didn’t mind seeing him getting the approval of the rules official in this case
These blokes have to cope with TV viewers calling out players for what they (the viewers) regard as rules violation.
That is a yellow or regular water hazard.
Every player - especially a PGA Tour pro - should know that relief is either:
1. Stroke and distance or some events have a drop circle.
2. Drop a ball BEHIND the hazard anywhere on a straight line drawn from the hole through the spot where the ball crossed over the hazard’s YELLOW margin as it went in. Which typically you would agree with your playing partner.
But Spieth had no idea. Rules official had to explain it to him.
There is little to no room for any spectator intervention given how long he took to play ie the spot he hit from and where it crossed the line of the hazard, which again he simply validates with his playing partner.
No rules official is gonna penalise him via any bs spectator involvement if he’s confirmed the obvious line with his playing partner. You see it being applied all the time on Tour. Week on week. A classic one is the 18th at Torrey Pines. Simple.
Basic, 101, fundamental rules of golf. Curt Byrum explains it in the coverage in 5 seconds.
Absolutely no need for a rules official what so ever. If a player doesn’t know that basic rule, pro or amateur, they wanna maybe take 5 minutes to read the fundamentals.
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OK - you say Spieth had "no idea". Really! None at all?
I reckon he had a very good idea - and just wanted the endorsement to avoid any possible ramifications.
It's not uncommon for these blokes to call in a rules official to endorse pretty common relief or drop situations.
TV viewers regularly call out players - and rightly so in the case of Patrick Reed.
He had none ! The rules official has to explain it to him. Listen to it. “So I do have the point in line ?” Errr…yes you do Jordan. That’s the fundamental piece of taking relief from a water hazard. *** moron.
There is absolutely no reason to call a rules official. Commentators like Faldo and co have been complaining about it for years and the slow play problem it exacerbates.
And what’s the rules official gonna tell him about his line either ? He wasn’t there ! His playing partner was however and if Spieth knew the rules he’d just take his drop “back along the line” in conjunction with his playing partner like every bog standard amateur club golfer does every week.
Didn’t know the rules and wasted everyone’s time both before his shot and then after. Absolute dhead.
Jordan Spieth is an utter pain in the arse on the golf course.
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Did you see Hatton at the end of the match ? Looked the other way as Herbie putted to win from 5 feet then gave him the stink eye and couldn’t mutter a word when shaking hands.
Yeah I did, it was disgraceful. I’ve thought that he gets a bad rap at times, but that was bad sportsmanship, **** him.
Yes, but he’s world’s unluckiest golfer remember.
That drive from McIlroy was outrageous. And to think, Mr Burnside reckons his swing is no good. Heh heh heh….
Just came of a round on the Moonah course at the National, it’s as good as I’ve seen it , greens are not super quick leading into next weeks PGA event , apparently strong winds are forecast ( they are every day ) so they are keeping it safe, the rough has died of a bit which is a shame as if it was US Open long like it is a lot of the time it would be a great test for the lads . If the winds are up it’ll be very interesting to see how low they can go
Free entry for the event , and they are using Gunamatta as the car park ( make a better car park then golf course ) , definitely worth coming down for a look if you haven’t played Moonah
Free entry for the event , and they are using Gunamatta as the car park ( make a better car park then golf course ) , definitely worth coming down for a look if you haven’t played Moonah
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