PGA Tour Thread

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Jesus Henley now. The field are just dripping shots all around.

LuckyGent88

Haha, clearly not quite Rory’s day regardless of his own mistake on 5.

Chip stops on lip on 2, ball gets stopped by Scott’s when tracking to the pin on 7, then hits a drive down 8 and finishes in a divot!!!

Kuchar looking the most composed. Fairway green fairway green.

Although holes 12-16 will decide this tournament I think

LuckyGent88

So the joint leader tops his tee shot on the 10th with a 3 wood and CBS don’t show it, they miss DJ’s second on ten.

CBS is some disaster for coverage. Pathetic stuff

First Up

LuckyGent88 wrote:

CBS is some disaster for coverage. Pathetic stuff

Are you watching it on CBS?

Remind me

First Up wrote: »

Are you watching it on CBS?

We all are if you’re watching on Sky

LuckyGent88

First Up wrote: »

Are you watching it on CBS?

Sky feed is from CBS so we all get the shocking cbs coverage. Ridiculous change of broadcaster rubbish which today happened at the 5th so all the people in the US wouldn’t have seen the meltdowns live.

First Up

Remind me wrote:

We all are if you’re watching on Sky

No, Sky decide what they show from the (many) options provided by the host broadcaster. That's how TV coverage works.

You think the local broadcasters in the UK, US, Canada, Japan etc. are all showing the same players?

LuckyGent88

10 under will actually win this thing. The course is playing so good. Nothing tricky. Just an old school test of golf.

LuckyGent88

First Up wrote: »

No, Sky decide what they show from the (many) options provided by the host broadcaster. That's how TV coverage works.

You think the local broadcasters in the UK, US, Canada, Japan etc. are all showing the same players?

Your wrong in this case. Sky have the CBS feed. It’s very well known. They have there own commentary team alright but not the coverage. Sometimes you will notice the coverage goes to the cbs booth. No chance sky would have this many ads in the final round golf coverage with this tight leaderboard.

First Up

LuckyGent88 wrote:

Your wrong in this case. Sky have the CBS feed. It’s very well known. They have there own commentary team alright but not the coverage. Sometimes you will notice the coverage goes to the cbs booth. No chance sky would have this many ads in the final round golf coverage with this tight leaderboard.

I am pretty sure that if it was the CBS feed, we'd be seeing Tiger coasting to 2nd last place.

LuckyGent88

First Up wrote: »

I am pretty sure that if it was the CBS feed, we'd be seeing Tiger coasting to 2nd last place.

We were still watching him when he was 8 over.

Clutch putt from Scott after a terrible chip.

Mantis Toboggan

Golf coverage is generally terrible outside of the majors, for whatever reason.

ionadnapóca

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

10 under will actually win this thing. The course is playing so good. Nothing tricky. Just an old school test of golf.

Adam Scott looks comfortable. Could pick up a few more shots.

ionadnapokot

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Adam Scott looks comfortable. Could pick up a few more shots.

The putter is hot. Tournament increasingly his to lose.

First Up

I have access to CBS (I don't think I'm allowed give the name of the app) and while much of the coverage is the same, I can assure you that there are differences.

ionadnapóca

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The putter is hot. Tournament increasingly his to lose.

“He’s in the zone”
Didn’t notice the group ahead off the tee!

Mushy

Nice to see a course where they arent blitzing it

Rikand

thought that was an awful chip from rory, was actually brilliant!

FixdePitchmark

I still hate the long putter.

Mushy

Rikand wrote: »

thought that was an awful chip from rory, was actually brilliant!

Not the only one. Bogey from Scott keeps me up for another hole

ionadnapóca

Mushy wrote: »

Not the only one. Bogey from Scott keeps me up for another hole

5 man playoff world be nice!

ionadnapóca

Great drive from Scott
Under pressure there

Banner2theend

That was one great tournament in Riviera. Lots of positives for Rory to take even though the win was out of reach for him. Don't be surprised to see him back in the winners enclosure in Mexico come next Sunday. He's very close to his best.

Adam Scott should win more tournments. IMO he along with Rory and Louis Oosthuizen have the 3 best swings in golf. However the Australians downfall is on and around the greens and when he conquers that aspect of the game then he can make the game of golf ridiculously easy. Despite this I was delighted to see him get over the line even though I was hoping that Rory would get the job done.

Sad to see Tiger struggling. He clearly is no where near 100% fit and paid the ultimate price by finishing 22 shots behind the winner. Personally he should just focus on playing 10 events a year which in other words is semi-retirement yes, but there is no way the man can ever play a full schedule again.

Finally an appreciation to the course itself. What a layout. With the firm and fiery conditions it was one tough test of golf. If they could do one thing though and that's make the way too easy par 5 first hole to a par 4 then you would have one of the fairest yet toughest tests in championship golf.

benny79

What was so hard about it though? was it the greens or grass as on telly it looked wide open. But have to say it is great TV not seen them destroy a course.

eagle eye

benny79 wrote:

What was so hard about it though? was it the greens or grass as on telly it looked wide open. But have to say it is great TV not seen them destroy a course.

Everything, tough tee shots, penalising rough, greens like Augusta.

eagle eye

Banner2theend wrote:

Sad to see Tiger struggling. He clearly is no where near 100% fit and paid the ultimate price by finishing 22 shots behind the winner. Personally he should just focus on playing 10 events a year which in other words is semi-retirement yes, but there is no way the man can ever play a full schedule again.

It's got nothing to do with his fitness. He is going to have bad weeks given everything he has went through but his biggest issues on the weekend were putting and more importantly being tournament host.
I was very surprised to see him take on the duties of being the host, it takes a toll and you don't have the opportunity to go through your normal pre-game routine.
If you go through all PGA players that have taken on host duties you'll see a lot of missed cuts and from top players too.
I fully agree with the rest of your post.

Remind me

eagle eye wrote: »

It's got nothing to do with his fitness. He is going to have bad weeks given everything he has went through but his biggest issues on the weekend were putting and more importantly being tournament host.
I was very surprised to see him take on the duties of being the host, it takes a toll and you don't have the opportunity to go through your normal pre-game routine.
If you go through all PGA players that have taken on host duties you'll see a lot of missed cuts and from top players too.
I fully agree with the rest of your post.

I thought he has hosted this tournament for a good few years but the difference this year was it was a full field?

eagle eye

Remind me wrote:

I thought he has hosted this tournament for a good few years but the difference this year was it was a full field?

It was upgraded to an invitational this year. Huge tournament from now on, lots of really big sponsors added, bigger prize money, reduced field size and most of the big guns playing.

Banner2theend

eagle eye wrote: »

It's got nothing to do with his fitness. He is going to have bad weeks given everything he has went through but his biggest issues on the weekend were putting and more importantly being tournament host.
I was very surprised to see him take on the duties of being the host, it takes a toll and you don't have the opportunity to go through your normal pre-game routine.
If you go through all PGA players that have taken on host duties you'll see a lot of missed cuts and from top players too.
I fully agree with the rest of your post.

If you look at the comments that Tiger made after his final round on Sunday, the one word that jumps out is "stiffness". I know that in the greater scheme of all the injuries that Tiger endured this is one of the least he has to worry about as been a bit stiff can happen to anyone particularly those athletes that continue with their respective sporting careers post 40.

However if you are Tiger you must make allowances. Deep down if he could get away with just playing the 4 majors a year and that's it, he would do it. His main goal is to win 19 majors and defeat Jack Nicklaus' record of 18. I have criticised Tiger in the past of playing far too few events particularly in his prime from 2000 to 2002 when it was in effect a contest for second place after Tiger.

But it's getting quite obvious that his body just cannot take the strain of playing a full schedule anymore. It's the majors that he now must concentrate. I get the impression that if TW did get to 19 plus majors already he may well have called it quits 're competitive playing by now. Deep down that win in Augusta in 2019 must have meant so much to him.

Above all else though is that desire to hold the major record of 19 still drives the man to this day. The big question is can he achieve what many believe to be the improbable. I have written off Tiger about over a thousand times in his career. But yet he continues to defy the naysayers and achieve things that are tbh are astounding. He will defend his title at Augusta in around 7 weeks of so. With 5 Green jackets to his name, I for one would be foolish to write him off. The auld saying of "write him off at your peril" could not be more true.

GreeBo

Banner2theend wrote: »

If you look at the comments that Tiger made after his final round on Sunday, the one word that jumps out is "stiffness". I know that in the greater scheme of all the injuries that Tiger endured this is one of the least he has to worry about as been a bit stiff can happen to anyone particularly those athletes that continue with their respective sporting careers post 40.

However if you are Tiger you must make allowances. Deep down if he could get away with just playing the 4 majors a year and that's it, he would do it. His main goal is to win 19 majors and defeat Jack Nicklaus' record of 18. I have criticised Tiger in the past of playing far too few events particularly in his prime from 2000 to 2002 when it was in effect a contest for second place after Tiger.

But it's getting quite obvious that his body just cannot take the strain of playing a full schedule anymore. It's the majors that he now must concentrate. I get the impression that if TW did get to 19 plus majors already he may well have called it quits 're competitive playing by now. Deep down that win in Augusta in 2019 must have meant so much to him.

Above all else though is that desire to hold the major record of 19 still drives the man to this day. The big question is can he achieve what many believe to be the improbable. I have written off Tiger about over a thousand times in his career. But yet he continues to defy the naysayers and achieve things that are tbh are astounding. He will defend his title at Augusta in around 7 weeks of so. With 5 Green jackets to his name, I for one would be foolish to write him off. The auld saying of "write him off at your peril" could not be more true.

But he has said several times before that he can manage the stiffness, he just needs time to warm up. He joked that if he wanted to play a few holes with the interviewer (might have been Beemer) that he would need to go stretch for 90 mins beforehand.

Being the host must have eaten into his prep time. Its also why early starts like at The Open dont really suit him, a 7:30am start has him out of bed before 5