The 2020 PGA Championship Thread

bren2001

tobsey wrote: »

People were commenting on twitter about how he was opening up the lob wedge to play a flop so if it was up too high he could go under it. I don’t agree with it because with how low he put the ball he had to go through a lot of grass. He seemed genuine as well with the way he was placing it.

I 100% think he was being genuine and didn't question his motives.

callaway92

That’s worrying for Koepka. He wouldn’t be doing this if not in a lot of pain.

Plasandrunt

McGinley giving Li stick about getting practice in...

bren2001

Plasandrunt wrote: »

McGinley giving Li stick about getting practice in...

People are calling him bland. I enjoyed his WeChat comment considering the news on it.

Shane snaps an iron after leaving second to the 13th well short. Needs to get in the clubhouse fast with weekend privileges secured.

CMcsporty

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Shane snaps an iron after leaving a second to the 13th miles short. Needs to get in the clubhouse fast with weekend privileges secured.

Wtf Shane?? He’s completely lost the head. I expect McIlroy to loose the head but he’s actually knuckled down and playing sensational stuff.

fullstop

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Shane snaps an iron after leaving second to the 13th well short. Needs to get in the clubhouse fast with weekend privileges secured.

****in ridiculous. That could cost him the cut. Will have been some capitulation if he misses it, was cruising along at -4.

CMcsporty

And then McIlroy triple bogeys!!!
So so typical from him!!

Tough watching that last hour

CMcsporty

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Until a few minutes ago. Triple out of nowhere, talk about giving it all back.

He never disappoints!
Birdie, Birdie, Birdie, Birdie, Par, Triple Bogey

Closing holes should be fun.
I think he will miss the cut now

Wayne "Radar" Riley, "sometimes it gets too warm to drink tea". I reckon he's been drinking something a little stronger this evening. Meanwhile the ESPN coverage is fixated on Haotong Li hitting balls on the range, with McGinley forecasting his impending doom. Fascinating, as Alliss would ingeniously mumble.

Par for Shane on 14, steady as she goes coming home.

Lowry in a fairway so hopefully he can make a birdie and an easy hole after too

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Lowry in a fairway so hopefully he can make a birdie and an easy hole after too

You called it. Hit a beaut to five feet and wasn't snatching at another. Keep the head for three more holes and the weekend is a blank canvas.

CMcsporty

Deleted User wrote: »

You called it. Hit a beaut to five feet and wasn't snatch at another. Keep the head for three more holes and the weekend is a blank canvas.

Birdie! Steady as she goes. Par, Bird, Par fin would put a spring back into his step.

Shot tracker so insanely beind even on the official site

Par for Shane could have done with 1 there

CMcsporty

i think Lowry has 6ft putt on 18 for Par and fin Even Par
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drained it!

callaway92

callaway92 wrote: »

I really like Koepka and McIlroy here. Lesser so Morikawa and massive odds Cameron Champ.

Obviously nobody has true course form but McIlroy won the WGC World Matchplay in 2015 on this course (albeit when in his peak of powers)

Koepka and Champ nice interests for betting going into the weekend. Morikawa had a disappointing back 9 and McIlroy’s triple bogey killed him.

LuckyGent88

I presume the posters who always give out about Rahms temper have done the same about Shane after he broke the club over his knee!!!

Golf is a frustrating game and these things tend to happen unfortunately. Always nice to see a bit of passion in the players. Shows some personality at least.

Rory getting plenty of plaudits online about his honesty with the ruling he got. Majority of other players wouldn’t have done the same I suspect. Scandalous of him to take a triple on 12. A bogey wouldn’t have been the worst but he just undone so much good work.

Realistically the leading score is 6 under as its hard to see Li stay out on top. Leaderboard is well stacked and anybody from even is still in with a shot.

Mantis Toboggan

Didn't see much of it last night what was the ruling with Rory?

Barnaboy

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Didn't see much of it last night what was the ruling with Rory?

A reporter accidentally stood on Rory's ball. Official offered him a lie which was 'too good ' theres a Twitter message a few posts back. Really classy from him.

Missed all the late drama. Went to bed just after midnight, just before Rory's great run and triple and Shane's meltdown.

And really sorry to see what happened to Kaymer, great confidence building round on Thursday. just one back, then shoots 82 last night to miss the cut by 7 shots. A once great player whose career faded badly.

LuckyGent88

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Didn't see much of it last night what was the ruling with Rory?

Someone stepped on his ball that was in the rough. Took a drop but then said to ref that he felt the lie was too good so he made the lie worse and played away!!

As above!!

Hopefully his little good gesture comes back in good karma.

Mantis Toboggan

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

I presume the posters who always give out about Rahms temper have done the same about Shane after he broke the club over his knee!!!

Golf is a frustrating game and these things tend to happen unfortunately. Always nice to see a bit of passion in the players. Shows some personality at least.

It's gas that showing emotion is seen as a good thing in almost every other sport, it shows drive, passion, a will to win, a never day die attitude.

In golf its a big no no.
Never got that.

Golfers like Hatton, Wallace and Rahm get absolutely slaughtered online for it.

HighLine

Ah I'm all for passion but snapping a club over your knee is just stupid and always should be ridiculed. I remember being up at RCD a few years ago and saw Shane damage his putter in temper early in the round and then had to putt with his wedge for the rest of the day... which he was actually quite good at

I'm hoping he can put last night's poor round behind him and press on over the weekend!

callaway92

HighLine wrote: »

Ah I'm all for passion but snapping a club over your knee is just stupid and always should be ridiculed. I remember being up at RCD a few years ago and saw Shane damage his putter in temper early in the round and then had to putt with his wedge for the rest of the day... which he was actually quite good at

I'm hoping he can put last night's poor round behind him and press on over the weekend!

Agreed.

Can’t be a case of when it’s Lowry ‘it’s nice to see some passion’ but if it’s a DeChambeau type person there’d be uproar and we’d have seen a hundred clips of it by now.

GreeBo

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

It's gas that showing emotion is seen as a good thing in almost every other sport, it shows drive, passion, a will to win, a never day die attitude.

In golf its a big no no.
Never got that.

Golfers like Hatton, Wallace and Rahm get absolutely slaughtered online for it.

That's because most other sports benefit from adrenaline, golf doesn't. It also, for me, shows a lack of control.
How many of the top golfers of all time break clubs?

The Tetrarch

Breaking a club or throwing it in a lake has no penalty when you get free clubs.
If they were not allowed that club (and only 13 clubs) for the rest of the tournament it would stop.

munsterlegend

Shane has just gone from -2 after 4 to +1 after 6. Three putted two greens in a row. Just not putting well enough at the moment.

Mysterypunter

McGinley spent 2 hours yesterday telling us all how Haotong Li is overdoing the practice, and that he will fall away, overdid his analysis a bit, relax dude. I enjoyed some of his stuff yesterday though wasn't as bad as usual

LuckyGent88

Those pins on 12 and 13 are scary hard.

If JT can finish his round where he is; I don’t think he will be that far away come end of today’s play.

Wind is continuously blowing, pins are tough and greens are firming up.

cknfriedrice1

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Those pins on 12 and 13 are scary hard.

If JT can finish his round where he is; I don’t think he will be that far away come end of today’s play.

Wind is continuously blowing, pins are tough and greens are firming up.

If he hadn’t of made those couple of bogeys on 8 & 9 I would have been reaching for the Paddy Power app however I still think he is a couple of shots too far back to really challenge come late tomorrow night.

LuckyGent88

One step forward followed inevitably by one step back from Rory. So frustrating. His driving has let him down a number of times this week. Miles offline on 6 after getting his 1st birdie of the die.

CMcsporty

Lowry fin with Birdie on 18 and -1.
Had some mad card from 4th to 10th hole
Birdie, Bogey, Double Bogey, Birdie, Par, Bogey, Birdie,

Redo91

Will the last group be out as late tomorrow? Reckon it will be nearly 4am before they are finished tonight. I think the US Open at Pebble last year finished around 1am on the Sunday cos I remember staying up for it but no way I will manage it this year if it’s this late.

Slanty

Why don’t they show champ? Longest hitter, top 5 on leaderboard and yet so coverage of of him

CMcsporty

Cameron who?

fullstop

Jaysus, Rose’s nose is looking very red and he’s doing a lot of rubbing at it. Hope it’s allergies!

bren2001

fullstop wrote: »

Jaysus, Rose’s nose is looking very red and he’s doing a lot of rubbing at it. Hope it’s allergies!

I hope you mean COVID and not the white stuff.

Slanty

Boned it over the green. Jeez they are human

fullstop

bren2001 wrote: »

I hope you mean COVID and not the white stuff.

Why on earth would you be sniffing coke going out to play in a major

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

Hard to see past Koepka. guy's a machine

Slanty

Really enjoying this, a proper test. Birdies are made to work for and fairways need to be hit.

Slanty

Champ -7 and still not being shown !

unplayable

Brooks being 4/1 here is beyond silly. Come on it’s widen open. Back 9 is gonna be tough

Motivator

Mysterypunter wrote: »

McGinley spent 2 hours yesterday telling us all how Haotong Li is overdoing the practice, and that he will fall away, overdid his analysis a bit, relax dude. I enjoyed some of his stuff yesterday though wasn't as bad as usual

McGinley is an asshole. Anyone who has had the misfortune of meeting him will attest to that. One of the worst, if not the worst, commentators/pundits/analysts I’ve ever seen.

One that sticks in the memory and I almost slap myself in the face out of frustration even thinking of it, is after the 2018 Ryder Cup McGinley spent about 10 minutes talking about the “up and coming guy on the PGA Tour and a guy everyone at home needs to watch out for”...Justin Thomas. Justin Thomas - a 25 year old Major and FedEx Cup winner the year before. I can’t believe Sky Sports are still paying this jerk off to appear on television.

eggy81

Morikawa is gifted.

Whoever you like this is top quality golf from many players.

I gotta say i like the **** bunkers too as they are meant to be a penalty and they are too easy for players these days

Degag

Motivator wrote: »

McGinley is an asshole. Anyone who has had the misfortune of meeting him will attest to that. One of the worst, if not the worst, commentators/pundits/analysts I’ve ever seen.

One that sticks in the memory and I almost slap myself in the face out of frustration even thinking of it, is after the 2018 Ryder Cup McGinley spent about 10 minutes talking about the “up and coming guy on the PGA Tour and a guy everyone at home needs to watch out for”...Justin Thomas. Justin Thomas - a 25 year old Major and FedEx Cup winner the year before. I can’t believe Sky Sports are still paying this jerk off to appear on television.

Well..... you could call him ignorant at best.

Calling him an asshole and a jerk cause of that may be just slightly, slightly over the top.:rolleyes:

Mysterypunter

This is ridiculous, it's like watching the world luck champions, Li hit a tee shot, and someone must have kicked it out of the ****e, then he missed the green, and holed a putt from off the green, De chambeau holed a putt at the last that was a miracle, and Casey holed out of a bunker on the 8th, I know it happens every week, but there is no reward any more for hitting drives and wedges, and leaving 15 foot putts, the courses are set up to encourage big driving goons, Finau, who is another par 5 goon, holed a 60 footer on a par 3, hit 38% of fairways yesterday and is still - 6, Bryson is 44% and -6.

CMcsporty

Hope DJ does it tomorrow. Just like watching his style.
or Tony Finau.
As for Casey. Is there a more slapable face in golf? Loves himself!