PGA Tour Thread

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Rich Beem got a sponsors invite this week and lies T18 after 2 rounds. You'd have to think he wasted a few years stuck in the studio. Should be well able to compete on the seniors tour next year.

He did well at the PGA too and he basically never plays competitively, he must've lost his passion for the game at some stage as he can obviously still compete.

Brandon Wu going along quietly at - 5, four back as I type. Wu is the fourth player from that pretty hot 2018 class. Woolf, Morikawa and Hovland all turned pro in the summer but Wu wanted to play the Walker Cup before turning pro so waited until the end of September.

Dr. Bre

Harrington going well this weekend not Padraig tho

Crowds look really poor, don't think there's even 20 people following the final group. Very weak field though, essentially a glorified Korn Ferry event

NDWC wrote: »

Crowds look really poor, don't think there's even 20 people following the final group. Very weak field though, essentially a glorified Korn Ferry event

Bad day to have a tournament finale in Houston, both the Houston Astros and Houston Texans were playing yesterday.

For these end of season events the PGA tour really need to try and ensure at least a couple of big names are playing in every tournament, weak fields clearly don't help capture the public's imagination.Number of World Ranking points for winning yesterday was 24 which is the same number available for the Bermuda Championship which is an alternative event played on the Weekend of the WGC event in China.

Remind me

NDWC wrote: »

Crowds look really poor, don't think there's even 20 people following the final group. Very weak field though, essentially a glorified Korn Ferry event

Still an $8 million purse

Mantis Toboggan

Remind me wrote: »

Still an $8 million purse

Crazy that that's more than a Rolex event with all the shouting and roaring the European Tour do around them.

Dr. Bre

Good start from Woods and Woodland in Japan

2nd round cancelled of the tournament in Japan.

Just saw some highlights of the first round and the crowds are seriously impressive looking has a sort of major championship look to it.

Mantis Toboggan

https://twitter.com/JustinRayGolf/status/1188090401804242944?s=19

Tiger flying it so far

It's going to be a Monday finish now.

It'll be a seriously impressive feat if Woods wins this week, the field is excellent

SharpshooterTom

Would tie Sam Snead's record wouldn't he?

Zaph

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

Would tie Sam Snead's record wouldn't he?

Yep, they'd both be on 82 wins.

HighLine

Tiger going to get 82 today. Wouldn't worry about Snead's record.. the figure is farcical at best.

abff

HighLine wrote: »

Tiger going to get 82 today. Wouldn't worry about Snead's record.. the figure is farcical at best.

Why is Snead's record farcical?

abff wrote: »

Why is Snead's record farcical?

I imagine because the sport wasn't as professional back then and a lot of tournaments would have had very weak fields compared to the modern era.

abff wrote: »

Why is Snead's record farcical?

- 6 of his wins were against fields of 15 or less, with one of those consisting of just 4 players.
- 3 of his wins were 36 hole events and one was an 18 hole event.

HighLine wrote:

Tiger going to get 82 today. Wouldn't worry about Snead's record.. the figure is farcical at best.

What can you tell me about Snead's era? His actual tournament wins record is much higher than the 82 PGA tour wins, he had over 40 wins outside of the PGA tour in his professional careers not including seniors golf.

HighLine

This article explains why the 82 figure is a farce.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/use-the-sam-snead-criteria-for-wins-tiger-woods-actually-has-95-tour-titles-well-explain

abff

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HighLine wrote: »

This article explains why the 82 figure is a farce.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/use-the-sam-snead-criteria-for-wins-tiger-woods-actually-has-95-tour-titles-well-explain

Thanks for that. Not sure I'd use the word farcical, but I agree that the total is somewhat exaggerated when measured against the criteria used to determine how many events Tiger has won.

eagle eye wrote: »

What can you tell me about Snead's era? His actual tournament wins record is much higher than the 82 PGA tour wins, he had over 40 wins outside of the PGA tour in his professional careers not including seniors golf.

Tiger has 108 professional tournament wins.

Watched most of the third round last night, Tiger's irons looked very sharp and his putting was as good as I've seen it in years (holes 1 and 18 aside).

slave1

And he does it, nicely crafted birdie to finish. Imagine what he would have done without the broken leg/shenanigans/back episodes

Dr. Bre

Will he play the WGC this weekend?