Golf majors

blue note · 06-09-2020 02:16PM

Masters / British open are my favourites, i couldn't really pick between them. The US is great too, but clearly 3rd. And I love watching the pga, but it's clearly 4th.

I wonder what the results would have been if it was a European publication. I definitely think the US would have gone down and British up. I suspect the masters would have dropped too. And even though it got a single vote, I thunk the pga would probably have gone down too.

GreeBo · 07-09-2020 01:53PM

I think the problem with the PGA is that its really just another event. Having it as a matchplay event (perhaps after a thursday strokes qualifier or something) weld make it different, but not sure how it would work from a spectator or tv point of view, only have 1 or 2 matches on the Sunday must have an impact.

CalamariFritti · 19-09-2020 07:29PM

2 days of strokes to a cut for 32 players. Ties go into a 3 hole payoff. Then matchplay. Saturday last 16 and quarters, Sunday semis and final. It could create something different, its own way of being special. I like it.

25-09-2020 10:36PM

Matmania wrote: »

I dont think it will happen but it would be great for golf imo. Seeing how the best in the world struggled at winged foot. Just moving the pga to different tough courses around the world would be great for the game. Golf most weeks is just pitch and putt. Its really to easy for them. Moving a major to tough courses around the world surely could only be good for the game. As most weeks on the pga tour is pitch and putt for them now.

What would the benefit be for the PGA of A in moving the PGA championship out of the US?

Western Pomise · 26-09-2020 06:48AM

I think that while Augusta is a fabulous course from an asthetics perspective,arguably it is a little short as a course for the modern power game,whereas at Winged Foot this year you saw World class players struggle with basic shot selection and putting.

Don’t get me wrong I love watching the drama unfold around Amen corner each year but the lovely manicured layout of the course is played up to by the TV stations.

So while the PGA may be the 4th major I think that sometimes the players who win it on tough courses don’t get enough credit for doing so.

Roger_007 · 26-09-2020 07:57AM

Don’t be surprised if there is BLM protest at the Masters this year. The Augusta club has a somewhat chequered history on the race issue. Clifford Roberts, one of the cofounders of the club, once declared :- “As long as I’m alive the golfers will be white and the caddies will be black”. And so it was until 1983.
The caddies boiler suit ‘uniform’ is also a throwback to the days of slavery. The sporting world has changed this year in relation to the race issue and I don’t think golf will be excluded from attention, particularly the Masters. Even the title ‘Masters’ has undesirable resonances.

26-09-2020 09:07AM

Roger_007 wrote: »

Don’t be surprised if there is BLM protest at the Masters this year. The Augusta club has a somewhat chequered history on the race issue. Clifford Roberts, one of the cofounders of the club, once declared :- “As long as I’m alive the golfers will be white and the caddies will be black”. And so it was until 1983.
The caddies boiler suit ‘uniform’ is also a throwback to the days of slavery. The sporting world has changed this year in relation to the race issue and I don’t think golf will be excluded from attention, particularly the Masters. Even the title ‘Masters’ has undesirable resonances.

It would certainly seem an obvious and high profile target, but surely they would be expecting it.

26-09-2020 09:08AM

Western Pomise wrote: »

I think that while Augusta is a fabulous course from an asthetics perspective,arguably it is a little short as a course for the modern power game,whereas at Winged Foot this year you saw World class players struggle with basic shot selection and putting.

Don’t get me wrong I love watching the drama unfold around Amen corner each year but the lovely manicured layout of the course is played up to by the TV stations.

So while the PGA may be the 4th major I think that sometimes the players who win it on tough courses don’t get enough credit for doing so.

All courses are becoming short for the modern power game.

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