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Golf - 2018 U.S. Open @ Shinnecock Hills

Discussion in 'The Sports Book' started by acccrow, Jun 14, 2018.

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  1. ken2v

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    The BC Open at Erin Hills from last year? lol
     
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    Hey. The greens these guys are aiming at are amazingly large. You take away the false fronts and slopes etc etc etc which they have books on with diagrams to the inch, and you have a surface similar (but a bit larger) than the ones we aim at. Yes, it is punishing but they are not recreational, they are pros. Take a gamble on a shot to pick up a stroke on the field or possibly lose two. I love this tournament. It's position golf. Play the roll-out Don't get pissy when you hit by the pin and it rolls 30 yards off the back. Play short of the pin to minimize the danger. Pick your spots.

    Much more entertaining to me than -24 wins. -22 second place.

    I agree with the earlier post about score to par or just a score.
     
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    If par is just a score, why would -24 be less entertaining?
     
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    I don't think anyone is saying or wanting -20 to win the US Open but to be continually penalized for making a quality shot is not my cup of tea therefore I'm tuning out this weekend. The greens and pin locations are a joke
     
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    They aren't making quality shots, then.

    #11 is a great example of a hole that in two days, with different hole locations, has shown how the plan and execution has to change though they have only 8- or 9-iron in hand. Brilliant design.

    This isn't Winged Foot in '74 and not Shinnecock in '04.
     
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    Ok well i guess all but two of the best golfers in the world are having a off week. Come on man
     
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    That's it, that's your beef?

    Stenson, McIlroy and Day missed the cut at go-low Erin Hills last year. Did you turn it off?

    In this year's Masters the 2017 U.S. Open champ and the defending Masters champ missed the cut. Did you turn it off?
     
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    This is not the worst place an Open has been contested. I plan to watch all of them, even ones that are played on an old sand and gravel pit.
     
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    Because in my view and mine alone, to shoot a 68 for four days (just a number) and end up -24 just seems like something is too easy or guys are really good. There are "spots" on each green they must land the ball to be successful. When off the course becomes quite a bit more difficult. I would have to have a maximum stroke total for each hole or I couldn't finish before dark. I like watching the mental side of the players when in trouble and how they deal with it. Not enjoy, just like observing dealing with frustration and rough seas.

    And I am probably wrong as compared to most so I won't argue the point or attempt to have you see it my way. Like all of tv, you can always change the channel or hit the power button.
     
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    You sound like a recent transplant! lol

    Chambers was an agronomy problem. Chambers itself is a thoughtful, interesting and fun track. Tough. Some guys played it previously during the Am and said it was tougher then, it just didn't have the problems with the greens, notably on a few holes. I played it not long after that Am and it was still a beast. But I loved it. Good walk, too!
     
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    And that is the beauty of Equitable Stroke Control.
     
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    The BIG local news was Tiger's GIGANTIC yacht .
    People were driving down to the dock to take photos.
     
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    I loved in one of his pressers when in response to a question he said, "I'm staying on the dinghy."
     
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    That would be the sort of dinghy one docks at the summer cottage, if the cottage were named The Breakers.
     
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    I’m fine with the annual torment of the world’s best golfers by the smug USGA-even if it often looks more like pachinko than a golf tournament. I wish guys like Tiger and Spieth were playing well enough to make the weekend. It’s not the USGA’s fault that they’re not. I just like watching them.

    As a personal preference, I don’t like Fox’s golf coverage-I prefer the familiarity of CBS and NBC with the Golf Channel doing Thursdays and Fridays. Yesterday they couldn’t get the sound right and ran endless advertising. Lots of random features and weird interviews.

    Am I the only one who thinks Shinnecock is an ugly, treeless plain? We’re finally building some of those for ourselves in Texas (Trinity Forest should have been left a landfill-the landfill was not much uglier than the golf course)-hate ‘em. I like the Masters because it’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been, whether they’re playing golf on it or not.
     
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    Fox sucks. Indeed.

    Shinnecock's look doesn't bother me. It's actually looking more like it's original iteration now than 10 or 20 years ago. Like the massive tree-removal exercise at Oakmont. Not every course can and certainly should not look like Augusta National.
     
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    Fox sucks, Joe Buck sucks. I'm like old school golf courses with small greens and big tree-lined fairways like Southern Hills in Tulsa. They ruined Pinehurst too with all the waste areas.
     
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    This is starting to get as good as any tipping thread!
     
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    lol Old school. Shinnecock was one of the founding clubs of the USGA. That's, umm, old school. Yes, everything should be same-same!! Bandon would be so much better shrouded in Sahalie-like corridors.

    How about that Mickelson Meltdown!!
     
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    :thumbsup:

    Seems more Ellis Island v. steak or anything-but-downtown sucks!!
     
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