OT: Golf: PGA leaderboard link

[Blakeon18]

PGA of America

The PGA of America is one of the world's largest sports organizations, composed of PGA of America Golf Professionals who work daily to grow interest and participation in the game of golf.

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Second major of the year at Bethpage Black.
Long/tough/huge bunkers..should be a great event.
Lousy weather early this week but looks pretty good thru Sunday.

Two stories will dominate: Tiger and John Daly.

There will be a huge kerfluffle if Daly and his cart damage the course...ruts in the fairly wet fairways...do players get a drop?

 

[Blakeon18]

No kerfluffle as far as I could tell. Tiger..too erratic.
No hole isvisually spectactular but the overall presentation looked just great on TV.

 

[Orangutan]

Spieth is my rooting interest. Still waiting for a breakout as he attempts to get back to top form. Started well yesterday but doubled #10 and at -1. Decent but I don't see him contending.

Hoping Koepka doesn't just run away with it. Seems like a decent fellow but personally I don't find him that entertaining.

 

[MainefanSC]

Spieth is my rooting interest. Still waiting for a breakout as he attempts to get back to top form. Started well yesterday but doubled #10 and at -1. Decent but I don't see him contending.

Hoping Koepka doesn't just run away with it. Seems like a decent fellow but personally I don't find him that entertaining.

I also like Spieth. However Phil is my present favorite. Jordan is sitting in good position but Brooks seems to be on his game again this year. Maybe someone will make a serious move tomorrow and follow up on Sunday.
My correction is that I wanted to say the it appears that Tiger will not make the cut. Does NOT break my heart.

 

[Tonyc]

I was there on Friday. Gotta be long and very straight. The ruff...all the ruff is very very deep. You cant move the ball very far out of the ruff. I thought many of the fairways were generous however the elevations off the tee and to many of the greens were tuff. The elevations were very very high like hitting off a mountain and to a mountain where makes depth perception very tuff. The game of golf has become a game of distance more so now then in the past. Controlled Length is what its all about. I know the PGA and R&A have been talking about how to make courses tuffer because to many players are overpowering golf courses today. We should expect to see some changes over the next 2-3 years from what I was told. Longer and thicker ruff, tighter fairways, and a change in the ball so it doesnt travel as far. Still with the length we are seeing from the players today its hard to expect that these players wont still shoot lights out. IMO one of the changes needs to be on the greens. More firm greens.