OT - 2017 PGA Championship (Quail Hollow)

[JSM1970]

A big problem golf has is there are 30-40 guys on the tour that are boring, unlikeable and bring no interest and 2-3 are always in and around the lead any given week.

This week so far it's Kisner & Stroud. You know CBS and the PGA are hoping they blow up so they can get some combo of Day/Hideki-Rickie in the final group tomorrow.

 

[Robertelamin]

A big problem golf has is there are 30-40 guys on the tour that are boring, unlikeable and bring no interest and 2-3 are always in and around the lead any given week.

This week so far it's Kisner & Stroud. You know CBS and the PGA are hoping they blow up so they can get some combo of Day/Hideki-Rickie in the final group tomorrow.

Most are boring but its golf. CBS obviously wanted Rory and Jordan and thats not going to happen, I'll I hope for is a clustered leaderboard.

 

[JSM1970]

Agree, but man, Kevin Kisner, wow. The least likeable and most boring player in a long time.

I think CBS just wanted some combo of Rory, Spieth, DJ, Day, Hideki and Rickie

Most are boring but its golf. CBS obviously wanted Rory and Jordan and thats not going to happen, I'll I hope for is a clustered leaderboard.

 

[mauconnfan]

A golf day in the JSM's world:

After shooting 94 in his Sunday orange Puma wear, flat brimmed Puma hat he comes in swearing if he could putt he would've broken 70, but the greens sucked. He sits in the golf club bar and looks at the beers on tap. The bartender Joe asked "What can I get you to drink?" to which JSM says "Your beers on tap choice blows what do you have in bottles?" He finally settles for a Narragansett kinger and looks at the TV seeing Kisner is leading the tournament to which he says "Joe is he the most boring golfer ever or what? I mean I think we need to hope Ricky can start winning because he's great and in case you didn't notice I model my game around him. This is boring watching this guy and Hideki can we put this on the little TV over there and get the Yankee game on this 60 incher? I mean have you been watching Judge, God does he suck I want to see one more K so I can tell everyone just how pitiful he is?" Joe to JSM - "would you like a menu?" JSM "I'm hungry as hell but if you're food is anything like you're beer choices I'm afraid to order anything here most of it must suck" As he's sipping a beer he asks when they were going to fix the greens to which Joe replies "They have the Top greens in the state according to the PGA of America, easiest to make putts" JSM "well you need a new morning crew because today they sucked I mean I shot 94 and if the greens were good I would've been around 74 minimum" Joe laughs at him and walks to get his burger, when suddenly Aaron Judge strikes out looking on the big screen and immediately JSM grabs his napkin and heads to the men's room only to reappear 30 seconds later hungry as hell. His burger is waiting and he asks Joe to send it back because the cook doesn't know "what the hell medium is, this is rare and it's still walking get this back to the kitchen" After a couple major green hawkers from the cook, big slab of lettuce to cover it with another fresh tomato and a couple more minutes on the grill it comes back out perfect, medium. "Much more flavor this is the way I always like it..you know my beer has been empty for 1 minute and half already can I have another one?"

Leaves Joe 10% for the tip and say to Joe "I like you but I have to go by overall service and the food sucked and the beer choice was awful as were the greens. But you're a good guy I'll be back to keep you company soon!"

As he grabs his clubs outside and looks at the ranger he said, "Do you bring clubs to the car for me?" to which the ranger smiled and said no - JSM replied "Tell your pro this place sucks! Oh and have a good night"

 

[Drew]

Jason Day just completely and totally collapsed on 18. Shoots a quad bogey 8. Tried to be a hero from here:



and wound up having to take an unplayable and hit his fourth shot from the attached image below.

Should be a wild wild Sunday. I'm taking Oosthuizen.

 

[JSM1970]

Couldn't exactly follow all of this, but I'm a big tipper. And always tip in cash. That's an area u can't criticize me. All others pretty fair.

I can't stand Kisner or Stroud.

A golf day in the JSM's world:

After shooting 94 in his Sunday orange Puma wear, flat brimmed Puma hat he comes in swearing if he could putt he would've broken 70, but the greens sucked. He sits in the golf club bar and looks at the beers on tap. The bartender Joe asked "What can I get you to drink?" to which JSM says "Your beers on tap choice blows what do you have in bottles?" He finally settles for a Narragansett kinger and looks at the TV seeing Kisner is leading the tournament to which he says "Joe is he the most boring golfer ever or what? I mean I think we need to hope Ricky can start winning because he's great and in case you didn't notice I model my game around him. This is boring watching this guy and Hideki can we put this on the little TV over there and get the Yankee game on this 60 incher? I mean have you been watching Judge, God does he suck I want to see one more K so I can tell everyone just how pitiful he is?" Joe to JSM - "would you like a menu?" JSM "I'm hungry as hell but if you're food is anything like you're beer choices I'm afraid to order anything here most of it must suck" As he's sipping a beer he asks when they were going to fix the greens to which Joe replies "They have the Top greens in the state according to the PGA of America, easiest to make putts" JSM "well you need a new morning crew because today they sucked I mean I shot 94 and if the greens were good I would've been around 74 minimum" Joe laughs at him and walks to get his burger, when suddenly Aaron Judge strikes out looking on the big screen and immediately JSM grabs his napkin and heads to the men's room only to reappear 30 seconds later hungry as hell. His burger is waiting and he asks Joe to send it back because the cook doesn't know "what the hell medium is, this is rare and it's still walking get this back to the kitchen" After a couple major green hawkers from the cook, big slab of lettuce to cover it with another fresh tomato and a couple more minutes on the grill it comes back out perfect, medium. "Much more flavor this is the way I always like it..you know my beer has been empty for 1 minute and half already can I have another one?"

Leaves Joe 10% for the tip and say to Joe "I like you but I have to go by overall service and the food sucked and the beer choice was awful as were the greens. But you're a good guy I'll be back to keep you company soon!"

As he grabs his clubs outside and looks at the ranger he said, "Do you bring clubs to the car for me?" to which the ranger smiled and said no - JSM replied "Tell your pro this place sucks! Oh and have a good night"

 

[mauconnfan]

Jason Day just completely and totally collapsed on 18. Shoots a quad bogey 8. Tried to be a hero from here:



and wound up having to take an unplayable and hit his fourth shot from the attached image below.

Should be a wild wild Sunday. I'm taking Oosthuizen.

Missed the end - that's crazy because he just had gotten himself back in it with 3 birds in a row. He's having a rough year, not the same player who looked at one point last year like he could dominate for a while.

 

[Robertelamin]

Agree, but man, Kevin Kisner, wow. The least likeable and most boring player in a long time.

I think CBS just wanted some combo of Rory, Spieth, DJ, Day, Hideki and Rickie

Why is he unlikeable?

 

[JSM1970]

Kisner & Stroud final pairing, brutally bad

Day blew up, Rickie sucked

Have to hope Hideki goes low tomm

Why is he unlikeable?

 

[Jaker]

Why didn't Day just chip out to his left to the fairway?

 

[JSM1970]

I think Day is like I'm going for it or losing anyway

I think he is like a guy who's not that into it. Has $50M in the bank, hot wife, young kids, maybe doesn't enjoy the grind

Why didn't Day just chip out to his left to the fairway?

 

[Mr. French]

Why didn't Day just chip out to his left to the fairway?

I didn't watch it today, but on the appearances of that picture it looks like an obvious choice to me too.

I'm a bit confused by that also, wonder if anyone knows the reason.

 

[jleves]

At this point, I have no idea, but I'll take Justin Thomas for the win. Stupid crazy day. I have no idea why Day chose to throw his chances away with a ridiculous shot that was still only give him an outside shot at a 5 instead going with an obvious shot that would give him a good shot at a 5 and a possible 4 like Oost took.

 

[mauconnfan]

Couldn't exactly follow all of this, but I'm a big tipper. And always tip in cash. That's an area u can't criticize me. All others pretty fair.

I can't stand Kisner or Stroud.

Have to give you a ton of credit JSM and I mean this. Just when I'm ready to throw you into the huskymagic fold you make me laugh. You took my reply and told me you were a good tipper which made me snicker, and respect you more not that it matters anyway. But you take this all in stride and I like that. And for the records, Jusge is awful right now, like really really bad. But you don't have a half year like that without having something in the tank. Hope you're wrong, I really do LOL

 

[Robertelamin]

This is going to be a fun ending.

 

[mauconnfan]

This is going to be a fun ending.

JSM is getting some excitement from Ricky as we speak. Stroud looks relaxed

 

[Drew]

Congratulations to Justin Thomas. Was awesome to see Spieth and Fowler sitting on the green waiting for him to finish

 

[Jerry1714]

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You realize that link was to a google search? It is comical how you make things up and when asked to prove them you cannot. Just be quite and move on.

 

[mauconnfan]

Ricky too little too late but nonetheless nice run.

JT is a stud.. 155 lbs of dynamite there will be more majors for him. USA wins 3 of 4 majors that's a good sign.

 

[storrsroars]

I was working outside and debated whether to go inside and watch the last few holes. I looked at the leaderboard and it was more like something you'd see at the John Deere Open than a major, so I decided to keep resealing the driveway.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I'm curious how long JT can last with that swing. He's small and he needs to torque that back, legs and hips to generate that power.

Used to be golfers wanted a graceful swing so they could play professionally for 25-30 years.

Now they figure they can bank a couple hundred million by age 35-40 and retired to corporate events.

In the meantime JT is fun to watch. He can go real low when necessary and it took him exactly two majors to recover from his US Open collapse.

 

[JSM1970]

He played a great back 9. Hideki was bad, Stroud & Kisner had zero chance. Rickie & Reed were great, just started too far back

Rickie lost the tourney on Green Mile yesterday. I will never say that again fortunately.

That course was incredibly unappealing on TV. I love the Open Championship courses. Augusta always looks good, but course is stupid now with 90 million changes because it's such a simple track today

Erin Hills was a joke, same with Chambers Bay. I hate these stupid man made dunes courses that are look phony

I'm curious how long JT can last with that swing. He's small and he needs to torque that back, legs and hips to generate that power.

Used to be golfers wanted a graceful swing so they could play professionally for 25-30 years.

Now they figure they can bank a couple hundred million by age 35-40 and retired to corporate events.

In the meantime JT is fun to watch. He can go real low when necessary and it took him exactly two majors to recover from his US Open collapse.

I'm curious how long JT can last with that swing. He's small and he needs to torque that back, legs and hips to generate that power.

Used to be golfers wanted a graceful swing so they could play professionally for 25-30 years.

Now they figure they can bank a couple hundred million by age 35-40 and retired to corporate events.

In the meantime JT is fun to watch. He can go real low when necessary and it took him exactly two majors to recover from his US Open collapse.

 

[Chin Diesel]

At this point, I have no idea, but I'll take Justin Thomas for the win. Stupid crazy day. I have no idea why Day chose to throw his chances away with a ridiculous shot that was still only give him an outside shot at a 5 instead going with an obvious shot that would give him a good shot at a 5 and a possible 4 like Oost took.

Well done, sir. Well done.

 

[Robertelamin]

He played a great back 9. Hideki was bad, Stroud & Kisner had zero chance. Rickie & Reed were great, just started too far back

Rickie lost the tourney on Green Mile yesterday. I will never say that again fortunately.

That course was incredibly unappealing on TV. I love the Open Championship courses. Augusta always looks good, but course is stupid now with 90 million changes because it's such a simple track today

Erin Hills was a joke, same with Chambers Bay. I hate these stupid man made dunes courses that are look phony

To be fair I think its hard for any course in August to look as appealing as Augusta does in April. This one actually had water and trees which is more than Erin Hills had.

 

[jleves]

I thought the course looked really good considering it was just totally reworked less than a year ago. A few more years of growing things in and it will be fantastic. It was also setup great for a risk reward potential. JT's tee shot on 17 was exactly that. Hit it perfect and win - miss it and lose. Everyone else played it relatively safe and didn't win. Rolling in 3 15+ footers doesn't hurt, but the tournament for him really came down to that shot.

I have no idea how anyone watching that for several days could hate that course. Good crowds, good holes, lots of danger and some of the most challenging par 4s on tour. A perfect venue for the PGA championship.

 

[JSM1970]

Great shot by JT on 17, no need to hit the shot there, but he pulled it off

I didn't like the course at all, no color anywhere, just unappealing, gimmicky in areas putting pins on top of ridges or having greens that had no break or speed

I mean, would you care if someone said they could get you onto there to play vs. other places.

I think the PGA & US Open are done going to these non-traditional course any longer, which is good

I thought the course looked really good considering it was just totally reworked less than a year ago. A few more years of growing things in and it will be fantastic. It was also setup great for a risk reward potential. JT's tee shot on 17 was exactly that. Hit it perfect and win - miss it and lose. Everyone else played it relatively safe and didn't win. Rolling in 3 15+ footers doesn't hurt, but the tournament for him really came down to that shot.

I have no idea how anyone watching that for several days could hate that course. Good crowds, good holes, lots of danger and some of the most challenging par 4s on tour. A perfect venue for the PGA championship.

 

[mauconnfan]

He played a great back 9. Hideki was bad, Stroud & Kisner had zero chance. Rickie & Reed were great, just started too far back

Rickie lost the tourney on Green Mile yesterday. I will never say that again fortunately.

That course was incredibly unappealing on TV. I love the Open Championship courses. Augusta always looks good, but course is stupid now with 90 million changes because it's such a simple track today

Erin Hills was a joke, same with Chambers Bay. I hate these stupid man made dunes courses that are look phony

Ricky was even par on the green mile yesterday wasn't he? Can't "lose it" that way.

So you hate this course, Augusta sucks now, Chambers Bay and Erin Hills blow as do all the man made dunes courses. We need to play The Open 4 times for you to be happy I guess. This is a "you" post no doubt.

 

[JSM1970]

Rickie played well. Was awful on Green Mile Sat and lost tourney there.

I like Augusta visually, just a very easy track, even with them changing it constantly.

Yes, hate the gimmicky links courses.

Love Shinnecock, Winged Foot, Congressional, Torrey, Olympic, Brookline, Kiawah, Pebble, Shoal Creek

Ricky was even par on the green mile yesterday wasn't he? Can't "lose it" that way.

So you hate this course, Augusta sucks now, Chambers Bay and Erin Hills blow as do all the man made dunes courses. We need to play The Open 4 times for you to be happy I guess. This is a "you" post no doubt.

 

[Jerry1714]

Rickie played well. Was awful on Green Mile Sat and lost tourney there.

I like Augusta visually, just a very easy track, even with them changing it constantly.

Yes, hate the gimmicky links courses.

Love Shinnecock, Winged Foot, Congressional, Torrey, Olympic, Brookline, Kiawah, Pebble, Shoal Creek

Torrey Pines is not a great golf course, you must like it because you see water on a few holes, and that makes you say "oooh fun".

Quail Hollow will be in the PGA Championship rotation and is hosting the 2021 Presidents Cup and is being discussed as a future Ryder Cup venue. Get use to seeing it because the players and golf people know its a great course and set up for a big event.

 

[JSM1970]

Uggghhhhh

I saw they are playing 2020 @ Whistling Straits, geez I hate that gimmicky course so much

2024 @ Bethpage Black, that will be loud and raucous

Quail Hollow will be in the PGA Championship rotation and is hosting the 2021 Presidents Cup and is being discussed as a future Ryder Cup venue. Get use to seeing it because the players and golf people know its a great course and set up for a big event.