Where's your evidence that this happened? I mean, it's a pretty onerous conspiracy charge. You're saying that the folks running golf in the U.S. changed the course layout to favor a single player, who then won. Where is the outrage? Where are the "most other" long players complaining about it? Where is the quote from a USGA official indicating that, "we changed the hole to accommodate Speith."
The course is a cow pasture made artificially difficult by letting the greens burn out. I don't think we'll see another US Open there.
I liked it. This is what made it interesting. This telecast, more than any I've seen, put us closer to the action. Cameras at ground level behind shots from the rough. Lots of golfer/caddy dialogue. Really liked it. It had its very noticeable warts, to be sure (such as the ones you mentioned), but I was more entertained than the "now let's go to 17 to see some guy completely out of it hit a birdie. Now let's go back to 15 to see some has-been have a moment of glory. Now let's go back to 17 to get a witty comment from the Irish announcer. Now back to bang, boom, bang, boom non stop."
True. My 'axes' are buttons and they work for any outlet. Mute, Channel up/down, Exit - they all work but don't bring me any pleasure. Technically, FOX has always been an innovator and it showed well here. Socially, they're trying to find or else create emotional moments for the viewer. Creating them is cloying and I rage against that machine in all contexts. Finding them is the new reality. Find the baby or burgeoning tear. It's all to increase female viewership. Yes, they all do it to an extent. Evening network newscasts even do it. It can be interesting to get closer to the inside workings of an athlete. In the Olympics, it's why we see so little action and so many in-person stories. It wish there was less of it but there's no going back. The balance between reality and cloying for emotional connection is far out of whack. Personally, I want to watch golf and hear analysts expertly analyze conditions, decisions and execution, not dig into my inner self's hidden desire to see how others handle success and failure or make some kind of implicit phony connection to the participants.
Pretty sure you never faced that putt. Jason Day had a better angle (flatter) from slightly farther and couldn't stop it either. Once DJ fixes his putter, no one will stop him.
I'm not sure it's fixable. All week holes 1-12, he was the best putter - pretty sure they said he was statistically the number one putter at some point on Saturday or Sunday. Everyday Friday through Sunday he gave up 2 or 3 strokes on the final 6 holes and most of those were misses under 6 feet. He's not a good pressure putter - very solid non pressure putter. That's hard to fix.
