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Interesting dialogue between Phil and his brother on Sunday.. They're a good team --seems like he is the voice of reason and talks Phil out of doing the crazy stuff. Phil seemed to defer to his advice a lot on Sunday.

Thought Phil was dialed in on playing the wind for most of the round. Amazing how pros can work with the elements during Tournament week.

Glad he could harness his immense talent and bring it home. Showed a lot of discipline and was committed to his pre-shot routine through out the day..
 
Absolutely loved this course! Would be fantastic if this held PGA tournaments more often (yearly would be ideal).
 
Exit 4 said:
This course needs more pga events. It was far more interesting than the avg tour stop.
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It's the Carnoustie of the USA.

Of course the downside to links-like courses is that if there's no wind at play, pros will have field day if they're accurate at all (see Ancer's -7 yesterday morning before the wind kicked up). Dye's design makes Kiawah somewhat more difficult than a typical links course, but still, you need that wind to really make it interesting. To the main point though, I think many of us are sick of the overly manicured carpets that make up most US tour stops.
 
storrsroars said:
It's the Carnoustie of the USA.

Of course the downside to links-like courses is that if there's no wind at play, pros will have field day if they're accurate at all (see Ancer's -7 yesterday morning before the wind kicked up). Dye's design makes Kiawah somewhat more difficult than a typical links course, but still, you need that wind to really make it interesting. To the main point though, I think many of us are sick of the overly manicured carpets that make up most US tour stops.
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Same thing with Pebble Beach when they do the Pro Am there in the spring compared to when they play it in June for the US Open. The difference between calm winds and 15-20 mph are massive for those older courses.

Pros showed they can shoot 70-74 no problem at Kiawah regardless of wind direction. It was only when it was calm they could shoot in the 60s.

Great course which held up well. It could easily host a US Open in mid-June. Being a coastal course it won't get the unbearable heat and humidity of inland South Carolina.
 
So, TV viewing yesterday was an unmitigated disaster for me yesterday.

Was able to watch for a few hours and saw the leaders get through first six holes.

Had to go to a neighbor's house for an afternoon birthday party and golf wasn't going to be on TV. No problem. I recorded the last 4 hours and avoided the cell phone. Came home to watch it on tape delay and somehow the TV went straight to live and my first 3 seconds was them announcing PHil as the winner and handing him the trophy. Killed the mood. Now I decided to watch even though I knew the results. I was watching them make the turn on to 10 when power tripped at my house and killed the internet. I rebooted and You Tube TV wouldn't let me watch the replay even though I recorded it. I think it was because the replay was on CBSSN but I really don't know. After about 45 minutes of trying to get the replay to work on either You Tube TV or on the CBS Sports App so I could fast forward to where I was at on the broadcast I gave up.

Good for Phil. I'll try and watch back 9 tonight.
 
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storrsroars said:
It's the Carnoustie of the USA.

Of course the downside to links-like courses is that if there's no wind at play, pros will have field day if they're accurate at all (see Ancer's -7 yesterday morning before the wind kicked up). Dye's design makes Kiawah somewhat more difficult than a typical links course, but still, you need that wind to really make it interesting. To the main point though, I think many of us are sick of the overly manicured carpets that make up most US tour stops.
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Yeah, I just think the tour needs to find more courses that offer eye candy to the viewer experience. I realize its a tough balance because the tour wants to; i) hit all the major markets, ii) find tournament sponsors who carry so much of the workload and of course the prize money, iii) find courses that are willing to be sacrificed for a tour event not only means the locals lose playing time for all the weeks of prep, they also see their course trampled by thousands which really chews up the clubhouse and side areas and iv) communities willing to host. Lots of towns would just say no even if the course said yes.

Anyway- they need to find more eye candy and less John Deere events.
 
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