...they make the USST seem like they are on the ball and have an EXCELLENT grasp of what it takes to develop WC ski champions.
Ouch!
...they make the USST seem like they are on the ball and have an EXCELLENT grasp of what it takes to develop WC ski champions.
Brooks Koepka has only three PGA wins, but two of them are US Opens
Some guys are just built for the US Open
53, can I digress to pick your brain? I watched the 2018 US Women's Open two weeks ago when Ariya Jutanugarn (Thailand) beat Hyo-Joo Kim (S. Korea) in a playoff. It was the first ladies pro tourney I'd watched in a while, but each time I do I am amazed at the dominance of Asian women, particularly the South Koreans. What has been driving this for the last decade or more?!? Do they have some kind of junior training system somewhere out in the Pacific Rim that is generating these great young lady golfers? Is it genetics? I just looked at the current LPGA rankings of top 100 players. 38 are Korean, 19 are other Asians, then a number of Asian descent playing for US, England, etc. That's around 60% of the top 100 from about five countries (Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, China). This begs the second question, are we going to see something similar with Asian men in the future?
Sincerely don't mean anything racist with these questions, just fascinated by this sort of giant competitive trend you see in various sports over time.
Truth be told, the the level of arrogance among the above organizations is off the charts, point of reference, they make the USST seem like they are on the ball and have an EXCELLENT grasp of what it takes to develop WC ski champions.
@SpikeDog
IF “it was a fairly well calculated gamble” as you state, then he should have calculated a bit more and let the ball finish rolling, declare it UNPLAYABLE and take a 1 stroke penalty rather than a 2 stroke penalty and replace it at the location of the previously played shot.
Phil was NOT thinking clearly, the ONLY thing CLEAR was his momentary loss of control and out of frustration hit a moving ball.
Unless he thought that putt was so difficult that he was better off with the 2-stroke, than replaying the shot. (I don't think he was, but, you know, hypothetically.)
Clearly the person/committee used poor judgement in a few of those hole locations. No one can really argue otherwise, and the USGA admitted this on Saturday eveningI feel that much of this could have been avoided if there had been 2 or 3 better pin placements on Saturday. @Started at 53, is the decision on where to cut the cups made by one person? Hard to believe that somebody did not see the possibility of it turning ugly. Events have been staged here before, how do these pin locations compare to past tournaments?
@Started at 53 were you at the event?
In golf..more than anywhere..rules are rules! Hey, if Tiger can get 5 frat boys to move a 500lb rock out of the way of his shot, is this so bad?!!?So, if you have an impossible putt to make and even a 3 putt is going to be a challenge, just move you ball and take a 2 stroke penalty and move to the next hole?
Have to say, he's legit this weekend. Good for him, betcha he's happy to see some results finally.Will the Tiger roar today in final round of British Open!?!
Agreed.Top 10 would be huge for Tiger. Can't even comprehend what a win today for him would do to the game of golf.