I think I am going to become a golfer, they get the hot women.
Posted on 06/21/2015 7:22:17 PM PDT by Perdogg
Dustin Johnson pared on the last hole giving Spieth the win.
Agree, Spieth could have folded after his own 3-putt 17th like so many others(Norman, Sergio...even Phil)have in the past...kid showed his cool on 18...he’s the real deal...and that course will give him a good primer for St. Andrews.
Without the stupid greens
They all play the same course, public plays on those kind of greens all the time.
That golf course looked like a goat pasture.
Funny. Just yesterday I told someone it looked like an abandoned goat ranch.
I wonder if Johnson thinks he choked.
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I don’t know. Choked short putts almost always miss to the right. His missed left. I’ve looked at a few replays and I saw nothing unusual with the stroke.
I've played on a number of public courses, mostly low-end, which I prefer, and I can't even imagine that course ... it's like Mars.
On the XM PGA channel, they entertained a caller who expounded on the substandard conditions and equipment of yore, saying that these guys shouldn't complain. Paradoxically, he pointed out how SLOW the greens were in the Arnie era, with the intended implication that todays pros shouldn't complain about greens that require orbital calculations.
It's sure not golf as I know it! I'm living in the past with slow greens !
Of course Jason Day has vertigo!
He’s an Aussie playing up North and the world is spinning the wrong way for him!
The commentators for sure!!
This should read, "Spieth birdied the last hole to claim the win, while Dustin Johnson was only able to par." Spieth was "given" nothing. He played the same course and had the same shots as everyone else, including Dustin Johnson.
Spieth won the tournament by besting the field by one stroke. It wasn't "given" to him.
I have played and caddied on some miserable public golf courses and I have never seen a putt go from rolling to bouncing ( and reverse direction) like that Snedeker putt.
Actually, no. Putts do not start bouncing on NewYork City public courses.
That was truly bizarre.
I had to read up on the course. I’m no golfer, but do live in the Seattle area. It looks like a cool course - obviously a lot different than what is usually shown on TV. It sounds like the folks wanted to make the players work and think hard. They got their wish.
The talkin heads just gasped,dead silence
It was facepalm ugly
I think I am going to become a golfer, they get the hot women.
This course separates the players from the wimps — spectators, too!
Brutal finish for DJ. Dustin wasn’t on fire with his putter towards the end but that last one should’ve gone in. Looked like a downhill slider putt, tough on any course...especially this one.
“Not really a choke.
I wonder if Johnson thinks he choked. I agree that the course was unfair. I wonder who would have won if they had played on a normal course. “
Unfair? Course was fair. Problem was course was also 7700 yards. The U.S. Open is the most difficult of the four. This lived up to that reputation.
We are so used to seeing big numbers. I don’t care if someone wins with a plus whatever. He won against his peers of equal skill.
Except insofar as Dustin gave it to him by missing that short putt for birdie. Such impressions cannot be erased.
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