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Jordan Spieth wins US Open (Second Major of the Year)

Posted on 06/21/2015 7:22:17 PM PDT by Perdogg

Dustin Johnson pared on the last hole giving Spieth the win.


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To: advertising guy

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.


21 posted on 06/21/2015 8:04:18 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Without the stupid greens


22 posted on 06/21/2015 8:12:35 PM PDT by advertising guy ( panties - not the best thing on earth, but next to it .)
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To: dr_lew

They all play the same course, public plays on those kind of greens all the time.


23 posted on 06/21/2015 8:14:24 PM PDT by ully2
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To: Moonman62

That golf course looked like a goat pasture.


24 posted on 06/21/2015 8:14:46 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Funny. Just yesterday I told someone it looked like an abandoned goat ranch.


25 posted on 06/21/2015 8:19:55 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

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.


26 posted on 06/21/2015 8:23:38 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ully2
They all play the same course, public plays on those kind of greens all the time.

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 !

27 posted on 06/21/2015 8:25:55 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Perdogg

Of course Jason Day has vertigo!

He’s an Aussie playing up North and the world is spinning the wrong way for him!


28 posted on 06/21/2015 8:39:10 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: albie

The commentators for sure!!


29 posted on 06/21/2015 8:54:42 PM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: Perdogg
"Dustin Johnson par[r]ed on the last hole giving Spieth the win."

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.

30 posted on 06/21/2015 8:59:32 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: deport

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.


31 posted on 06/21/2015 9:05:39 PM PDT by RossA
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To: ully2

Actually, no. Putts do not start bouncing on NewYork City public courses.


32 posted on 06/21/2015 9:07:51 PM PDT by RossA
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To: RossA

That was truly bizarre.


33 posted on 06/21/2015 9:10:07 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: HotHunt

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.


34 posted on 06/21/2015 9:14:57 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: RossA

The talkin heads just gasped,dead silence
It was facepalm ugly


35 posted on 06/21/2015 9:19:06 PM PDT by advertising guy ( panties - not the best thing on earth, but next to it .)
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To: Perdogg
I think I am going to become a golfer, they get the hot women.

36 posted on 06/21/2015 9:23:30 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: 21twelve

This course separates the players from the wimps — spectators, too!


37 posted on 06/21/2015 9:26:39 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Perdogg

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.


38 posted on 06/21/2015 9:29:18 PM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: Repeal 16-17

“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.


39 posted on 06/21/2015 9:37:52 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Hillary..... Bwahahahahahahahaha....Thud)
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To: HotHunt
It wasn't "given" to him.

Except insofar as Dustin gave it to him by missing that short putt for birdie. Such impressions cannot be erased.

40 posted on 06/21/2015 9:40:32 PM PDT by dr_lew
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