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US Open Live Thread (Sunday)
USGA ^ | 6-15-13 | N/A

Posted on 06/16/2013 9:31:47 AM PDT by FlJoePa

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To: Cincinatus

Phil back to even - that’s a good recovery!


41 posted on 06/16/2013 1:23:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: FlJoePa

Anyone know if there is a golf ping list?

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42 posted on 06/16/2013 1:26:18 PM PDT by deport
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To: Cincinatus

Well, they have the equipment to handle it. They just aren’t doing it.

Phil just hit it in the creek again. Sheesh.


43 posted on 06/16/2013 1:26:31 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: Cincinatus

But they make it up with the chip-n-putt 13th. They also have 5 sub 400 yd par 4s. These guys all can handle long par 4s. Doesn’t Augusta have some very long par 4s?


44 posted on 06/16/2013 1:28:13 PM PDT by wrcase
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Merion blood bath ping


45 posted on 06/16/2013 1:31:32 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: wrcase
I heard yesterday that the field stroke average on 18 this week was 4.7. To me, that's a pretty clear indicator that it should really be a par 5.

When Ben Hogan played his famous 1-iron 2nd shot at 18 back in 1950, the hole measured 458 yards, tough and difficult, but fair.

46 posted on 06/16/2013 1:32:56 PM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: Cincinatus

Well, they were also playing with wound balls and persimmon woods. Huge difference, no?


47 posted on 06/16/2013 1:37:30 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: Cincinatus

Distance means nothing to these guys. The only way to keep scoring high is to keep the fairways narrow, the rough high, pin placements tough, and greens lightning fast.


48 posted on 06/16/2013 1:39:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: FlJoePa

Sure. I just don’t know that it’s a 70 yard difference.


49 posted on 06/16/2013 1:40:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: Cincinatus
that's a pretty clear indicator that it should really be a par 5.

I hear you but I think Mickelson hit a 270 yard fairway wood there yesterday.
50 posted on 06/16/2013 1:43:43 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: FlJoePa

Gee-sus Phil! Two doubles through five holes!


51 posted on 06/16/2013 1:43:43 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Cincinatus

A 458-yd par 4 in 1950 is about the same as 530-yd par 4 today. I just enjoy that it is under 7000 yards and the players have to think their way around the course rather than just bomb it down a wide fairway with a wedge to the green.


52 posted on 06/16/2013 1:43:46 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: Rummyfan

Jason Day is creeping up the leaderboard.


53 posted on 06/16/2013 1:47:43 PM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: FlJoePa

You bet, a bloodbath. Even Tiger and Rory are mediocre at best. It’s a wonder Phil has hung in this long, but his reputation holds: If anyone can lose a tournament on the last day, it’s Phil.


54 posted on 06/16/2013 1:53:45 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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Ernie! God I’d love to see him post and back into this thing.


55 posted on 06/16/2013 2:11:35 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: FlJoePa

Ernie is out of holes, best he can do is plus3. But who knows - maybe that would hold up.


56 posted on 06/16/2013 2:25:15 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: FlJoePa

Two 67s have been posted so it is possible to score today.


57 posted on 06/16/2013 2:26:46 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: FlJoePa

Ernie is in at plus-5. I don’t think that’s going to hold up.


58 posted on 06/16/2013 2:34:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: FlJoePa

Through all this, Phil is only one back.


59 posted on 06/16/2013 2:36:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

Yup...he screwed up 18.


60 posted on 06/16/2013 2:37:23 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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