<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Peter Malnati played with Grayson Murray during the first two rounds this week. Visibly shaken, this is heartbreaking to watch as Amanda Balionis is emotional, too. <a href="https://twitter.com/flushingitgolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@flushingitgolf</a> <a href="https://t.co/mVLeSKvo6e">pic.twitter.com/mVLeSKvo6e</a></p>&mdash; NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) <a href="https://twitter.com/NUCLRGOLF/status/1794488834815922431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This guy MacIntyre is one annoying pain in the ass. Bitching every two minutes about the drone, people moving, people talking, where people are standing. He is slow as **** and just a guy I can't root for.

Nice to see Balionis taking the blazer off again.

Scheffler is just on a whole other level. Tiger like at this moment.

I am thinking about purchasing a launch monitor. The Garmin R10 costs around $450.

Do you guys have any experience with monitors? I golf 85ish on good days, 90 on a rough day. My 12 year old son has really taken to playing, and has a beautiful swing. I think we'd use the hell out of a monitor, but I probably won't go the projector route, just a net and maybe a cheap 65" TV.

I think paying a top notch golf instructor for your son would be money better spent.

Pass on the R10 and buy a used OG Skytrak

I've been watching nearly all of the US Open so far and I can't believe the brutality of these greens.

Guys hitting beautiful high shots into the green from 150-175, landing in a great spot and the ball won't stay on the green.

Fast as hell, dry, hard and no rough around greens to stop balls from rolling into bunkers, off greens or coming back off false fronts.

I don't think I could break 125 playing under these conditions from the pro tees.

I've moved up from the back tees at the age of 62 3/4 years. 10 years ago I could play 7,000 yards fairly well but the last ten years have taken a toll on my distance. Any idea of what yardage they are playing #2 at this week?

What was your handicap? The only ppl playing 7000 yards should be scratch golfers.

.6 was the lowest my handicap has ever been. You don't have to be scratch to play from 7,000 yards though. That's just silly. If you're young and haven't developed your distance yet or you're old and losing distance playing 7,000 probably isn't in your best interest though. On a firm course with me hitting it good I can get around a course of that length. As far as what I shoot it will depend on the flat stick.

Well you should be or you are kind of just a jerkoff. That's a hell of handicap so that makes sense for you then. When I was a 1.8 last year I still felt I shouldn't be playing the tips. Rule of thumb if you can't compete for your clubs championship don't play the tips. And I definitely cannot compete so I don't play em. Just slows down other golfers.

Yardage is 7,548 and only Par 70.

My best handicap was a 7.8 from 1996-2002 when I was playing 3 days a week while living in California.

I am NOT a natural golfer but a practice, practice, practice guy. I played on the high school team when I first began playing and I was on the JV team at either 3 or 4 spot.

Once I got good, there were many courses I played the tips at my peak because I could hit 285-315 drives in the fairway.

Once I saw a course at over 6,800 yards, I would play the next set of tees to stay between 6650 and 6850 yards.

I've played some great courses in life.

The only thing I care about for someone ahead of me playing the tips is, you better play in 4-4 1/4 hours.

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Originally Posted by scho63 (Post 17551853) I've been watching nearly all of the US Open so far and I can't believe the brutality of these greens.

Makes sense. The greens are the only challenge for modern players, outside of heavy winds which the course organizers cannot control.

The players hit the ball too hard for the other elements to pose much challenge.

Molinari made a hole in one on 9 to make the cut on the button.

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Saw that. Sepp Straka also had a hole in one.

Aside from sandhill courses, growing truly penal rough and baking the greens out is the recipe, not Mike Davis' bull**** approach of having driveable Par 4s like it's the ****ing Waste Management Open.

They also need a standardized ball that spins more off the driver.

Tiger still using Bridgestone...makes you wonder if that's the problem lol

Tiger was garbage.

He's also 50 years old with a broken back and shattered leg. He's done and has been for years.

I wouldn’t say he was garbage. He actually hit the ball pretty damn well. Lipped a few putts and had 1 or 2 drives each round that got him in trouble. But I thought he looked better than he had all year in the 3 tourneys he played in.

Quite a few big names missed the cut. Day, Homa, Zalatoris, DJ, Rickie etc. Hell…Scottie only got him by a stroke or two.

He’s definitely not the Tiger of old but the ones who say he’s terrible and should hang it up confuse me. Only about 25-30 guys win golf tourneys each year. Tiger has only played in 3 total. I thought he looked healthier this week than at any point since the leg injury. If he can throw in a few more competitive rounds next year I think we’ll see some better golf still in the bag out of him.

Then shuffle off the green.

No one is forcing him to compete.

Jack kept playing (and missing cuts) at these things into his 50s as well. Who cares if he does? It's not harming anybody.

The only person that will keep Tiger from playing is himself. The players want him out there. The tour wants him to play forever. The fans still follow him more than anyone in the field. Morons like you are the only people that are mad he’s playing 4 tournaments a year.

He finished sixth at the Masters twice in his fifties and missed one cut. He made 7/10 cuts at the US Open, and 4/7 at the Open. I agree that Tiger isn't harming anyone, but you're unnecessarily denigrating Nicklaus to make your point.

Arnold Palmer is the one who held on too long.

Jack remains the greatest to play the game. He did it without performance enhancing drugs, private jets, or modern equipment.

I have no problem with Tiger or Phil, who seems to be much worse than Tiger these days.

I can't stand the really slow players, they drive me crazy.

That’s better than I recalled but he didn’t have a top 20 in a non-Augusta major from 1986 through the end of 2000 (when he effectively stopped playing them at age 60). He was a pretty uncompetitive golfer in the majors for most of his 50s, but he still drew crowds and nobody complained (nor should they have).

Tiger is gonna get an exemption to any major he wants for as long as he still wants to play and I don’t think anybody should take an issue with that.

I went to the US Senior Open at Ridgewood Country Club in New Jersey when I worked for Dean Witter in the early 90's.

I followed a foursome of Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Lee Trevino.

Great memories

Part of the reason I like Aberg so much is the way he plays.

I can’t stand the 10,000 waggles.

I went to a senior event at Loch Lloyd when they played here and followed a group with Lee Trevino and Chi Chi Rodriguez. What a day that was.

Brian Harmon, the waggle king, slowest golfer I've ever seen.

:facepalm:

Really excited watching this US Open today.

If Bryson goes 2 under for the day, I think he wins.

One brutally tough course. Can't wait to see how the 13th destroys dreams.

Such a tough course to play. If you win this one you’ve earned it.

I love watching these types of courses. Hate how easy Valhalla was at the PGA Championship. The US Open should be difficult.

True, when I see final rounds in the -17 scores or so you know it’s to easy.

I think it will come down to DeChambeau or Mcilroy.

DeChambeau just ****ed up big time off the tee.

He is going to drop at least one

The course is definitely winning the battle right now.

I don't want to see Cantlay to win. Not a fan of his.

I hate the wire grass. It brings to much luck into the game. There's some luck when it comes to lies you get in the rough but the wire grass makes luck even more of a factor. And then I understand the greens and false fronts and false sides and false backs but you shouldn't hit it on the green and then have it roll off into a native area like what happened to Rory. That was messed up.

There is always a little bit of luck in every golf round. Even as a low handicapper I am surprised you feel that way.

Here comes Rory.

He's feeling it.

I think Pinehurst is one of the most overrated US Open courses. I loved Valhalla. Very beautiful and rewarded almost every good shot. There is a reason McIlroy and DeChambeau are leading with these dumb turtle shell greens. They just bomb it as far as they can and hit the shortest iron in they can which has a much better chance to hold the green.

I like watching Dechambeau but he's gotten very lucky with the lies in the waste areas when he misses the fairway. But having it head to head with Rory and Bryson has got to be the golf producers dream.

Yes.

I feel like there should be more consistency in what the players get when they miss a fairway. Some guys get no punishment and others get totally screwed. That happens in golf sometimes but to have it be a determining factor in a tournament kind of sucks. They probably put in the wire grass so they wouldn't have to water or mow the rough but they branded it as a feature.

Speaking of luck - mcilroy - lucky ****er

LOL I always wondered why on some holes they don't try and ricochet the ball off the stands. Rory:LOL:

It is overrated. But it's a difficult course. I like watching pros struggle. I like to think that everyone sucks at golf, but the pros just suck less than everyone else.

Valhalla rewarded everyone........except for Tiger Woods.

Wait until Oakmont next year. I hope it's windy to boot.

Way back in the early 80s we were playing in the Drake Relays up in Des Moines and one course had a drivable par 4. It was a blind shot with a pole and sign behind the green. I smoked it and drove it over the green. Back in the day of wood headed clubs and spiny balls.

Can't stand Rory but Dechambeau can't hit a fairway to save his life today.

This is a good tournament and the games afoot.

Pinehurst #2 is no way overrated.

It is just a very challenging course and very different.

You have water courses, links course, ocean courses, desert courses, short courses, long courses, old growth tree lined courses, bermuda greens, bent grass greens, short courses, long courses, deep rough, light rough, big greens, small greens.

It's all a matter of preference.

The course I have played I think is highly overrated is Torrey Pines. Without the ocean, it's shit. Half Moon Bay is a much better ocean course.

DeChambeau can't hit a fairway to save his life.

Most exciting US Open in some time

Rory Rory Rory

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is also brutally tough.

He's lucked out almost every time.

Rory could have hit a 9 there instead of a 7. Way too long down wind.

Looks like 8 was stick to me.

Soft 8 or hard 9. Not sure he likes laying off his swing.

Dechambeau tough putting the last two

Bryson's gonna want that one back.

Rory has no excuse not to finally close one of these now. Let's see what happens.

how did that miss

that should have been in

Now Rory muffs the short putt. Game on.

HOLY SHIT!

What the **** was that?

Big miss by McIlroy

Pros get nervous too....

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rory McIlroy was 496-for-496 putting inside 3 feet this season before that miss.</p>&mdash; Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinRayGolf/status/1802462581271220521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That is ridiculous. :eek:

it looked like the official tried to grab BDC's ball out of the air, in the native area.

Oof bad time to push it left

There you go. DeChamwow misses damn near every fairway and gets lucky over and over and Rory misses like two fairways and gets screwed on the last hole. Then DeChamwow looks to have gotten lucky again.

Cantlay hasn't read a long putt right all day.

No way

HOLY ****!

Holy crap. Rory.

That was nuts.