If that's your line of work and you haven't been vaccinated you're not thinking right. He just pissed away $1.6mil.

The tour doesn’t disclose whether someone was vaccinated but completely sounds like he was not from the protocols he was under this week.

Shawnee Golf & Country Club - $1,000 initiation fee, $250 a month.
Falcon Ridge - $3,000 initiation fee, $375 a month
Canyon Farms - $5,000 initiation fee, $550 a month (I was told)
Falcon Valley - very good but only nine holes
Sycamore Ridge - No initiation fee, $1250 per year after 1pm which is all I play anyway but 32 min away from me :(


Sycamore Ridge 1-6 or 1-7 (they usually start you on the back links style nine first) are the best run of holes of golf in the KC metro area that I've been able to play.

I know nothing of the Kansas golf scene so I had to look these courses up. If I could swing it financially, Canyon Farms all day. Course looks phenomenal. I'm guessing Falcon Ridge is very similar as their websites were carbon copies of each other. The best value seems to be Sycamore Ridge but Falcon Valley is real close. That course looks just as good as the others. Shawnee looks similar to Sycamore Ridge with Canyon Farms prices. I'm a member at a 9 hole course 1.5 miles from my house and don't mind it being only 9 holes. That way if I'm short on time I will only play 9 but still feel like I got a round in.

I was hoping Koepka and DeChambeau would be paired tomorrow but Koepka is having problems.

Another old dude in the running. Go old dudes!

The fact that he's having problems makes him more likely to be paired tomorrow, it appears?

They have the same score now (E).

Edit: Actually, it's impossible considering the scores already in the clubhouse.

Mickelson wins the award for ugliest golf bag.

This is getting good now. 10 guys within 1 shot of the lead and many of the big names. DeChambeau, Koepka, Rory, Oosthuizen, Morikawa, Rahm.

This leaderboard is crazy.

I always say Koepka with a Russian accent for some reason

Calling Tarzan!

Starting to look like a US Open now. Morikawa with a disaster of a hole, Bryson with two bogeys, Rory bogeys. Oosthuizen in trouble. Hughes literally just hit a ball that got stuck up in a tree.

Gap tooth Louis dick-blocking again for more famous players. Did the same shit to Phil at the PGA Championship.

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I think the world has lost its mind

Rahm...nice putt

Rahm coming in clutch.

Would rather the gap tooth win than the fat ass Rahm.

Louis laying up on the last was absolutely gutless. Even if he had only a 1% chance of holding the green, that was pure money management. Guess he wanted to preserve that extra 400K over the chance of a US Open.

Don’t you actually have to win once in a while to do that? The guy is born to finish runner up.

I can tell from his voice that is ****face asshole Paul Azinger, one of the biggest pompous douchebags to ever play on the PGA Tour.
That guy has the personality of a snail and the humor of a mortician.
Hate that guy. Met him and a douche and another buddy had a run in with him on the driving range.

Even if he had to try and keep all his weight on his left and hit a chop with driver he should have done it instead of laying up. I like Louis, but that was like punting on third and long when down 4 from the +35 with a minute left and no timeouts.

He won a British Open a long time ago. But yeah he's been just short many times since then.

He was so good that week that he never even had to feel any pressure (won by 7). Nobody doubts the talent level but he seems to wilt repeatedly when it really matters (you absolutely cannot miss left on 17 there and he did).

It was 3rd and very long but you’ve got to give it a shot. I can’t think of any other top players that wouldn’t have at least tried. Not sure why he’s playing for the money at this stage of his career.

Furyk and Kuchar.

I'd rather an American won but Rahm is deserving and after his COVID DQ it's a good story line. I missed the end so I didn't see what Louis O did.

Was thinking of current era top players, but that’s true enough with those two.

That ball should have been 150 yards right before he hit it left. He could have made par from the right. Hell, DeChambeau hit it right intentionally all week.

An unforgivable mistake in that situation.

Par 17 and birdie 18, the easiest finishing hole in us open history, and he’s in a playoff.

I'm just glad a player with a Dad bod won the tournament..

I felt it in my gut watching Louie O's drive on 17

There's not a pro out there that can hit a 220 yard shot and stop it on that firm green from that position, period. Bot even Bryson. It was not 3rd and long, it was 4th and 99. A great shot from the fairway, with spin and closer to the green than Louie yesterday was still 30' behind the hole, and there were only a couple of those. So going for it would have made 6 a more likely score than 3 given the water, and would have been an asinine decision.

Louie sold the farm with his drive on 17 and gave himself a shot to hole a wedge at 18, which was all he had after his tee ball.

Louie didn’t lose it. Rahm stepped up and won it. There’s no other way to look at it.

As I said earlier, if there's even a 1% chance of stopping the ball on that green and winning the US Open, I'm taking it. And at least by trying to hit it to the green, you have the slimmest of chances of somehow hitting the flag and dropping and winning it outright.

What he did was just a concession, plain and simple. From a pure money management perspective, it makes all the sense in the world. It ensured 2nd place outright and extra few hundred K (and there's no doubt that's exactly why he did it given that 6 is a strong possibility if he takes that shot on). But from a competitive standpoint? In that situation? With the US Open on the line? Weak.

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This entire discussion reminds me a bit of the ending of Tin Cup with Louis taking the role of Don Johnson and laying up on the last to take himself out of winning contention for the USO.

The odds of holing out from 100 yards with a controlled, spinning sand wedge from the fairway are astronomically higher than hitting the flag from a flyer lie with a run-away knuckleball and magically stopping anywhere on the green, much less near the hole. For every 220-yard heaters that hit a pin and turn out, there are dozens of holed-out wedges, at least for professional golfers.

Mickelson actually had his caddie tend the flag for a shot almost identical to the wedge Louie played yesterday at Torey Pines, a year or so ago, knowing he had a legitimate chance to hole the shot. Can't recall a pro every having his caddie tend the pin for a shot like Louie's - that would be hilarious. Louie played the odds to win, not get second place.

I'm not sure why he didn't give it a go either. Something out to the right with a draw on it. If it works, you have a putt for the tie. If it goes in the water. Drop, hitting 4. Up and down to save par and solo 2nd. Up and 2 putt for tie for 2nd.

Seems worth the gamble.

Even as good as these guys are, chance of holing one from 70 yards or so is virtually nil.

The chances of holing out are obviously higher for a wedge than running it on to the green, but it's still negligible in both cases.

A layup is the better shot if your sole aim is shooting a lower score on your round there (and by extension, preserving your higher paycheck). For the purposes of actually winning the US Open in that context, though? It essentially shuttered his chances.

I'm guessing if you go shot for shot, one from the rough at 247 yards out and one from the fairway at 70 yards out, that the guy from 247 chases it on the green before the guy holes it from 70.

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As you look from green to tee box, the shot came from the front left corner of the first bunker on the right side, correct?

I tuned in late and I thought I heard one of the commentators call his decision "stupid." Pretty blunt.

Maybe it was the middle bunker on the right side looking green to tee. If I recall correctly, Hughes hit from the bunker on the left side, green to tee, and they said he was 227 out and Louie O was 247 out. Still an opening for a draw from the rough to chase it on. And if it goes in the water, par is still a good possibility for sole possession of 2nd place.

Anyone watching ‘Capital Ones the Match’ ?

Mickelson/Tom Brady vs DeChambeau/Aaron Rodgers

I think I'd sooner watch a replay of Super Bowl LV

I hope Brady steps in a Gopher hole snaps the Achilles a gopher bites his toe it gets infected and Haglands sets in.

I completely forgot this was even happening. What an idiotic time for this. I guess they didn’t realize the NBA finals would be starting on the same day so they were probably just hoping for a slow sports day, but why would anyone watch that shit? I don’t even see what channel it’s on. Did they try to make this a pay per view or something?

Mahomes must not be a good golfer either? Why would both Rodgers and Brady both be chosen over him for this?

Mahomes is playing in American Century's tournament this week.

Hope that bear eats Brady..

I'd really like to go watch that one year. Looks like a blast.

So I just won a set of Titleist T400 irons on a golf message board. 7i through W2.

Looks like around $1100 value.

https://www.thehackersparadise.com/f...irons.8931691/

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Nice!

Nice looking irons… Congratulations… If you don’t like them PM me..:D

Congrats! What do you use now?

I heard he also won the Celebrity long drive contest this week with a 347 yard carry.

Callaway Mavriks that I was fitted for last year, with Fujikura Pro 2.0 graphite shafts.

I played my first competitive round of golf in probably 6-7 years today. I played a Club Championship Sr match and lost 3-2. My putting was horrific. There's not a 3ft putt I can't miss:shake: After the match was on I had the ball in position to win but my putting....ROFL My opponent played well and he deserved to win so congrats to him but oh my....my putting...ROFL

Everybody hates losing but I enjoyed being in competition.

Anyone use any online golf instruction? I'm joining https://www.cogornogolf.com. I've found his video's help me the most on YouTube. Him and Clay Ballard but Clay Ballard infiltrates your email and annoys me more. $59 a month and going up to $79.

My hope is I can get down to a 1 handicap again. After picking the game up again last April, I've gotten down from a 11 to a 5 but still a ways to go.

I'm a 26 ROFL

But my last two rounds Monday and yesterday at the same course, I shot a 43 on the back 9 on Monday and a 46 on the front 9 yesterday. So that's an 89 unofficially. The lessons i took the last two years are really helping, I just need to avoid the blowup holes and improve my short game and think I can shoot in the low 90's with the occasional high 80 round.

Take a look at Eric Cogorno's videos on YouTube, has alot of great free ones. He's great at explaining things and illustrating the feels of what you need to do.

yea welcome to golf, all i gotta do is.............

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I'm such a terrible golfer, but I finally bought some decent clubs and I've been practicing with a net. Compressing the ball always seemed counterintuitive to me and I just never got it. I've been watching videos and doing a bunch of drills and it started to sink in.

I've had a bum shoulder for weeks, but today it finally felt well enough to hit a few hundred into the net. OH BOY something with it clicked in my head today, and all of the tips and instructions all started to make logical sense. I was striking the ball like I never have. I've never been able to hit a hybrid to save life, and today I was bombing them almost as far as I hit my driver. It made me understand why people are able to hit those shots so far, with such little effort power-wise.

Anyhow, I swear I shaved a few strokes off my game today...when it finally all sorta "clicked" Can't wait to go play this week.

This won't help your game, but I put a dashcam in my golf cart. This time of year in Florida, May to October, is the tropical season (hurricane season to most). Basically it can rain any afternoon. Friday 7/2 we only got in 3 holes of golf, Friday 7/9 we got in 15 holes. To try out my dashcam and to use the free Windows video editor, I put together a 5 minute video of one such short day of golf.

The Villages is about 60 miles northwest of Orlando and 60 miles south of Gainesville at the intersection of I-75 and the Florida Turnpike. We have 12 championship golf courses, 10 of which are 27 hole layouts and 40 executive courses of nine holes, there is more golf holes here than anywhere in the world. Everyone here owns their own golf cart, population is 135,000 and they estimate about 75,000 golf carts.

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Open picks to click



1. Fitz
2. Grace
3. Hovland

Only took one day for this week's Bryson controversy. After a middling 1st round at the Open he went to the press conference and said the reason he struggled was his 5-degree driver "sucks"... and then Cobra responded. LMAO

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spend 80% of your practice time on the short game if you want to improve, but that is boring as shit lol. " golf is not a game of perfect" by Bob Rotella is a good book to read to reduce your score without actual golf swing tips ,all mental.

Hope Phil is reading that right now

I don't think I have practiced my short game more than 2 minutes in the year, since I started golfing again. That probably explains why Garmin Golf says I'm in the low 5% percentile of putting per my handicap and in the 94% percentile for driving and 92% of approach shots. When I was younger I never really got better at putting even if I practiced, but I see the golf pros son at my course practice putting and he has all of these lines draw and strings and aids for alignment so maybe there is some scientific method.

But that shit is boring. I don't even like watching them putt on TV. They shouldn't even show putting on TV until Sunday. I'd rather beat off with barbed wire. That is why Sergio Garcia is so cool. Can't putt worth a shit. Would have won 8 majors if he could putt.

Pat Pending 1903 Schenectady putter. My dad had this putter every since I can remember.

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He is such a doofus the spoiled brat is getting all kinds of engineering to get it right and he complains. He did apologize later though.

It looked like He a Matt Kutcher got into it on the practice tee this morning. It looked like Brandon had his heels on the barrier of his tee box with the driver and his long ass club and swing. Kutcher had his ball teed up near center but the swing sure looked close on the backswing. Kucher said something and Brandon point with his club to his front and back barrier. Kutcher said something he didn't look too happy and Brandon teed the ball to the far end. While it's Brandon's right to tee anywhere in the barrier why be a dick, just be safe with the long club.

Can I borrow that this Sunday?? Mine has been letting me down on 4 hole carry overs... Need to win some skins...

:LOL: Thing has a curved face so I'm sure it would work out.

Monday night in league at Swope Park, where I haven't broken 50 yet, I shot a 44 on the front nine. I was +3 on the final 7 holes and only had 11 putts total (12 if you count the one from the short stuff off the green).

Nice job!

That thing can't be ****ing USGA legal

bet it was in 1903. honestly dont know it wouldn't now. My dad had an old master 803 that was popularized by Arnold Palmer that is in my brother's possession now. I loved that thing so I bought a Wilson 8803 at of all places Kmart in the 70's. I still have and use it often it was designed pretty much by Arnie's putter he used pigeon toed style.

Good stuff , improving your short game I directly also improves your long game , if you know you can get up and down from anywhere you worry less about missing the green allowing you to make a stress free relaxed swing allowing you to hit more greens . It also annoys the shit out if my playing partners watching me back my way to the green playing from others fairways and end up with the same score as them , I can’t remember the last time I three putted after I read that book .

“Golfing potential depends primarily on a player’s attitude, on how well he plays with the wedges and the putter, and on how well he thinks.”
― Bob Rotella, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

“You cannot hit a golf ball consistently well if you think about the mechanics of your swing as you play.”
― Bob Rotella, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

“Everything that happens from the tee to that 120-yard range is almost insignificant compared with what happens thereafter.”
― Bob Rotella, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

“attitude would always win out over ability.”
― Bob Rotella, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

“Putt to make it.”
― Bob Rotella, Putting Out Of Your Mind

Brooks Koepka in his post-round interview on TV dropping a "love my driver" in there. LMAO

Awesome ROFL