US OPEN 2021

[Captainron]

Really looking forward to this as Dave Coupland has qualified.

I hope that the USGA really make the course rock hard and the rough is up.

Only downside is that its a West Coast event whihc means that its a late one!

I'm going Bezuidenhout, Spieth, Lieshman and Koepka

 

[fundy]

Really looking forward to this as Dave Coupland has qualified.

I hope that the USGA really make the course rock hard and the rough is up.

Only downside is that its a West Coast event whihc means that its a late one!

I'm going Bezuidenhout, Spieth, Lieshman and Koepka

waiting till ive seen at least 3 videos of someone dropping a ball into rough and it disappearing and them claiming its the worst rough ever before making my picks

 

[Orikoru]

Forgot this was even happening with the Euros being on. Too much to keep up with.

 

[fundy]

Forgot this was even happening with the Euros being on. Too much to keep up with.

US Open, Euros, Royal Ascot starts today, World Test Championship final starts Friday, danger of being a GOAT week of sport

 

[pendodave]

waiting till ive seen at least 3 videos of someone dropping a ball into rough and it disappearing and them claiming its the worst rough ever before making my picks

Xander says "hold my beer"...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1402779129041231872

I've listened to so many pods telling me how TP has been butchered by dodgy course architecture decisions that it might start to compromise my enjoyment.

 

[Ethan]

I've listened to so many pods telling me how TP has been butchered by dodgy course architecture decisions that it might start to compromise my enjoyment.

TP was never a great course. Fantastic scenery and ocean views but a sloggers course with too many unimaginative holes. A bit like The Belfry except that doesn't even have the scenery. I used to go to San Diego quite often on business and always took my clubs, but even though the office was practically opposite for a while, TP was never on my list of planned courses. You can still have a great US Open, though. You can have drama with 2 players shooting out on any course.

 

[pendodave]

TP was never a great course. Fantastic scenery and ocean views but a sloggers course with too many unimaginative holes. A bit like The Belfry except that doesn't even have the scenery. I used to go to San Diego quite often on business and always took my clubs, but even though the office was practically opposite for a while, TP was never on my list of planned courses. You can still have a great US Open, though. You can have drama with 2 players shooting out on any course.

Agreed. After all, the last open here was not lacking in entertainment.
It's a real shame about the layout though, as a great publicly accessible course in the US is like hen's teeth compared to over here.
And I really am not a great fan of chopping out of thick rough around greens, which is barely even one dimensional golf when compared with the challenges of tight lies and interesting topography.

 

[jim8flog]

Royal Ascot starts today,

There is a memory. Ascot was my patch when I was 'A Man from the Pru' I always took Ascot week as a holiday week due to the revised travel routes.

 

[jim8flog]

As posted on another thread

Normally par 72, it will play to par 71 at the U.S. Open; only Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate were under par in ’08

Never sure if the US open is a great watch or not but I will still watch it.

 

[MarkT]

Really looking forward to this as Dave Coupland has qualified.

I hope that the USGA really make the course rock hard and the rough is up.

Only downside is that its a West Coast event whihc means that its a late one!

I'm going Bezuidenhout, Spieth, Lieshman and Koepka

Here’s the great man with another big hunk of love

 

[Orikoru]

Right, I've done basically no research at all and popped bets on Morikawa, Zalatoris, W.Simpson and C.Smith. Tried to pick good ball-strikers I guess. I actually think Rahm will win but he was only 9/1 so sod that.

 

[slowhand]

I don't care who wins as long as they group Koepka and DeChambeau together for the first 2 rounds. That would have to be on the featured groups coverage!

 

[Orikoru]

I don't care who wins as long as they group Koepka and DeChambeau together for the first 2 rounds. That would have to be on the featured groups coverage!

I think it's too early in the story arc for that. The writers will probably chuck in another year of build up before they play together in the Masters 2022.

 

[Captainron]

I would love them to be paired together.

 

[fundy]

I would love them to be paired together.

looks like mates all got paired together so no chance of those 2 being lol

 

[BubbaP]

Most likely tittle tattle....
https://brobible.com/sports/article...W32566xKTJZ1USHSvLjC4kAQ6ux7eKrOjPCIRr2Lqopi8

& coming to a PGA Tour near you...

https://www.golfmonthly.com/news/to...reaks-out-in-korn-ferry-tour-qualifier-236348

 

[Ethan]

I don't care who wins as long as they group Koepka and DeChambeau together for the first 2 rounds. That would have to be on the featured groups coverage!

The PGA Tour is really playing this up, aren't they? A cynic might think it is a bit contrived to bring clicks and eyeballs to golf over the summer.

 

[Orikoru]

The PGA Tour is really playing this up, aren't they? A cynic might think it is a bit contrived to bring clicks and eyeballs to golf over the summer.

Stupid to waste the clash on a Thursday. Much better to leave it and hope they end up pairing on Sunday.

 

[Captainron]

Stupid to waste the clash on a Thursday. Much better to leave it and hope they end up pairing on Sunday.

They might still end up together on the Sunday in any event being paired on Thursday and Friday doesn't stop that being possible

 

[Orikoru]

They might still end up together on the Sunday in any event being paired on Thursday and Friday doesn't stop that being possible

Yeah but there's less drama if they already played together on Thursday isn't there? That's boring.