US Open 2025 - Oakmont

D-S said:
Well I must be in neither camp as I think they both deserve sanction for breaking course furniture. Throwing a club when no one else is close (unlike Clark) just looks petulant but doesn’t need to be sanctioned.
Repeat offences for breaking course furniture should result in more than a monetary fine.
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Think there is a code of conduct they all sign up to etc which will include sanctions

Rory and Clark etc will get sanctioned

It’s a poor look

But right now for some Rory is an easy target - typical of the way sports fans are in the UK , looking for the negatives
 
Burnsey said:
People do get all wound up and giddy on here sometimes don't they?

How about a bit of 'Spot The 5 Iron'?

This is my old club and still in the same spot 6 months after I launched it there.

Taught me a 6 iron is the longest iron required in my bag.

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😂

We were playing a couple weeks back and some hit a poor drive ( he has never thrown a club before ) - he launched his driver and it go stuck up a tree - we spent the next 5 mins wetting ourselves as he tried everything to get it down 😂
 
Getting back to the tournament, I thought the course set-up was very interesting. Basically, players who didn't drive the ball in the fairway usually made bogie or worse.
Oakmont neutralized the bombers advantage with five inch rough everywhere. Frankly, I'd like to see more of this in the future. Watching players blast it out there 300++ and playing a wedge to the green is getting boring. This tournament was fun to watch because one never knew what was going to happen. Compared to the Byron Nelson CJ Cup where 31 under par won, this was truly entertaining.
 
I thought yesterday in particular was compelling viewing, Spaun overcame a poor start and some bad luck (hitting the pin), and he rolled some lovely putts in too. It felt like a pretty tough tournament to lead from the front the entire time.

I think if Burns caddy had given him a driver on the tee on 11 then he makes a par and has a 3 shot lead, it was a poor decision to take a 3 wood given the conditions.

Why so many people stick up for Rory, I’ll never know. As I said a few months ago on here, he hasn’t ever had a likeable personality, he is dull as dishwater, has no sense of humour, he’s obsessed with himself, and he’s frankly moody to the point it’s just a bore.
 
Hoganman1 said:
Getting back to the tournament, I thought the course set-up was very interesting. Basically, players who didn't drive the ball in the fairway usually made bogie or worse.
Oakmont neutralized the bombers advantage with five inch rough everywhere. Frankly, I'd like to see more of this in the future. Watching players blast it out there 300++ and playing a wedge to the green is getting boring. This tournament was fun to watch because one never knew what was going to happen. Compared to the Byron Nelson CJ Cup where 31 under par won, this was truly entertaining.
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Yep. I remember a thread on here a couple of years ago when the ball roll-back was announced. The consensus was that the perceived problem could be solved more easily and interestingly by just making the rough much more penal.
 
JonnyGutteridge said:
I thought yesterday in particular was compelling viewing, Spaun overcame a poor start and some bad luck (hitting the pin), and he rolled some lovely putts in too. It felt like a pretty tough tournament to lead from the front the entire time.

I think if Burns caddy had given him a driver on the tee on 11 then he makes a par and has a 3 shot lead, it was a poor decision to take a 3 wood given the conditions.

Why so many people stick up for Rory, I’ll never know. As I said a few months ago on here, he hasn’t ever had a likeable personality, he is dull as dishwater, has no sense of humour, he’s obsessed with himself, and he’s frankly moody to the point it’s just a bore.
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Because he is a brilliant golfer and one of the best in the game right now

What someone’s personality is like is irrelevant imo

Just care about how well he plays as opposed to how someone’s sense of humour is when playing golf
 
PJ87 said:
UK sports fans are also guilty of blowing smoke up their own players when they aren't performing aswell.
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UK sports fans? You mean sports fans generally. It is usually the PGA American pundits that are fawning over him. And the US golf fans that are cheering for him on the course
 
What has become more and more clear is that no golfer has had anywhere near the impact Rory McIlroy has had in the sport since Tiger Woods. He is a mega star in sport, not just golf. He doesn't have Tiger's game, but boy does he get the publicity.

When things are going well, he gets the praise from so many quarters. But, almost in equal measure, it winds enough people up so much, that they have to do everything in their power to counter the positivity by throwing in their own critique on his golf game and his character. Then, when he goes through the low moments, he doesn't just fade into the background. Nope, the people that hate it when people talk about him so much when he is doing well, then come out and spend even more time talking about him in a negative light. This sort of thing happened with Tiger. Whereas if Mickleson, Westwood or Montgomery did poorly in his era, whatever. If Bryson, Scheffler or Brooks do poorly now, nobody talks about it. If the World No. 1 golfer got arrested on his way to a Major, there is a bit of banter on the forums. If it was McIlroy, this website would go into meltdown.

We have just had a major weekend, where McIlroy did not feature in the race. And yet it feels like more than 50% of the chat has been about McIlroy.
 
Back to the US Open: I was watching Sheffler play on the Saturday and he was so pissed off all of the time. And the American commentary just kept harping on about how Sheffler never lets things get to him, on and on and on. Whilst you could clearly read in his body language and facial expression that he was getting very annoyed - which is fair, he was battling but nog really moving the needle. I remember him coming across in similar fashion at last year's Open. I think he is what in cricket is called a 'flat track bully'. He thrives on easy courses and can really dominate, but does not enjoy being challenged?
 
Klimski said:
Back to the US Open: I was watching Sheffler play on the Saturday and he was so pissed off all of the time. And the American commentary just kept harping on about how Sheffler never lets things get to him, on and on and on. Whilst you could clearly read in his body language and facial expression that he was getting very annoyed - which is fair, he was battling but nog really moving the needle. I remember him coming across in similar fashion at last year's Open. I think he is what in cricket is called a 'flat track bully'. He thrives on easy courses and can really dominate, but does not enjoy being challenged?
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What on earth? 😆 He's finished T2, 3, and T7 twice in US Opens already. He's doing pretty well with the challenge. He can't win them all!
 
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