Sergio is not happy

[tgreenwood11]

He just sent out a tweet complaining about the awful greens at the freak show that is this golf course.

[D-Nice]

Is it as bad as it looks and everyone is saying??

[Awal]

[quote name='tgreenwood11' timestamp='1434677487' post='11781018']
He just sent out a tweet complaining about the awful greens at the freak show that is this golf course.
[/quote]

Apparently he has no concerns about cementing his reputation as a little b**ch. I periodically find myself liking/being interested in Sergio again, and he's just such a whiny baby.

If the course is such a freak show, why are the people who have played well this year at the top of the leader board?

[torrejuan]

Sergio, thanks for playing in this year's U.S. Open.

[kwcsports]

Sergio should shut up. It's the same for everyone. They might not be perfect, suck it up and play golf.

[farmer]

I'm an old guy, so I don't really get Twitter. If he has a complaint, man up and do it in a presser. Tweeting or whatever it's called seems a backdoor way to express an opinion.

[mshills]

How do you explain the rounds put up by Stenson, Johnson, Reed, Martin, Kuchar, Molinari, Dufner, Mickelson, and others who have under par rounds in progress?

[KrazyTrain18]

Well you can't have it both ways. Had they not watered and kept the greens firmer and faster hitting into them would've been much more difficult.

[MadGolfer76]

Wind must have blown the spit back at him.

[tgreenwood11]

The course is the finest of its kind.

[Dave230]

[quote name='mshills' timestamp='1434678149' post='11781172']
How do you explain the rounds put up by Stenson, Johnson, Reed, Martin, Kuchar, Molinari, Dufner, Mickelson, and others who have under par rounds in progress?
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Montgomerie said some of the greens were terrible and some of the worst he'd played in the US Open. While shooting an under par round and probably his best US Open round in 9-10 years.

[ZBigStick]

[quote name='tgreenwood11' timestamp='1434677487' post='11781018']He just sent out a tweet complaining about the awful greens at the freak show that is this golf course.[/quote]
What does he care, he can't putt anyways.

[MMB1500]

I'm a big Sergio fan but readily admit he does himself no favours a lot of the time.

On the other hand the greens do look awful.

[Drudersh]

I just read the tweet. I must have missed the freak show portion of a rather benign comment. The greens aren't good. You can see on the broadcast on any low angle shot of a putt that they are shaggy and pull of po'.

And if the freak show potion is your personal take on the course, would that mean you're complaining about a guy complaining about a course while complaining about the course yourself? Is that irony or something else entirely?

[wy3134]

anyone not biased can clearly see the greens look like crap. same reason im not a fan of pebble beach, the greens there do the same, and if you look it up, you will see guys saying the same from the 2010 us open there.

[Dave230]

I don't think it's a case of Sergio being bitter either, he's currently t24 so it's not like he played really badly.

[Vindog]

[quote name='farmer' timestamp='1434678052' post='11781150']
I'm an old guy, so I don't really get Twitter. If he has a complaint, man up and do it in a presser. Tweeting or whatever it's called seems a backdoor way to express an opinion.
[/quote]

Twitter needs to die in a fire.

[BrianL99]

Just because the USGA decided to call the golf course a "Par 70", doesn't make it one. If this was any other tournament, it would be called a "Par 72".

Which essentially means that there were two guys 7 under par another 6 under and a slew 4 or 5 under (including an Amateur).

For a course people are complaining about, it's playing like a Pitch & Putt course so far.

[BrianL99]

[quote name='farmer' timestamp='1434678052' post='11781150']
I'm an old guy, so I don't really get Twitter. If he has a complaint, man up and do it in a presser. Tweeting or whatever it's called seems a backdoor way to express an opinion.
[/quote]

Twitter is the FRONT door.

[golfdad907]

Happier than Tiger is....

[IrishmanInFlorida]

Sergio has a point. As always.

[ZBigStick]

[quote name='BrianL99' timestamp='1434680304' post='11781632']Just because the USGA decided to call the golf course a "Par 70", doesn't make it one. If this was any other tournament, it would be called a "Par 72".

Which essentially means that there were (2) 63's, a 64 & a raft of under par scores. For a course people are complaining about, it's playing like a Pitch & Putt course so far.[/quote]

You don't reduce strokes, you are just more "under par". Still two 65s.

[farmer]

[quote name='BrianL99' timestamp='1434680467' post='11781654']
[quote name='farmer' timestamp='1434678052' post='11781150']
I'm an old guy, so I don't really get Twitter. If he has a complaint, man up and do it in a presser. Tweeting or whatever it's called seems a backdoor way to express an opinion.
[/quote]

Twitter is the FRONT door.
[/quote]I really, really don't get Twitter.

[Smash Factors]

[quote name='mshills' timestamp='1434678149' post='11781172']
How do you explain the rounds put up by Stenson, Johnson, Reed, Martin, Kuchar, Molinari, Dufner, Mickelson, and others who have under par rounds in progress?
[/quote]

They're all freaks I guess...

[golfgirlrobin]

I'm on like my tenth hour of coverage today and I don't think I've seen a single putt really knocked off line. They're very fast downhill and really slow up, but the best players in the world should be able to figure that out.

No, they don't look good, but solidly hit putts go in and weak, tentative ones don't.

If you're going to tweet this kind of stuff, you should probably just go home. By tomorrow they'll be heckling him with "crybaby", and he'll be throwing hard looks at the crowd and it'll get ugly.

When the greens are crappy, as usual, at the British, not one European will open his mouth.

[hdr_ric]

Sergio is right. The greens are awful. Shame, course looks neat otherwise.

[wy3134]

[quote name='farmer' timestamp='1434680900' post='11781726']
[quote name='BrianL99' timestamp='1434680467' post='11781654']
[quote name='farmer' timestamp='1434678052' post='11781150']
I'm an old guy, so I don't really get Twitter. If he has a complaint, man up and do it in a presser. Tweeting or whatever it's called seems a backdoor way to express an opinion.
[/quote]

Twitter is the FRONT door.
[/quote]I really, really don't get Twitter.
[/quote]

twitter is your news source this day in age. 20-30mins before news stations have it, its already been digested on twitter. its the new news outlet....when the SEC is allowing companies to disseminate news via social media, you know its main stream and the source for up to the minute information.

[Loki]

I don't know...isn't that the nature of fescue greens that they look that way? Everyone a camera is looking at a ball rolling at green level, the ball doesn't bounce.

Sergio is a "never was."

[Vindog]

I'm an old guy, so I don't really get Twitter. If he has a complaint, man up and do it in a presser. Tweeting or whatever it's called seems a backdoor way to express an opinion.

 

Twitter is the FRONT door.

I really, really don't get Twitter.

 

twitter is your news source this day in age. 20-30mins before news stations have it, its already been digested on twitter. its the new news outlet....when the SEC is allowing companies to disseminate news via social media, you know its main stream and the source for up to the minute information.

 

Good point, but that's not enough of a positive for me , BURN HER ANYWAYS!!!!

 

[ZBigStick]

[quote name='golfgirlrobin' timestamp='1434681087' post='11781742']I'm on like my tenth hour of coverage today and I don't think I've seen a single putt really knocked off line. They're very fast downhill and really slow up, but the best players in the world should be able to figure that out.

No, they don't look good, but solidly hit putts go in and weak, tentative ones don't.

If you're going to tweet this kind of stuff, you should probably just go home. By tomorrow they'll be heckling him with "crybaby", and he'll be throwing hard looks at the crowd and it'll get ugly.

When the greens are crappy, as usual, at the British, not one European will open his mouth.[/quote]

The Open greens aren't crappy, they are slow by today's standards. All 250 year old golf courses don't have artificial irrigation. All golf courses that have been built in the last 15 years certainly do. Brown at the Open is due to the presence or absence of rain. This course is intentionally teetering on drought.

This is a terrible advertisement for the #2 best course in Washington that wants $200-$300 in greens fees.