2020 PGA Championship: Glory's Only Shot

[SirFuego]

The PGA Championship usually pairs the previous three major champions together in the first two rounds. Assuming they follow the same formula this year, that would put Koepka with Woodland and Lowry.

[Darth Putter]

Featured groups will be announced during ESPN+s Tuesday coverage.

 

I also wonder if they'll stick with four groups or go to eight for Thursday and Friday.

[Drewsky34]

isnt Bethpage a muni?

[dalehead]

If you want to follow the PGA Tour’s calendar and play cute rhetorical games then sure. For those of us in the rest of the world there will be a 2020 Masters in November and a 2021 Masters in April.

[Darth Putter]

I got the quote from the PGA of America website. Bethpage is a state run public course I believe. You get different prices for tee times based on state residency rather than city.

It does make back to back PGAs at public courses. With Kiawah next year as a resort course, you get three in a row you can play.

[stanger37]

The official ESPN+ merge is not until 2022 correct? So still not time to go full ESPN+ just yet. Can't think of another event that ESPN has.

 

EDIT: crap...Master's is ESPN isn't it?

[jwhite86]

Pulling for Koepka... if anything, just to piss off the haters around here

[Darth Putter]

If you get a full year subscription right now, you get 2 Masters and 2 PGAs!

Admiral Piett get his credit card number!

 

[cardoustie]

How has Phil played HP in the past?

He’s playing well, often does 2 weeks in a row, California greens .. just saying

Past champ, wont be nervous etc etc

[Darth Putter]

Ryan Moore WDs due to "schedule conflict." PGA Championship 2020: This is one of the oddest WD reasons you'll see at a major championship

 

[bscinstnct]

 

Lets see now.. What was Jack saying,

 

[smashdn]

That is how I assumed it would be too. I figured they would just kind of scrap the silly season noise and have the 2021 season start January 1.

[tw_focus]

Rumor has it TW made the trip to the Bay Area early and has been playing in SF and at Stanford Golf Course. He's coming to win this. Bet the house on TW this week.

[tiderider]

someone has to pay koepka to put out a media video of him in an antman costume ...

 

[snizzle]

It's disappointing. I understand the covid concerns but some of these guys are more interested in the easy fedex cash than actually trying to compete for a major. Maybe the Ryan Moores of the world know they don't have the talent to hang with Rory, Rahm, JT, Brooks, Tiger, etc in a Major Championship.

My gut feeling is that Brooks takes this thing.

[Darth Putter]

US Amateur and NCAA Championship in the same year

 

Jack Nicklaus (lots o trophies)

Tiger Woods (lots o trophies)

Phil Mickelson (lots o trophies)

Bryson DeChambeau (6 PGA Tour wins)

Ryan Moore (5 PGA Tour wins)

[farmer]

I think Tom Weiskopf once skipped the RC to go hunting for Bighorn sheep in Alaska. That was when it was GB vs US, but still ....

[howaboutme]

You can watch all you want on the masters website and likely better coverage. I believe they will cover 100% of the shots, something I remember reading a while back. No need for extra subscriptions...Unless that's changed this year?

[gvogel]

If you know you can't win before you tee it up, you might as well not tee it up.

After a T12 and $69,000. at the Barracuda, might as well rest up for more favorable earnings conditions.

[bscinstnct]

 

TW back out there today.

 

Looks like he went after this one. All systems go. At least for now ; )

 

 

 

[jf72286]

If I have ESPN+, I won't need an additional subscription to watch any of the early coverage, featured groups, Thu-Sun rounds, etc. will I? For MLB, I think you need an additional subscription. Just making sure they won't pull any of that nonsense for the PGA...

[tiderider]

article with a bit of math/stats (concrete or speculative) that illustrates how the course would play for the avg amateur ... not a bad read ... takes a bit of time, though ...

Data confirms the way tour pros will play Harding Park at the PGA Championship will look nothing like how average golfers struggle there dailyAgain, these 15-handicapper’s scores are likely the best of best-case scenarios (because the Arccos Caddie A.I. metric is calculating the way to play the hole that statistically leads to the lowest score, not the most likely way the hole would be played). In reality, especially with the PGA Championship penal setup, it gets uglier than a bar fight at 2 a.m. For example, on a hole like the 494-yard 12th, Arccos estimates that our average golfer would miss the fairway 53 percent of the time, not only bringing in to play the rough but out of bounds to the left that would see even a tiny pull bouncing down Lake Merced Boulevard. That quickly brings triple-bogey 7 into play. Even the recommended strategy of laying up with a 5-wood is going to miss the short grass a third of the time. The numbers also predict that Mr. Average’s 58-degree pitch from 72 yards falls short as often as it hits the green, landing in a greenside bunker that statistically he’s more likely to take four shots to get in the hole than he is to take two. So that best-case scenario of a 6 might become a worst-case scenario of a 10 without all that much going wrong.

[Brock Savage]

So what kind of slam is it if you win both Masters and the other three next year?

[Hawkeye77]

GOAT Slam if Tiger wins 5 in a row.

Or 4 for that matter.

[bscinstnct]

 

Ha! Goat Slam

 

Sounds like some sort of evil alcoholic shots you do at the end of a night of partying. Like, yell the bartender...

 

“Goat Slams!“

[tiderider]

Can you twirl a shot glass?

[Drewsky34]

Wondering this as well they better not

[freowho]

Fitzpatrick and Day would be my 2 picks.

[MattyO1984]

What time should we be getting the tee times today?

[Rangeballz]

So Ryan Moore is skipping a major to rest up for the Fedex Cup, correct? Un *** believable.

 

I bet Jay Monahan is dancing in his office.