The Genesis Invitational 2021

[ThinkingPlus]

2 hours ago, MattyO1984 said:

 

Products of their generation. Typically, driving it long equals driving it well.

It has pretty much always been that way.  However, today a larger percentage of players realize and use that strategy to their benefit.  It used to be mitigated somewhat by the poorer equipment/balls available making it a bigger advantage in today's game.

[mat562]

56 minutes ago, BNGL said:

Please don’t. It drives me absolutely nuts to read “Shinny”, Bruce, YJS, or the like on here...it’s absolutely irrationally how much that spikes my already high blood pressure. I think if I ever saw, “ The Mont” I would go scorched earth on everything.

 

PM me. We'll meet up and have a Grandpa Simpson/Quaalude session.

[mwkbmw]

14 minutes ago, ThinkingPlus said:

It has pretty much always been that way.  However, today a larger percentage of players realize and use that strategy to their benefit.  It used to be mitigated somewhat by the poorer equipment/balls available making it a bigger advantage in today's game.

I heard Bryson yesterday muttering after a poor drive about his driver, "This thing is so sensitive".

 

Well, duh, when you swing it like he does. Can't imagine how he would have felt playing persimmon and balata.

[MattyO1984]

18 minutes ago, mwkbmw said:

I heard Bryson yesterday muttering after a poor drive about his driver, "This thing is so sensitive".

 

Well, duh, when you swing it like he does. Can't imagine how he would have felt playing persimmon and balata.

 

I don’t think he would have been able to play the game. Imagine how much time he would have had to waste dipping his balls in salt or whatever it is he does only to release that the chances of getting a perfect balata ball are all but non-existent 😂

[OBbogey5]

Why is Schauffele getting a free drop on 10?

 

There’s no explanation by the talking heads yet..

 

I’m genuinely curious.

[OBbogey5]

“Get outta jail free card”.. what does that even mean?? Golf’s rules, and the reporting on the rules is such an embarrassment. What a turn off for a sports fans/participant.

[caseFSU]

8 minutes ago, OBbogey5 said:

Why is Schauffele getting a free drop on 10?

 

There’s no explanation by the talking heads yet..

 

I’m genuinely curious.

They said sprinkler head.

[OBbogey5]

1 minute ago, caseFSU said:

They said sprinkler head.

I saw that a sprinkler head was in his line.. that’s not cause for a free drop, is it? Never saw him take his stance and have the sprinkler head impede his footing. 

[caseFSU]

1 minute ago, OBbogey5 said:

I saw that a sprinkler head was in his line.. that’s not cause for a free drop, is it? Never saw him take his stance and have the sprinkler head impede his footing. 

Just went back and re-watched. Carney said "It looks like there is a sprinkler head 'kinda' in his line."

 

[PureStrikes54]

Absolutely no one....I mean absolutely no one...... "let's replace Bryson and Rory as a featured group on PGA tour live with YJS and Kuch"   🤮

Edited February 19, 2021 by PureStrikes54

[OBbogey5]

I am assuming the worst, because these guys don’t play by the rules sometimes, and the rules officials on site are, at times, complicit. 
 

Schauffele wanted to putt, but the sprinkler head was in his line so he ordered a free drop from a rules official like I order a Salty Dog from a bartender. 

[OBbogey5]

1 minute ago, caseFSU said:

Just went back and re-watched. Carney said "It looks like there is a sprinkler head 'kinda' in his line."

 

Such a strange report, right? Carney is there following the group I assume. Is he restricted to where he can walk? And “kinda”.. Wouldn’t matter.. Tell me if I’m wrong, I’m honestly not a rules expert, but you don’t get a free drop when an object is IN YOUR LINE..(?)

[DEAN_PARTIN]

Anybody ever played Riviera? What are the greens like? seeing some of the guys with some bad misses... 

[ThinkingPlus]

Just now, OBbogey5 said:

Such a strange report, right? Carney is there following the group I assume. Is he restricted to where he can walk? And “kinda”.. Wouldn’t matter.. Tell me if I’m wrong, I’m honestly not a rules expert, but you don’t get a free drop when an object is IN YOUR LINE..(?)

I believe all the tours employ a local rule for sprinkler heads around the green in the line of play.  Something like if you are within 1 club length and in your line you get relief.  It has been mentioned a few times in other threads over the years.

[the bishop]

5 minutes ago, OBbogey5 said:

Such a strange report, right? Carney is there following the group I assume. Is he restricted to where he can walk? And “kinda”.. Wouldn’t matter.. Tell me if I’m wrong, I’m honestly not a rules expert, but you don’t get a free drop when an object is IN YOUR LINE..(?)

XANDER CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS!

[OBbogey5]

6 minutes ago, ThinkingPlus said:

I believe all the tours employ a local rule for sprinkler heads around the green in the line of play.  Something like if you are within 1 club length and in your line you get relief.  It has been mentioned a few times in other threads over the years.

That explanation would completely apply in this case. Thank you! Never heard of it.. Is this for all sprinkler heads throughout the course? And can I play by this rule as well?

[OBbogey5]

9 minutes ago, DEAN_PARTIN said:

Anybody ever played Riviera? What are the greens like? seeing some of the guys with some bad misses... 

I haven’t, but I’m sure people will chime in here.. they’re very difficult. Small targets, subtle and extreme slopes. They firm up. And they can pinball on five footers. Been to the LA Open almost every year for 35 years. 

[irvnasty]

I'm starting to feel like this could be another Brooks Koepka year. He doesn't even seem to have his best stuff and he's still climbing the leaderboard.

[MilkyButterCuts]

"The Riv"

piven blog.bmp

Edited February 19, 2021 by MilkyButterCuts

[ThinkingPlus]

33 minutes ago, OBbogey5 said:

That explanation would completely apply in this case. Thank you! Never heard of it.. Is this for all sprinkler heads throughout the course? And can I play by this rule as well?

I think it applies to greenside only, but could be wrong on this. Local rule for tour use only.  Don't expect such leniency from the USGA.

[MilkyButterCuts]

I'll never figure out how to work this website.... 

3 minutes ago, MilkyButterCuts said:

"The Riv"

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[ThinkingPlus]

1 hour ago, PureStrikes54 said:

Absolutely no one....I mean absolutely no one...... "let's replace Bryson and Rory as a featured group on PGA tour live with YJS and Kuch"   🤮

Funny, I can completely understand switching from that MCthreesome to another group.

[PureStrikes54]

1 minute ago, ThinkingPlus said:

Funny, I can completely understand switching from that MCthreesome to another group.

 

Guess I have a soft spot for the two longest guys on tour having a "measuring contest" on each hole and seeing how Rory's iron play works out with the X7's. Both are laying an egg and likely won't make the cut so maybe switching to the two plodders was the move. 

[ThinkingPlus]

2 minutes ago, PureStrikes54 said:

 

Guess I have a soft spot for the two longest guys on tour having a "measuring contest" on each hole and seeing how Rory's iron play works out with the X7's. Both are laying an egg and likely won't make the cut so maybe switching to the two plodders was the move. 

Hard to have much of a measuring contest when they are playing pachinko in the trees all day.

[TheIncelGolfer]

9 minutes ago, ThinkingPlus said:

Hard to have much of a measuring contest when they are playing pachinko in the trees all day.

Lol thats fun to watch too. Especially DeChambeau's constant whining.

[bladehunter]

23 minutes ago, ThinkingPlus said:

Hard to have much of a measuring contest when they are playing pachinko in the trees all day.

Lol.  Excellent application of the needle milady ..... that one cut deep.  😳
 

(stupid autocorrect) 

Edited February 19, 2021 by bladehunter

[DEAN_PARTIN]

 Watching Jordan feels like watching old school golf. Love it.

[adeangelis]

It remains one of the great perplexities in life that there is a golf tournament being played at one of the premier courses in the world with some of the top players in the world already out on the course and it has to be streamed. For all the talk from golf people about "expanding the game," they don't do themselves any favor with their tv coverage 

[gvogel]

53 minutes ago, PureStrikes54 said:

 

Guess I have a soft spot for the two longest guys on tour having a "measuring contest" on each hole and seeing how Rory's iron play works out with the X7's. Both are laying an egg and likely won't make the cut so maybe switching to the two plodders was the move. 

Rory having a poop fest this week.

[DEAN_PARTIN]

5 minutes ago, adeangelis said:

It remains one of the great perplexities in life that there is a golf tournament being played at one of the premier courses in the world with some of the top players in the world already out on the course and it has to be streamed. For all the talk from golf people about "expanding the game," they don't do themselves any favor with their tv coverage 

Couldn't agree more. None of my buddies who are casual fans at BEST, even know that they stream the early coverage on Nbc Sports