2021 PGA Championship - Phil!

[tiderider]

 

 

PGA Championship/articles

https://www.pgachampionship.com/

https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2021/05/15/jack-nicklaus-pga-championship-golden-anniversary/

PGA Championship Quiz 🎯

https://sports.yahoo.com/rangefinders-major-debut-pga-championship-234053414.html 🔎

https://www.pgatour.com/news/2021/05/17/jim-bones-mackay-to-fill-in-for-max-homa-at-pga-championship.html

 

Where

Ocean Course, Kiawah Island/Pete Dye

7838 yds 😮

yardage by hole

Fried Egg podcast: Making the Ocean Course (the Ryder is moved; a hurricane hits; the War by the Shore)

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/kiawah-island-golf-history-pete-dye-ryder-cup-pga-championship

Flyover of each hole

 

TV (EST)

1st & 2nd rounds

7 am-1 pm: ESPN+

1 pm-7 pm: ESPN

7 am-7 pm, 4 featured groups: ESPN+

 

3rd & 4th rounds

8 am-10 am: ESPN+

10 am-1 pm: ESPN

1 pm-7 pm: CBS

 

groups/tee times

 

Who

the field (including alternates)

Wolff only member of top 50 to miss

2020 strength of field, 899 😮

Rory McIlroy 10-1  Dustin Johnson 12-1  Jon Rahm 12-1  Justin Thomas 14-1  Bryson DeChambeau 14-1  Jordan Spieth 16-1  Xander Schauffele 16-1  Brooks Koepka 20-1  Collin Morikawa 22-1  Viktor Hovland 25-1  Hideki Matsuyama 25-1  Patrick Cantlay 28-1  Daniel Berger 33-1

Tyrrell Hatton 33-1  Webb Simpson 33-1  Patrick Reed 33-1  Tony Finau 33-1  Will Zalatoris 40-1  Justin Rose 40-1  Tommy Fleetwood 40-1  Cameron Smith 40-1  Scottie Scheffler 45-1 Louis Oosthuizen 50-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 24, 2021 by tiderider

[tiderider]

13 on the quiz 

[ebrasmus21]

Go YJS 

 

Go Rors 

 

Go Bruce 

 

Go Bryson 

 

Go DJ 

 

Go Tiger (out of respect) 

[Christosterone]

Muscles from Brussels

 

Dude can hammer the ball and is a fabulous ball striker…

 

 

[iBanesto]

11. PGA of America invitees^[b]

• An Byeong-hun
• Christiaan Bezuidenhout
• Dean Burmester
• John Catlin
• George Coetzee
• Thomas Detry
• Rickie Fowler
• Dylan Frittelli
• Adam Hadwin
• Lucas Herbert
• Garrick Higgo
• Rasmus Højgaard
• Sam Horsfield
• Rikuya Hoshino
• Jazz Janewattananond
• Takumi Kanaya
• Chan Kim
• Kurt Kitayama
• Tom Lewis
• Robert MacIntyre
• Victor Perez
• Thomas Pieters
• J. T. Poston
• Aaron Rai
• Chez Reavie
• Antoine Rozner
• Kalle Samooja
• Charl Schwartzel
• Adam Scott
• Jason Scrivener
• Kevin Streelman
• Steve Stricker
• Brandon Stone
• Andy Sullivan
• Sami Välimäki
• Erik van Rooyen
• Daniel van Tonder
• Matt Wallace
• Bernd Wiesberger
• Danny Willett

12. If necessary, the field is completed by players in order of PGA Championship points earned (per 8.)^[6][3]

• Cameron Davis
• Harry Higgs
• Denny McCarthy
• Alex Norén

[jobin]

I'm pulling for John Catlin, an invitee from California.  He lives now in Thailand, won 3 recent Euro Tour events and is familiar with excessive heat and humidity, as also found in South Carolina. He's a friendly guy and could use a $$$ boost up in life.

 

Yeah, i too live in Thailand and play plenty of golf year round.  Welcome you.

 

[jobin]

As far as Dudes who can hammer the ball:  every one on that list can do that.

 

And no one, that i have every seen, putts from a prone position.

[grm24]

36 minutes ago, jobin said:

I'm pulling for John Catlin, an invitee from California.  He lives now in Thailand, won 3 recent Euro Tour events and is familiar with excessive heat and humidity, as also found in South Carolina. He's a friendly guy and could use a $$$ boost up in life.

No excessive heat/humidity this week at Kiawah. Temps forecasted to be between 78-82* F for the tournament.

[iBanesto]

5 minutes ago, grm24 said:

No excessive heat/humidity this week at Kiawah. Temps forecasted to be between 78-82* F for the tournament.

 

Wrong quote.

 

Sorry GRM.

Edited May 16, 2021 by iBanesto

[iBanesto]

43 minutes ago, jobin said:

I'm pulling for John Catlin, an invitee from California.  He lives now in Thailand, won 3 recent Euro Tour events and is familiar with excessive heat and humidity, as also found in South Carolina. He's a friendly guy and could use a $$$ boost up in life.

 

Yeah, i too live in Thailand and play plenty of golf year round.  Welcome you.

 

Does Catlin still live in Thailand?

 

I would assume he would be residing in Europe since he is permanently on the ET.

[humps]

Would be great to see Morikawa pull off a repeat... Hopefully putter stays hot.

 

Would also be interesting to see how Koepka recovery is going and if he can return to playing at the 'major' level were used to seeing...

[samwm]

Interested to see how Garrick Higgo fares here.

[theboypinoy]

3 hours ago, iBanesto said:

Does Catlin still live in Thailand?

 

I would assume he would be residing in Europe since he is permanently on the ET.

 

I don't think he lives there anymore.

 

He's back in California more than Thailand these past few years, since he's really devoted himself to a ET schedule.

 

I've followed him for a while now (we're from the same city and I've met him), and his posts from Thailand have practically disappeared.

[iBanesto]

1 hour ago, samwm said:

Interested to see how Garrick Higgo fares here.

 

If Higgo can get his driver working, he can achieve a good finish.

[north_east_pro]

Would love to see Paul Casey to go one better this time out and do it for us Brits.

[tiderider]

10 hours ago, Christosterone said:

Muscles from Brussels

 

Dude can hammer the ball and is a fabulous ball striker…

 

 

he's been the 'next big thing' for a while, now ... 

[TiScape]

11 hours ago, Christosterone said:

Muscles from Brussels

 

Dude can hammer the ball and is a fabulous ball striker…

 

 

Jean-Claude Van Damme is a professional golfer now? What can’t that guy do?! 😂 

Edited May 16, 2021 by TiScape

[Christosterone]

1 hour ago, tiderider said:

he's been the 'next big thing' for a while, now ... 

 

Yep…hard to believe he’ll be 30 next year…

time flies as the years go by

 

-chris

[jdl]

18 hours ago, Christosterone said:

Muscles from Brussels

 

Dude can hammer the ball and is a fabulous ball striker…

 

 

 

Just don't make him angry...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 16, 2021 by jdl

[thatbaseballguy22]

Headed to the practice round on Tuesday. Should be a good time, great weather.

[freeze16172002]

would be nice to see spieth with a chance on sunday. 

[tiderider]

the field has increased by one!

[phizzy30]

19 hours ago, humps said:

Would be great to see Morikawa pull off a repeat... Hopefully putter stays hot.

 

Would also be interesting to see how Koepka recovery is going and if he can return to playing at the 'major' level were used to seeing...

Brooks would be my pick, but not this year.  He said that his knee is still not 100%.  You can't really push off and do the squat move 100% if you have a bad knee. 

[mukster]

Will the cream rise to the top, or will we have a surprise winner? 
 

Think I’ll go with a surprise winner. 

[Go Cougs]

5 hours ago, jdl said:

 

Just don't make him angry...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WTF.  Rage alert.  Can't wait to see him at Kiawah!

[grm24]

Here is a link to all of the different ways to view the PGA Championship and it's shoulder programming this week OTA/streaming.

 

https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2021/05/16/how-to-watch-pga-championship-kiawah-island-tv/

 

https://www.pgachampionship.com/how-to-watch

Edited May 17, 2021 by grm24

[tacklingdummy]

DJ is definitely a pick to win. It is DJ's stomping grounds, so he definitely knows Kiawah Island Ocean course and it suits his game at a long 7838 yards. 

[caseFSU]

On 5/15/2021 at 11:55 PM, jobin said:

I'm pulling for John Catlin, an invitee from California.  He lives now in Thailand, won 3 recent Euro Tour events and is familiar with excessive heat and humidity, as also found in South Carolina. He's a friendly guy and could use a $$$ boost up in life.

 

Yeah, i too live in Thailand and play plenty of golf year round.  Welcome you.

 

Welcome you what?

[skyking]

I wasn’t playing golf when The Ocean Course was gaining it’s fame. E6 connect subscribers were given the course for probably limited time play. So I fired up the sim and have played the course several times from tees a little longer than I normally play and didn’t think the course was all that. There were a few holes where the fairways were “broken up” which forced me to play a fairway wood approach shot on par 4’s but it just didn’t seem to be an OMG this is a difficult course. Granted I had the weather set perfect…fair skies, no wind so maybe that’s the course’s defense. Torrey (South) is included on my basic list, I’ve played the course in person as well and THAT course wasn’t that difficult either…just long…very long. So is the environment…wind, etc., what’s gonna make the Ocean Course a challenge or does the PGA just push the tees way back and that’s the challenge?

[tiderider]

23 minutes ago, skyking said:

I wasn’t playing golf when The Ocean Course was gaining it’s fame. E6 connect subscribers were given the course for probably limited time play. So I fired up the sim and have played the course several times from tees a little longer than I normally play and didn’t think the course was all that. There were a few holes where the fairways were “broken up” which forced me to play a fairway wood approach shot on par 4’s but it just didn’t seem to be an OMG this is a difficult course. Granted I had the weather set perfect…fair skies, no wind so maybe that’s the course’s defense. Torrey (South) is included on my basic list, I’ve played the course in person as well and THAT course wasn’t that difficult either…just long…very long. So is the environment…wind, etc., what’s gonna make the Ocean Course a challenge or does the PGA just push the tees way back and that’s the challenge?