GRANT THORNTON INVITATIONAL NAPLES, FL (DEC 08-10)

[jimecherry]

2 minutes ago, mallrat said:

Seriously Morgan???

 

”I must admit, I’m not familiar with Wu-Tang Clan’s work either.”

 

Really you don’t know who they are or anything they did? Sorry but that kills me. I bet younger or older generations not knowing but it was all around in that age. 

i doubt morgan could name any rapper regardless of style or time ;}

[woahnelly]

Morgan tried to order Wu Tang soup at her local Shanghainese restaurant 

[18majors]

 

It's nice to see the publicity LPGA players got from PGA Tour website:

 

 

Edited December 8, 2023 by 18majors

[jimecherry]

13 minutes ago, 18majors said:

It's nice to see the publicity LPGA players got from PGA Tour website:

 

pga tour sees this as the successor to the qbe shootout, format is the same scramble: altshot: bestball, same course, same number of teams. from an infrastructure standpoint i'm actually surprised they didnt reuse the old website under a new domain or directly link the events through past results.

Edited December 8, 2023 by jimecherry

[18majors]

2 minutes ago, jimecherry said:

pga tour sees this as the successor to the qbe shootout,

 

 

 

Sorry, Grant Thornton Invitational is no QBE Shootout!

 

Nelly and Lexi were mere novelty when they played QBE Shootout last year; but this year they're playing their own touranment!  Either Nelly or Lexi wants to beat all other LPGA players, just like any other LPGA tournaments.

 

Neither Nelly nor Lexi had any chance of winning QBE Shootout; but at Grant Thornton they're real competitors!  Nelly or Lexi could win a $500,000 check, a winning check bigger than all but six of the other thirty-four LPGA tournaments.

 

 

[grm24]

16 minutes ago, jimecherry said:

pga tour sees this as the successor to the qbe shootout, format is the same scramble: altshot: bestball, same course, same number of teams. 

LOL! QBE Shootout had 12 teams. Grant Thornton has 16 teams. 

So 12=16? Learn something new everyday. 🤣

[jimecherry]

1 minute ago, grm24 said:

LOL! QBE Shootout had 12 teams. Grant Thornton has 16 teams. 

So 12=16? Learn something new everyday. 🤣

my bad

[jimecherry]

4 minutes ago, 18majors said:

 

 

 

Sorry, Grant Thornton Invitational is no QBE Shootout!

 

Nelly and Lexi were mere novelty when they played QBE Shootout last year; but this year they're playing their own touranment!  Either Nelly or Lexi wants to beat all other LPGA players, just like any other LPGA tournaments.

 

Neither Nelly nor Lexi had any chance of winning QBE Shootout; but at Grant Thornton they're real competitors!  Nelly or Lexi could win a $500,000 check, a winning check bigger than all but six of the other thirty-four LPGA tournaments.

 

 

i was referring to the fact the pgatour website is covering the gti like it was still the qbe shootout

Edited December 8, 2023 by jimecherry

[woahnelly]

Does this event account as an official win for either tour ? Will Lexi get to play the Hilton TOC if her and her little brother Rickie win ? 

[18majors]

10 minutes ago, woahnelly said:

Does this event account as an official win for either tour ? Will Lexi get to play the Hilton TOC if her and her little brother Rickie win ? 

 

Hero world Challenge played last week earned OWGR points, but it wasn't considered an official PGA event and the winner wasn't awarded a PGA win.  My guess is that Grant Thornton would be treated the same as Hero by both PGA and LPGA tours.

[ThinkingPlus]

3 hours ago, grm24 said:

Serious question. Did all of the LPGA players in the event this week play in the CME this year and/or last? Lexi for a professional is a poor putter. How much does knowing this course from multiple plays make up for her dodgy putting stroke?

Ko didn't play CME. I don't think Mel did either. Pretty sure the remainder played CME.

 

Lexi seems putting challenged. Of course I don't like her wedge swing either (although it is effective). She generates serious CHS though and hits it straight enough to hits lots of greens. Makes her a good partner with someone who can putt.

[woahnelly]

40 minutes ago, 18majors said:

 

Hero world Challenge played last week earned OWGR points, but it wasn't considered an official PGA event and the winner wasn't awarded a PGA win.  My guess is that Grant Thornton would be treated the same as Hero by both PGA and LPGA tours.

 

So it will appear in the "other wins" section on the victors Wikipedia 

[woahnelly]

29 minutes ago, ThinkingPlus said:

Ko didn't play CME. I don't think Mel did either. Pretty sure the remainder played CME.

 

Lexi seems putting challenged. Of course I don't like her wedge swing either (although it is effective). She generates serious CHS though and hits it straight enough to hits lots of greens. Makes her a good partner with someone who can putt.

 

I don't think anyone hits as gnarly divots as Lexi 

[Lobby]

This is such a fun tournament to watch. I’d love to be there, watching in person

[bcjim]

Sorry I missed watching this.  How often were the ladies drives getting used? Usually in a scramble, a skilled female is a huge advantage. But,  we're they far enough up here to outdrive their partners?

[JungleJimbo]

6 minutes ago, bcjim said:

Sorry I missed watching this.  How often were the ladies drives getting used? Usually in a scramble, a skilled female is a huge advantage. But,  we're they far enough up here to outdrive their partners?

 

https://media.lpga.com/docs/librariesprovider3/2023-gti/whiteline-par-yardage---2023-gti.pdf

 

[JungleJimbo]

https://www.youtube.com/@LPGA

 

 

 

[Peak]

I’m disappointed we didn’t get team Rose / Zhang.

[GolfMoose]

Morgan said something on the broadcast that implied that that the men/women would be playing different tees today too.  Without much thought, I'd assumed that would only apply to  the first day, given in the other formats, after two shots you have the sum of one shot by the women and one by the man. But I guess that might not fit course design at all. 

[18majors]

1 minute ago, GolfMoose said:

Morgan said something on the broadcast that implied that that the men/women would be playing different tees today too.  Without much thought, I'd assumed that would only apply to  the first day, given in the other formats, after two shots you have the sum of one shot by the women and one by the man. But I guess that might not fit course design at all. 

If we disregard the team aspect, we still have men vs. men and women vs. women.  We’d certainly hope women vs. women on their regular distance.

[woahnelly]

1 hour ago, Peak said:

I’m disappointed we didn’t get team Rose / Zhang.

 

If they wed, her name would be Rose Rose 😂 🌹🌹

Edited December 9, 2023 by woahnelly

[khalespace]

I am glad scores have come down.  Not a bif fan of scramble and crazy low scores. 

[Rapidcat]

The accuracy of info provided during this and other coverages is just not good enough.

 

Don't the staff that work on these have any pride in their work?

[Rearviewmirror]

I'm also pretty disappointed that they seem to only be showing putting. I would kill to see some actual full shot coverage outside the par 3s.

[Rearviewmirror]

Glad we got to see that tee shot on 16!

[Dazgore]

Poor coverage here in Oz. The coverage is only showing 4 teams, with the odd shot from the rest of the field.

Voice over guy calling the Day/Ko team as Aussies.

 

I am a kiwi living in Australia and wanting to see more of Day/Ko, it's not like they are floundering at the back of the field.

 

I like the format though.

Edited December 9, 2023 by Dazgore

[Peak]

I don’t like that they played scramble on Friday with ultra low scores and on Saturday and Sunday it’s fourball with relatively little movement on the board. You can almost be out of the race on day 1 the way it’s structured.

[Rapidcat]

6 minutes ago, Dazgore said:

Poor coverage here in Oz. The coverage is only showing 4 teams, with the odd shot from the rest of the field.

Voice over guy calling the Day/Ko team as Aussies.

 

I am a kiwi living in Australia and wanting to see more of Day/Ko, it's not like they are floundering at the back of the field.

 

I like the format though.

 

I too caught the Day/Ko Aussie faux pas, just sloppy and ignorant.

 

Not quite sure how to enlighten US folk on here the equivalent but maybe calling a proud American a Canadian - not an insult, just annoyingly wrong.

 

They also stated Leona turned pro in 2020 when she turned pro in mid 2018 and won twice on the Symetra Tour in 2019.

 

What else is wrong or do they only get US players' info correct?

[PZero]

Crappy coverage, but the event itself it awesome. They need another event like this. 

[JetSpeed79]

Nice HIO by Lexi. 
 

I heard Rickie on the hot mic just before her shot: “If you hole this out I’ll let you take a sip out of my magic water bottle.”