Golf - classic or dud

rose won the us open two yrs ago btw

johnny why man..

mcilroy will definitely win a few more majors but i bet spieth wins more. and i dunno if that's purely talent, it's hard to say with golf where talent ends and hard work begins. but like most things the latter will probably get you further.

o whoops, 2013 was a bad year ok lol

justin rose for presidetn, sergio still has his crown

concentration and drive fall under both talent and hard work imo - spieth has all in multitudes

the classic irish example would be clarke and harrington. clarke was definitely more gifted, harrington worked his ass off to win those three majors.

tho the new svelte scandinavian ski instructor clarke is amusing

As a resident of Sheboygan it has been real amusing seeing random golfers all over town. Best of all was seeing Dustin Johnson buying like $50 worth of Chex Mix and Gardettos at the Kohler market, while his bikini model wife waited in the car looking really bored. WTF is one man gonna do with all that Chex Mix??

not take cocaine

i am a big fan of chex mix and even i cannot approve of that much chex mix

What is Chex Mix? Congrats to Jason Day, deserves it.

it is a crunchy snack mix with little corn and rice cereal pieces, pretzels, and some other stuff. it comes in several flavors, though classic, which is sort of a soy-umami bomb, is the best.

what chex mix should i make

jason day is on fiiiiiiiiiire

jason day is on fiiiiiiiiiire

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61-63? That's incredible, even if the leaderboard's filled with low scores.

for real

think that matched the 36 hold record

eagled the 18th with this monster putt to do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW3yoqUBKz4

spieth cleaned house w that win. 10 mill and probs player of the year and #1 ranking back. pretty great season, excited for next year.

Was watching a bit of the broadcast today (hardly ever do anymore), and they were saying some player was learning to bounce back from his bad shots. Which made me think that you could track that--what do different players score on holes following bogeys/doubles/etc.?

Have golf analytics taken hold like in baseball (majorly) or hockey/basketball (seem to be just taking off--football I don't know about)? There would seem to be room for such a thing, although I'm not sure how useful they'd be. Maybe the standard stuff--driving distance/accuracy, putts-per-round, etc.--correlates well enough to the best players.

Who is everyone picking for the Masters?

so stoked for the masters. i think jason day is clearly the best player ie he's excellent at all facets of the game, although most pundits seem to think rory is the guy. winning 3 tournaments in a row seems like a lot however so i'll take mcilroy or koepka.

so many players have credentials and are in form though, scott, bubba, phil (kinda)

btw lydia ko was awesome when she won her 2nd major last week, all those clutch par putts on the back nine culminating at the 18th where she laid up to the par 5 at about 90 yards:

caddy: you want to put this about half a yard to the left of the flag
lydia: okay

she puts it about 2 feet above and to the left of the hole, taps in for birdie and the win. ice cold.

think dechambeau is playing with spieth, find him v interesting what with having all his irons the same length and lie. i wonder if the other players ask to have a go with his clubs on the range?

I'm no aficionado, so I'll be stubbornly backing Rickie Fowler like I do every tournament, though I can definitely see Scott or Day taking this. Or McIlroy of course.

I have a feeling about Danny Willett too. He's on great form and seems to be on the rise in general, perhaps buoyed by being a new father. Also can't shake floating inklings for Oosthuizen and Matsuyama.

Starting in an hour and ten!

looking forward to this - got a new tv since last time a major was on.

nice, streaming starting now on masters.com

He's underway on the first, but his tee shot is wayward.
He's underway on the first, but his tee shot is wayward.
He's underway on the first, but his tee shot is wayward.

;_;

lol

fowler is usually so aggressive with his putss i wonder how that plays out on these greens although so was tiger and he seemed to manage fine.

matsuyama is a good shout tangentx2, p long and has a great putting stroke.

i find spieth fascinating in that i've never been all that impressed with how he hits the ball even last year when he was having a year for the ages. although i may have just taken against him because he is so fucking slow.

fowler - double bogey, birdie, birdie.

I'm not enthusiastic about Spieth either, especially since imago took to suddenly watching the golf and supporting him... And yes, so slow. I like the aggressive and creative players best.

Wind is apparently picking up later so I'm hoping Fowler can get some more birdies in nice and early...

im kinda jelly, one of my good friends is going to this tmorrow

otoh, tix via stubhub were apparently ~$800 each

i grew to admire spieth when i watched him bury putt after putt in big situations last year

Suddenly? Since I was in short pants ffs

Hoping for a huge start from Spieth tho yeah

This tournament is great obv but I always see it as propaganda for the American springtime

springtime in america is pretty great tbh

Thank you xp

has it rained there this morning? had heard all week about the greens being the fastest ever but quite a few approach shots taking spin so far.

Morning dew makes the greens a little softer and grabbier — afternoon groups will miss out on that.

lol rory out last today

Yay, the BBC shared my tweet lol

Spieth on -3 already... He is a machine

He is a winner

his interminable conversations with his caddie infuriate me. he knows how to score though.

he's a v boring robot for sure but yeah you gotta respect the game

from the few pro events i've seen him play in over the last 5 months gotta say dechambeau is the best amateur i've seen for a long time. i take it he's going pro after this week?

great put by casey

putt*

and yeah dechambeau seems like the real deal. might bogie right now tho

yeah decambeau's supposed to go pro next week

els :O