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Old 05-17-2020, 04:13 PM   #376
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FFS I thought Bill Murray was bad...
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Old 05-17-2020, 04:45 PM   #377
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The coverage has been abysmal. Someone at the event has said the players interact the most after they finish a hole, and walk to the next tees. Quite a bit of banter between them. So naturally NBC runs five minutes of commercials, then does interviews, other snippets, and misses it all. Just shut the hell up and let us hear the players talking.
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Old 05-17-2020, 05:00 PM   #378
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I played a crappy exec today since it has a range. I was actually hitting greens and my long irons fairly well. Towards the end of the round, I figured out a basic issue with my grip and was hitting straigher and longer than I was all morning. I hope it wasn't a fluke but it felt great and I ended up better than bogey golf. Can't really count the score since the cups were raised but I was close to 10 over which for me felt great. My local course's range opens in a week or so and I may renew my JC Club and play my free b-day round.
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Old 05-17-2020, 06:21 PM   #379
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Checks clock. 6:20PM. Started at 2PM. No caddies and no one pouring over the shots this, or that, or that, or the putt reads, etc.... While missing the good comments/banter (while commercials were happening), they played the game as intended.

Now going to extra holes of course, but 18 holes in 4:20. (heh).

It shows they are their own worst enemy.

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Old 05-17-2020, 06:33 PM   #380
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No reason they shouldn't have played in under 4 hours though.
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Old 05-17-2020, 06:42 PM   #381
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They clearly showed them multiple times holding the players from hitting approach shots, until the 6 minutes of commercials were finished. The aerial cam would show the players, a NBC guy next to them would give them a signal it was ok to play, and within 30 seconds all four would hit their shots. They needed time to get their camera in position.

There was easily 30-40 minutes of delays from the fact this was a tv show.
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Old 05-17-2020, 07:15 PM   #382
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They clearly showed them multiple times holding the players from hitting approach shots, until the 6 minutes of commercials were finished. The aerial cam would show the players, a NBC guy next to them would give them a signal it was ok to play, and within 30 seconds all four would hit their shots. They needed time to get their camera in position.

There was easily 30-40 minutes of delays from the fact this was a tv show.
And there were one "are we good?" Matt asked on camera before driving. And I did liek the newbies joke when he was short on 16 (I think? Driveable par 4). "Can you check me for covid? Oh, wait, probably not a good time to joke..." LOL

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Old 05-17-2020, 07:30 PM   #383
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Pretty classless if you ask me.

But we obviously only care so much about the dead/infirmed/less fortunate anymore, so.

Sorry to be a pooper.
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Old 05-17-2020, 07:46 PM   #384
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Huh? You know it was for charity and raised multiple millions of dollars? Unlike Nascar racing today...
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Old 05-17-2020, 07:48 PM   #385
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Hey I can see not thinking the joke was classless. Maybe this whole thing hasn't effected you soo much but, think about the (soon to be) 100k families who are smaller now. I don't think many of them would have laughed.

Did I complain about the event?

Also humor doesn't have to be classy but, I seem to remember seeing it as a tradition on a professional golf course. Maybe not an old one. (looking at Augusta)
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Old 05-17-2020, 07:54 PM   #386
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Oh!! Oops. Yeah I didn't even see the previous post or scroll up. Now I've put 2 and 2 together I understand your post.

That being said, yes it was in poor taste. Sorry you were offended and chose to disregard the fact that he even admitted it wasn't good timing.
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Old 05-17-2020, 08:01 PM   #387
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Yeah, if it hadn't been for all those people dying recently he could joke about them later?

Doesn't do much for me. It was the joke that was classeless as well as the timing. Now having said that it does seem like he instantly felt bad. Of course he shouldn't be crucified either but, the joke is plain classless.

Think about how many survivors are going to spend the rest of their lives huffing and puffing (we worry) and this guy is joking about not driving a green.

Don't quit your day job.
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Old 05-18-2020, 12:00 AM   #388
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Played both days this weekend. On Saturday, everything clicked. Shot -2, 70 at Grayhawk Talon. My new best.

I was playing ok on the first 6 but not really doing anything. I was +1 but it was pretty ho hum. Then I caught fire. Birdied 7, 9, 12, 14, and 15. After draining the 20 footer on 15, I was standing on the 16 tee realizing I’m suddenly -3 with 3 to play.

On 16 I had 100 yards left to the flag. Hit a perfect low spinning wedge. It landed 3 feet in front of the pin, hit the stick, and ricocheted off the green, down a false front. I actually lipped out the chip coming back but it stopped 3-4 feet out and I missed the clean up... ugh...

Also lipped out a birdie on 17.

The **** break on 16 took a potential 3 to a 5 and kept me from my first round in the 60’s.
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Old 05-18-2020, 02:20 AM   #389
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Nothing like the amatuer nerves of bringing home a pro round.

Congrats!!!

Jealous.
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Old 05-18-2020, 07:45 AM   #390
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That's great SB. Now, do it again!!

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Old 05-18-2020, 08:03 AM   #391
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Parker, while the comment may had been classless to you, and while this doesn't excuse it probably in your eyes, he's one of the young ones and I'm sure they forget he was wearing a hot mic. He was the more vocal out of all of them when talking about things other than golf or their game. He's got to learn to stay in the moment.

I do want you to understand something though... There are people, like myself, that while understanding the seriousness of issues and respecting them, will STILL joke, make jokes, etc... about them. It's how we are wired. Heck, raised. It's how quite a few of us cope. Laughter. Most of my family funerals, you'll hear people cracking jokes about the person vs being somber all the time. Why? It's a joke. It's not a true statement in how they feel.

I can respect your side that you cope by lashing out against someone that offended you. But you also have to understand the other side, there are people like myself and others that cope by joking. It doesn't make us evil. It means most of us are simply coping, but differently than you may be. It's this simple lack of understanding that creates a lot of tension between serious people vs joking people. Serious people think there's a time and place for everything. "Now's not the time". Thing is... those that make jokes feel the same way. "Anytime is a good time."

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/...or-080111.html

https://www.verywellmind.com/maintai...-humor-3144888

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Old 05-18-2020, 08:34 AM   #392
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Back on track and less on meh, played golf yesterday. Hit some great shots, and some **** shots, but overall it was a great round (not for scoring).

The course I played is one of the hardest (but prettiest) around here. All the lies are steep up or down, and some are compound (so not only is the lie on a hill, but you're hitting at odd angles off the hill). Had I been on my home course, I would have likely shot a few better. But it was a beautiful day and I wasn't at work.
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Back on track and less on meh, played golf yesterday. Hit some great shots, and some **** shots, but overall it was a great round (not for scoring).

The course I played is one of the hardest (but prettiest) around here. All the lies are steep up or down, and some are compound (so not only is the lie on a hill, but you're hitting at odd angles off the hill). Had I been on my home course, I would have likely shot a few better. But it was a beautiful day and I wasn't at work.
I've played a few courses like that where there's just no flat lies on any holes. They are the worst in my opinion. Golf is challenging enough without constantly having to think "ok, above my feet, aim left, and choke up, but it's also an uphill lie meaning have to club up, and aim more/less left." If I wanted to play calculus, i'd had stayed home.

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That was my entire round.
"So that means ball will go right, but the wind is left, and it's uphill, and I am choked up"

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Played Saturday ... weather perfect. Played like crap ... bogie or double on every hole ... but I count it as one of my favorite rounds ever. It's good to be back
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I played Saturday afternoon with my wife and son and brother-in-law and had a blast, despite playing like crap. Beautiful day, a few beers and good company. And like you SinC, didn't care how I played.

My son is 17 and rarely plays because he gets frustrated not hitting the ball well and not being consistent (welcome to golf, kid!). I gave him a few pre-round tips (again) and he struck the ball really well most of the round, especially off the tee. He shot a legit 104 from the ladies tees and now seems to have the bug to play more and get better. If he didn't 3 and 4 putt so many greens he would have been under 95.

I played poorly because my back was bothering me, so I didn't play yesterday thinking I'd rest. Instead my wife put me to work planting a bunch of bushes and plants. YEah, that helped my back!? I'm playing in a 36 hole 2 man best ball tournament next weekend over the 4 days.
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Back on track and less on meh, played golf yesterday. Hit some great shots, and some **** shots, but overall it was a great round (not for scoring).

The course I played is one of the hardest (but prettiest) around here. All the lies are steep up or down, and some are compound (so not only is the lie on a hill, but you're hitting at odd angles off the hill). Had I been on my home course, I would have likely shot a few better. But it was a beautiful day and I wasn't at work.
I wonder if that's the course we played during one of the Burn Down weekends.

I remember the first tee was uphill and to a blind right...with a deep marsh for the first 30 yards.

I remember dreading how the rest of the course was going to look.
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I went on a golf trip with some buddies last fall and played a course down in Williamsburg that I had never played (opened when I still lived there). I quit after 12 holes. It was like they WANTED you to lose balls and rage out.
So, I drank.
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I went on a golf trip with some buddies last fall and played a course down in Williamsburg that I had never played (opened when I still lived there). I quit after 12 holes. It was like they WANTED you to lose balls and rage out.
So, I drank.
There was a course like that in Pensacola, FL called Lost Key. The joke was it should have been named Lost Ball. There was about 2 yards of rough then it was marsh.

I did find about half a dozen ProV1s the last time I played there when the water level dropped.
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I played Saturday afternoon with my wife and son and brother-in-law and had a blast, despite playing like crap. Beautiful day, a few beers and good company. And like you SinC, didn't care how I played.

My son is 17 and rarely plays because he gets frustrated not hitting the ball well and not being consistent (welcome to golf, kid!). I gave him a few pre-round tips (again) and he struck the ball really well most of the round, especially off the tee. He shot a legit 104 from the ladies tees and now seems to have the bug to play more and get better. If he didn't 3 and 4 putt so many greens he would have been under 95.

I played poorly because my back was bothering me, so I didn't play yesterday thinking I'd rest. Instead my wife put me to work planting a bunch of bushes and plants. YEah, that helped my back!? I'm playing in a 36 hole 2 man best ball tournament next weekend over the 4 days.
A good way to get someone that's learning the sport "into the game" is not to track strokes as a form of accomplishment, but something like Bingo Bango Bongo. If you work on their short game, they may have more fun. And you can still be a bad putter, but still win.

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