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  1. dieucla98

    USMNT 2021

    I guess this is the downside of having a lot of young, Euro based players - not many will be released for Olympic quals, certainly not the starters at the top tier clubs. And I'm okay with that. We finally have young, Euro based players at the top tier clubs.
  2. I'm not fortunate enough to have played TPC Sawgrass, but it has always looked gimmicky as fuck to me. Any golf course is hard when the widest flat area is all of 2 square feet on the entire course and there is a Pacific Ocean's worth of water.
  3. dieucla98

    USMNT 2021

    With as many players getting quality minutes in Europe as we have now, every weekend is a busy weekend.
  4. He can't buy a putt so far through 6. Clearly getting frustrated with the flat stick.
  5. Jordan just led the field in round 1 SG: Off the Tee. Let that one sink in for a bit.
  6. Think low cut (low trajectory, left to right movement). He used it a ton at the API to great success (by his driving standards at least). He loses some distance off the tee but he finally has something in his arsenal resembling a fairway finder with the metals.
  7. I feel like in the best case, you may have an easier tee shot going that route but you're likely going to draw a bad lie with a forced carry of the water on your next. Unless this is all really just for fan safety, I would kind of like to see Bryson try (and fail...).
  8. Rory broke into the top 10 in early 2010. Since then, he has ranked no worse than 13 and spent only 7 weeks (including this week) outside the top 10 over that decade+ period. Pretty remarkable for a guy that supposedly can't putt.
  9. Just sit his ass until the singles match.
  10. Spieth is trending in a great direction, even with his driver. This time last year and he was struggling to keep tee shots on the planet. He's mostly eliminated the crazy wild miss and with his ability to scramble, that's good enough for him to win out on tour. Yeah, he hit two in the water but even on both of them, they weren't the wild OB shots we've become used to. He's had some Sunday struggles with the flat stick. In all 4 of the events he's played since Torrey, that's been the case. He missed ~4 putts by a combined 1" yesterday. WMO, AT&T, and Genesis were similar. That's the difference. And of all things to worry about with Jordan, anything related to the flat stick really isn't one of them. It's streaky but by definition of streaky, it'll come around. Up to #52 in the world - safely into the WGC Match Play field by a healthy margin and on the cusp of qualifying for other WGCs. All that being said, TPC is not the place where Jordan is going to get his win. Him making the cut at TPC will be impressive - that place disproportionately favors driving accuracy, probably more so than any venue on tour.
  11. dieucla98

    USMNT 2021

    Great to see McKennie settling in so quick. Pirlo appears to be looking for another qualify MF (Pogba is rumored) - hopefully McKennie is high enough up the team sheet that it won't matter. Regardless, the training experience with a Ronaldo and potentially a Pogba would be tremendous.
  12. I'm not trying to discount the importance of a quality short game to winning - you can't win on distance alone, I agree. I'm just trying to point out that the stats show driving the ball longer is a bigger advantage than driving it straighter. The last 5 US Open winners, where the rough is probably the most penal on tour, are prodigious clouters of the ball - Bryson, Woodland, Koepka, Koepka, DJ - whose accuracy is less prolific (yes, their short games played a role as well) . And there is a limit to how much we can protect against distance increases (the land just isn't there, the ROI isn't there).
  13. Look at the list of SG: OTT - they are dominated by the bombers, not the straight hitters. I think the keyword is "Long" and the SG: OTT would back me up. You gain more by hitting it long than you do straight on the tour. Taking Morikawa as an example - he's #13 in driving accuracy, #128 in driving distance. Definitely an emphasis on straight but he's only 69th in strokes gained OTT. Driving the ball straighter than near everyone isn't gaining him many (if any) strokes on the field. Compared to Rory - #152 driving accuracy, #2 driving distance, #2 SG: OTT.
  14. True but bigger picture, he would have been 30 yards shorter 15 years ago. Also, nearly half of the top 15 in the world are top 35 in driving distance too. Distance matters. I don't like the idea of planting more stuff. This game is already hard for the rest of us and unapproachable for many. And spec'ing a course out (taller rough, faster greens, shaved fringe) - I don't know the number, but I imagine this isn't cheap to do for a tournament which is probably why only the majors and a small handful of others do it. Also you risk losing your greens entirely. I'm leaning more and more towards neutering equipment and making people readjust to smaller yardages. It doesn't make the game harder, you just start to play a tee box up. It also brings a lot of courses back into contention as PGA tour venues and makes existing courses more viable in the long run.
  15. I would venture a guess that many of the tour stops out there don't have room for four 700+ yard par 5's and if they did, it would take a very significant amount of money to achieve. And given that you and I likely never play at those tees, they have to drop a substantial amount of money to lengthen a course for just 4 rounds per year. Either we get on board with -15 not even winning tournaments, or start neutering equipment, at least at the professional level. The NLU guys had an excellent podcast talking about how lengthening golf courses to solve the distance issues is very unsustainable and will make many courses around the world obsolete.
  16. Someone remind me, what did Tuchel run at BVB and PSG? Hopefully something different from a 4-3-3 in which the MF and back 4 just play pass all day long.
  17. Her website, which I assume is on this web server she knows how to set up, serves up a blank page. Not even a courtesy "work in progress" or "something went wrong". Just blank.
  18. Put some numbers to the NC race.... If you believe there are 475k outstanding mail in ballots that are 2:1 D then Biden +316K, Trump +158K. Final total Biden 2,972,066, Trump 2,890,438. If you apply the same logic to the Senate race but assume only 400k of those outstanding ballots cast a vote for the Senate (conservative number, I think), D +266K, R +133K. Total D (Cunningham) 2,810,372, R (Tillis) 2,773,701. Is my math wrong? If not, NC is very much in play. And so is getting the Senate to 50/50.
  19. Oh and he's now up to #11 in strokes gained putting on the season. He only found the native area a handful of times which is 72 less times than Spieth three months ago would have done... So there's that. Hes only slightly less erratic than Phil now.
  20. Led the field in strokes gain putting - averaged 2.6 strokes gained per round, north of 10 for the tournament, three strokes better than 2nd place. That's damn impressive and given he funnels everything through the putter, a good sign I hope.
  21. Korean is not OneWorld, maybe you're thinking JAL? Cathay makes some sense since they don't serve IAH or DFW. Korean might be the answer... Supposed increase in DL traffic and the Samsung connection is compelling but I doubt they buy up enough seats to move the needle. Maybe cargo would justify it? The Austin fabs put out quite a bit of cargo destined for ICN but that cargo flies on the DFW-ICN route already so they'd just be moving a revenue stream around instead of creating net new revenue... In short, who the fuck knows.
  22. It's not that odd - they needed a goal, it's the 90th min so why bother running back on D? Cross your fingers for a turnover (check), be in position to get a free run (check), score the equalizing goal (check).
  23. It's a sterling record at ANGC compared to every single other golfer in the world in the last 5 years. No one compares, or even gets close. When you slice and dice it into individual holes and rounds, it's easy to make anyone look less than sterling. That said, I 100% agree that him winning this weekend (or even top 10) given his off the tee and approach stats would be surprising.
  24. 1. Spieth had a couple of really good putting rounds at Torrey and Pebble on the courses they didn't keep SG stats on (North at Torrey, MP at Pebble, I think...). 2. He's trending up and has been, hence his optimism. 3. Strokes gained is a very compact statistic - the difference between Spieth at #70 and #1 is less than one stroke.
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