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  1. 22 hours ago, dieucla98 said:

    $649 for a new driver vs $600 for a new putter - which will improve your game more? W/o a doubt in my mind, the answer is the putter. Those LAB putters in particular, do a LOT more for higher handicap shitty putters by stabilizing the face and stroke and removing the massive variability high handicappers have - again, assuming the putter matches the stroke. A new driver isn't going to do that - you're way better off spending $600 on a lesson.

    IMO, putters have less of an impact the better you get - low handicap players have a low variability stroke already, generally speaking, so it ends up being more about the weight, feel, etc...  

    And for the record, I don't own an LAB putter - circa 2010 Scotty here that I love. However, I have seen the difference those LABs make with many 8-15 index players.

    One of the guys in my regular 4some changes putters more than any club in his bag trying to find something that works for him. Maybe a lab would help him, but I’m of the opinion that picking a putter and putting in some legitimate focused practice with it would help more than spending a bunch of money. 

    But I’ve also never bought a putter. A friend of mine gave me a Cleveland copy of an 8802 that he found on the course that no one ever came back to claim. One year I was frustrated with my putter and was thinking about changing it, spent an hour or so at the practice green a couple times a week for a couple months and changed my approach to putting on the course, took my putting average from 37 to 32. 

  2. 6 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    You'll come around on Bryson just like you came around on Spaun today. I believe in you. 

    I was very happy to see him miss the cut. There are so few courses that can punish the holes in his game because he can overpower almost any course. 

    2 rounds at Portrush and I won’t have to see him until next years masters. 

    Now I just need YouTube’s algorithm to stop trying to get me to watch him. 

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  3. I wasn’t rooting for Spaun at the start of the day, but really impressive to grit through that start and have the resolve to push through the conditions after the restart while everyone else wilted. 

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  4. 42 minutes ago, blacklab said:

     

    Burns should have stomped around like that in front of the rules officials if that’s accurate because his feet definitely weren’t splashing anything close to that.

  5. 1 minute ago, aggie08 said:

    Yeah, the ratings for Sam Burns and JJ Spaun playing 18 holes of golf on a Monday would be off the charts!

    But if we’re looking at a playoff tomorrow anyway because it’ll get dark, let’s make it a full 18. 

  6. 3 hours ago, heso said:

    That’s a blink for everyone. No one wants to step up. 

    Is the winner gonna be under par at this point?

    Wasn’t entirely serious with that question, but seeming more and more like gritting out even par would be a pretty good place to be. 

  7. 18 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    What time do they need to restart, in order to finish today? 

    Sam and Adam are on 8 tree y, so 11 holes to play, sunset is about 8:50.  The longer the delay, the more likely they have to let player warm up, it's a conundrum. I'd say they have to start by 5:45, and it could play even slower, though Cantlay missed the cut, so that helps (Adam can play slow, but it's only his last chance an the USOpen) 

    Announcer said they could absorb about a 2 hour delay. They’ll have been delayed for about 1:45 if they restart as expected. 

  8. 11 minutes ago, MrX said:

    Yep. Should be resuming around 5 pm eastern. 

    I’m not sure it’ll be that soon. I’m northwest of Oakmont and it’s still pouring here. The storm is moving kind of weird for the area where the overall storm is moving west to east but it’s spreading out east to west. 5 minutes before it started rainy here there was a less that 10% chance of rain. The radar is pretty unreliable right now. 

  9. 2 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Goddamnit I missed tee off how did Spahn go double bogey on hole 1 what happened. 
     

    id like to see burns pull this off 

    Bogey on 1 - drive it into the right rough, hacked 100 yards to the left rough, ran it on to the left side of the green, 30’ putt from the left fringe with 15 feet of break to 3’. 

    Bogey on 2 was a perfect flighted sand wedge that hit the flag stick and rolled back 50 yards. 

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  10. Rory had good looks at birdie on 3, 4, 5, 12, and 15 that he couldn’t convert, in addition to the 5 birdies he did make. 

    There is a low number out there for someone to step up and take it. 

  11. 1 minute ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Guys on the course say "Not so fast my friend" - 3 players currently -2, but they are hacks and maybe some better players  than Rory, Xander and Hideki (and he is through 18), and 4 other guys are at -1. So nobody has shown a go low round yet today.

    Early watching seems like you can hit a lot of greens because the balls aren’t running/bouncing off the fairways into the rough, but the putts are still hard to pay off. 

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  12. 7 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I keep waiting for Burns to blink. 

    He’s had a couple slip ups, most notably the tee shot on 3 that could have been in real trouble on the far side of the church pews but it was so bad that he ended up on a great spot on the 4th fairway. He’s had a couple others like that. 

    But every time he’s actually gotten into a bad spot he’s got it back into position and paid off the par. It’s been really impressive with how much everyone else has given some back in those spots. 

  13. 30 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    very boring day 

    I thought at least one of scheffler, Rahm, Xander, Morikawa, Rory, Jordan, Koepka would do something, anything to add some intrigue.

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  14. 3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Yeah no it was him, but when I posted I thought it was Rory.  I think my point still has some merit though about showing that instead of more golf shots. 

    I think the guy in 3rd, 2 off the lead, hunting for his ball on the first hole is relevant coverage. I’d rather see that than some guy no one’s ever heard of tap in some meaningless, context free birdie on the back 9.

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