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  1. I fully expect him to contend. The course will play even harder than it was that day, but if there’s anyone capable of muscling it out of the rough this week it’s him. I just think it’s a less than ideal way to attack this course. I hope he’s a least in contention on Sunday. I love rooting against him.
  2. He’s currently below tour average in driving accuracy. He hit 5/14 fairways in the final round last year, a number of them well into the waste area where he just kept coming up roses.
  3. Coming out of the rough onto greens rolling at 15 is a different activity than ones rolling at a 10. Can he do it? Of course, winged foot showed that he’s capable of just bombing it over the top of the course’s protection and since everyone was in the rough, it’s better to be longer and in the rough. We’ll find out in a couple days if Oakmont can be bombed over. Or if it’s is still a course that requires accuracy and smart play.
  4. With Bryson it’s going to come down to how much he gets punished by being in the rough. He’s going to bomb it and end up out of position in the rough. Does he get punished for it and can other golfers score better by being in the fairway, or at least in better positions. He got really lucky at pinehurst. That final round he had 6-7 drives (maybe more) off into the waste areas and he kept getting lucky with the results. I think in that final round he only lost 1 stroke to the wire grass when he could have easily ended up several shots lost there. That’s also why he’ll probably never win the masters playing that course the way that he tries to play it. He doesn’t have the finesse and he puts himself into positions that are impossible to score from. He’s barely positive in total strokes gained for his career at the masters and the only reason it’s close is his strokes gained off the tee. He’s only had a positive number once each in SG approach & around d the green. On the flip side, Scottie is almost never out of position. His method of having green/yellow/red areas of the green complex when he’s approaching means he’s almost never in a position to drop a shot. Whether that be at the masters, or anywhere else, he just plays much smarter golf than Bryson does. Or can a guy like Morikawa who is so accurate off the tee and approaching the green make up for his lack of distance? Oakmont is such a complete test and the ways it examines your game so varied that I could see Bryson having a tough time with it. The day he played it where he spent a lot of time hacking it out of the rough for YouTube was a really soft conditions. I think he said early in that video that the greens were rolling at a 10. Oakmont is targeting 14.5 to 14.7 for the tournament. That’s a very different animal.
  5. As it stands the itinerary is: Thusday Mid pines no 8 Friday no 6 no 3 satuday no 2 cradle I’m already trying to build a group for a return trip in 2-3 years to hit 4, 10, 11, pine needles, and Tobacco Road
  6. If I knew him better I would have been hounding him to call them about moving us to 10. But I’ve met him once, maybe 15 years ago. The guys I do know well assured me they were on it. They were not. They need kicked in the dick.
  7. Guy that put the trip together let the chips fall instead of trying to be proactive about it to see if we could get onto 10. They put us on 6 and a $200 gift card.
  8. Just got word yesterday that pinehurst no. 4 will be closed for 3 months. We were scheduled to play 2, 3, 4, & 8. Really hoping we’ll be able to move from number 4 to number 10. But the guy that organized the trip seems to have no care as to which course they replace 4 with in our itinerary, so I’m fully expecting it to be 1 or 5. The minute we heard that 4 would be closed we got on him to call and find out if we could move to 10. All he’s done is forward us the email from pinehurst saying that 4 is closed and they’ll move us to another course.
  9. They need to just roll with Mason for the season and not try to protect Tomlin’s winning season streak. The ceiling with Rodger’s is a first round playoff loss. I’d rather they win 6 games with Mason and get a better look at a real qb next draft.
  10. Thank fucking god we didn’t take Sanders. I had no faith in them passing on him. My only hope was that someone was dumb enough to take him before the Steelers.
  11. Based on that article, I think what they’re doing is identifying weekly badges that get resold every year so they can pull them for use as part of the high end map and flag hospitality packages. Why let some asshole pocket $20k reselling his weekly badge when they can use that weekly badge for high end packages and get that $20k into their environment.
  12. Add them to the pile of people that should have known Trump didn’t give a fuck about them and just wanted their votes that will hopefully now realize that he clearly does not give a fuck about them.
  13. I just read the first 2 pages to this. Is there anything other than derka defending his choice of Twitter source, imamac insisting it’s extremely difficult to kill someone with one stab, and discussing race relations on the subsequent 18 pages?
  14. We’ve had to buy a 5th ticket off stubhub 3 times. In 2022 a Monday ticket was ~$900. In 2024 a Wednesday ticket and in 2025 a Tuesday ticket were both around $1,500. Depending on when you buy that can be anywhere from 1k to 2k+. Add another 30% or so for stubhub fees. There is a pretty significant fluctuation in prices from July to April. Cheapest times seem to be in the few weeks after they draw the winners. For that first month or so if you check daily you can find some cheap as people that just want to move them fast will way undercut the market. Another slight dip in late fall. Prices typically rise slightly from new years until the week before the tournament. A week out the prices will be highly weather dependent. If there is a day that looks like a rain out the days around it will double+. This past year immediately after uga got knocked out of the playoffs there was a quick $~500 jump in prices after uga fans moved their national championship funds to masters tickets.
  15. We’ve always gone via the lottery. I got my name pulled for 2018 & 2024. One of the guys I went with had an employee win and sell him the tickets for 2020 (those tickets ended up being used for 2022). And this year same guy had a friend that won but couldn’t use them.
  16. I was pretty close to this viewpoint at this time. Top row of the grandstand on 16. Was sitting next to a green jacket. I held off from commenting about cell phones not being allowed when he pulled his out to read a text message. That was a great set of groups that came through at that time.
  17. This is the answer. Every dollar a beginner puts into clubs beyond just having something made in the last 20 years before getting at least one lesson is wasted money in my opinion. The level of enjoyment of the game someone will have by being started on the right path to a proper swing vs buying new clubs and not being able to swing them is immeasurable. Being able to shoot in the neighborhood of 100 with shit clubs is massively more fun than writing down 126 without counting all of the mis-hits with new clubs. Get 3 lessons and get to the range at least half a dozen times between them to work in what he’s teaching you. Whatever cadence allows you to get to the range enough between the lessons. That would potentially take years off of the learning curve. Do it before you build a bunch of bullshit faults into your swing. Then you can make an informed decision on your clubs.
  18. What about those 5 LIV golf wins?
  19. Alternating 18 & 10
  20. I’m getting started on a project I’ve been mulling over for a few years. I want to make a travel bar in a briefcase. Somewhat inspired by antique pistol cases where you’d have a box for your pistol and all of the implements and tools, I want to have a case where I have everything I need to make an old fashioned and a Manhattan as well as play music. I finally came across a briefcase with the right feel to it. A little more beat up than I’d prefer but the style and the price were right. The briefcase: Plan for the layout of the case: And the current status, measuring things to Make sure it’ll all fit. The fabric in this picture is some chocolate brown pig suede that I’m going to reline the inside with.
  21. I thought it sounded familiar, looking at his channel I’ve seen a few of his videos. I know some of those. Never heard of Hess, I’ll check it out.
  22. I’ll have to give that a try. Who do you like watching on YouTube?
  23. I have an old dewalt 733 that I kind of hate but it gets the job done and it was free. The raising/lowering mechanism is gummed up and it takes an absurd amount of effort. It also has way more snipe than I would like to deal with, both in depth and length up the board. If I really need to minimize snipe I run some scrap pieces with it to take the snipe. There is a long list of tools to buy before replacing it so it’ll never end up getting replaced before it dies. When I do I’ll probably go with a 735 and get a helical cutter for it.
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