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heso

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  1. Did they show someone other than Hovland in the bushes and I not see it?
  2. Rory has absolutely nothing this week.
  3. There is zero wind here today and the clouds are mostly burnt off. It was really pleasant this morning with cloud cover and slight breeze but it is getting really muggy.
  4. Rain overnight Friday into Saturday. Course will be softer and gettable Saturday morning for the guys that manage to fight below the cut line.
  5. He got really lucky on his front 9. Way left on one but it was so far left he ended up on top of the grass that was trampled down by the spectators. He left a chip short on 2 that would have rolled back down the slope a couple hours later. He had a pitch out of the rough that landed short and would have stayed in the rough more often than not but bounced it onto the green.
  6. That bit of firmness since this morning has really brought out all of the little nuances in the greens. The margin for error is so much tighter now than it was this morning.
  7. Makes double anyway. That first putt through the valley was really bad.
  8. The greens were really receptive early this morning. There was definitely a window where you could make some birdies if you stayed out of the rough. That window appears to have been closed. At around 9:00 this morning there were 10-11 guys under par.
  9. Bryson just made a massive putt from the fringe to save bogey after making a mess of the rough. If that putt slipped by he’d have had a tough one for double.
  10. Bryson’s shot into the 2nd green for example. He left it short and it started to roll back down the hill but stopped. I think they were expecting those to roll the whole way back. It was also 7:30 am and the greens were still damp. There have been a number of shots like that that seemed to be right on the edge of turning into dropped shots.
  11. Seems like the greens are a good bit more receptive than they’d like them to be. Will be interesting to see how fast things get this afternoon and tomorrow.
  12. Masters tv coverage wouldn’t be starting until 3 in the afternoon.
  13. Number 6 has been removed from the itinerary. No 3 moves from that afternoon to an early morning slot and no 10 gets added in that afternoon. Mid pines, 2, 3, 8, 10, cradle.
  14. On the par discussion, the par 3 #8 is 290 yards on the card. Par 4 #17 is 310. It’s possible that at some point 8 this week 8 will play longer than 17. 8 was designed to be a par 3 played with a wood and the entrance to the green is 25 yards wide. 17 is a risk/reward short par 4 and the green entrance is 9 yards wide. Last open 8’s scoring average was 3.3, 17’s scoring average was 3.8.
  15. The number of shots a hole was designed to be reached in plus 2 putts.
  16. The data isn’t just from the pga tour, it’s just the benchmark. It includes LIV data, dpwt, Asia tour, others. His driving accuracy, in LIV events and majors combined, is lower than the average driving accuracy of the players on the pga tour. And it’s currently the highest his accuracy has ever been. It’s still not good, it’s just not as bad as it used to be. From a strokes gained perspective, his game as a whole is the best it’s ever been.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
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