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Uncle Nate

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  1. 33 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

     

    Was shocked at how open and honest he was. I thought he was going to be arrogant and say the course was set up exactly how they wanted it to be. 

    Well he did actually say that...but for the start of the day. But as Duval said later on the Golf Channel, they knew that courses always change as the day wears on, especially at a place like Shinnecock. So if they know that, why did they set the course up exactly how they want it at the start of the day knowing it will deteriorate? You could tell Duval was fighting the urge to call them dumbfucks at the end of his comments. 

  2. As the USGA CEO himself said (surprisingly), you want great shots to be rewarded, and with the condition of the greens for the later pairings, this wasn't the case.  Great shots were penalized due to the conditions of the greens.  

     

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  3. 3 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

    I don't know if that is Strange or Azinger claiming that +7 won at Inverness in the 1970s but whoever it is is dead wrong.   Hale Irwin won in 1979 at Inverness by shooting even par.

    I hate watching a major not televised by CBS.  Fox is like single A baseball compared to CBS being MLB.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    I kind of enjoy going to SECRant, because every other school's posters hate A&M and make fun of them, but there are still a few aggies hanging around, desperate for acceptance, taking the hate.  This one from last week made me blow my drink out my nose:

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    I want to buy TigerOnTheMountain a beer...every day for the rest of his life.

  5. 15 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    You are either going to be a cautionary tale or a good example at any given moment. That's the point of evangelism. 

    But that's the crux. No one is capable of being a "good example".  Completely impossible.  We are all sinners.  "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us."

    This is what Jesus was trying to get across to the Holier-than-Thou Pharisees.  Unfortunately, in American Christianity today, we have a lot of Evangelicals who want to talk about the Law from a similar position as the Pharisees of old, and not the Gospel, as if any man could possibly be justified under the Law.  No one can.  That's the whole point...we all need the Gospel for salvation.

     

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  6. My cousin's husband killed himself one morning after an especially heated argument.  But he had mental issues and it was spotty if he was utilizing his meds.  I just found the timing interesting coming off a bad fight with the wife.

    A friend of mine from my youth committed suicide back in January (he was 45)...and apparently he had some legal trouble and his reputation has been disparaged in the local press as a result (the legal process hadn't played out yet...but I think it was one of those situations that even if he had been found innocent of the fraud he was accused of, the bad press had already maligned him enough the previous few months that he may have felt his reputation would never recover....or he was guilty of the charges, either way).

    I think I'm o.k. mentally, but I will be honest that either scenario...(1) hurting the people (or soliciting sympathy from them) for hurting me....or (2) my reputation is now so irreparably damaged that nothing I could do would ever repair it...could cause me to empathize with these people who felt the need to take their own life.  I hope that's not an indictment on my mental state...but I totally get it.  Two things would keep me from doing it.  The first is not wanting to hurt the ones I love who would be hurt the most and the second would be my fear that suicide is an unforgiveable sin (how could I repent at that point?)

     

     

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