100th PGA Championship thread

I'm not a big Tiger guy, but that round today was reminiscent of the days of old where he would grind out a good score on a day when it probably should have been a 73. That said, right when he was on the cusp of something on the back nine, he hit two terrible drives. cost him a bogey and a par on a birdie hole. Both drives zapped his momentum.

 

Maybe Mom is where he gets all of that charisma from ....

 

And she was a mid-market TV news anchor! We need @exmediahack ’s critique.

To be fair, he has won 3 of the last 7 majors, and has just one other PGA Tour win so maybe he hasn’t figured out how to up his celebration to major level.

 

Tiger started the year ranked 656th in the world and is now 20th in the FedEx standings and a lock to the Tour Championship; that's impressive.

 

As for Koepka, great performance. Tiger hit a huge drive, best of the day, on 18 and had 160+ left to the flag. Koepka just airmailed the bunkers on the left and had a soft SW in.....head-shaking. Koepka was pouring in the 8-10 ft pars and birdies all day and showing a very soft touch off the greens. For him to win 3 of last 7 major's is the most impressive feat IMHO.

 

His best chance will perpetually be the British from here on out.

 

Masters will be in the mix too.

 

That was damn fun. Koepka earned it. Woods is a factor and has a 3-5 year period of contending/winning.

Great day for golf.

 

Now I want to go find her doing a newscast from West Palm back in the day. She did that 1986-99, which in my business is about 300 years ago.

Those were glory days.

Anchors made boatloads of money and got three-hour dinner breaks — making their producers do all the work.

I wonder why, after that last sentence, @PCLoadLetter has the scope of a high-powered rifle aimed in my direction.

ADD: Thanks, YouTube:

 

Because of the par 5s being so relatively short, Augusta is a place where Woods could realistically use a three-wood instead of driver and still make birdies. I wonder if he will go back and examine his round yesterday, realize that his wedges and nine-iron were his best clubs, and decide to do that on more par 5s everywhere.

 

I’ve been saying something similar to this for years. Although I think he could strategically do it on a lot more holes than par 5s. That is, IF he’s hitting his middle and long irons well. And I always thought that was his forte.

Drive for show, putt for dough. The second most important shot (putting is first of course), is that shot that puts you on the green, close and on the better side of the pin (putting uphill) if you can be that precise.

Driving is important, no kidding. But if his iron play is on, that’s what is going to get him his next major, in my opinion.

1997 didn’t happen just by driving and putting.

I haven’t read many golf books, but one thing I read in one of Ben Hogan’s books really struck me: having a plan, in advance, on how to attack each hole.

So, don’t just think, driver, driver, driver off of each par 4 and 5 and hope you can deal with what you get off the tee.

Plan the damn thing out, almost like a Belichick level.

I know, they’re pros. The above is simple and stupid.

But, how many actually do what I’m talking about? Or do they all pretty much just bang away, driver, driver, driver off of every hole without thinking about it?

 

While (far) too many golf writers carped on twitter about Bellerive’s layout, players acknoweleged, by Sunday, the incredible roars from crowds. (Tiger fueled as they may have been.)