Running 2021 Golf Thread

Much of his allure comes from the fact he was positioned as the heir to Tiger when the sport really needed one, then he morphed into heir to David Duval territory, and everyone loves a comeback story, donchaknow?

 

When Spieth had his dominant run he made every putt he looked at inside of like 20 feet. Nobody can keep that up, and he hasn't. But this natural reasserting of probabilities seems to have messed with his head. He made some terrific shots yesterday, but almost all of them were to make a green in regulation from trouble he found off the tee. Since he's never gonna hit it as far as Rory, DJ, or DeChambeau, Spieth might want to consider throttling down a bit on his drives.

 

USGA hires Mike Whan, former LPGA commish, to replace the outgoing Mike Davis. Great hire. LPGA players loved him and it will be good to have some fresh perspective in that USGA CEO role.

 

On the Golf channel, Dottie Pepper found it "amazing" that Colin Morikawa grew up in LA and never played Riviera until the 2017 US Amateur.
Good lord.

 

“And Dan I hear he’s yet to eat at Nobu. Can you believe that?”

 

Last weekend, it was the fact that Maverick McNealy never played Pebble Beach until his 16th birthday (for some reason, his father wouldn't let him), and they lived just a few steps off the 15th green.
Don't know how many times they referenced that, but it was MANY.

 

Not quite what I was trying to say. I don't know much about Morikawa, I think his parents were working class, and La Canada is a nicer area. He didn't grow up in Pacific Palisades.
But you can't call up the pro shop at Riviera and book a tee time, you know?

 

But, wait! I thought Morikawa grew up across the street from Harding Park, the way they kept referring to him as "the local kid from Berkeley." I knew everything was only 15 minutes from Tahoe, but does anybody in TV actually understand the geography of the Golden State?

I also love that Bam-Bam is from "nearby Clovis." Like Clovis is a suburb of both San Francisco AND Los Angeles.

 

Perhaps her thinking was surely a young amateur player THAT good -- clearly a rising star -- who lived in the LA area would have played in some sort of tournament at Riviera at least once before competing in the U.S. Amateur as a college player.

 

I am sure you are right. Sounded tone deaf. I'm pretty sure the Rio Hondo League golf championships weren't held at Riviera.

 

I'm guessing he played higher-level tournaments along the way.

According to his Wikipedia page, he won the Western Junior in 2013, the 2015 Trans-Mississippi Amateur, the 2016 Silicon Valley Amateur and Sunnehanna Amateur and the 2017 ASU Thunderbird Invitational and Northeast Amateur -- in addition to his college tournaments.

It's not like he was playing at a local goat track all the time.