Running 2024 golf thread

Yeah, he's worth a gajillon dollars. Likely a lot of people who worked on and depend on the success of the product launch aren't gajillionaires.

I get your point. But fans are fans. And he's among the best, if not the best, to ever play the game. Not hard to imagine why people want that 2019 Masters feeling again, even if that's a near impossibility.

 

Nobody wants to admit it's over when it is. I saw Willie Mays in the '73 Series.I saw Ali against Larry Holmes. All that did was make people feel terrible. I'm sure Woods feels terrible right now. But over is over. Quit and all anyone remembers is the legendary success. The longer the fail train goes on, the more competitive zeal begins to look like sad refusal to deal with reality.

 

It certainly seems that way. If it is actually just an illness, which seems unlikely, we'll see what happens if he tries to play, say the Palmer and the Masters.

But yeah, I don't expect the results to be much different.

 

In non-Tiger news, Jordan Spieth was disqualified from The Genesis Invitational for signing an incorrect scorecard. That's not ideal.

 

I signed an incorrect scorecard last summer because I'd left my reading glasses in the car. But I guess that's an operative excuse for him.

 

He wasn’t playing half bad but he was in a shitty mood on the course.

 

Speith acting like a red-ass? Shocking! Though, that's most of the dudes out there.

 

Watched some of yesterday during lunch, that dude can still stripe it off the tee 320 to keep up with JT and Woodland. He's still got something; but yeah his body is breaking down. (That shank dead right went 70 yds at most; of course then he hit an amazing 9 iron between two huge trees to 15 ft pin high. )

 

FWIW, I was at the 6 hole tee box tee box, and I can report that Tiger went into the rest room before teeing off at 6.

 

Who knew there was a Perkins at Pacific Palisades?

 

This isn't ridiculous at all. Golf likes it that everyone at different levels of the game basically plays by the same set of rules. (Yes, there are some minor differences at the elite level, like the one-ball rule.)

A good question is how Spieth and his caddie both missed knowing the correct score on the hole. On Tour, a player's caddie virtually always goes into the scoring area with the player so they can double-check everything. Spieth also keeps his own score during a round; what score he did write down there? Very sloppy and careless by Jordan and his caddie.