Running 2024 golf thread

As opposed to the insufferable assholes who needed more than 5:30 to play a round of golf? Like the winner?

 

156 yards out today on a par 3. My tee shot takes one bounce, hits the flagstick, then settles about five feet to the right. Made the birdie, but damn, that's by far the closest I've ever had to an ace. I make very few birdies, so that circle 2 was nice to see on the scorecard.

 

Trump counts that as a 1.

 

Or, at the very least, picks it up and takes it birdie.

Five foot putt? That’s good.

 

I'd say that 7ish years ago, PGA golf was my second favorite sport to watch. I haven't watched golf all summer, and turned on the TV and asked myself, "Who is Nick Dunlap?"

And he's second in the playoff today.

 

The PGA picked up on NASCAR's stupid Chase and tried to emulate it because both sports get their ratings butts kicked by football in the fall. Neither one is ultimately a good way to determine a champion in an individual sport. You can't have a World Series/Super Bowl/Stanley Cup Final if there are more than two teams on the field at the same time, influencing the result.

But as long as FedEx wants to pony up the bucks, I guess we're stuck. Wish they'd vary the championship site, though. East Lake is OK but why not rotate it around to other regions of the country? (Yeah, $$$ I know $$$ the reason for that $$$ as well.)

 

First amateur since Mickelson in 1991 to win on the PGA Tour. Turned pro the next week. You're welcome.

 

There is no really competitively fair way to have a "playoff" for a season in an individual sport. Scheffler was very good on this earlier this week, noting that the playoffs were absurd as is but that he sure didn't have any better ideas. IMO the Tour Championship's handicap system is horrible and pathetic and makes for poor spectating, but hell, handicaps are a sure part of golf and have been part of every competition in my low level of golf I've even been in. So it beats me. Maybe the FedEx Cup is just a dumb idea.