Running 2022 Golf Thread

It's just amusing how the "Golf But Louder" motto of theirs isn't evident in the broadcast. There's ridiculous overselling of the concept from the commentators (Jerry Foltz is especially shameless), but they still have to make it sound like a golf tournament for credibility. The only "Golf But Louder" I've noticed is that some holes have music in the background while guys are playing. Which is no different than a lot of munis across America.

 

It's faux golf.

 

I can't argue that. But it's not going away, and by next season they're gonna have a pretty solid roster with likely a few more top-50 guys we haven't heard about yet. I think this is going to end up like the open-wheel racing split of a generation ago -- both sides will do their thing for a few years, maybe LIV won't be shut out of the majors after all (CART eventually got back to the Indy 500), but the already niche golf fanbase will split between the two and there won't be enough eyeballs for either to thrive like they think they will. Neither is likely to eventually go broke like CART did, but the two factions will have to somehow come together at some point out of desperation. And when they do, the sportswashing will be complete.

 

Just when you think you've seen it all, there's a ball bouncing seven times on a retaining wall and not landing on grass or in water.

And another strange rules episode. A penalty is a penalty, but the day-after stuff will never not be messy. Especially when you had gamblers on Saturday night thinking a two-shot-trailing Cam Smith was pretty juicy, only for him to be four down when he teed off Sunday.

 

Yeah, not a fan of the next-day stuff either.