Running 2025 golf thread

I'd love it.

30 players still make it. Two rounds of stroke play to cut the field to 16. 18 holes in each round, including the final. R16 and QF on day 3, SF and F on day 4.

36-hole finals are great for the U.S. Am, but no one will want to watch that on TV. There's legit tension in 18-hole matches from the start. Make it happen.

 

I’m up for whatever as long as they move it from East Lake.

 

It was a big success at Wilmington, Del. CC two years ago. It's my brother's home club. EastLake is kind of a dull course for TV, IMO, not that I could break 150 on it.

 

I don’t know that I’d break 150/side. It’s awful on tv though. @MileHigh is right……aside from the players not getting used to hitting 270-yard 8-irons, it was a great watch.
I would still love to see a BMW again at Cherry Hills. If you tipped every box but the par 3’s and hide a few pins, you could make that work.
FWIW: You heard it here first. Aberg wins a major this year.

 

I'm fine with 16 in the final, but I'd spice it up. You are done if you are 1 over or more after three holes.

 

The Western Amateur uses that format (Sweet Sixteen, but after 72 holes of stroke play) and it’s great every year. You see future PGA Tour stars under pressure. Yes, please.

 

Golf Channel/NBC covering The Sentry.
The coverage is so bad. So so bad. Smylie Kauffman is embarrassing with the Happy Hour. If I’m a tour pro, I’d say no way I’m talking to that giggling moron. Then Hicks……it’s nauseating.

 

Nah. That's the fun of match play. You can go out and shoot 65 and still lose. Or you and your opponent are both off on the same day and you can shoot 73 and win.

I'd be fine with the suggestion above of the top eight from the FedEx standings being exempt into match play. But they still have to play stroke play for seeding. That would also add drama to the second playoff event, with players fighting to get one of those top eight spots. I would have everyone start at zero as well, not the staggered start that they have now for the final event.

 

I actually liked the happy hour just to hear Homa and Theegala give their commentary on the action unfolding at the time. And Smylie appears to have a rapport with the players.