PGA Tour: WGC-FedEx / Barracuda / Wyndham Championship in Greensboro: Notes from the Ballwasher

kwinigolfer wrote:

Born Slippy wrote:Watching golf when Rory is in contention after three rounds is getting extremely repetitive. You can pretty much guarantee he’ll shoot 4 or 5 shots worse than his main competition. I don’t know what support he has psychologically but, assuming he does have a sports psychologist, I’d suggest he needs a new one.

How would you account for his wins at The Players and in Canada?
Sure it's disappointing that he doesn't win every time he's in the shake-up, but how many do? Koepka will become the only player on Tour this year with more wins than Rory . . . . .

McLaren wrote:Hi, just an update on my weekly Sergio agenda.

Pea Brain limited his destruction to just a tee box this week. No caddies or greens hurt.

https://twitter.com/dylan_dethier/status/1155603291683926016?s=19

kwinigolfer wrote:Agree with that.
But he's that far ahead of the rest also.
Undeniable that today was disappointing. But he still beat 57 pros, only got beaten by 3.
Last week notwithstanding, Rory is incredibly consistent and how many would be against him winning another Major?

McLaren wrote:Hi, just an update on my weekly Sergio agenda.

Pea Brain limited his destruction to just a tee box this week. No caddies or greens hurt.

https://twitter.com/dylan_dethier/status/1155603291683926016?s=19

kwinigolfer wrote:

Born Slippy wrote:Watching golf when Rory is in contention after three rounds is getting extremely repetitive. You can pretty much guarantee he’ll shoot 4 or 5 shots worse than his main competition. I don’t know what support he has psychologically but, assuming he does have a sports psychologist, I’d suggest he needs a new one.

How would you account for his wins at The Players and in Canada?
Sure it's disappointing that he doesn't win every time he's in the shake-up, but how many do? Koepka will become the only player on Tour this year with more wins than Rory . . . . .

pedro wrote:
Just a turf, isn't it?

Sergio, after Saudi incident wrote:"Happy to be in my first PGA Tour event of the season and have my brother on the bag again this year," "I’ve obviously had some time to reflect, and want to again say I’m sorry to my fans and fellow competitors. What happened is not an example I want to set, and it's not who I truly am. I am an emotional player and while I believe that's one of my biggest strengths, it's also one of my biggest flaws. I’m focused on working hard to channel that emotion the correct way and to be the best me, learn from it and move forward. Thanks for all the support."

2019-20 PGATour schedule:

GPB wrote:The 2019-2020 PGATour schedule.  Looks like the WGC-St Jude is going to conflict with Irish Open.  Keith Pelley's blue eyeglasses are already in a knot.

2019-20 PGATour schedule:

kwinigolfer wrote:

GPB wrote:The 2019-2020 PGATour schedule.  Looks like the WGC-St Jude is going to conflict with Irish Open.  Keith Pelley's blue eyeglasses are already in a knot.

2019-20 PGATour schedule:

GPB,
I just saw that; has it just been announced? Think I speculated that last week, but can't find it now!
The autumn schedule is packed!!

wiretapper wrote:Sure is a lot of tournaments going up against NFL games there. Do they get a discount?

GPB wrote:Robo;  It wasn't too long ago (2016) that the French Open's date on the schedule, two weeks before the Open Championship, was sacrosanct.

Three years late, the French Open is buried in the schedule, in late October.  The other day I looked for it, and I honestly couldn't find it.

It seems like hosting a European Ryder Cup event is like asking Dr. Jack Kevorkian to your hospital bed.

K-Club used to host the European Open
Celtic Manor used to host Celtic Manor Open
Gleneagles used to host the Johnnie Walker

Pooooof, Dust in the Wind.

robopz wrote:Kwini... The sooner people realize the WGCs are PGA Tour properties, and the tour is going to schedule them for they damn well need to schedule them, everything will go a lot easier.

But there's two solutions really... 1) massively ignorant over-reaction and cutting off ET noses to spite their face like 2016, or... 2) move the Irish open for 1 year to another spot on the schedule.

There's only three weeks between the 2 opens next year anyway... So something was already going to have to change. Just figure it out and schedule the Irish as best they can without throwing another s**t-fit is the only winning play.  

kwinigolfer wrote:

robopz wrote:Kwini... The sooner people realize the WGCs are PGA Tour properties, and the tour is going to schedule them for they damn well need to schedule them, everything will go a lot easier.

But there's two solutions really... 1) massively ignorant over-reaction and cutting off ET noses to spite their face like 2016, or... 2) move the Irish open for 1 year to another spot on the schedule.

There's only three weeks between the 2 opens next year anyway... So something was already going to have to change. Just figure it out and schedule the Irish as best they can without throwing another s**t-fit is the only winning play.  

That's all very well, robo, but what's a W(already long since a euphemism)GC without the World players (if not Worldwide locations)?

I love the Tour for what it brings to events all round (much of) the country, but it's increasingly parochial - and, in my opinion anyway, unhealthily so for a worldwide sport. Unlike, for instance, baseball.

Somewhat ironically now, about 30 years ago I travelled to England to make a corporate presentation about the compelling excellence of FedEx's worldwide service and why a 33,000-employee company should use it. Silly me, I should have realised their hidden agenda was to buy the PGA Tour and as much worldwide golf as it could get its hands on.

McLaren wrote:Sergios "Thanks for all the support." is a little generalised when you have guys like navy out there doing lots of hard work to defend him. Surely navy deserved to be mentioned by name?

kwinigolfer wrote:We'll see robo. But Pelley has shown he can be a first class idiot and I wouldn't trust him to make a sensible decision.
Plus this affects other tournaments, especially the "Scottish", it's not just the "Irish".
There's no place for a WGC in there, except via the gospel according to Memphis.

Too much compression! I blame the NFL . . . . . .

robopz wrote:

kwinigolfer wrote:We'll see robo. But Pelley has shown he can be a first class idiot and I wouldn't trust him to make a sensible decision.
Plus this affects other tournaments, especially the "Scottish", it's not just the "Irish".
There's no place for a WGC in there, except via the gospel according to Memphis.

Too much compression! I blame the NFL . . . . . .

well I just hope it doesn't turn out to be an issue.  Seems to me the week immediately after the US Open would have been better for the WGC anyway, if for no other reason than most of the top players would already be over here, but nobody asked me...:-)

And as far as FedEx what can I say. This Olympics scheduling situation aside, still unbelievable the Tour would adopt some third flight member-guest handicap format for what is supposed to be the Tour Championship of the preeminent tour in the entire world. All that's missing is a Calcutta and sandbaggers.

McLaren wrote:Did Rory duff a 3 wood on 17? 238 carry is worse than I would get.

GPB wrote:Rich Beem suggests moving the Irish Open to be adjacent to the BMW PGA.

Probably makes too much sense for Pelley to acknowledge.

https://twitter.com/beemerpga/status/1155914631266934785

kwinigolfer wrote:

GPB wrote:Rich Beem suggests moving the Irish Open to be adjacent to the BMW PGA.

Probably makes too much sense for Pelley to acknowledge.

https://twitter.com/beemerpga/status/1155914631266934785

That could make some sense from a golfing point of view, GPB, but the Irish Open is also part of a tourism showcase for the country; if you'd've tried to book air travel to Ireland for this summer, you might have been shocked at the prices - a big drop off later in the summer. Much more sensible to move the WGC, or perhaps you'd like to see everything, Open Championship and all, moved to comply with the BIG Tour?

kwinigolfer wrote:

GPB wrote:Rich Beem suggests moving the Irish Open to be adjacent to the BMW PGA.

Probably makes too much sense for Pelley to acknowledge.

https://twitter.com/beemerpga/status/1155914631266934785

That could make some sense from a golfing point of view, GPB, but the Irish Open is also part of a tourism showcase for the country; if you'd've tried to book air travel to Ireland for this summer, you might have been shocked at the prices - a big drop off later in the summer. Much more sensible to move the WGC, or perhaps you'd like to see everything, Open Championship and all, moved to comply with the BIG Tour?

super_realist wrote:

McLaren wrote:Did Rory duff a 3 wood on 17? 238 carry is worse than I would get.

Love sacks.

McLaren wrote:I am not that short for a club golfer and hence my point has always been that those claiming to hit it miles past me are under suspicion.

And my numbers aren't that different to yours so if your 4 wood goes 230 it is plausible that the 3 wood would go 238 on a good hit.

pedro wrote:super, just to clarify, it’s first 3 wood and then 4 wood = 238.

kwinigolfer wrote:No doubt some pros will miss one or more of the Play-Off events - and there are some wounded soldiers that definitely will..

robopz wrote:

kwinigolfer wrote:No doubt some pros will miss one or more of the Play-Off events - and there are some wounded soldiers that definitely will..

With there being only two events to position oneself for "The $60 Million Low Net PGA Tour Handicap Championship", I'm not expecting no-shows this year sans injury/illness/personal situation. (Unless it's an Adam Scott type who just wants to prove how unimportant it is to him... )