[ARCHIVED THREAD] - official US OPEN thread (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 6/17/2015 12:29:10 PM EDT
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Chambers bay. Puget sound area super excited about this for many years. It is huge!
Course is crispy and brown, just how usga wants it. Thoughts? |
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Toughest test in golf. This year the test is a little different than usual. I'm really excited about it. That course looks brutal. The bombers aren't going to run away with this one like they usually do at the Masters. Some of the pros are going to absolutely humiliate themselves.
Winning score; two over. Winning player: My heart says Phil. Player who definitely won't win: Tiger. Mentally this course will mess with his head. His head is in a very strange place. |
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Not much like the British Open other than the fiscue. Have you seen the elevation changes on the course? You won't see anything like that in the BO.
I love the fact that it is being held there. Washington golf doesn't get much notice. There are some great courses there. Good luck pros. You are going to need it this time around. |
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There is little to no definition of where the greens "are". They blend into surrounds with no definitive boundary. So you can putt everywhere.
But how will the players know if they are on the green for rules? When can they mark their balls? The USGA painted dots on around what they feel the edges are. And will rule if the player is on the green. .. 
El tigre is complaining about the sprinklers being too close. |
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Quoted: Phil lacks the accuracy and consistency to win at Chambers Bay. But hey, ANYONE BUT TIGER!! Quoted: Quoted: I hope philly wins. He's off to a good start, at -3 thru 9. -2 thru 10. |
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I was out there yesterday and will be out Friday through the end Sunday.
I've seen stuff in my life, playoff NBA, Seahawks, Baseball. I have never seen anything on the scale of the US Open. Chambers Bay set up for the Open is on a scale I couldn't imagine before. I love golf and being there for the Open is like Haj or the Western wall for me. Rickey Fowler FTMFW |
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My late grandmothers cousin won the US Open twice. He defeated Ed Oliver by 4 strokes in 1952. He beat Jacky Cupit and Arnold Palmer in a playoff in 1963.
He also won the 1968 PGA championship. He had a total of 18 PGA tour wins. Julius Boros Vulcan94 |
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Lush and green usually means slow and soft. Easy for golfers to hit shots right next to hole and stop the ball right next to hole. Then hammer a putt in for low scores. (There is also a general perception that golf courses use "too much" water...but the main reason is playability).
Brown and crispy usually equals firm and fast. The golfer must carefully plan and execute tricky golf shots that land the ball somewhere away from the actual hole location and eventually use the topography and speed to get the ball to end up near the hole. The player who is able to read the course AND execute the shots the best will win. Then there is the whole "brown is the new green" PR type message that we don't need things to look overly manicured. That color of grass is not important, over playability. |
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Quoted: Smoke!!!! Fire to the north? at a Narrows Marina https://vine.co/v/eiPP1HTPjn5 |
Marina fire in Tacoma, Wash., which created smoke cloud seen during
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I golf exactly once per year, usually involving beer. And I play on better looking courses than that. I've heard the arguments for it, but honest they course looks like shit and embarrassing. .. 
Yeah real "ugly". Go drink some miller high life and get your eyes checked. |
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I golf exactly once per year, usually involving beer. And I play on better looking courses than that. I've heard the arguments for it, but honest they course looks like shit and embarrassing. Says the '13er who golfs once per year, who drinks Corona Light and thinks that's a strong beer. |
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Quoted: http://i60.tinypic.com/14m591x.jpg And these are just quick snaps with my shitty old phone with broken screen I can barely see. Hell, just scrolling through the pics, I thought you'd pulled those off the web from the PGA site or something.  |