2018 PGA Tour Running Thread

Just speculating, but it seems that the match play format indicates that what makes guys mid-packers and bottom-feeders in stroke play are the inability to avoid blow-up holes. In match play, those don't matter so much. A 10 is the same as a 6.

 

That's precisely what the winner of our senior am told me last year. Shot an 81 on the first day of stroke play. Snuck into match play with a 69 on the second day. Rolled through the field. Said he loves match play because one hole can't kill you.

 

Patrick Reed setting the table for his match up today against Jordan Spieth...

Reed told reporters yesterday his back was still hurting from carry Spieth at the Ryder Cup.

Patrick Reed Goes All-In Against Jordan Spieth, "My back still hurts from the Ryder Cup"

 

There's an obvious WWE aspect to this. Reed loves a heel turn. See Gleneagles 2014. Spieth knows he'll always be a face, so it doesn't seem to bother him much.

 

I'm rooting for Reed today.

 

How many Majors has Fatrick won again?

 

Spieth and Reed are hacking it around in grand style. Spieth started double-double and Reed, who's one up on the 7th, has not been much better. Haven't a birdie between them.

 

Reed's apparently about to win -- three-up through 15.

Full disclosure: I'm not watching. I just saw the score.

 

Its Friday and Tiger is not playing. Why would you watch?

 

Because he's a real golf fan. /sarcasm

 

Michelson down 4, comes back to win 1-up.

DJ smashes a drive 489 yards. Would be a Tour record, but match play stats don't count. DL3 hit on 476 at Kapalua in 2004.

 

I watched. Spieth would've had a score in the high 70s at best if it'd been stroke play. He had no control of his irons whatsoever.