PGA Championship

Yeah,I thought Kiaweh had those qualities... few trees, plain greens, deep bunkers, etc.

 

Actually, I believe the Ocean Course was going to have more trees, but the property took a direct hit from Hurricane Hugo in '89 when the property was being cleared and the course was being prepared to open in time to host the 1991 Ryder Cup. Mother Nature helped make it a links layout.

 

Kiawah, which is south and a bit west of Charleston proper, wasn't hit all that hard by Hugo (as compared to other areas). Hugo made landfall north of Charleston -- at the Isle of Palms to be exact. Relatively speaking, Kiawah got a glancing blow ... but a helluva blow nonetheless! My best friend lived in Moncks Corner (west and a bit north) during Hugo, and he worked for the state. He spent the better part of that next week doing nothing but slinging a chainsaw. The first bath he took after the hurricane was in one of the lakes there -- Lake Moultrie -- just in time for the national networks to helicopter over while his ass was shinin' in the sunset!

 

The Ocean Course is not a true links course because the greens are not receptive to low approaches being run up to them.

 

By definition, a links is that land, generally formed into dunesland, between the sandy shore and the more fertile inland ground.

Pebble Beach — no.
Kiawah — no.
Torrey Pines — no.
Bandon Dunes -- haven't been there, but the closest to the real thing in this country, from what everyone says.

 

Bandon Dunes reminded me of some of the courses in Scotland I've seen on TV.

On a links course, do they "manage" the rough? Or just sort of let it grow wherever? (Like my lawn when I'm injured.)

 

CBS has to be giddy about even the possibility of Daly and Woods being in the hunt.

 

Judging from the early scores, conditions a mite tougher out there today.+

 

Oh how I can't wait to say I told you so after Tiger's victory. Yes, Double Down, yes.

And oh how I'll avoid the thread when he shoots 75-77.

 

Woods may or may not win, but any under par round today was amazing golf. That might have been the best round of that happy-go-lucky Vijay's career.