PGA Championship

[MightyMouse]

I feel like it's been a long time coming for Kuchar, but I just don't know if he can put up the four solid rounds he needs to.

I'd hate to see him end up as America's version of Colin Montgomery.

 

[Mark2010]

I'm rooting for Jeff Coston, a club pro who I wrote a feature on a few years back. Really awesome guy. He actually shared the first-round lead for a few minutes at the 2000 US Open.

He gets one of the club pro slots in the PGA almost every year. Made the cut once, IIRC. It's really a big deal for those guys.

 

[Editude]

Mrs. Editude and I are going Friday, thunderstorms be damned. Kuchar could break through, and I liked the way Rory Sabbatini played at the Memorial in bad weather.

 

[playthrough]

I'm rooting for Jeff Coston, a club pro who I wrote a feature on a few years back. Really awesome guy. He actually shared the first-round lead for a few minutes at the 2000 US Open.

He gets one of the club pro slots in the PGA almost every year. Made the cut once, IIRC. It's really a big deal for those guys.

Very big deal, not the least of which is the cash. I'll be extremely impressed if any play the weekend this year.

 

[Mark2010]

Well, that is if a the man formerly known as Tiger Woods shows up, but I don't know where that guy went.

He's still stuck in a bunker on the sixth hole at Royal Lytham in England.

 

[2underpar]

Who's Tiger Woods?
I keep waiting for Dufner to retreat among the has-beens, but he keeps playing his ass off.
Wouldn't surprise me if Zach Johnson hangs around until the end, though.

 

[MileHigh]

According to what I have been told, the PGA of America and the USGA have made their tournaments kind of an "it's us or them" proposition for America's most distinguished golf courses. This, and again, it's just pro shop scuttlebutt, is what led the Country Club in Brookline to declare a plague on both their houses.

Which is too bad because the Open should have been at the Country Club next year for the historical milestone.

 

[Chef2]

Someone mentioned earlier that this was a true links course. I disagree.

This is a true seaside course, but I don't equate links and seaside as one and the same.
Pebble Beach is a true seaside course as well, but that's as far from a true links course as you can get. Same with Torrey Pines.

I honestly can't think of many true links courses in use on the PGA Tour. I hear that Chambers Bay up in Washington has a real links feel to it.

 

[lcjjdnh]

Woods/Bradley/Kaymer one of the marquee groups they'll be following online. But, the camera angles have been terrible (based on their first hole) and the "full screen" is more like 5/8 screen. Further, no iPad app, although there is one for iPhone.

 

[lcjjdnh]

Woods/Bradley/Kaymer one of the marquee groups they'll be following online. But, the camera angles have been terrible (based on their first hole) and the "full screen" is more like 5/8 screen. Further, no iPad app, although there is one for iPhone.

Also, insects chirping loudly.

 

[Mark2010]

Someone mentioned earlier that this was a true links course. I disagree.

This is a true seaside course, but I don't equate links and seaside as one and the same.
Pebble Beach is a true seaside course as well, but that's as far from a true links course as you can get. Same with Torrey Pines.

I honestly can't think of many true links courses in use on the PGA Tour. I hear that Chambers Bay up in Washington has a real links feel to it.

OK, I'll bite. Can you explain the difference?

 

[hondo]

I feel like it's been a long time coming for Kuchar, but I just don't know if he can put up the four solid rounds he needs to.

I'd hate to see him end up as America's version of Colin Montgomery.

Kuchar's got a lot of years left.
And it's Montgomerie.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Is Joost Luiten Dutch for Joe Hardy? Guy who I defy even Hondo to say he's heard of is 8 under through 14 with six birdies, an eagle and no bogeys.

 

[Mark2010]

I'm rooting for Jeff Coston, a club pro who I wrote a feature on a few years back. Really awesome guy. He actually shared the first-round lead for a few minutes at the 2000 US Open.

He gets one of the club pro slots in the PGA almost every year. Made the cut once, IIRC. It's really a big deal for those guys.

Shot a respectable 74, same as Steve Stricker and three shots better than former US Open champ Lucas Glover. Can make the cut with a decent round on Friday.

 

[qtlaw]

Oosthuizen turning it around from +2 to -2 on his back 9 was pretty amazing.

 

[User 11148]

Someone mentioned earlier that this was a true links course. I disagree.

This is a true seaside course, but I don't equate links and seaside as one and the same.
Pebble Beach is a true seaside course as well, but that's as far from a true links course as you can get. Same with Torrey Pines.

I honestly can't think of many true links courses in use on the PGA Tour. I hear that Chambers Bay up in Washington has a real links feel to it.

OK, I'll bite. Can you explain the difference?

Very, very few trees. Hard, fast fairways. Plain-looking greens with lots of undulations in them. Small but very deep bunkers. The Ocean Course may not be a true links course, but it has a lot of links in it.

 

[Mark2010]

Someone mentioned earlier that this was a true links course. I disagree.

This is a true seaside course, but I don't equate links and seaside as one and the same.
Pebble Beach is a true seaside course as well, but that's as far from a true links course as you can get. Same with Torrey Pines.

I honestly can't think of many true links courses in use on the PGA Tour. I hear that Chambers Bay up in Washington has a real links feel to it.

OK, I'll bite. Can you explain the difference?

Very, very few trees. Hard, fast fairways. Plain-looking greens with lots of undulations in them. Small but very deep bunkers. The Ocean Course may not be a true links course, but it has a lot of links in it.

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

 

[Pencil Dick]

Someone mentioned earlier that this was a true links course. I disagree.

This is a true seaside course, but I don't equate links and seaside as one and the same.
Pebble Beach is a true seaside course as well, but that's as far from a true links course as you can get. Same with Torrey Pines.

I honestly can't think of many true links courses in use on the PGA Tour. I hear that Chambers Bay up in Washington has a real links feel to it.

OK, I'll bite. Can you explain the difference?

Very, very few trees. Hard, fast fairways. Plain-looking greens with lots of undulations in them. Small but very deep bunkers. The Ocean Course may not be a true links course, but it has a lot of links in it.

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.

 

[User 11148]

Someone mentioned earlier that this was a true links course. I disagree.

This is a true seaside course, but I don't equate links and seaside as one and the same.
Pebble Beach is a true seaside course as well, but that's as far from a true links course as you can get. Same with Torrey Pines.

I honestly can't think of many true links courses in use on the PGA Tour. I hear that Chambers Bay up in Washington has a real links feel to it.

OK, I'll bite. Can you explain the difference?

Very, very few trees. Hard, fast fairways. Plain-looking greens with lots of undulations in them. Small but very deep bunkers. The Ocean Course may not be a true links course, but it has a lot of links in it.

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!

 

[qtlaw]

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