Running 2021 Golf Thread

[qtlaw]

Worst single broadcast of the year in sports, and I'm not sure it's very close.
Don't get me wrong. I love Nantzy, Faldo, Pepper, all of them......But it's such a slurp-fest with all of the corporate sponsors.......that's the one telecast of the year I avoid like the plague.
Saturday is absolutely unwatchable.
I've looked high and low, and couldn't find one singular **** about Charles Schwab's golf swing.

Agreed, as much as I love seeing Pebble and Spyglass and the surf, I cannot stand to watch Larry the Cable Guy hit a 5 iron in camo gear or watch some dude supposedly a "5 HCP (its Index now idiots)" hit a drive 200 into the rough.

 

[maumann]

Saturdays will be watchable again.

You know what they'll do, don't you? They'll find old interviews with Bill Murray and Gary Mule Deer to run in between shots, just to annoy us.

 

[poindexter]

You know what they'll do, don't you? They'll find old interviews with Bill Murray and Gary Mule Deer to run in between shots, just to annoy us.

And now they have zoom.
This **** isn't going to be better

 

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You know what they'll do, don't you? They'll find old interviews with Bill Murray and Gary Mule Deer to run in between shots, just to annoy us.

I don't think there's any question they'll run a Murray compilation. Will be a good time to hit the fridge.

 

[qtlaw]

I don't think there's any question they'll run a Murray compilation. Will be a good time to hit the fridge.

I love Murray in movies, but his schtick on the course was funny like what in 1998 but since come on let's maybe get new blood out there. If you're doing comedy, Gaffigan, Chappelle, even Kevin Hart. I'm tired of Murray, Romano, Cable Guy, etc. Don't need to see Andy Garcia or Toby Keith swing a club and hit a 5 iron 150.

 

[Moderator1]

Cabrera, 2009 Masters winner, arrested in Brazil

 

[Chef2]

Cabrera, 2009 Masters winner, arrested in Brazil

First, a Green Jacket.
Now, a Straight Jacket.

One of my favorite guys to watch on Tour. He plays like he's late for his plane.
Get the number. 1 look. Go.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

First, a Green Jacket.
Now, a Straight Jacket.

One of my favorite guys to watch on Tour. He plays like he's late for his plane.
Get the number. 1 look. Go.

Light up. Puff. Start walking.

 

[Tighthead]

First, a Green Jacket.
Now, a Straight Jacket.

One of my favorite guys to watch on Tour. He plays like he's late for his plane.
Get the number. 1 look. Go.

I remember once at Sawgrass he was playing with Kevin Na, who was in the full throes of his OCD and couldn’t pull the trigger. Cabrera got very animated, waving his arms and begging a rules official for some help.

I’ll always side with the fast guy. Rory Sabbatini may be a knob, but walking out on Ben Crane was a great moment. The fact that it pissed of Azinger just made it greater.

 

[Chef2]

I remember once at Sawgrass he was playing with Kevin Na, who was in the full throes of his OCD and couldn’t pull the trigger. Cabrera got very animated, waving his arms and begging a rules official for some help.

I’ll always side with the fast guy. Rory Sabbatini may be a knob, but walking out on Ben Crane was a great moment. The fact that it pissed of Azinger just made it greater.

Watch this, if you dare.

Ben Crane's Pre-Shot Routine - YouTube

 

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Light up. Puff. Start walking.

Is he the last major champion to smoke on the course? That's just old-school awesomeness. I remember watching the pros when they came through town when I was a kid and you'd have Calvin Peete, Fuzzy and a dozen other guys burning heaters, plus even more caddies.

 

[poindexter]

Watch this, if you dare.

Ben Crane's Pre-Shot Routine - YouTube

First comment:
He learned his pre-shot routine from Michael J Fox.

 

[Cosmo]

I remember once at Sawgrass he was playing with Kevin Na, who was in the full throes of his OCD and couldn’t pull the trigger. Cabrera got very animated, waving his arms and begging a rules official for some help.

I’ll always side with the fast guy. Rory Sabbatini may be a knob, but walking out on Ben Crane was a great moment. The fact that it pissed of Azinger just made it greater.

I take photos at our events, and at one last fall, a player came up to me ... while he was in the middle of the fairway, mind you ... and asked, "how ****ing long did you have to wait to get a photo of (name redacted) hitting his tee shot?" The slow players have been identified, and the others absolutely hate them. Two players in particular wondered why they kept getting placed in the final grouping of the day, without fail. Because that way they won't hold the entire damn course up.

 

[Chef2]

Is he the last major champion to smoke on the course? That's just old-school awesomeness. I remember watching the pros when they came through town when I was a kid and you'd have Calvin Peete, Fuzzy and a dozen other guys burning heaters, plus even more caddies.

I seem to recall Darren Clarke burning through heaters all the time.....Miguel Angel Jimenez still does.
Abraham Ancer's caddy was sucking them down like candy at Augusta a couple months ago.

 

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I seem to recall Darren Clarke burning through heaters all the time.....Miguel Angel Jimenez still does.
Abraham Ancer's caddy was sucking them down like candy at Augusta a couple months ago.

Ah yeah, should have remembered Clarke.

 

[Cosmo]

When a wrote a story about caddies by actually caddying in two pro-ams in Greensboro some years back, my guy got paired with Neal Lancaster, who smoked like a chimney the entire time. Got Bernhard Langer for the Wednesday pro-am, and that was crazy fun. Can always tell people that I walked 18 holes with a Masters champion. And he had some great stories.

 

[TigerVols]

Watch this, if you dare.

Ben Crane's Pre-Shot Routine - YouTube

Is he hitting it in the bass-awkward wrong direction off the tee?

 

[hondo]

Is he the last major champion to smoke on the course? That's just old-school awesomeness. I remember watching the pros when they came through town when I was a kid and you'd have Calvin Peete, Fuzzy and a dozen other guys burning heaters, plus even more caddies.

Nick Price. Daly, obviously. Payne Stewart. The only guys I know of who smoke openly now are journeymen: Frank Lickliter and Vince Covello

 

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Nick Price. Daly, obviously. Payne Stewart. The only guys I know of who smoke openly now are journeymen: Frank Lickliter and Vince Covello

One of my more random stories from a few years of working at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was catching up with Nick Price while he was smoking outside the media center. He was there rooting for a friend in, of all things, an air race.

 

[Noholesin1]

I was at a Walker Cup when Chris Riley was on the U.S. team. Chris might be the fastest professional I've ever seen. At that Walker Cup, the ball was in the air with the first-tee announcer between "Chris" and "Riley."