Running PGA TOUR 2011 Thread

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Is it just me or does it seem like the offseason lasted about 10 minutes?

Yep, the season is far too long and it's really hard to work up a lot of enthusiasm with four feet of snow on the ground outside my front door.

Do what I do .. Ignore PGA golf until a week or two before the first major. Everything prior to that pretty much sucks anyway.

 

[Cosmo]

Meh. There are a couple of decent events out West -- Riviera, Torrey Pines ... the Bob Hope just for weird five-round event. Plus Doral is before Augusta.

 

[golfnut8924]

Personally, I think the match play championship in Arizona in February is one of the best non-major events they play all year.

Plus you have Pebble Beach a couple weeks before that -- not a great tournament but worth watching for the views (of the course, not of Chris Berman's embarrassing antics).

Just prior to that you have TPC Scottsdale with the famed (or novelty or gimmicky depending on your opinion) stadium par-3 hole.

Cosmo mentioned Torrey, Riviera and Doral. Then there's also PGA National and Arnie's event at Bay Hill.

So there's some pretty good golf before the Masters. Much better than the golf that's at the tail end of the year after the PGA Championship.

 

[playthrough]

Is it just me or does it seem like the offseason lasted about 10 minutes?

Yep, the season is far too long and it's really hard to work up a lot of enthusiasm with four feet of snow on the ground outside my front door.

Do what I do .. Ignore PGA golf until a week or two before the first major. Everything prior to that pretty much sucks anyway.

Yeah, Kapalua and Pebble Beach, especially in HD, are completely unwatchable.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Playthrough has nailed it. The purpose of the Tour before April is to show beautiful pictures of golf courses on TV to all us golfers in the more climatically-challenged parts of the country under snow and ice. That's pretty much also why the Masters always is the highest-rated major. It still sucks to go out and play golf in New England in early April, and New England is not alone there.

 

[golfnut8924]

Playthrough has nailed it. The purpose of the Tour before April is to show beautiful pictures of golf courses on TV to all us golfers in the more climatically-challenged parts of the country under snow and ice. That's pretty much also why the Masters always is the highest-rated major. It still sucks to go out and play golf in New England in early April, and New England is not alone there.

Exactly why I migrated south a couple years ago. Thinking about hitting a bucket of balls this afternoon actually....

 

[golfnut8924]

Tiger and Phil both committed to playing next week's tournament.

http://tourreport.pgatour.com/2011/01/19/woods-mickelson-commit-to-farmers/

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Just prior to that you have TPC Scottsdale with the famed (or novelty or gimmicky depending on your opinion) stadium par-3 hole.

This one?

That's Sawgrass, not Scottsdale.

 

[golfnut8924]

Just prior to that you have TPC Scottsdale with the famed (or novelty or gimmicky depending on your opinion) stadium par-3 hole.

This one?

That's Sawgrass, not Scottsdale.

Nope. I was talking about the stadium course at scottsdale. 16th hole is the par 3 that is fully enclosed (players actually have to walk through a football-like tunnel to get to the tee). Crowd is nuts -- even during their swings.

The sawgrass hole is cool but shouldn't be a part of the playoff there, as was the case when Sergio won over Goydos there.

Here's a video of the ace Tiger made at scottsdale. You can see the beer cans being thrown onto the tee box in the background near the end.

 

[hondo]

Is it just me or does it seem like the offseason lasted about 10 minutes?

Yep, the season is far too long and it's really hard to work up a lot of enthusiasm with four feet of snow on the ground outside my front door.

Do what I do .. Ignore PGA golf until a week or two before the first major. Everything prior to that pretty much sucks anyway.

Then why to they play about 12 times before Augusta?
I swear, some of you people (and the establishment golf media) don't think anything counts except the four majors and the Ryder Cup. But if it wasn't for the major professional tours (U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan, South Africa) where would the inventory come from in the form of players for those four majors? It would be like back in the 1920s: a bunch of insurance salesmen and lawyers playing as amateurs and a few club pros.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Is it just me or does it seem like the offseason lasted about 10 minutes?

Yep, the season is far too long and it's really hard to work up a lot of enthusiasm with four feet of snow on the ground outside my front door.

Do what I do .. Ignore PGA golf until a week or two before the first major. Everything prior to that pretty much sucks anyway.

Then why to they play about 12 times before Augusta?
I swear, some of you people (and the establishment golf media) don't think anything counts except the four majors and the Ryder Cup. But if it wasn't for the major professional tours (U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan, South Africa) where would the inventory come from in the form of players for those four majors? It would be like back in the 1920s: a bunch of insurance salesmen and lawyers playing as amateurs and a few club pros.

Quite honestly, I'm not real interested in four rounds of golf unless it IS a major.
Pebble Beach is beautiful, but it's a ****ing pro-am and Bill Murrary's schtick got old a decade ago.
Play the Open there and I am glued to the TV.
I don't care about the inventory of players. I'm not interested in a bunch of no-names, lurkers has-beens winning winter golf trophies. Esp. when the first major of the season is four months away!

I also watch a good bit LPGA golf.

 

[hondo]

Is it just me or does it seem like the offseason lasted about 10 minutes?

Yep, the season is far too long and it's really hard to work up a lot of enthusiasm with four feet of snow on the ground outside my front door.

Do what I do .. Ignore PGA golf until a week or two before the first major. Everything prior to that pretty much sucks anyway.

Then why to they play about 12 times before Augusta?
I swear, some of you people (and the establishment golf media) don't think anything counts except the four majors and the Ryder Cup. But if it wasn't for the major professional tours (U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan, South Africa) where would the inventory come from in the form of players for those four majors? It would be like back in the 1920s: a bunch of insurance salesmen and lawyers playing as amateurs and a few club pros.

Quite honestly, I'm not real interested in four rounds of golf unless it IS a major.
Pebble Beach is beautiful, but it's a ****ing pro-am and Bill Murrary's schtick got old a decade ago.
Play the Open there and I am glued to the TV.
I don't care about the inventory of players. I'm not interested in a bunch of no-names, lurkers has-beens winning winter golf trophies. Esp. when the first major of the season is four months away!

I also watch a good bit LPGA golf.

So you believe that every time you turn on a major, you're somehow entitled to have Tiger, Phil, Ernie and Sergio going down to the wire. Should Shaun Micheel, Ben Curtis, Louis Oosthuizen, Todd Hamilton and Zach Johnson forfeit their majors because they weren't worthy, in your eyes?

And if golf was nothing but the majors, it would still be a niche sport ... something on the order of badminton or quoits.