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Shoutout to this Golf Channel cameraman who absolutely BOOKED IT after Lydia Ko's shot to get to Nelly Korda in time for her shot.
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Lexi Thompson just drove a 296-yard par 4 on the PGA Tour, and there are 7-handicaps on the Internet who insist they could be competitive on the LPGA. GTFO.
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Perhaps a first-ever case of hydrostopping at The Chevron
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Let's all agree we never need to see the Norwegian track suit ever again
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Charlie Woods mowed down some kids last weekend in a local US Kids Golf event in Florida. Shot 3-under 33 for 9 holes to win by 5!
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From Sepp Straka's PGA Tour bio: "Travels to tournaments with Diet Coke if he knows the event provides Pepsi products." Just became one of my favorite players.
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Approximately 11.5 months of nonstop pro golf start this week!
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Very big "Morning of Day 3 of a buddy trip" vibes here
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The ultimate Scottie flex would be to play in the Zurich Classic next week by himself
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The putting green at a PGA Tour Superstore on a Monday morning is where a lot of men are working through some deep, dark stuff
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Played the muni down the street yesterday with a few buddies. The group in front of was 4 kids, probably 12-13 years old tops. They played 9 holes from the fronts in T-shirts, gym shorts and backward hats. Looked like they had an absolute blast. More of this in golf, please.
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Nickelodeon is putting on a golf competition called the Slime Cup and I am jacked up about it
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Get Southern Hills on the every 5-7 year plan, and all the pampered f****s can skip it if they want.
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Taste of the Masters is great, but I'd consider selling my plasma for a case of the Georgia Peach Ice Cream Sandwiches
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If you're 30 and older, you got to see MJ, LeBron, Tiger, Bonds, Trout, Gwynn, Maddux, Ryan, Serena, Roger, Rafa, Messi, Gretzky, Crosby, Ovechkin, Earnhardt, Jimmy Johnson, Brady, Manning, Rice, Montana and so many more. What an amazing lifetime so far as a sports fan.
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Every week that Spieth plays, one of the four PGA Tour Live feeds should follow only him, with no commentators and live mics for Spieth and Michael Greller.
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Jon Rahm is never letting that Memorial WD go, and I'm glad he isn't.
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My son just asked me, "Who's Tiger Woods?" after I jumped up and applauded at the TV. I have a whole library of books and videos saved for this very moment.
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Feels like Kiawah should be on the every-5-years plan.
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Fowler playing LIV Golf can probably be seen one of two ways: a popular player going to a breakaway circuit or a struggling player finding a pillow-soft landing
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These Mizuno Pro 241s, in a limited-edition Masters green finish, may be the most beautiful irons I've ever seen. Almost too stunning to actually use.
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Imagine being 16, strolling around Augusta National in 69 shots while on national TV. That's some baller stuff.
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Would love to see in Tim Finchem's last act as commissioner that he change the PGA Tour logo.
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The 2019 US Open:
1. It's Pebble
2. Tiger at the site of his masterpiece
3. Phil going for the Slam where he won this year
4. Spieth's back
5. Koepka going for 3 in a row
6. Rory just won by 7
7. DJ could get revenge for 2010
8. Potential USGA apocalypse?
9. Cantlay surging
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Holy smoke. The PGA of America just announced the KPMG Women's PGA purse has DOUBLED this year to $9MM.
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A little pixelation and Phil is Upscale Club Pro Guy
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Getting ready to watch Jordan Spieth play golf today
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Rip up that 2022 contract now, PGA of America. Right now.
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Rahm spotted the field a four-putt double bogey on the first hole of the tournament and played in the bad half of the draw, and he's up 4
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I can't understand a world where someone as beloved as Jarrod Lyle has to say goodbye to his wife and children at 36. Heartbreaking. The older I get, the more uncertain I am of anything.
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I don't obsess much over golf clubs, but I would pay an unhealthy sum of money for these blue Mizuno Pro 221s
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Mac Hughes double-fisting beers in preemptive celebration for Corey Conners. God I love Canada.
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Fred Ridley has to be living in the top 0.05% of best lives. Chairman of Augusta National, played in the Masters, led the USGA. And he could probably walk down the street completely unbothered.
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Daniel Gale won the absolute best trophy in golf today, taking the NT PGA Championship on the PGA Tour Australasia
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No offense to good golfers, but I generally prefer to play with bad golfers because they have more fun and less requirements for what makes their round fun. Good people, good conversation, laughs, some booze, a day in nature. Repeat.
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At least once per Patrick Cantlay round, I wonder if I've accidentally paused the TV
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Have you ever played a golf course you really liked but thought the logo stunk so much that you just couldn't buy any merch, even if you wanted to?
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Justin Thomas is getting in the golf course design game, teaming up with Nicklaus Design on a new Florida development called Panther National in Palm Beach Gardens. More to come with renderings of the design.
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Let me just tell you that Orange County National looks nothing like this
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To be clear, Trump National GC in Bedminster, NJ, is set to host the 2022 PGA Championship
Rip up that 2022 contract now, PGA of America. Right now.
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This is the Tiger Woods people wanted to see and hear all these years, all in this speech.
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Viktor Hovland is gonna get his clubs in time for Thursday, right? Or Ping will ship emergency sticks. But worst-case scenario, the Kapalua pro shop has a set of JetSpeeds in regular flex waiting for him for $80 per day.
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The next decade of the US Women's Open venues is jaw-dropping:
2022 -- Pine Needles
2023 -- Pebble Beach
2024 -- Lancaster CC
2025 -- Erin Hills
2026 -- Riviera
2027 -- Inverness
2028 -- Oakmont
2029 -- Pinehurst
2030 -- Interlachen
2031 -- Oakland Hills
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No one is prepared for the amount of Michael Block content coming their way next week
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How can you not hear what Jon Rahm is saying and not be a fan? That's some beautiful stuff.
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I would love to hear Kevin Kisner's inner monologue as he makes putt after putt to win holes. I imagine him saying, "Eat sh*t, ::Name here::" every time.
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Burn it all down, and make Phil captain for Bethpage with 12 wild-card picks
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Jim Herman's 2018-19 season:
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T43
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T61
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T71
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WIN
Golf is either the dumbest or the greatest game in the world.
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Two things I hope change in golf after all this is over:
1. More US private clubs open up for occasional public play, like in the UK and Ireland
2. More courses offer free play and deep discounts to first responders and emergency personnel, like they've done for our military
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Mike Trout's ball speed with the driver would be about 15th on the PGA Tour. That zillion-yard hook would put him in Spieth territory for accuracy though.
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That feeling when you run into a bachelorette party in Nashville
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It still boggles my mind that billions are being thrown around in a professional sport where, for one day per year, 10 million Americans watch it, and for many days of the fall, less than 200,000 Americans watch it.
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Jack decided there were gonna be 4 majors this year after all
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The Masters has four streams. You can even make YOUR OWN stream. No commentators. Mics are live. No commercials.
They did it. They made it perfect.
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Joanne Carner shot her age (82!) today at the US Senior Women's Open?! Unbelievable
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A Wayfair merchant is selling a putting mat with a bad Photoshop of a younger DJ smashing driver off the deck on the mat toward someone's house. I'll take 10.
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Me in January: If Tiger plays four rounds and can still walk, that's great.
Me in March: Valspar was cool, but not getting my hopes up.
Me after The Open: He can totally win again.
Me after the PGA: Tiger could catch Jack next f'n year.
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Congratulations to Adam Scott on becoming Lyle Lovett
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Greg Olsen getting a demotion after this game is such a dud. He's been awesome in this role.
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So, if you're a European Tour member living in Europe, and you think you have a chance of getting into the Masters through the OWGR, you have 27 hours to leave Europe and figure out the rest.
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All in on Rickie Fowler tomorrow. Would be a pretty awesome thing for him to win.
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Tiger Woods has non-life-threatening injuries, according to a spokesperson for the LA County Sheriff's department.
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Stay-at-home Easter docket:
Get up
Easter egg hunt
Easter baskets
Breakfast
Mass on TV
Easter egg hunt 2
Watch Tiger win the 2019 Masters
Easter dinner
Pretty great day there
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I'm pretty convinced 95% of golfers have never and will never win a scramble, and then there are 5% who have won 95% of scrambles
I’ve decided playing in scrambles is a lose-lose - if you win, everyone assumes you cheated and if you lose everyone in your group grumbles that the winning team cheated. That formula doesn’t exactly add up to fun.
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THREAD: We played Pinehurst No. 3 today with a genuine American treasure. Meet Ann Magee. She's 82. She hits righty, except she chips and putts (with a claw grip) lefty. And she's got a better swing than almost anyone.
Let me tell you about our great day!
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For the first time, the US Women's Open champion is going to make $1 million. The total purse is $5.5 million. That's a big deal IMO. And from what I've been told, there's a longer term plan in place to further boost the Women's Open purse.
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Round of my life. Shot 66 at Tobacco Road. By about the fifth hole, I knew it was an all-time favorite. What a course.
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I regret to inform you that Aaron Rodgers might have been a little dishonest about his index
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Strokes Gained Putting today at the Hero World Challenge:
1. Keegan Bradley: 3.404
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11. Tiger Woods: -0.054
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19. Wyndham Clark: -2.258
20. Will Zalatoris: -5.898
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Me, looking out the window to see it's getting dark at 7:30 and thinking about the months of great golf ahead
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Golf Channel has tried very hard to represent golf the right way for 25 years, and the reward is it's being pulled apart and moved in pieces to Connecticut. That really makes me angry.
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Jimmy Dunne: "It's really hard to dislike someone you play golf with."
Ohh buddy, do I disagree with that
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Just saw this in my reader today. A 13-year-old organized a golf tournament so she could raise money to pay off kids' school lunch debts. She called it "Girls Overtaking Lunch Funds." Pretty cool.
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Restore Sawgrass. The place looks like it was incredible in the original raw form.
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Canada deserves more than a single PGA Tour event. They show up in droves, typically for a mild field, and they keep the idiots to a minimum. Bring back the Air Canada Championship!
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Judy Rankin is just the best. She is a trailblazer, and you'd never know it the way she talks about herself. How can you ask for anyone better to narrate the decades-long rise of the LPGA?
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The older I get, the more I think about how awesome this is as a parent, as if Amy were my daughter. Man, that was wonderful.
"Amy ... you're our hero."
How a superstar named Amy teamed up with
@GaryWoodland
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@WMPhoenixOpen
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#LiveUnderPar
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Bernhard Langer won today?! He's 64 years, almost 2 mos old. Just became the oldest Champ Tour winner. Leads the Schwab Cup standings. Has 42 wins after 50 and has won every season on the Champions. Just amazing.
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Aiken Golf Club might be the best value in America. What a fun place. Small greens with confounding contours. Very playable from tee to green. The nicest people and cool scene. $33.
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Spieth telling the kids he's going to come back on Easter Sunday? Just telling us what we already know
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So, if Collin wins the PGA, and Wolff wins the Open, then you know who might win the Masters...
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Played my first round of golf with my son this evening. What a joy. Exactly what my soul needed.
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Viktor Hovland celebrating his ace with Kevin Streelman
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If we inevitably lose pro golf for a few weeks, can a network just agree to become the Masters Channel for a few weeks and show old Masters broadcasts, year-by-year, in a loop?
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Be critical of Patrick Reed? Get a cease-and-desist letter in the mail (Brandel) or reportedly be threatened with a Tour fine (Cam Smith)
Be Patrick Reed? Have people inexplicably working on your behalf to get everyone to forget your rules problems
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The gutting of Golf Channel feels complete today. Nothing is perfect, but the people there work(ed) their tails off to represent the game well. The whole thing makes me sad and kinda angry.
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If you're ripping Christina Kim for enforcing the Rules of Golf, what the hell is wrong with you?
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Just give Tebow a sponsor exemption into the Korn Ferry Tour Championship already
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