Jon Rahm's Dumb Comments About Scratch Golfers

[dagolfer18]

On 7/19/2020 at 7:20 AM, iacas said:

Rahm (68): A scratch wouldn't break 80 - or 90

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“They should allow people, whoever wants to play, to come tomorrow in the same conditions we...

After telling us that a scratch golfer wouldn't break 80, which he then amended to 90, at Muirfield Village

I can understand 80 being tough, but a 90?? I think if a scratch golfer played there and had a good day, they’d shoot 82-85.

[CarlSpackler]

I am nowhere near scratch, but I will offer to take one for the team and give it a shot. I mean, it's only an hour away. 😋

[ChetlovesMer]

I'm going to cut Jon some slack on this one. I'm thinking he was just a little pissy at the time and probably jus guilty of hyperbole. 

[Vinsk]

2 minutes ago, ChetlovesMer said:

I'm going to cut Jon some slack on this one. I'm thinking he was just a little pissy at the time and probably jus guilty of hyperbole. 

I’m not. He’s a professional and shouldn’t make silly off the cuff statements like an annoyed 14 year old. He makes way too much money to be pissy. 

[Yukari]

46 minutes ago, ChetlovesMer said:

I'm going to cut Jon some slack on this one. I'm thinking he was just a little pissy at the time and probably jus guilty of hyperbole. 

I would agree.

42 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

I’m not. He’s a professional and shouldn’t make silly off the cuff statements like an annoyed 14 year old. He makes way too much money to be pissy. 

But you have to remember he is only 25.  He probably does not have the maturity to think before making a statement.  

Hell look at some of the politicians who are much older.  Even they don't have enough sense to think before talking.  If any group of people should know that they should think before speaking, it's politicians.

[iacas]

49 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

I’m not. He’s a professional and shouldn’t make silly off the cuff statements like an annoyed 14 year old. He makes way too much money to be pissy. 

He’s human.

It’s a dumb comment but we all make those. Daily. 🙂

[GolfLug]

Rahmbo is a bit high strung and has an inclination to being caught up in the moment. When RPMs run high, gears don't shift so easily. Sooner of later a turd is bound to fall out of the mouth.   

Not a bad fella though.  

Edited July 20, 2020 by GolfLug

[NM Golf]

I would love to bet his winning check that I can find 3 other guys and scramble to beat his winning score. Give me a break, I realize these guys are good, I have played with several tour players over the years, but none of them were 18 strokes better than me on any given day, in any conditions. The toughest course I've ever played was the Bear in Traverse City MI. (76.1, 150 par 72) I played it on a breezy day and still broke 80 pretty easily. I cannot imagine a course in anything less than a hurricane where I would play bogey golf.

[CarlSpackler]

1 hour ago, iacas said:

It’s a dumb comment but we all make those. Daily. 🙂

Not me. Nope. I never stick my golf shoe in my mouth. 

[Vinsk]

3 hours ago, iacas said:

He’s human.

It’s a dumb comment but we all make those. Daily. 🙂

Lol...true. But you did start the thread....🙂

[iacas]

14 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

Lol...true. But you did start the thread....🙂

Yeah, it's a dumb comment. 🙂

[dennyjones]

4 hours ago, iacas said:

He’s human.

It’s a dumb comment but we all make those. Daily. 🙂

Ask my wife!

[Shindig]

13 hours ago, saevel25 said:

I am not seeing a scramble of scratch golfers shooting over par. They will have no big #'s. Even if they can barely reach some of the par 4's in two, you have four people hitting short game shots. Even if they average 50% scrambling, I believer their combined chance of getting up and down is 93%. If I remember by statistics correctly. 

It's better than that.  If it's 50% scrambling, then it's equivalent to asking four people to flip a coin, and we win if at least one flips heads.   There's a 93.75% chance at least one of them does (1 - 1/16 : the only event where we lose, four tails) -- your number is correct.

But it's probably better than that:  if I remember how scrambles work correctly, they pick the best of the four approach shots to hit their short game shot from.  If their scrambling rate is 50%, I bet they scramble at least as well when selecting the best of four spots to hit from.  And then they get to pick the best chip to putt from.