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2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Discussion Thread

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Yup.  The tweets tend to show how a lot of players don't have a good understanding of some of the rules.

As they say, if you're gonna play the game (especially at that level), you've gotta know the rules.

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Just some of my take: I was there Wednesday and yesterday, stood right next to Colin Montgomery for a little while by 9 green and he is A LOT less heavy in person than he appears on tv. It was od

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My dad picked up me up at 9am this morning.  We wanted to wait until rush hour had died down.  Today, no parking pass.  So we parked at the Pittsburgh Mills mall and took the shuttle to Oakmont. I mea

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Ok.  Credit where it's due.  I've gotta commend Fox on their camera work following Paulina walking with DJ to the scorer's tent...

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1 minute ago, David in FL said:

Yup.  The tweets tend to show how a lot of players don't have a good understanding of some of the rules.

As they say, if you're gonna play the game (especially at that level), you've gotta know the rules.

Well players always defend players when it comes to rules. It's to be expected. The problem the USGA made is not making a decision. Now it's public knowledge and it's setting itself up for post-round controversy. They should have made a final decision then and there.


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And DJ is top trending on twitter haha

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Piercy with his first bogey of the day. 

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Well players always defend players when it comes to rules. It's to be expected. The problem the USGA made is not making a decision. Now it's public knowledge and it's setting itself up for post-round controversy. They should have made a final decision then and there.

Yeah, unless it's a rule that they player has to be able to see it and be allowed to dispute it after viewing it, not sure why they just didn't rule on it and move on.  DJ's causing this because he's taking advantage of the situation that's being presented to him.

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The fact that this many viewers, players, commentators, media personnel, etc are bitching about this has to make the USGA realize they messed up.

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Just now, atb5079 said:

The fact that this many viewers, players, commentators, media personnel, etc are bitching about this has to make the USGA realize they messed up.

No?  Do you expect the "bitching" about it you're hearing is a representative sample of opinions?  I would expect people who agree with it to be a lot less vocal.

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Fox is really off to a bad start hosting these things. Crap ass course conditions last year and now this debacle. Eesh.

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No?  Do you expect the "bitching" about it you're hearing is a representative sample of opinions?  I would expect people who agree with it to be a lot less vocal.

Meh disagree with that. I think you would have more of a debate from media personnel. Golf Digest is having a field day, as are some GC guys and obviously Fox.

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3 minutes ago, RFKFREAK said:

DJ's causing this because he's taking advantage of the situation that's being presented to him.

I dunno, seems like he's been playing pretty poorly since he was informed of the possible penalty

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After the latest viewing of the close up video I think he shouldn't be penalized.

Therefore, in tandem with that, I'm of the opinion that the USGA is (or already has) screwing this up.

Hopwfully DJ wins by a couple to make it a moot point.

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24 minutes ago, atb5079 said:

Silly to show other players tweets. Who cares what a bunch of twenty something teenie boppers think. The adults will make the decision.


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I dunno, seems like he's been playing pretty poorly since he was informed of the possible penalty

Yeah, but I think he'd be unnerved if he was informed that he was getting a penalty, too.

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I've never in my life wanted a player to hit a hole in one than I want DJ to right here lol. And if it wouldn't incur a penalty... flip the bird at the nearest rules official :banana:

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Branden Grace drops to even par.

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