2016 AT&T Byron Nelson Discussion Thread

[Shindig]

So some of your TVs showed the playoff?  I saw the tee shots only   Was it any good?

[Aguirre]

2 minutes ago, Shindig said:

So some of your TVs showed the playoff?  I saw the tee shots only   Was it any good?

Not really.  Fairly anti-climatic after Keopke dumped it in the water off the tee.

[bogdan101]

1 minute ago, Shindig said:

So some of your TVs showed the playoff?  I saw the tee shots only   Was it any good?

Not really, Koepka put his tee shot in the water and that was that. Then, to make it worse, hit what looked like the wrong club from the drop zone to leave it short of the green. Garcia held steady for par to win.

[Hardspoon]

3 minutes ago, Shindig said:

So some of your TVs showed the playoff?  I saw the tee shots only   Was it any good?

Yeah, you saw the shots that really mattered. Koepka mis-hit his wedge after taking a drop so it was basically over at that point. Sergio made a fairly standard par.

[Shindig]

Thanks everyone.  Glad I didn't miss anything super critical.  

[gregsandiego]

1 hour ago, bogdan101 said:

Congrats to Sergio!

I was hoping he'd lose. Never liked the guy since he showed his inability to hold back racist comments.

 

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golftalkcentral/garcia-apologizes-woods-fried-chicken-remark/

 

[BallStriker]

Certainly know that Sergio isn't perfect, but I am still a bit of a closet Sergio fan......very well played today and a great win for him to tie Seve with 9 PGA wins

[Gunther]

40 minutes ago, gregsandiego said:

I was hoping he'd lose. Never liked the guy since he showed his inability to hold back racist comments.

 

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golftalkcentral/garcia-apologizes-woods-fried-chicken-remark/

 

OMG, not another one.  Sergio"s joke, while unfunny at the time, was not racist, it was racial.  There is a massive difference.  Holding on to a multi-year grudge based on a false assumption speaks more to your own insecurities than it does to Sergio's character.

[gregsandiego]

21 minutes ago, Gunther said:

OMG, not another one.  Sergio"s joke, while unfunny at the time, was not racist, it was racial.  There is a massive difference.  Holding on to a multi-year grudge based on a false assumption speaks more to your own insecurities than it does to Sergio's character.

What do you mean by "racia" vs racist ?

[Natural Patrick]

2 hours ago, gregsandiego said:

I was hoping he'd lose. Never liked the guy since he showed his inability to hold back racist comments.

 

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golftalkcentral/garcia-apologizes-woods-fried-chicken-remark/

 

LMAO! Congrats Sergio

[Scotsclaff]

2 hours ago, gregsandiego said:

I was hoping he'd lose. Never liked the guy since he showed his inability to hold back racist comments.

 

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golftalkcentral/garcia-apologizes-woods-fried-chicken-remark/

 

FAF.

Well done Sergio,Ryder cup spot booked.

[Coronagolfman]

Funny how both players in post-tournament comments made it sound like they both were having swing problems and were just trying to fight through such issues on the last day or the weekend - I'm sure there are plenty of PGA tour players wishing that they could have had that problem will shooting 10 under for the tournament and getting into a playoff. 

Sergio, for all of his supposed skills as a match-play player from Ryder Cup days, hasn't been particularly outstanding in playoffs from what was reported (about 50% in playoffs over the years) - and Brooks K. certainly did not rise to the occasion on the short 18th with his pulled tee shot that cost him the win.

But I guess the exploits of Sergio and Brooks was nothing compared to what seemed to be the constant deluge of comments from Peter Kostis and Sir Nick regarding what seemed to them to be the obvious flaws in Jordan Spieth's swing that was leading to his final round swoon.  Funny - wasn't Jordan going into the last day in the final pairing only a couple shots back and didn't he finish as runner-up at Augusta with that same swing 6 weeks ago? Sure, Jordan missed the cut at the players but he had plenty of company doing so in that tournament on a quirky Dye course that sometimes doesn't fit the eye of a lot of good players.  Good thing CBS doesn't have any majors again until August so we don't have to listen to that barrage of comments - oh wait, CBS has the Colonial (or whatever name is now appearing on their constantly changing list of sponsors for that once grand invitational) and Jordan will be there again - I can hear old Sir Nic and his buddy Peter warming up the Konica Minolta Swing Vision Bizhub Printer Server Camera-thingy already to rip into Jordan for his patented bent left arm at impact swing that has only gotten him two majors to this point in his young career (one official major more than current #1 Jason Day who is the darling of CBS and NBC at the moment).

Oh well - at least the European PGA at Wentworth will be on this weekend where they don't spend so much time taking people's swings to task and seem to focus more on the achievements of the players contending for the title.

[boogielicious]

I'm seriously worried about Spieth. His pre-swing jitters are getting worse. The last few holes, he would look up 6 or 7 times while adjusting his feet. That is almost yip-like. 

[Yukari]

58 minutes ago, boogielicious said:

I'm seriously worried about Spieth. His pre-swing jitters are getting worse. The last few holes, he would look up 6 or 7 times while adjusting his feet. That is almost yip-like. 

Sounds like OCD like Keegan Bradley

[newtogolf]

2 hours ago, boogielicious said:

I'm seriously worried about Spieth. His pre-swing jitters are getting worse. The last few holes, he would look up 6 or 7 times while adjusting his feet. That is almost yip-like. 

I agree, last year much of the commentary on his swing was positive and the only concern seemed to be about his chicken wing that he made work for him.  This year, especially since the Masters they seem to be finding a lot more flaws with his swing that I'm inclined to believe are real based on his interviews and watching him.   

He has a two direction miss which to me means his timing and sequencing are off and he's standing above the ball like I do, with swing thoughts swimming through his head while he still tries to focus on his target.  

I don't think it's OCD, I think it's pressure.  Since The Masters he's been putting a lot of pressure on himself to get a win and it seems like he's got the same problem guys in baseball get when they are at the brink of breaking a hitting record and suddenly go into a hitting slump.  He's trying to be perfect on every shot and is over thinking things way too much.  

[krupa]

5 hours ago, boogielicious said:

I'm seriously worried about Spieth. His pre-swing jitters are getting worse. The last few holes, he would look up 6 or 7 times while adjusting his feet. That is almost yip-like. 

He's just perfecting his pre-waggle:

 

[rehmwa]

With Rory getting a win overseas, I was really hoping to see Jordan also come back into some form - and get these two back in the mix with Jason Day.  But he's fighting something right now, or something in his head.  I hope he finds his formula soon.

Brooks didn't look like he was struggling (seems every interview people were saying the mojo was off), he appeared the entire time to just be calmly winning it.  (I fell asleep for the last hour of the tourney, so only saw the last few holes and that anticlimactic playoff - So I missed his fall.)

Happy to see Sergio finally get a win again.

[Coronagolfman]

Sergio is kind of funny in that many times when he wins it seems like he is the last man standing compared to a Rory who wrenches the title into his grasp with stunning shots.

Spieth had a decent tournament until he made some uncharacteristic mistakes on the weekend - one has to wonder how much in this age of social and professional media how much attention he pays to these guys reporting all the bad things about his swing - it will be interesting to see if a guy who was halfway to the Grand Slam last year starts going into the tank because of a concern for a few more yards off the tee that he probably could live without - sometimes the hardest thing to do in golf is just keep repeating that swing which has worked for so long as opposed to tweaking it and fooling with it to the point of not being able to get it back.  On the other hand, you good old Sir Nick who basically won some majors and then totally rebuilt his swing and won some more majors - that is perhaps the rarest of feats indeed in the history of the game.