2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive

[Shindig]

18 hours ago, Zeph said:

Am I missing a joke or something? Zach Johnson has won two majors. Louis Oosthuizen has won one.

 

17 hours ago, sofingaw said:

Yes. Someone posted in this thread that Zach Johnson had never won a major

I'm a bit late replying to these, but what happened was I mentioned how surprising it would be if Zach Johnson won his first major this week.  There are two players by that name in the field:  the one who has won two majors (who cannot win his first ever major at this event for that very reason) and the club pro with that name (who would be very surprising if he won, since club pros pretty rarely win majors these days).

[sofingaw]

4 hours ago, Shindig said:

 

I'm a bit late replying to these, but what happened was I mentioned how surprising it would be if Zach Johnson won his first major this week.  There are two players by that name in the field:  the one who has won two majors (who cannot win his first ever major at this event for that very reason) and the club pro with that name (who would be very surprising if he won, since club pros pretty rarely win majors these days).

Fair play! I got confused, and I also forgot about the other Zach Johnson. Apologies for accusing you of not knowing.  

The (professional sports publication) article about Oosthuizen is still wrong though! Lol

[Missouri Swede]

7 hours ago, Missouri Swede said:

Anyone know if there’s a revised broadcast schedule for Saturday morning?

Found it (from pga.com):

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Saturday coverage of the PGA Championship will start at 8 a.m. EDT/7 a.m. CDT on TNT. It will continue on CBS at 2 p.m. EDT/1 p.m. CDT. Online coverage of the feature groups will also start at 8 a.m. EDT/7 a.m. CDT.

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The third round will start approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the second round. The third round will be played in groups of three from the No. 1 and No. 10 tees.

[nevets88]

Hulu is showing Law & Order episodes on schedule starting at 8 EST but probably didn't update. 

[nevets88]

 

[dennyjones]

What's the putting tracer that they are showing?   It's not Aimpoint?  It doesn't seem to be as accurate as Aimpoint.

[iacas]

6 minutes ago, dennyjones said:

What's the putting tracer that they are showing?   It's not Aimpoint?  It doesn't seem to be as accurate as Aimpoint.

It's not. And on some of them there is such a variance I almost wonder if you can actually hole a putt on both lines - the low one sometimes has almost no break while the upper one has three feet? Count me as skeptical.

[nevets88]

I'm gonna guess Hawk-Eye, if I'm getting the name of the putt reading tech correctly, is the same company that makes the line calls in tennis? Seems ill-suited for putt reading, maybe it's a completely different system though.

[Zeph]

Tiger's making the birdies he needs, but dropping a few too many so far today.

[Zekez]

Scott Brown chips in on 18 to make the cut!  How good does that have to feel!!  

[Vinsk]

1 hour ago, iacas said:

It's not. And on some of them there is such a variance I almost wonder if you can actually hole a putt on both lines - the low one sometimes has almost no break while the upper one has three feet? Count me as skeptical.

I thought it was just showing the putt line for a firm putt vs slow one? 

[iacas]

Just now, Vinsk said:

I thought it was just showing the putt line for a firm putt vs slow one? 

I didn't say anything to contradict that.

I'm saying that if a putt breaks 3.5' and the low line has an aim point of only half a foot, I'm skeptical that a putt hit that hard could actually go in. Or maybe that a putt hit on the high line could actually reach the hole.

For the putts that are straighter, and the lines only vary by a few inches, they're believable.

[Vinsk]

2 minutes ago, iacas said:

I didn't say anything to contradict that.

I'm saying that if a putt breaks 3.5' and the low line has an aim point of only half a foot, I'm skeptical that a putt hit that hard could actually go in. Or maybe that a putt hit on the high line could actually reach the hole.

For the putts that are straighter, and the lines only vary by a few inches, they're believable.

Yeah I got what you were saying. Does seem to be too much variance. 

[ChrisP]

Pretty nice leaderboard. Can't really complain. The top-2 are somewhat household names, moreso Kisner, but after that you got DJ, Koepka, Fowler, Molinari, Tiger, Thomas, Scott, Simpson, Schwartzel, Rose, Rahm, ZJ and Day all within striking distance. Those are all big boy names.

Edited August 11, 2018 by ChrisP

[nevets88]

I feel the odds I posted above short-changed Justin Thomas. With due respect to Woods, Thomas has a better chance to win.

[MacDutch]

16 minutes ago, nevets88 said:

I feel the odds I posted above short-changed Justin Thomas. With due respect to Woods, Thomas has a better chance to win.

Think it has to do with lots of bets on Tiger. Lets see how he does playing 28 holes on one day. 

[colin007]

His bogey on 10....ugh...just awful.

[RFKFREAK]

And Tiger's 3rd round is underway.