ChrisP

Gonna go with Webb. He won the last time a Major was in a San Fran and Harding is similar to Olympic. Lots of doglegs with high rough. Not a bombers course. Plus he’s tearing it up this year. Sleeper pick: Kevin Kisner.

Tiger skipping the WGC St.Jude. Well that pretty much puts his chances to win the PGA at slim to none. Can’t win majors if you don’t get tourney reps. Feel like Tiger is headed towards becoming a majors player only.

It was funny how the last 7 champions at St. Andrews were all on the front page of the leaderboard. Like even John Daly. I can see Oosthuizen because he has a great history on that course and holds the runner-up Grand Slam, but ZJ and JD over champions like Ernie and Phil and Player and Norman didn’t make much sense.

Funny thing is who would have thought that bogey Tiger made on the road hole on 17 in 2000 to trim his lead to 8 would have cost him The Open for the Ages. Unreal. Like I said earlier this week, it would have made more sense to just play it out More or all of the courses in the rota. Could have done more with it. Maybe next year. Overall the concept was cool.

Actually surprised they had him win. Thought it would be Tiger or Seve. Thought they’d use Seve’s putt from 84 as the winner while Tiger bogeyed 17. But they went with Jack.

So does this mean Jack’s the GOAT?

I was wondering why there was so little coverage of Rory... and then I remembered... he only played two rounds at St. Andrews in 2010 and DNP bc of injury in 2015. My guess is they’ll use his first round 63 for coverage on Sunday.

Pretty cool. They did a great job making the old coverage look modern. Would have liked to maybe seen them use all the different courses of the rota and make it like they play on all different courses the first three days like they do the Pro-Am. Could have then used more players and add more highlights. But still pretty cool.

Roid rage.

I think you’re right. ESPN has the first two rounds of the PGA and Masters. They used to share the US Open with NBC but that was with the old contract. Looks like TGC will air the first two rounds. TGC/NBC does all day coverage with the Open Championship so I would imagine they’d do it with the US Open as well.

You know what this means? The return of Chris Berman on Thursday/Friday coverage on ESPN. Personally I like NBCs coverage best. I like their analysts and on course reporters better than Fox’s and Dan Hicks is better than Joe Buck at golf.

Bryson is the Incredible Hulk. Goodness...he makes Koepka even look small.

Jesus. His arms are bigger than my head. Guy has bulked up x10. There’s a line you can cross on having too much muscle and Bryson is flirting with it.

Would love to see an event at Streamsong. Now that’s a Florida course that would look glorious on TV. Played it a few months ago and it’s one of the best I’ve ever played and I’ve played some beauties.

As a Bucs fan, all I gotta say is Go Team Brady!

I’m still skeptical of it given these new reports from the CDC of COVID-19 2.0 coming in the fall and that it could be much worse than this outbreak. We can talk about how we’re more ready the second time around, but until there’s a vaccine, I don’t see much you can do except lockdown. We’ll see. Hopefully the experts are wrong and we can see Augusta in November and get a football season.

No way it will be contained. Once there’s a treatment for those who get it, life will go back to normal. But until then, it’s going to be a social distanced world with very few fans allowed into sporting events and athletes tested daily.

I think they’ll allow family and friends of the players in, and writers as well, but that’s about it.

If they would have played today, they would likely have had to move up tee times again bc of weather.

Poor Bubba and Scott got shoved under the carpet by marketing. They’re showing 2012 and 2013, too.

Postponement vs Cancellation is a big deal. Cancel means no make-up. If this is the case, then the dominos may begin to fall for no golf season 😒. Im still holding out hope of a fall major season. But it’s not looking good as of now if these projections of millions of cases are true.

I think regular tournaments are likely done (ie RBC Canadian, Travelers) but the majors and Fed Ex Cup are still in play. I could see a scenario, as CBS Sports wrote up the other day, where you play all the big tournaments and the playoffs between the end of July and October. The Open will kick off the major season instead of the other way around, and then you go to San Fran in mid-August, NYC Labor Day and Augusta early October with the WGC St Jude in between there somewhere. Then you close out with the playoffs the rest of the month. It’s going to allow creativity and something different and unique, but it can work. You can also hold smaller tournaments simultaneously for players who don’t qualify for the majors so they can earn paychecks just like they do the WGCs.

Of all years to have the majors in San Francisco and just outside of New York City. It's no surprise the PGA was postponed, and I suspect the U.S. Open is going to be a no-go as well unless New York City undergoes a fast and speedy recovery. And then there's the Open. The UK is just starting to see the worst of it hit them. Within the last day they've had 128 deaths. All the majors will likely be a no-go through July. The only scenario they could put in place is the possibility in September and October of doing the four majors and FedEx Cup if things dramatically improve. Not sure they would do that, but nothing's off the table, I guess. I would honestly just rather them call it a year and hope we're ready to go again next year. The way I see it, the NHL and NBA are likely finished. MLB will play a shortened season and NFL is still a distance away. And that's probably best case scenario for MLB.

You're right, I don't a PhD in the medical field. I'm not an expert on the Coronavirus. I have a friend who is pretty damn highly qualified and he told me a little bit about it and I form my opinion based off what he's told me. Just a guess, but I am pretty sure based on his doctorate degrees he knows more about the virus than anyone here. Your President? Ahhh...now I see what this is all about. You're one of those political guys who believes this is the President's fault and he's to blame. I got better things to do with my time than argue politics with an Anti-Trump whack job who complains and whines about everything they do. Have a nice weekend.

Oh geez, lefty. Stop with these stupid posts where you mock everyone for their opinions on a matter and try and be the internet tough guy. There's underreaction and overreaction to this, and you're part of the overreaction problem. As I've said, I think they're doing the right thing around the nation. I thought they could have gotten the Players in and done by Saturday. Same with NCAA and an abbreviated tourney. I don't think it would have caused a nationwide panic if they would have played those two events this past weekend with no audience. That's my opinion. Obviously, you think otherwise and think armageddon is taking place in the United States.