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I went out to the Buick Open this morning, to watch the 2nd round. A couple of observations, that stuck with me. 1- If a man is ever thinking that he's getting pretty good at this game, he should stand and watch the PGA Tour practice tee for a while. I did this today. It's always one of my favorite things to do when I go to a tournament. I watched Ryan Palmer hit about 20 drivers in a row within 10 feet of each other at over 300+ yds. I watched Nick Watney hit about 50 bunker shots across a practice green, and I don't think he left one more than 3 or 4 ft away from the hole. Bottom line is...these guys really are THAT much better than even the best of us. 2- They can flat out bomb it. They were routinely reaching the 580 yd 16th in 2, and some were hitting hybrids or irons for their 2nd shots. I saw B. Watson bomb a drive 340 +. That's just ridiculous. 3- But the one thing I take home from these trips, is a tip I seem to forget from time to time. Tempo. They are smooth. Driver, irons, wedges, putting. They all have such a smooth tempo. It doesn't seem like they are swinging as fast as they really are, it's just smooth. Accellerating. I can come home, and seem to hit the ball better afterwards. Just by picturing it. Anyhow, nothing real special here. No pics obviously, and nobody flipping off the hole like Poulter. But I just thought I'd share that stuff. Great time, as always.

Well I was wrong. He did miss the cut. I followed him for 2 holes. Saw him birdie the par 5 16th, and bogey the par 3 17th. From what I saw on TV yesterday, and the way he looked today even though I did see him birdie a hole..he looks like he's just going through the motions. I think the guy's just lost??

My wife and I will be there Friday. He tees off early, but I'm sure I'll see him play a few holes. It all depends on how quickly I can get my wife out of the house...always difficult. If I see anything interesting, I'll report back. I would predict that he will make the cut, even though I just bashed him earlier in this thread. I will also predict that Justin Leonard will win this week.

66. (-4 on a par 70) And 68. (-4 on a par 72) Got the putts to fall. It's not something I tend to make a habit of, but in those two rounds the putts were falling.

Umb yeah....if he represents the "everyman", then America is in even worse shape than I thought. The guy's a mess. He's either got troubles upstairs, or he just doesn't give a f. I have zero sympathy for the guy, either. Tons of talent, millions of dollars, pi$$ed away for the most part. But, I'd like to see him make a run at contending again. He used to be fun to watch. I doubt we'll ever see that happen again though.

Just like a lot of you, I'd like to see Mediate win. Great guy. But I don't know if he can get it done?? We'll see. But what a great U.S. Open, huh. Great finish, great entire final round I thought. Woods is just not human. He is simply the most clutch player in sports. Nobody can deny it. As a lefty myself, I've always been a Mickelson fan. And I've rooted against Tiger in the past. But it's impossible to not like/appreciate Tiger Woods. He is just an unbelievable talent. Both hitting the shots, and mentally. But....I'd like to see Rocco come out on top tomorrow.

I'm not an overly huge fan of Curtis Strange, but you're slamming him for his "heavy" southern accent?? Come on. I guess you'd rather listen to Faldo laugh at himself all day saying things that are only funny to himself with his own "heavy" accent? What is the correct accent 'eh? Anyway, I agree about the explaining things over and over thing. But you have to remember, they have to cater to the average guy that might not know it all. They already know we are going to watch no matter what. But I think that they do that, so the avg channel flipper might catch on.

I'm picking Stewart Cink, beating Harrington by a shot.

You're correct. As a matter of fact, Leonard won St. Jude today playing blades. My opinion, whatever works for you is what you should play. To each his own. God knows, there's choices out there nowadays. Myself, I play forged Mizuno MP-30's. In my opinion, they are a great combination of the two types. Prior to those, I played the 731 PM from Titleist. A "cast" combo set. Try a bunch. You can't put a price on fun. Well, maybe nowadays you have to I guess. But anyway, play whatever puts you closest to the flagstick. Forged, Cast, blade, giant ugly offset irons, whatever.

Tiger will not win the Open. I give it 50/50 on whether or not he makes the cut. That being said, I would also not be surprised if he did win. But my prediction is that he will not. Being that Phil has always been one of my favorites, I'd like to pick him to win. But....I won't. Here are my two picks to duel it out on Sunday..... Stewart Cink and Padraig Harrington, with Cink winning by a shot.

No mulligans here. But I play a lot of practice rounds solo, so sometimes I'll play two or three shots here and there. But no mulligans during actual rounds.

If that is what "they" heard from what Jack said, then "they" are even more ridiculous than I previously thought "they" were originally. This is my first post on this forum. I was going to make an introduction post be my first post, but I couldn't resist posting on this topic right away. I love trees, but I'm not a tree-hugger. I love animals, AND I also love to hunt. I absolutely despise PETA, and their outlandish views. I'm sure some didn't like Jack's intro, even though I never heard it myself. But they're crazy anyhow. There are very few things those tree hugger types do like, besides hearing themselves protest something. That's my $.02. You asked.