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I had the use of a friend's silver Miata in the late 1990's. Driving on the banked two-lane roads around Silverdale, Washington with the top down and the music blaring, was pure driving pleasure.😊

I was a marshal on this course for a senior event in the late 1980's. Lived in Portsmouth. I don't ever recall the wind letting up in this part of Newport. We'd take the kids to watch all the elaborate kites.😊

I had to smile quietly to myself - "No golf on a dead planet." Really? You people don't know golfers very well. Not only have I played golf on dirt, I've played golf with dice. With computers. Board games. I've putted on wood floors and carpets. And often, if I'm driving by a piece of land that looks like a golf course should be placed on it, I'm playing golf in my mind.😋

Sure doesn't look like much from the tee, but the 9th will sure take it's toll in the next four days....

I am listening to 23rd Street. 24 hours a day of cars, trucks, planes, sirens, and neighbors who start lawn mowers at 6:30am. I try to drown it out with 7,600 WAVE music files on a huge USB drive. Mostly 1950's through 1990's music.

I don't play real golf anymore due to arthritis, but I play lots of digital golf using the Links 2003 program. The play is as fast as I want it to be!😁 However, I watch a lot of golf. Every time I see another pro doing something to slow the game down, I wonder how many amateur foursomes this is going to be inflicted on come Monday morning. Remember Sergio's endless wagging? OMG. Now, some pros on the greens do this thing where they spread their legs and slowly walk from their ball mark to the hole while not stepping on the line. Can't imagine how slow things would get if everyone did 20 waggles, or slowly walked the line for every putt.🙄

Erik, please consider adding a "Wow" icon to reactions to posts. Sometimes that's all I can come up with, is "wow."

I hope this is in the right place. I have never played golf in Denver before - does the ball really go so far in the higher elevations? Players were using irons to reach a 330 yard hole, and often hole high on #1 - 389 yards? Congrats to Nick Dunlap.👍

The Postage Stamp sure doesn't look like much.....but I don't think I've seen any player in an Open who wasn't thrilled just to get on the putting surface.

My first thought was, bring warm clothes...and a camera.😊

https://www.golfchannel.com/news/report-randall-stephenson-resigns-pga-tour-policy-board-due-concerns-over-pif-deal

Back in the 1970's and 1980's I played a lot of golf around (and on) the Groton submarine base. At the time, chewing tobacco was a big thing, and these folks would spew all over the tees and greens. Makes my stomach churn thinking about some of the places my ball rolled into.

I don't drink....but, I did smile quietly to myself every time someone said "marine layer."😊

A 279 yard par 3!😬

I love this website.☺️ The other day I logged in my email, and had a torrent of notifications from TST. Uh-oh, what happened? My thanks to everyone here who have answered every single one of my questions about this very strange situation.👍👏 Don Ward

1.8 billion pixel image of Jon Rahm's win: Rahm's Winning Moment Explore Rahm's winning moment in 1.8 billion pixels

I rode past a number of these courses in 1978, but at the time golf was still "cow pasture pool" to me.

While watching The Masters a very long time ago, José María Olazábal hit a fairly bad tee shot and says "Shit!" with his Spanish accent. There's a few seconds of stunned silence, and Ken Venturi says, "Pretty much describes the shot."

"I can play better; I just never have." - Huey Lewis, at Pebble Beach. "I've always been able to hit the ball a long way. It's just recently that I've been able to find it." - Scott McCarron. “Nothing wrong with winning ugly.” – Johnny Miller, NBC golf analyst, during the last round of the 2009 US Open at Bethpage Black.

Butch Harmon: Tour players who have been vocal against LIV ‘ought to thank them’ Butch Harmon, on the Five Clubs podcast this week, said PGA Tour players who have been vocal against LIV Golf “ought to thank them.”

I wonder if Augusta has a plan if two players start throwing punches on the first tee next April? Seems to me it's getting fairly vicious out there.

R.I.P.

"Way too easy for a US Open." Are you watching the same tournament as me? Five under leading after two rounds. I walked TCC years ago; it was not an easy course.