🏌️ The HGA: The Hype Golf Association!

[InCali]

As I said, I don't watch golf as much as I used to, but will watch the major tournaments and that includes the PGA. One of the commentators took a bunch of golf balls and dropped them while walking horizontally across the green and they all rolled from different directions to the same spot off the green. Then he showed how difficult the shot from that spot was. So, if you don't land the ball in just the right spot on the green, the ball is gonna roll off and give you a very difficult next shot.

I thought that was a really cool illustration.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Babillygunn]

Good for him!

Tiger will always have a complicated legacy for me. I’m have tons of admiration for him and his dominance of the sport. But there really wasn’t much about him that I ever found likable beyond his almost robotic skill level.

That said, I admit that I actually got emotional when I saw him win his last major. We had watched many PGA majors as a family and my kids have thought of Rory as the most dominant player that they had seen up until that point. My wife and I tried to explain Tiger’s dominance to them and it was unfathomable to them.

I described it to them as this:
“Imagine Tom Brady. Now imagine if Tom Brady, as Patrick Mahommes emerged and started challenging him, stepping on Mahommes’ throat and saying ‘you will never be at my level.’ Such that Mahommes was sent cowering back into the locker room. Because that would s a taste of what a Tiger was like.”

 

[blueharvest]

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[InCali]

I've been watching Tommy Fleetwood for the last few weeks knocking on the door for his first PGA Tour win and am still waiting. He's such a good golfer to not have a win and I'm really rooting for him. He seems like a really good guy. My mom used to call him "Wolfman" (commenting on the unshaven face), but really liked him too.

 

[InCali]

Well, Tommy Fleetwood got his first PGA Tour win and picked a great time to do it.

Won the PGA Tour Championship, the Fedex Cup, and, less importantly, $10M.

Way to go Wolfman.

 

[Babillygunn]

America is an embarrassment right now, and I don’t just mean on the leaderboard. Idiots making fools of themselves chanting f—- you Rory while Rory was standing over his ball yesterday at the Ryder Cup really sucks.

And then he ate the Americans alive on the course. Good for him.

 

[InCali]

America is an embarrassment right now, and I don’t just mean on the leaderboard. Idiots making fools of themselves chanting f—- you Rory while Rory was standing over his ball yesterday at the Ryder Cup really sucks.

And then he ate the Americans alive on the course. Good for him.

I think he's one of the real good guys on the PGA Tour. Unlike others, he backed them when it was hard to do (wallet wise) and then the PGA worked out a deal with LIV that totally screwed him. If I understand things correctly, he would have been way better off signing with LIV, but instead stuck with the PGA. F*** those people harassing him....

 

[Babillygunn]

I think he's one of the real good guys on the PGA Tour. Unlike others, he backed them when it was hard to do (wallet wise) and then the PGA worked out a deal with LIV that totally screwed him. If I understand things correctly, he would have been way better off signing with LIV, but instead stuck with the PGA. F*** those people harassing him....

I was glad to see that Justin Thomas, who is another one of the non-LIV guys, tried as an American player to get the crowd to stop their antics. But people were just fools.

It’s wild. I went to my first PGA major probably around 1996, and then again in 2000. Back then, you weren’t allowed to bring a cell phone on the course. I also don’t really remember alcohol being sold to the crowd. I’ve been a few times over the years and my firm had a hospitality tent and they had complimentary soft drinks and Gatorade. Again, maybe there was alcohol being sold and I didn’t realize it, but I don’t remember it. Now fast forward to last year when I went to the PGA Championship, and I had tickets that gave you unlimited access to the food tents and you’d see people coming out with 4-5 beers in hand. I was surprised to see people literally falling down drunk on the course. Tickets were also significantly more expensive. My firm didn’t even pony up for them last year, I had to sweet talk some folks I knew into inviting me.

I’m definitely not a tea totaler by any means, but I hate it when you (or someone you sweet talk) pays top dollar for tickets and you have to contend with sloppy drunks.