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@gfienberg17 The course doesn’t matter. The Tour sets up any course to encourage a birdie fest. Tour setups not only add to the technology problem, in fact the Tour is a major opponent of equipment regulation. They want unfettered birdies. They suck.

This is not a defense of Craig Ranch but I will say that I think the general golf fan grossly over-estimates the amount of courses that can achieve what you want to happen weekly on the pga tour. For starters so few courses on earth that can, and sooooo many of the ones that can, either the membership do not want the pga tour at all or arnt big enough to stage an event - no space for galleries or much hospitality, that meet pga requirements from locker rooms to driving ranges to quality of bunkers.

@Top100Rick The course sucks but Tour wants shootouts. They cut rough down, put pins in flat spots and cut fairways down to enhance tee shot length and in turn promote wedges into greens. They engineer these results.

TPC Craig Ranch spent $25M on a full renovation. One of the goals was to challenge the pros more. Si Woo shot 60 today 😂. -18 after two days. (This is his missed putt for 59.) Guys when it rains and gets the course soft, there is nothing you can do.

@InnocenceCapit1 @garrett_TFE I disagree that he’s right when he says “if they would have had the budgets and equipment we do today, they would have done things differently than they did.” He’s credentialing his insipid design philosophy by saying Ross would have designed like Fazio in 2026. Bullshit.

@CF1550 @garrett_TFE He’s not wrong about that. What’s arrogant is his refusal to acknowledge there are many current architects doing a very good job at exactly that. They’re the people beating him out for jobs. He gets trump and discovery land jobs. Insipid, comfort station golf.

You have to grudgingly respect that Fazio isn't even pretending that his version of East Potomac will "incorporate themes of the original Walter J. Travis design," as the press release from the Trump administration claimed it would. He's just like, "Nope, Walter Travis was an idiot, I'm blowing it all up."

@Top100Rick We simply do golf wrong in the US. It’s an exclusionary sport here and it doesn’t have to be.

Compare the Top Ten Golf Courses in the USA versus The Rest of the World. There are glaring differences for sure, but there is one huge difference that affects golfers. 9/10 of the USA list are private. 9/10 of the World list are accessible And the one private course on the World list is owned by an American. 😂🇺🇸 I’ve been blessed to play 19 of 20. Pretty insane.

@hicasamadim Filled first is 3. It can't drain to either 4 or 5. 2 can't drain to 6 and while it can drain to 7, 7 has a hole in it, so 2 will never fill.

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@CathVSConf He was dead last of those many reasons, and yet he’s the only video that you posted. It’s been eight months since that game. Get over it and lay off the kid. He gave everything he had to the program.

@CF1550 Emphasis on "MANY reasons."

There's MANY reasons why we lost this game and missed the Playoffs, but this play (might) have hurt us the most.

@camdenpike @fried_egg_golf Totally agree that pros should be leading the change but with limited exception, they're a) selfish bastards and b) among the dimmest of dim bulbs. Cantlay thinks he's an I-Banker for crying out loud.

@CF1550 @fried_egg_golf I don’t disagree, but right now the crazy thing is it seems like amateurs are going to get unnecessarily nerfed & the tour will keep playing the cutting edge. Opposite of what should happen. If any sort of rollback is to happen, the PGA Tour membership needs to be leading it.

"After four rounds, what is to make of the test Aronimink Golf Club presented? Any conversation about the golf course or the setup must start here: the sport is currently completely out of scale. There is no greater evidence of that than Aaron Rai clubbing down to 3-wood off the tee on No. 15, a 527-yard par 4, to find the widest section of the fairway, while many of the longest players in the field were consistently bailed out by errant drives finding trampled-down areas where spectators trod throughout the week. "Those are symptoms of a game that is not in scale, one that would benefit from being shrunk back to the dimensions of golf courses, so that a 5’11, 170-pound player with below-average clubhead speed is hitting driver on 530-yard par 4s. And so that long players with wide misses aren’t rewarded by finding areas of the property never intended to be part of the course, or tournament infrastructure that results in a free drop. A scaled-back version of the game would allow more accurate tee shots to find the fairway, while wide misses would settle between gallery ropes and the fairway. "If somebody cannot review the shots we’re seeing from professional golfers and acknowledge that the sport has lost the plot with modern technology, there is no constructive way to move the sport forward. Before vilifying tree-removal programs or advocating for thicker rough, we need to have a more nuanced conversation about what is actually happening on the golf course. Bring dispersion patterns back in line with the game board on which the sport is played. That is a vision for a more strategic, balanced, and well-rounded version of the sport. It is also a more responsible one." - @JosephLaMagna in his takeaways piece from the PGA Championship (Photo Courtesy: PGA of America)

@JamieSlonis Pros want wide fairways, no rough and flat greens, or else they whine. That’s why regular Tour stops are easy - the Tour doesn’t want to listen to them complain since the Tour essentially works for them. The majors don’t have to listen to these whiners and they shouldn’t.

After seeing all the comments in regard to the greens at Aronimink, either we’re just used to playing courses like that around here or lots of people have just never seen or played on greens with slope and contours like you find at so many courses in the Philly to NY metro area

@JDMainer @AIsuperpower @StefkoolA @RealJamesWoods Have you ever been to or seen an event where [insert political candidate] is present? Supporters lose their mind, cry, scream, pass out, ie.. worship the man.

@AIsuperpower @StefkoolA @RealJamesWoods Have you ever been to or seen an event where the pope is present. Catholics lose their mind, cry, scream, pass out, ie.. worship the Man.

@jamierkennedy Waaaaaaaaaah, I can’t hit my wedge to 5 feet for birdie. It’s a bad setup!!!

Slightly hot take... the Aronimink set-up stinks. I'm not usually one to wade in on how a course is set-up but I think the data suggests this isn't a great set-up. Let me explain. I wrote a piece earlier in the week (see reply below) looking at the data from past events at Aronimink. Yes, they were a long time ago and the 2018 BMW played very wet, but all three events were essentially putting competitions. ▫️In 2018, Keegan led the field in putting and won. Of the players who finished in the top 10, eight ranked in the top 10 on the greens. ▫️In 2011, Nick Watney led the field in putting and won. The top five on the leaderboard that week all ranked in the top 15 putting. ▫️In 2010, Ryan Moore led the field in putting and finished one back of Justin Rose (4th in putting). 5 of the top 6 players on the leaderboard ranked inside 16th or better in putting. That year, of the top 6 players in strokes gained approach, two missed the cut and none finished in the top 15. The strategy at Aronimink appears to be, get it on the green, then try not to three-putt. Potgeiter hit 5 of 14 fairways and ranked 63rd in proximity on his approaches, yet he is co-leader after 18 holes. Of the 7 players tied for the lead: • 5 are in the top 15 in putting • 2 are in the top 15 in driving • 1 is in the top 15 in approach • 1 is in the top 15 around the green My point is this, what do we consider both entertaining and valued at majors? Is it players avoiding three putts, or being rewarded for high-quality tee shots (Open courses), executing precise approach play (think Augusta and US Opens) and the ability to show creativity and skill around the greens (again, Augusta)? None of the top 6 players at this year's Masters finished in the top 15 in putting. Was that an entertaining watch? What was the challenge that week? I know, it's early in the tournament and yes, players that putt well "tend" to score well. But if this plays out for the week, like it has the last three times Aronimink has hosted a Tour event, I fear it could be a flat week. For the record, I hope it's not.

@Daniel_Rapaport Cry harder.

Rory McIlroy: "I think a bunched leaderboard like this, I think it's a sign of a not-great setup...it hasn't really enabled anyone to separate themselves. It's easy to make a ton of pars...it feels like bogey's the worst score you're going to shoot on any one hole."

@RyanHarris_68 Good luck and thank you for so many great radio memories and for always standing up for Notre Dame. All of us alumni owe you a debt of gratitude for using your platform so well.

🏈 I will be moving on from Notre Dame Football Radio this year 🎙️

@CasinoorgDevinO @SecretaryBurgum Fazio is total garbage as a designer. Complete utter shit. Doak, Hanse, Crenshaw and Coore and their protégés are 100x the designers that Fazio is. That, and Trump wanting his name instead of NLT’s on it is the issue. And no, I’m not a liberal. Trump is just plain wrong on this

@SecretaryBurgum This is awesome (from someone who actually plays and practices here).

Excited to unveil the design for the East Potomac Golf Links renovation from Fazio Design. Like iconic public courses of Bethpage Black & Torrey Pines, East Potomac will offer locals—of the National Capital Region—championship-quality golf at affordable, highly discounted rates.

@tbhorka @Brett_McMurphy The fact of the matter is ACC football would be the MAC without ND. They’ve been giving ND all the ACC bottom feeders to keep those teams above water. That scheduling won’t work for ND anymore, as was evidenced last year by the playoff snub. ND is now demanding better games.

“Notre Dame is the guy that walks in the house, opens the fridge, eats all the food, then (screws) the wife, kicks the dog, doesn’t pay the mortgage and walks out without any skin in the game.” — an industry source to @Brett_McMurphy Poor lad sounds bitter and jealous. 😆🤷‍♂️ on3.com/news/acc-athle…

@MattWalshBlog Great American…Traitor?

I love this story. Stonewall Jackson was a great American.

@AlanCarrington7 @MooreforCouncil @EchoesofWarYT Yeah “a state’s right to have legal slavery”. Preservation of slavery was THE animating cause of secession. It was explicitly mentioned in four states’ articles of secession and three others either mentioned preservation of the plantation economy or property rights. Traitors all.

@MooreforCouncil @EchoesofWarYT Your opinion for not knowing the facts. He died for states rights not ownership of slaves as you’ll bring out. How many southerners died never had or ever would have owned slaves. Federal government used you as a pawn then just like the Democratic Party is using you now.

163 years ago today, Stonewall Jackson died at 3:15 PM on a Sunday afternoon in a small farm office in Guinea Station, Virginia. He had told his wife that morning, “It is the Lord’s Day. I have always desired to die on a Sunday.” He got his wish. Eight days earlier at Chancellorsville, Jackson had pulled off what military historians still consider one of the most audacious flanking maneuvers in American history. Lee had split his outnumbered army in the face of a force more than twice its size, and sent Jackson on a 12-mile march around Hooker’s right flank. At dusk on May 2nd, Jackson’s men came screaming out of the woods and rolled up the entire Union XI Corps. It was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. Then, in the darkness, he rode forward to scout for a night attack. The 18th North Carolina Infantry saw riders approaching through the trees and opened fire. Three bullets hit Jackson, one shattering his left arm. His own men. The bullet they later recovered was .67 caliber. Confederate issue. Union troops in the area used .58. His arm was amputated the next morning. When Lee got the news, he wrote: “Could I have directed events, I would have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead.” Days later, when told Jackson had lost his arm, Lee said: “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.” For a week he seemed to recover. Then pneumonia set in. Modern doctors now suspect it was actually a pulmonary embolism from the amputation, undiagnosable in 1863. On the morning of May 10th, his wife Anna told him he would not live through the day. Jackson asked his doctor to confirm it. When McGuire said there was nothing more they could do, Jackson paused and said: “Very good, very good. It is all right.” He drifted in and out. At one point in his delirium he was back on the battlefield, shouting orders: “Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action! Pass the infantry to the front rapidly! Tell Major Hawks…” Then he stopped mid-sentence. A smile spread across his face, and he said quietly: “Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.” Those were the last words of the most feared tactician in the Confederate army. Lee never found a replacement. Two months later, at a small Pennsylvania town called Gettysburg, the absence of Jackson on the second day, when Ewell hesitated to take Cemetery Hill, would haunt the Confederacy for the rest of the war. Chancellorsville was Lee’s masterpiece. It was also the last decisive victory the Army of Northern Virginia would ever win. Jackson was 39 years old.

@EchoesofWarYT He died a traitor’s death.