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@BCrawford247 The sport hasn't been great in many years

South Carolina ducking UNC in football is a sign of the times and I hate to see it. Let’s do the opposite of what makes the sport great.

@NoLayingUp More commercials, naturally

I have no idea how CBS is going to handle all of this.

@GolfDigest Lot of dense comments. If he showed up and his watch was reading 7:18 (or whatever his tee time was) then he's "on time". Since it was 7:18 and not 7:19, then he assumed he was on time, not late.

"I was there on time, but the rule is, if you're one second late, you're late. So if you think about it, I was there on time, if you know what I mean." Garrick Higgo spoke to the media about his two-stroke penalty for arriving late to his tee time.

@jlalk Ew #shrink

I spent 5 hours on my feet at Augusta before I even saw a golf shot. Went to the Masters practice round this week...best Tuesday of my life. We got there at 6 AM. Already a long line at the first gate. By 7:15 we were through. By 9:00 we still hadn't touched the course. Here's where all that time went: 1) The merch shop is controlled chaos. No phones allowed inside. So you're just standing in line making friends with strangers for 30 minutes. Once you're in, most of the good stuff is behind the counter on display with a number. You walk up and say "I'll take three of number 73 and two of 57." No price tags visible on most of it. It almost feels like a shopping spree, which is only made worse by the fact that this might be a once-in-a-lifetime trip. I've never spent more money before 9AM. 2) The course is nothing like TV. The elevation changes are insane. The first tee drops about 50 feet before climbing back uphill. I had no idea. The green on 7 is more tilted than you'd ever guess. The approach on 8 is way steeper than it looks on screen. The fairway bunkers are so deep that I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy. 3) People make big sacrifices to get to Augusta At Amen corner, I met two Australian guys who flew in from Sydney. Their plane had to turn around over Fiji because a passenger went into anaphylactic shock from trail mix. One had a five-week-old baby at home. The other had a 20-month-old and a pregnant wife. They still made the trip. 4) The bathroom situation deserves its own post. They have attendants in the men's room directing traffic. "Number two? Against the wall. Number one? This line." There's a dedicated attendant to wiping down the toilets after each person uses it. No other event moves people around as efficiently as the Masters 5) 16 is electric. Practice round Tuesday is when they skip balls across the water. The crowd loses it every time someone tries. Goes absolutely nuts when one makes it across. Watched Rory skip one that rolled all the way through the green into the crowd and trickled back out. He tried to play it from there. Almost came back to his feet. 6) The end of the day was the best part. By late afternoon, most players were off the course. Almost everyone had cleared out from Amen Corner. We walked back to 12 and it was just... quiet. Peaceful. Then watched the grounds crew replace divots on the 12 tee box. They carve out oval-shaped pieces, lay in fresh sod, and hammer it down with a mallet. On every single tee box. Every single day. That's Augusta. I also brought my camera for the first time in a while. I used to shoot golf content on the side, and it felt really good to pick it back up again.

@DakotaChambers @mattbaran Not to mention they'd have to be tempered. But he's an architect so I'm sure he's aware...right?

@mattbaran What is the size of the window in that link? Your image has floor-to-ceiling height windows. That's massive, and expensive - even for fixed vinyl. Plus not cheap to have someone install.

London plane tree: $748 (installed) Shrubs: $553 (installed) Windows: $1,785 (additional, installed) Siding: $14,400 (additional) Total: $17,486 New price: $230,000+$17,486: $247,486 (7% increase) Completely changing the vibe of your house: priceless

@RodeoProfessor So the owners of JHMR get a monopoly on the forest service lease? They pay well under fair value but they get a pass for some reason. All these resorts have moats around this prestigious and valuable land. Why do they get the privilege of the lease and not someone else?

One of the reasons that the attempted public land sale last summer was so absurdly corrupt is because there were huge chunks of massively valuable public land parcels that would/could have been part of that sale (remember the criteria were never clarified in Lee’s own words, leaving foreign purchasers as fair game). It no doubt would have included chunks of the Bridger Teton National Forest, where Jackson Hole Ski Resort operates under a special use permit on public Forest Service land. You can go spend time there today with your family, but somehow these high dollar sales for foreigners and Californians were supposedly a way for me to increase my liberty (?). These homes they’re talking about in this article in Teton Village in the $20-50m range are usually private in holdings on USFS parcels or adjacent to the national forest, so they’re a good proxy for the true value of these parcels and their amenities that you can access today because they’re still public. Anyways, that’s all to say that the reason they wanted to sell public land trough a back door budget process is exactly because these parcels are worth extraordinary amounts of money, and being the guy who decides what parcel to sell is really great for your donors, but not so great for those of us who have to live next to all the California billionaires who would have purchased all these parcels had we lost.

@deepdivegolf Oh you mean only tennis players combined not the entire list. Way it's structured, at least in my phone/font shows it as all of those COMBINED

Bryson DeChambeau is reportedly seeking an amount of at least $USD500,000,000 to remain with #LIVGolf for another 4 years beyond his current contract expiring at the end of this year. telegraph.co.uk/gift/9b6c1fef9… To put that number in perspective, once accounting for the prize money he will win from tournaments each year and not including endorsements, he would be earning more than: ⚽️Lionel Messi 🏀LeBron James ⚾️Shohei Ohtani 🏈Dak Prescott 🎾The top 10 highest-paid tennis players COMBINED In fact, the only athlete in the world who would be paid more is Cristiano Ronaldo. Say what you want about the fact that athletes are worth what somebody is willing to pay them. As popular as Bryson is, he simply does not get even close to generating enough revenue to justify that type of cost. Unlike Messi or LeBron, Bryson does not anchor a multi-billion-dollar broadcast ecosystem. Objectively, this is a poor business decision. Do you think that golfers are worth this much? Is there too much money in golf now? #LIV #BrysonDeChambeau

@chamath @GavinSBaker Check out moving it to nosana

@GavinSBaker Amazon pricing is getting too expensive. At 8090, we moved a lot of work to Groq recently.

Amazon raising Blackwell per hour pricing. H200 rental pricing going up *after* Blackwell scale deployments ramping up. Might be important. And certainly more important than ridiculous $300 billion deals that are contingent on future fund raising.

@Top100Rick "Allowed to spread" what

Rory McIlroy: “I will never participate in tournaments held in the USA again” Read the comments in this video 🤯 Guys, you have no idea oblivious the masses on Instagram are. Hundreds of thousands believe this video. I feel for the elderly ones, but many are just normal, everyday people that just believe everything they see on social media. It’s insane. AI is going to wreck the world if this stuff is allowed to spread. This is golf, unimportant. But having computers producing endless fake content is a frightening future.

@NUCLRGOLF 197

@Skulledwedge Greyson Omaha no logo >

Everyone talks about Peter Millar when in reality, Holderness and Bourne makes the best golf polos on the market.

@JoshACarpenter @NoLayingUp What's the logic for tour sponsors? They get less views than YouTubers, yet spend many millions 40+ weeks of the year. Seems like a terrible roi for those numbers which we know is made up of mostly passive viewers.

Had fun talking with @NoLayingUp on the state of men's golf. LIV, PGAT, TV, etc youtube.com/watch?v=oT5rhM…

@PatBanff @liftblog US GDP is higher than Germany, Uk, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Poland, and Denmark. Combined. So "just fine" seems like a stretch.

@liftblog Anyone involved in the ski industry knows how intertwined Canada/Europe and the USA are when it comes to building and maintaining lifts. IMHO I believe Canada and Europe will do just fine without the US.

If this happens, bad news for the ski industry. 35% on Canadian goods also not good.

@NUCLRGOLF If into the wind, a butter cut 9. Downwind, choked down, fluttered easy 8

⛳️🏌🏻‍♂️ 180 to the pin… what are you hitting?

@BenColeyGolf Outrage porn at its finest lol it's flimsy basketweave wicker. He's a douche, yes. And if it were up to me I'd ban him from oakmont but this is mild compared to other sports locker room tantrums

This should be really simple: you are banned from next year’s US Open, and you’re not welcome back at Oakmont. Treat professional golfers like you’d treat anyone else. It is just their profession, it doesn’t merit acceptance of pure dickheadery.

@BobKnakal @AvivaRealEstate #metoo was cancelled did you not get the memo

@AvivaRealEstate @AvivaRealEstate , this type of behavior is completely unacceptable. So sorry this happened to you. We take this very seriously and will look into this immediately!!!

You grabbed my ass last night at the Gala. You are so lucky I didn’t punch you in the fucked face like you deserved.

@liftblog @Boredmanbryon Vail's stock is the same price as it was back in 2016. Season passes are cheaper than they were 20 years ago. Call me crazy but that doesn't sound very greedy. Side note delta is at 2017 prices and are govt subsidized. Costco trades at like 50x earnings lol

@Boredmanbryon For the record I disagree that the co-op model is right for most ski areas. Capitalism can include paying employees fairly and investing in the business, not just paying increasing dividends to shareholders. Look at companies like Costco or Delta Air Lines as examples.

I generally don’t agree with the “mega passes ruined skiing” story but this is worth a watch before Vail earnings on Monday. youtu.be/0bfD4NiiMfo

@AndyTFE More minutes of highlights watched for liv. Obvi pga has more viewers overall. Not sure 95% of people even have fox sports 2 or whatever. Why not be happy for more options? TGL is terrible but who cares it's more golf

I’m astonished at how bad this number is. Billions of dollars spent to get 12,000 people to watch. Insanity.

@DeeZe $crime indeed

Nasdaq hacked and pushing a new stonks meme when an older and bigger one already exists? Crime