Jesse Larson

🎅🏼 delivered an early 🎁 today. Thanks @taylormadegolf! Proud to be a member of #TeamTaylorMade

@F1 You’re trying to make these regs seem great, but all the action in that race felt contrived. This is not what we want from the premier series in motorsports.

Action EVERYWHERE you looked 😍 #F1 #AusGP

@FreeformTV Why are you ruining Home Alone with these stupid comment bubbles during the movie? Absolutely no one wants this. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP

@MullockHeap @LouStagner The putts on 13-14-15-16 were all extremely delicate. You can’t be serious that you’re downplaying how great the approach shots on 15-16-17 were because a couple of the putts didn’t fall. 🤦‍♂️

If your benchmark is “a tour pro”, of course Rory is going to massively outperform on “nearest the pin” metrics. The more relevant metric is, from those distances, how many shots did it take to get up and down from that distance. On the holes you mentioned, he had 8 shots in total (5 putts). How does that stack up?

To everyone saying: “Of course he did, it’s Rory, it's not really that big of a deal…” Let’s add some context. In his entire career, Rory has had 355 instances where he faced three approach shots in a row from 165 to 212 yards to the hole. Not once did he hit all three shots inside 9 feet. Not once. In those 355 instances, he hit two out of three shots inside 9 feet just four times. In the final round of The Masters, with the career slam on the line, he hit one to 9 feet, another to 6 feet and another to 2 feet. So yeah… these shots, especially in that situation? Off-the-charts good. To all the haters, it's just math. 😉 P.S. I also looked at the number of instances where he had three approach shots in a row from 150 to 200 yards. There were 720 instances. Not one single time did he hit all three shots inside 9 feet. Not once. (There were 12 times he hit two of three to 9 feet or less)

@bridges_tom @jamierkennedy Bingo. He was out of position after the second and it was pretty much a recovery situation with that pin. At that point, it’s “don’t make worse than par”, but these guys are so talented that it’s hard to play away from pins when you feel like you should get up and down for birdie

@jamierkennedy Yes he had a long shot into the green, but having gone over the back he didn’t need to be so ambitious with his chip given the pond awaited anything slightly over hit. He could have just taken his medicine, chipped on short, 2 putts, and got out of there with a par.

Last thing on this Rory moment... Going back to his approach. He had an strangley long shot in (241 yards). His drive went just 294. Bear in mind, he was POUNDING driver all day. His prior 5 drives in the round went.... Hole 8: 343 yards Hole 9: 360 yards! Hole 11: 341 yards Hole 13: 335 yards Hole 14: 317 yards Ludvig, playing with Rory, was 30 yards past him on this hole (despite averaging nearly 10 yards less than Rory off the tee this year). His approach was able to hold on the back edge. Rory's drive led to him hitting 4-iron in, rather than maybe a 6 or 7 iron... less spin, less height, over the back. The rest is history. Just found the tee shot interesting...

@ungovernable_fl @Top100Rick Bro. I’m a +4.5 and I have zero chance. I have played with some tour pros and know how different the game is at that level.

@Top100Rick Absolutely not true. Golf is nothing but repetition. It’s not a sport so you don’t have to be too athletic. If you’re willing to sponsor me, I’d bet my house and all my worldly possessions on it and I’m 36

“I could make the Tour if I had the time…” If you are a 25 year old scratch player and I gave you unlimited time, the best teachers, the best equipment, best fitness coaches… The odds of you getting a tour card are ZERO. These guys are so good:

@SNFonNBC @NBCSports Please stop superimposing lines and numbers over the field during snow games! It ruins the snow game aesthetic and looks silly when it’s shown over the white portions of player uniforms.

@burlytime and @JesseLarson card three birdies over their final five holes @OakGlenGolf to claim a one-stroke victory at the 47th @MNPubGolfAssn Four-Ball Championship.

A string of three birdies late in the round help Burleson and Larson to a final-round 67 to earn a one-stroke victory at the 47th @MNPubGolfAssn Four-Ball Championship at @OakGlenGolf.

Come on, @USGA. It's 2024, you should not be having server issues when you get a few thousand concurrent people trying to access an online app.

Should you send it on the 3rd hole at Augusta to the front right pin? Yes. Proximity numbers are for where 2nd shot ended up. The image below has players that went for it on the left, and players that laid back on the right. You can compare stats from each group. Any way you look at it players that "went for it" beat players that laid up. #themasters

@williamsf1 This was wrong, James. On paper, it’s a rational, defensible decision, but it’s wrong from a human perspective. Our character is defined by the choices we make in difficult situations. Logan deserved that seat this week, points or no points. A rare miss from you.

"It's one of the hardest decisions I've made." James reflects on Friday at the #AusGP.

Teams really gonna be looking like they’re wearing cheap replica jerseys this year. I don’t say this lightly, but everyone at @Nike, @Fanatics, and @MLB who had anything to do with approving these jerseys should be replaced.

So much understandable focus on the head, but these are the hits that truly need to be removed from the game. @JKERB25 is a repeat offender. Also, get rid of turf. There is a chance Higbee’s foot doesn’t stick as much in grass.

So...if I've got this correct now: Dan Campbell told the refs he was going to run the play and who was going to be eligible. No. 68 reported as eligible, No. 70 did not (very clear on replay). The formation was legal. And the TV ref is blaming the player. what a league

@MGAPGAPRO @USGA @RandA I’d likely play because of no other options, but that would be a shitty scenario. What ball do I play at my club when there is no MLR? Do I give up performance and prioritize my competition ball, or do I play the best ball available? An MLR is just as bad as bifurcation for me.

If this is true, it’s time for new leadership and different governing bodies that deal with equipment. The @USGA and @RandA will have lost the plot completely.

@MGAPGAPRO @USGA @RandA It’s already capped. They can tighten if they want, but there is no rational argument to go backwards. Ball speeds are going to self-regulate. There is a point of diminishing returns where the misses become too great to be playable. Guys over 190 are starting to already hit this

@MGAPGAPRO @USGA @RandA That changed mainly due to other factors besides equipment. The level of athlete changed after Tiger. The relationship of distance to scoring was better understood. Course conditions at the elite level are conducive to distance. Launch monitor optimization. Etc

@MGAPGAPRO @USGA @RandA It’s not the same. The groove change didn’t impact average players because most of them don’t have the proper technique to spin the ball correctly anyway, regardless of grooves (and many were still legally using older grooves for years). The ball change will impact them

@MGAPGAPRO @jesse_polk @USGA @RandA Elite players do not bomb and gouge it. That’s a myth. They are incredibly accurate if you compare how far offline their drives are as a percentage of how far they hit it when compared to shorter hitters.

@MGAPGAPRO @USGA @RandA As someone soon approaching age 50, I would love to change the mid am and senior age categories!!! 😉😂