THE Official 2024 PGA Tour Season Thread
I don't have a fancy OP or anything. But now that we are in 2024, and are back to calendar schedules instead of the reac
Delivered for me. Crazy ending where I thought I was dead so many times.
Pretty wild that Gotterup got it in the end. About 90 minutes from the finish he was nowhere near in it.
Hideki danced around catastrophe all day with that driver and it finally bit him.
Gotterup #5 OWGR, Reed up to #19 too. Love it.
Pretty wild that Gotterup got it in the end. About 90 minutes from the finish he was nowhere near in it.
Hideki danced around catastrophe all day with that driver and it finally bit him.
Gotterup #5 OWGR, Reed up to #19 too. Love it.
Thought it was 100% over when Hideki took 3 wood or whatever club down on the 17th and the ball was headed towards the water but stopped because he clubbed down where driver would've been straight into the water.
Hojgaard should've actually won. Just a horrendous decision to hit off that rock on the 2nd hole. Take the unplayable like Hideki did and swallow the bogey.
Great leaderboard. Scottie somehow getting a 63 in with three bogeys is nuts. He might snake into a playoff.
Ridiculous sequence of events there in the penultimate pairing.
I don't understand why Bridgeman doesn't get a double bogey on 18.
Is the beach (sand) and the ocean all considered one equivalent hazard? When he decides to hit his third from the beach, and hits it off the rocks into the water, does he not incur a penalty for being in the water? And then he took the option to drop back in the fairway and hit 5. Almost like he was free-rolling to get out of the beach.
1 - tee shot
2 - to the beach
3 - into the water
4 - penalty
5 - to the green
6 - in the hole
Where would the 7th stroke come from for a double bogey?
The hazard line is on top of the wall so yes, everything on the other side is simply hazard. He hit his 2nd shot in the hazard and then played his 3rd from the hazard. Upon taking relief from the hazard he adds a penalty stroke and then drops within 2 clublengths of where the ball last crossed the hazard line. He is hitting 5 after the drop.
Clutch up and down from there.
I may be wrong but I believe he took his drop on line of POE and the hole.
He certainly did not take his drop 2 club lengths from the wall.
1 - tee shot
2 - to the beach
3 - into the water
4 - penalty
5 - to the green
6 - in the hole
Where would the 7th stroke come from for a double bogey?
The hazard line is on top of the wall so yes, everything on the other side is simply hazard. He hit his 2nd shot in the hazard and then played his 3rd from the hazard. Upon taking relief from the hazard he adds a penalty stroke and then drops within 2 clublengths of where the ball last crossed the hazard line. He is hitting 5 after the drop.
Clutch up and down from there.
Yeah, okay, that's how I reasoned it.
I would have thought that, given he elected to play the ball from the hazard with his 3rd shot, which he hit into the rocks (so didn't even get clear of the hazard) and bounce into the water, that the ball would be replaced to the spot on the sand (still in hazard) after incurring a penalty. From there he then took relief from a hazard back to where it last crossed (penalty) then he'd be laying 5, hitting 6.
It just seems a bit unintuitive that he can take that relief from the sand after hitting choosing to hit 3 from the sand and not escaping the hazard. It's like a retroactive decision with no penalty other than the bad shot 3rd from sand. I'm being pedantic for sure it just seems weird.
For reference here is Scheffler before his 2nd on 18 today. Note how the seawall (which is in penalty area; red line is painted just right in the bunker) cuts into the path of a straight shot to the green.
Below is Bridgeman before his 2nd:
Based on the replay it appeared to me his ball crossed the red line just left of the point where the seawall cut into the path of Scheffler's line to the hole.
So Bridgeman was able to bring the ball back to about 160sh on the line between the hole and point of entry crossing the red line. It was not a drop 2 club lengths from POE, which would have been much closer to the green and in the bunker.
Here is PGATour.com hole summary which shows Bridgeman playing his 5th in fairway, dropping back but keeping on line of POE and hole.:
It's happening!!
It would be great to see him play the par 3. Not interested in watching him crawl through the front 9 on Thursday on his hands and knees and then withdraw.
Wet Riv played very interesting considering it rarely happens and I enjoyed the struggle.
Scheffler struggling is very enjoyable, but we already know he's firing 3 or 4 under on the restart tomorrow.
Matsuyama played pretty terribly today based on the shots and positions, but I've seen enough this year already and have been super impressed. I feel like he's the player to beat behind Rory.
I'm thinking more like 64-65 and lose by 1.
made the cut on the number and is now trying to log is 19th straight top 10.
Bridgement up 6 with 13 to go seems to have this locked.
disappointed in Penge since he woke up yesterday tied for the lead. wouldn't think the moment would be too big for him but appears it may have been
Shades of L.A. Law for those old enough to remember.
Shades of L.A. Law for those old enough to remember.
Arnie Becker to the rescue
I saw interview with Brooks about meeting up with old players and he said 1/2 the guys he has never met before. He mentioned that he heard every 4 years 50% of the tour are new names.
I never realized Adam Hadwin back on the Korn Ferry
Always been a big fan of Justin Rose. But lol at 45 year old Justin Rose being ranked 3rd in the world.
Same could be said about Fleetwood.
also didn't watch, but sounds like he did he best submergio impersonation on 16 & 17. didn't think he had something like that in him.
I find it a bit odd McIlroy gets a free pass hitting a 180+ mph drive directly over spectators, cutting the slight dogleg on #10 at Bay Hill. Add to that nobody seems to be bothered by it; the spectators seemed oblivious to it at the time, unaware they would likely be seriously injured or killed if an errant drive hit them 20 yards from the tee.
McIlroy did it at Bay Hill #10 last year as well.
Occasionally players will hit fairway recovery shots and spectators are a bit too close to the line of fire, so to speak. But from what I've seen almost always players will direct spectators away from potentially getting struck.
