Golf: 120th US Open - September 17-20

[Cody Webster]

BDR and Phil off to a good start

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

They definitely made things easier today. For instance, +5 won in 2006. +5 is right now T121 on the leaderboard.

Too many middle pins and the greens are not rolling that fast right now. The weather doesn't help either, but Winged Foot is too hard of a golf course that scores should be based on weather. They can make things a lot harder than today. If they don't do so and the USGA ruins Winged Foot, I'm officially anti-Bodenhamer. I didn't like his first year at Pebble, but if he turns Winged Foot into a PGA type of venue, the US Open's identity is gone.

 

[Cody Webster]

They definitely made things easier today. For instance, +5 won in 2006. +5 is right now T121 on the leaderboard.

Too many middle pins and the greens are not rolling that fast right now. The weather doesn't help either, but Winged Foot is too hard of a golf course that scores should be based on weather. They can make things a lot harder than today. If they don't do so and the USGA ruins Winged Foot, I'm officially anti-Bodenhamer. I didn't like his first year at Pebble, but if he turns Winged Foot into a PGA type of venue, the US Open's identity is gone.

It'll get harder on the weekend when the field is cut in half and they can have the golfers on the course for a longer period of time.

Hard to get 140 golfers through the course in 10 hours.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

It'll get harder on the weekend when the field is cut in half and they can have the golfers on the course for a longer period of time.

Hard to get 140 golfers through the course in 10 hours.

I really don't buy this reasoning. I think John Bodenhamer is just bad at his job and the USGA now capitulates to the players. If McIlroy and Thomas do a little whining, that'll get the USGA to change their formula for the tournament.

First of all, the tournament didn't need 140+ players. They chose that number, and there weren't anywhere near that number exempt into the tournament initially. They could've reduced the field to make the course a little harder, if that was the real reasoning. And I don't see why they wouldn't trade a better test for the players than having 20 extra guys in the field, 15 of which will miss the cut.

Second of all, how much time is added to the round if the course plays 3-4 strokes harder? Today's rounds were already about 5:10-5:15. Thats more than a regular PGA Tour event by about 15 minutes. I think that calculation for it being a major with more strokes being taken and more time being taken over shots is already calculated into the extra 15 minutes.

I'm keeping an open mind about what we'll see the next three days, but I'm also not buying any excuses made for the USGA and giving them a pass for their setup that its out of their control.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

It's one round, let's relax.

They will toughen it up overnight.

 

[Cody Webster]

Draftkings let me place a live bet after both Bryson and DJ hit their tee shot on 7 as to who would win the hole. DJ was in the left rough and Bryson was 6 feet for birdie, easy money.

 

[Cody Webster]

What an awesome putt by Zach Johnson!

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

Draftkings let me place a live bet after both Bryson and DJ hit their tee shot on 7 as to who would win the hole. DJ was in the left rough and Bryson was 6 feet for birdie, easy money.

lmao rofl

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Liking the look of these leaders!

 

[DueDiligence]

Phil needs to stick to the Senior tour!

 

[Cody Webster]

lmao rofl

Dumb me only bet $5...

 

[Cody Webster]

I'm fully chubbed.

 

[Our Lady Peace]

Just forecasting here but Matthew Wolff is gonna be a star IMO. And I love that swing man.

 

[Cody Webster]

Safe to say that today is a lot harder than yesterday

 

[Cody Webster]

Why do I have a feeling that Tiger is gonna come out and shoot like an 80 today?

 

[BMOK33]

If you’re JT Patrick or Rory you have to know if you can somehow find a way to shoot 66 67 or 68 here you might be able to put this thing away today more or less

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Welcome to Winged Foot!

 

[BMOK33]

Bryson with an impressive finish. I don’t love him on this course though the next two days with less wind and the greens and pin locations being made more difficult once the field gets cut

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Finally have all my work done and am ready to be glued to this leaderboard for 3 days. Pat's scoring seems to be a lot of smoke and mirrors with some miserable driving, but then again that's par for the course from him. Feeling good.

 

[Cody Webster]

Welcome to Winged Foot!

You happy now?

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

Tiger lost a bunch of shots and is going home.

Honestly unless he was seriously contending, if he was just hanging around the cut, he should just miss it and not play more meaningless rounds on a tough US Open course that is bad for his back. His days are limited and he shouldn't waste them on courses with insane rough with his back as it is.

 

[BMOK33]

Cuomo issued a statement saying he’s kicking those fans out tomorrow lol. I’m not sure how they got in there

 

[Dr John Carlson]

The announcers just keep laying into how the lies Reed is getting are either amazingly lucky or horrendously bad. Feels like they're trying to imply something here but I'll let it slide.

 

[BMOK33]

The announcers just keep laying into how the lies Reed is getting are either amazingly lucky or horrendously bad. Feels like they're trying to imply something here but I'll let it slide.

I think he can finish at -6 today if he plays these last 5 holes well. I still don’t expect he will end up winning the tourney though

 

[PanthersPens62]

Cuomo issued a statement saying he’s kicking those fans out tomorrow lol. I’m not sure how they got in there

I thought I heard them say its people who live in the houses adjacent to parts of the course. Of course it would not help if said residents invited tons of their closest friends over.