Golf: 2016 PGA Championship thread - Burnt Out Edition

[Dr John Carlson]

I don't really care about this week. Discuss.

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[GKJ]

This should've been after the Olympics.

 

[Riggins]

This should've been after the Olympics.

Yeah, this is stupid. Should have given it another few weeks and stretch out the part of the season that really matters. I do realize however that the scheduling was basically impossible this year, but majors within two weeks is really strange.

Olympic golf has become a non-event and after this weekend it's just a long wait until the Ryder Cup. Unless you care about the Fed Ex Cup for some reason.

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

I'll go with Tiger Woods.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

The golf season is ending early this year

 

[joe89]

What would they be burnt out from? Arguing about zika in pressers?

A guy like Rory would be better off focusing on his golf for a while, he's talking the talk but not walking the walk lately.

 

[Hire Sather]

DL3 had to withdraw due to surgery. That really shakes up the leaderboard.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

This went under the radar, but DJ was usual DJ over the weekend at the Canadian Open. He was tied for the lead for a long time with very average golfers. It's a tournament he should've won by multiple shots. He might be back to himself. Did Wayne switch mentalities with DJ for one month?

 

[Dr John Carlson]

I don't really buy into the notion that the US Open opened the floodgates for DJ (or that the British will open the floodgates for Stenson). Just because they had a hot week with the putter at the right time doesn't mean that they will stop being a below-average putter 95% of the time.

What I mean is, I don't think the thing preventing DJ from having a Jason Day-esque breakout is his mentality. He just isn't a good putter most weeks.

 

[Hire Sather]

This went under the radar, but DJ was usual DJ over the weekend at the Canadian Open. He was tied for the lead for a long time with very average golfers. It's a tournament he should've won by multiple shots. He might be back to himself. Did Wayne switch mentalities with DJ for one month?

I don't know why any major contender would bother with a tournament like last week.

 

[Cody Webster]

That Mickelson, Day, Rors pairing doe

 

[Roughneck]

I don't know why any major contender would bother with a tournament like last week.

Most of the big names were RBC sponsored golfers which explains why they would be there, but DJ isn't one of those which does make his attendance rather odd.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

What would they be burnt out from? Arguing about zika in pressers?

A guy like Rory would be better off focusing on his golf for a while, he's talking the talk but not walking the walk lately.

Rory is an overrated golfer who cannot make putts and can only win when his ballstriking is so good it carries him.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

Chris Kirk -1 thru 1.

On pace to shoot -72.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Most of the big names were RBC sponsored golfers which explains why they would be there, but DJ isn't one of those which does make his attendance rather odd.

Going for honorary Canadian status given his romantic affiliation?

 

[Hire Sather]

Rory looking poor again

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

Rory looking poor again

He won't win another major

Mayybe 1 or 2 on ballstriking, but not many

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Hot take alert!

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

He won't win another major

Mayybe 1 or 2 on ballstriking, but not many

But DeChambeau will win double digits...

 

[Tony Romo]

Yeah rory wasn't to hot. hopefully Spieth stops thinking so damn much

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

But DeChambeau will win double digits...

Maybe not, but he'll get it together.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I won't go as far as MFW, but Rory's play the last two years has been poor. Two years in a row he hasn't contended in a major, and he hasn't won in the USA in over a year.

I'm not one of those people that anoints anyone who has a good month, so I'm not ready to say DJ is part of any big 3 or 4, but Day and Spieth are better golfers than McIlroy in recent years. He can change that obviously.

 

[Tony Romo]

Pretty sure Spieths first shot went into the bunker -.-

 

[Tony Romo]

I won't go as far as MFW, but Rory's play the last two years has been poor. Two years in a row he hasn't contended in a major, and he hasn't won in the USA in over a year.

I'm not one of those people that anoints anyone who has a good month, so I'm not ready to say DJ is part of any big 3 or 4, but Day and Spieth are better golfers than McIlroy in recent years. He can change that obviously.

I think DJ/Day/Spieth are all better.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Bubba is so stupid.