Golf: 2020 PGA Championship - August 6-9

[Pavel Buchnevich]

First major in over a year. First of three majors to be played this year. The venue is TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. Brooks Koepka is the defending Champion.

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[Dr John Carlson]

Have barely been able to watch golf the past month or so. Been either working or having internet outages like this past weekend.

Booked Sat/Sun off and am hyped for this. Big Brooks will take this one.

 

[CHfan1]

Tiger playing with Rory and JT in the first 2 rounds:

2020 PGA Championship - Tee times for first and second rounds

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I’m picking Cantlay this week. I liked his third and fourth rounds last week. The second looked like a huge outlier.

 

[CHfan1]

I’ll take Rory. If he can find the fairways with his driver he’ll do well. I know he hasn’t played particularly well lately. I think the Thursday morning wave will have an advantage over the Thursday afternoon wave due to the weather. Winds really pick up there this afternoon. Doesn’t seem as bad on Friday.

 

[Cody Webster]

Course is real gettable this morning....lot of birdies on the first few holes.

 

[John Price]

Course is real gettable this morning....lot of birdies on the first few holes.

eldrick

 

[Cody Webster]

eldrick

Probably won't make the cut

 

[BMOK33]

Tiger looking rough early, no pun intended. I’m surprised so far though it’s early nobody is better than -1. This is a fairly easy course with no wind which at the moment is the case

 

[Say Hey Kid]

Rahm will win.

 

[CHfan1]

Tiger looking rough early, no pun intended. I’m surprised so far though it’s early nobody is better than -1. This is a fairly easy course with no wind which at the moment is the case

Heck of a chip though by Tiger on that first hole to get to -1.

 

[BMOK33]

Rahm will win.

One would think this course would really favor Bryson if he is sharp in his putting game. The wind is the question though. Sun will break out early today. Clearing line is just to their east now which is pretty far along for San Francisco at 9am.

 

[CHfan1]

Tiger playing alright, Rory not as much.

 

[Cody Webster]

Tiger playing alright, Rory not as much.

How about now?

 

[BMOK33]

That’s alot of SCHs at the top of the leaderboard right now

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Koepka in good shape for a 3 peat. Yes it’s just the first round but he’s gotta be feeling good going into tomorrow and the weekend

 

[CHfan1]

Tiger played good for his first round. JT played terrible by his standards, he wasn’t very good off the tee. Jason Day has been playing well as of late.

Of course Brooks is right there.

Be interesting to see how the afternoon group does with the winds picking up.

Maybe it was just me but I found Curtis Strange was awful on commentary.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Bryson broke his driver!

 

[CHfan1]

Bryson broke his driver!

Sounds like he can replace it.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Bryson broke his driver!

He should have a reality show.

 

[BMOK33]

I definitely never heard of Brendon Todd til the last 2 weeks

 

[Say Hey Kid]

• Day, Todd lead PGA Championship; Koepka lurks
• Commish Monahan nailed by Fitzpatrick tee shot
• DeChambeau allowed repair after driver snaps
• Showing flashes of the past, Kaymer shoots 66
• Tiger cards 68 with new putter at PGA Champ.

 

[BMOK33]

Impressive round from Li. I don’t expect it’ll be first by days end with all those guys at 4 and 5 under still to go. Even with wind I think someone will end the day between 9 and 11 under

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Impressive round from Li. I don’t expect it’ll be first by days end with all those guys at 4 and 5 under still to go. Even with wind I think someone will end the day between 9 and 11 under

I think the opposite, but we’ll see.

One thing I like about this course is that you can’t really make birdie from the rough. It doesn’t matter how far you are hitting it. There’s nearly no way to get it closer than around 20 feet because you have absolutely no control of the ball out of this rough. You might not make bogey if you have 150 and in left, but you aren’t going to be making birdies. If you hit fairways, it’s a pretty straightforward golf course.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Pleasantly surprised with the difficult level of the course so far. Love firm greens.

Rory making a big move now. I wonder in a hypothetical tournament with fans where Rory and Brooks are dueling head to head on Sunday, who would the crowds root for? Rory seems more likable, but Brooks is American.