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How’s that Jordan Spieth.
Several times this year he’s been warned of slow play and put on the clock. Along with a number of others, he’s a serial offender.
He got put on the clock AGAIN today and this is what he said.
“We got put on the clock on 10 and that set me off,” Spieth said.
“I was a mess trying to rush and play the back nine. It’s just so hard anyways when the wind’s blowing out here. Then you can’t step off because you’re going to get a bad time. So that really stunk. We didn’t get off of it the whole rest of the round. So, I think I need to handle those kind of situations a bit better tomorrow. I didn’t do a very good job of that today. But was able to post two-under 69 and stay in it.”
The PGA Tour (and all golf administrations for that matter) are as weak as pizz. Spieth and others need penalty strokes applied.
Enough is enough of their selfish bs.
Several times this year he’s been warned of slow play and put on the clock. Along with a number of others, he’s a serial offender.
He got put on the clock AGAIN today and this is what he said.
“We got put on the clock on 10 and that set me off,” Spieth said.
“I was a mess trying to rush and play the back nine. It’s just so hard anyways when the wind’s blowing out here. Then you can’t step off because you’re going to get a bad time. So that really stunk. We didn’t get off of it the whole rest of the round. So, I think I need to handle those kind of situations a bit better tomorrow. I didn’t do a very good job of that today. But was able to post two-under 69 and stay in it.”
The PGA Tour (and all golf administrations for that matter) are as weak as pizz. Spieth and others need penalty strokes applied.
Enough is enough of their selfish bs.
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Yep. Lets face it, they are all pretty slow.
But Speith takes it to the next level.
Theres no point bringing all the new rules in to quicken up play if they’re not going to be enforced.
What *smile* me is that no tour does anything about it. It’s a plague now. You’ve got groups of 2 taking 4 hours to play. Last week at the Players they took over 5 hours in the 3rd round. Scheffler played the first 1.5 holes in 35 minutes !
Spieth, Thomas, Scheffler, Day… dozens of others. They’re shocking.
Last week at the Players, Thomas went through the back of the 9th. He had a chip back down the green to the pin. He *** around and *** around with that absolute dreeb Bones McKay for nearly 5 minutes before finally hitting his shot. Pacing out the green, walking up and down it, this angle that angle, should I land it here …or there..discussion discussion. Hang on. Is this the right club ? Ok. Hang on…is it gonna jump ? Discussion discussion discussion.
You learn very quickly in golf, regardless of what age you begin at, that the rules and etiquette are held in very high regard.
If you get a reputation for poor etiquette, or even worse being a cheat, that is something you will never shake. You are branded with that stigma for good.
Which leads me to ask - if you constantly go over the time limit for hitting your shot, is that a form of cheating ? I reckon it probably is. The fact you can, and should be penalised for it lends weight to the argument.
I know it’s not as bad as kicking a ball into a better position or marking a 4 on the scorecard instead of a 5, but it’s an interesting discussion.
Of course it is. By holding up play, especially with someone behind you that is leading you on the leaderboard, you’re effectively dudding them.
Years ago there was talk that both the Euro and PGA Tours were gonna start publishing “time taken” stats on all players and then start applying stroke penalties during tournaments when they had reached certain quotas of excess time and accompanying warnings.
But of course, as usual, they were too gutless to apply it and the problem is now worse than ever.
Same ole same ole with golf administrators: they never do what they know they need to do and when they need to do it. Look at the golf ball roll back as another example. Farcical outcome now that had a simple and direct solution that should have been applied 25 years ago to ALL golfers. Now we have a stupid, dumb, *smile* bifurcate solution.
Jack Nicklaus continues to campaign for the governing bodies to roll back the ball: 'They say they put a line in the sand but that line in the sand keeps getting wider. They keep crossing it.'
If Jack Nicklaus has said it once, he’s said it a thousand times: the golf ball goes too far.
golfweek.usatoday.com
Jack indicates he has been banging on about it for 50 odd years.
Yeah I said that last week.Jack Nicklaus continues to campaign for the governing bodies to roll back the ball: 'They say they put a line in the sand but that line in the sand keeps getting wider. They keep crossing it.'
If Jack Nicklaus has said it once, he’s said it a thousand times: the golf ball goes too far.
Jack indicates he has been banging on about it for 50 odd years.
You don’t become the greatest golfer of all time without being fundamentally smart. If they’d have followed Jack’s advice decades ago we wouldn’t have this half cocked approach by the USGA and R&A.
And Nicklaus is bang on about how slow and useless both entities are. Not only did they miss the boat decades ago, but they do a study/report in 2017 that produces all these concerns (no shitt), but then it takes them another 6 years to do anything about it ! Committees, discussions blah blah blah…
The USGA and R&A are a bunch of old, out of date, reefer jacket wearing snobs that sit around doing nothing but pontificating on this and that without actually implementing anything and chewing up the game’s finances in the process.
I’m actually a 20 plus year member of the USGA. *** if I know why. Well I do know why, it’s so I can get easy access to US Open tickets, but otherwise I have no idea why I keep my membership. Can’t stand them. Useless. Even renewing my annual membership is a frustrating experiencing with them. Archaic, out of date. Ineffective.
100% agree
Golf holes and golf courses are becoming redundant year by year.
It’s such an incredible waste - even for wealthy clubs - to have to spend money reconfiguring holes basically to counter the extra length being achieved by most players.
Shoulda been curbed years ago
Gotta be done now
The approach these dheads should be taking - belated as it is - is to roll back the golf ball for all golfers and have, as the hundreds of years of tradition has dictated, every single golfer in the world playing by the same standards. But they are too stupid, largely due to their crusty, bureaucratic, endless committees bs.
I read a 10 page article in Sports Illustrated about technology advances in golf and how it was ruining the game where course redundancy etc was concerned. It had all the stats and research findings in it. The article was scathing of the regulatory bodies and manufacturers because at the end of the day, the advances despite the marketing bs from manufacturers, were only providing marginal improvement for the basic hacker but significant improvement for the professional. Same as tennis. When aluminium frames and large heads came in, it was the elite player that benefitted most, not the duffer.
So, to that end, just roll the golf ball back to 2000 or 2005 standards or whatever for ALL golfers. The basic club member will barely notice the difference whereas for the elite/pro player, they will.
Geez I’m glad that Taylor Moore dude won. Anyone but Spieth.
Spieth did his usual trick of spraying it everywhere off the tee hitting every spectator and cart path known to man and bouncing back towards the fairway and out of trouble before he finally got his come up-pence on 16 by carving it into the water.
No lucky bounces in the water eh Spieff.
Spieth did his usual trick of spraying it everywhere off the tee hitting every spectator and cart path known to man and bouncing back towards the fairway and out of trouble before he finally got his come up-pence on 16 by carving it into the water.
No lucky bounces in the water eh Spieff.
Feels like Christmas when your Masters tickets arrive in the mail as mine did today.
Can‘t believe I’m actually doing this, but I fly out Sunday night, go to the Tues practice round, fly out on the Wednesday and arrive home in the early hours of Friday morning.
Had access to Fri and Sat tickets too but gave em up. Had all but decided not to go. But now I am, so regretting that dumbass decision.
So look out folks, I’m gunna have the drop on you all in the hunt for the Drofgusta Jacket,. I wish you all the best in beating me.
But rest assured all is not lost. I will devour multiple Pimento cheese sandwiches in honour of you all !
Can‘t believe I’m actually doing this, but I fly out Sunday night, go to the Tues practice round, fly out on the Wednesday and arrive home in the early hours of Friday morning.
Had access to Fri and Sat tickets too but gave em up. Had all but decided not to go. But now I am, so regretting that dumbass decision.
So look out folks, I’m gunna have the drop on you all in the hunt for the Drofgusta Jacket,. I wish you all the best in beating me.
But rest assured all is not lost. I will devour multiple Pimento cheese sandwiches in honour of you all !
That’s awesome Moops. Except for the Pimento cheese sandwiches. They’re disgusting.
Maybe have a number of beers instead. What are they now ? $4 $5 ?
Only major I’ve never been to. Looks awesome.
Not sure, but they would be no more than $5 I’d imagine. They don’t rip you off the ANGC.
Just checked my photos from 2014. Domestic beer was $3, imported $4.
Interesting to see how much inflation has bitten at Augusta.
Best part is the cups are great souvenirs too.
I still have 3 left from 14, still in great condition, Masters logo hasn’t faded at all.
