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Growing up playing competitive golf I spent many nights imagining hitting shots at Augusta National, on Monday I got to live out those dreams thefriedegg.com/augusta-nati…
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Turns out that the guy who set Bethpage Black's Course Record at age 20 is a good person to play at Bethpage Black.
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.@z_blair from 122 with the putter on 1 at Oakmont….pretty good.
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What an insightful graphic. No matter how far you drive it, you have a 50% chance of winning.
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It’s about time for Scottie to feel how golf is when you have kids.
Stressful morning and a mad rush to the first tee.
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I don’t care how soft the greens are it’s absolutely insane to spin a ball back out of that rough.
PGA TOUR
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Victor Hovland calling it a night. Best described by @eamonlynch “both the loneliness and opulence of professional golf.”
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Rory's Oppenheimer moment was suggesting Scottie use the mallet when he was on the Riv telecast a few years ago.
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Just talked to a LACC superintendent and asked if it was going to get crispy today
His response “I probed the greens and they are the driest I’ve ever measured”
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Today was a good day.
Josie Roam Johnson clocked in at 6lbs 13oz. @mrsfriedegg and Josie are both healthy and doing well! #GirlDad
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My favorite part of the Rory presser is when a Canadian journalist told Rory he was "giving him a break" and asked him about the golf course.
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A PSA to aspiring golfers and parents of aspiring golfers: the players who are 1-2 in this Masters have both had their work ethics questioned. They both have lives and interests outside of golf. You don't have to be a golf robot to be great at golf, balance can be a good thing.
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The best golf tournaments all have one thing in common, they aren’t about money.
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I’m astonished at how bad this number is.
Billions of dollars spent to get 12,000 people to watch. Insanity.
🆘LIV Season Opener TV Viewership (Per Nielsen)
#LIVGolfRiyadh 1st Round *averaged only 12,000 viewers* from 10a-3p on FS2.
Paltry viewership aside - it’s so sad to me guys like Rahm, Cam, Joaco, etc… are playing the prime of their career in golf obscurity😔
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One day I’m going to build a golf course with 18 greens each modeled after a random potato chip.
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Winner of worst golf content of the day.
Walking is overrated. This National Golf Cart Day, we’re teaming up with @EZGOvehicles to show why riding is the real move. From saving energy to speeding up your round, here’s why carts are the GOAT of the golf course.
Use code GOLFDIGEST between 6/13-6/15 to get $500* off select models during the 3-day NGCD sale. *The $500 cannot be stacked or combined with current offers by other influencers or partners contracted by E-Z-GO. Dollar amounts listed in the chart on ezgo.com/promotions are the final dollar off amount.
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The $50 million LIV Team Championship currently has 33,000 people watching, $1,500 per viewer.
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Powerful message about the golf ball rollback from @USGA President Fred Perpall today.
The further the ball goes, the more time it takes and the more it costs to build and maintain golf courses.
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Is it too early to discuss the competitive balance in TGL?
How can a small market team like Jupiter possibly compete with a big market like LA?
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It's almost as if Spaun is good at hitting a golf ball.
That's a good skill for alt shot.
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I can't wait for the 3M next week, tired of watching guys hit long irons and having to shape shots.
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Pro golf is eating itself.
The continuing divide of a niche sport is only going to harm the long term outlook and value of it.
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I can't think of a way you could make golf look more environmentally insensitive.
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Does the US have a chance tomorrow at the Ryder Cup?
Well, according to Capgemini, the US does. It has the US favored in EVERY singles match tomorrow 46% to 41%
AI ftw.
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It’s the athletes 😂😂😂
What a joke the equipment company water carriers in the media have been over the years.
266 carry.
Golf would be a far superior sport at this scale.
Watched @JustinRose99 take cuts with a persimmon driver from Ben Hogan’s personal collection today at Colonial.
Numbers were impressive: 168 mph ball speed | 266 yards (carry) | 291 yds (total)
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Do you think the Nassau Players Club is mad they gave up these prime September Friday morning tee times to these guys?
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Take some notes millionaire professional golfers
Lewis Hamilton has admitted he does not 'feel comfortable' racing in Saudi Arabia and voiced his hope for F1 to 'apply pressure' to drive change.
Read more here: trib.al/lO8qqmA
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Cool photos @GOLF_com took...oops actually they are mine. Photo theft seems to be a weekly thing these days with the fine folks @8amGolf
At least credit people who take photos or better yet pay for them, it’s not that hard.
Do better @AshleyKMayo @alan_bastable @Josh_Berhow
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Cameron Young was quick to dismiss the notion that he grew up on the rough and tumble streets of the Bronx.
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Club buys property for a couple million, builds a new tee for approximately $40k to extend 16th over 500 and keep it "relevant" as a long par 4. Hosts first US Open since, Bryson hits driver-wedge...
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I think if we kept playing this for the next 70 years, Mason Howell would win as he's the youngest player in the field.
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A word of advice try and learn how to use TikTok before you announce big news with it. Due 8.23
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Watching LIV and I have to say the team names legitimately make it difficult to take the league seriously.
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The Tour’s understanding of what “championship golf” is laughable.
A master class in how you ruin one of the world’s greatest tournament holes by adding a rough bumper.
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What's innovative about LIV's TV product now that they have commercials?
They repackage the same bad pre-produced crap every telecast.
There is no new or better technology.
The broadcast team is bad.
It's a worse entertainment product than the PGA Tour.
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Match play is the best format of golf. There is so much more raw emotion shown by players and it's easier for the casual fan to understand and follow. More match play please.
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As an American, I don’t think I fully comprehend how big of a win this is for the global game of golf.
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Maybe there's a hangover from the PGA and Phil's win.
Maybe it's that the course hosts a regular PGA Tour start.
Maybe it's because of the heavy commercial load.
But this tournament feels very much like a standard week on Tour right now.
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It’s 9:30 in the morning and I haven’t seen the Derek Jeter Wagoneer ad today. I don’t know if I can go on like this.
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I’d like to welcome all the new residents to Fire Jay Monahan Island. It’s become quite a populous place overnight.
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On the 540 yard par 4 16th, Rory hit sand wedge and Scottie hit pitching wedge.
I think when we discuss low scores in the professional game, that should probably be where we start.
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5 hours into the round and the final group is just getting to 16 green.
The Tour is getting slower when every sport is trying to figure out how to speed up.
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Designated events are going to be so good for the PGA Tour.
However you feel about LIV, I am quite happy that it forced the PGA Tour to have to improve their product.
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I will die on this hill but I think it's absolutely insane that the Korn Ferry Tour has an event opposite the only "open" major championship. Making players choose between earning points on the KFT and arguably the biggest championship in the world is not good.
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You have to feel for Laurie Canter and his family. Signs a 3 event deal to be a Majestick and is dumped 2 events in for Henrik Stenson. Poor guy probably thought he was going to retire a Majestick.
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I'm amazed the rhetoric continues to be "what could Jay Monahan done to stop LIV"
Monahan did nothing to try to stop LIV, in fact he pronounced it dead in March.
He underestimated a Tour with a 600 billion wealth fund behind it. It's an unfathomable miscalculation.
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Everything the US was banking on this morning backfired.
JT is an alt shot liability.
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Authentic gameplay
Would like to report back boarding is alive and well in PGA Tour 2K21. Very on brand!! @BrendanPorath @the_woke_yolk
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The story of 2023 in golf is and should be pace of play.
In an era where every sport is attempting to speed up competitions, golf is getting slower.
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I think that the PGA Tour needs to do the right thing and give Michael Block a card.
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These type of stories are what make the US team hard to root for.
For one week every 104 can it just be about the love of sport and competition?
Everything always devolves into money with the modern American “star” professional and it stinks.
Exclusive: Xander Schauffele’s place on the US Ryder Cup team was in doubt up until a few weeks before the match in Rome due to a contractual stand-off with the PGA of America, says his father Stefan.
thetimes.co.uk/article/5d7d5…
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Feherty saying that Sergio told him the LIV team atmosphere "is as close to a Ryder Cup as you can get"
Keep in mind the teams change every event 😂😂😂
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One of hope of mine is by the end of the week everyone loves above ground features as much as I do.
These hummocks are so much more interesting to watch than a bunker shot. They terrorize pros.
They are also cheaper to maintain and easier for average players than a bunker.
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PGA Tour Live talking about how Kapalua is a nice "warm up" event for these players.
The purse is $20M with only 59 players in it.
$339k per player to "warm up".
This feels a bit out of balance.
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I've watched this shot at least 20 times, incredible shot demanded of one of the world's best. Soft cut 2-iron into the wind.
We need more golf that asks these types of questions.
The scene. The moment. The noise. The ball flight. The club twirl. The talent.
#GenesisScottishOpen | #RolexSeries
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I’m not sure an athlete has ever had more body parts injured
As I began to ramp up my own training and practice at home, I felt a sharp pain in my left Achilles, which was deemed to be ruptured.
This morning, Dr. Charlton Stucken of Hospital for Special Surgery in West Palm Beach, Florida performed a minimally-invasive Achilles tendon repair for a ruptured tendon. "The surgery went smoothly, and we expect a full recovery," added Dr. Stucken.
I am back home now and plan to focus on my recovery and rehab, thank you for all the support.
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RIP to Pebble's 14th being one of the last real par 5s on the PGA Tour.
Tom Kim hit iron into it today.
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Might be the least amount of televised golf shots shown of a U.S. Open winner in decades if Bob wins.
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A lasting memory of the 2023 Ryder Cup will be Derek Jeter doing everything he can to make it home to see his family.
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I find it utterly amazing your continued attempt discrediting of anyone who cares about golf architecture. Your lack of understanding of the subject leads to a massive blind spot in your analysis of the sport.
I don’t understand the golf swing anywhere near your level and eagerly devour your material on it to attempt to gain added knowledge and improve my own ability to understand the intricacies of it.
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Well at least ZJ can call Brian Ferentz to get advice on how to put points on the board.
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The same company that said we can't bifurcate the game because amateurs want to play the same equipment as the pros has a CPO "Customized Performance Option" program that is unavailable to amateurs.
I think this qualifies as a bad faith argument.
This week on ITR: The legendary Fordie Pitts gives us the scoop on the new @titleist ProV1x Double Dot prototype ball
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If you turn Spieth's triple on 9 and double on 7 into pars he's -12.
So often it comes down to one or two decisions over 4 days.
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Not really sure what this is.
Where you wish you were 📍
#LIVGolf nitter.app/LIVGolfInv/status/1535…
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