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Today starts the 2nd round of the FedEx playoffs now down,to the top 70 players.
There are 2 scores to watch, the scores for this tournament, and they can make it to the top 30 for next week's final.
 
Followed him for 9 holes here at the Rocket Classic and he simply could not miss.
Well he dug himself out of his +6 hole and is now -1. The leaderboard today is like musical chairs. Getting ready to play my own round, but tomorrow should be very interesting.
 
Collin Morikawa had a double bogie 6 and he followed that up with a 10 on the next hole a par 5. I can do that. Come to think of it, I have done that.
But it's very unusual to see a good professional do that.
 
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Played 36 yesterday. I had a good feeling when I woke up that morning. It went away rather quickly. I absolutely bombed on the front nine. Ended up with a 60. I rebounded pretty nicely on the back nine. I had a 3 hole stretch where I actually tied with my buddy who shot somewhere in the low 70s. Shot a 49 on the back to finish with a 109. It was a couple strokes higher than my best score but I had never broken 50 on nine in my life so that was a good feeling.

Somewhere on the back nine my buddy called and set up a tee time on another course for that afternoon. After getting the blessing from my wife I agreed to go along. I shot a 57 on the front there. I think we were on hole 14. A par four. I hit my third shot about 20 feet short of the green but on a really well manicured fringe (get your mind out of the gutter. I don't know how else to describe it). I decided that no good was going to come from me trying to chip it on so I grabbed my putter with the idea of just getting it close enough for a bogey putt. I hit that thing and I'll be damned if I didn't drain it for a par. My buddy absolutely lost his mind. He was telling everybody that it was a 100 foot putt but in reality it was probably a good 40 feet. Maybe a touch over if I want to embellish things. Anyway it was a hell of a feeling and my buddy wouldn't let me stop hearing about it the rest of the day. I ended up finishing with a 107 on that course which I felt really good about considering I shot a 132 the last time I played there at the beginning of this summer golf journey.
 
so here's the 30 players for next weekend finals. Scottie will start the tourny with a -10.
Scottie Scheffler-101
Patrick Cantlay-82
Will Zalatoris-73
Xander Schauffele-64
Sam Burns-55
Cameron Smith-46
Rory McIlroy-47
Tony Finau-48
Sepp Straka-49
Jon Rahm-410
Justin Thomas-311
Scott Stallings-312
Cameron Young-313
Matt Fitzpatrick-314
Sungjae Im-315
Max Homa-216
Hideki Matsuyama-217
Jordan Spieth-218
Joaquin Niemann-219
Viktor Hovland-220
Collin Morikawa-121
Tom Hoge-122
Corey Conners-123
Billy Horschel-124
Brian Harman-125
K.H. LeeE26
J.T. PostonE27
Sahith TheegalaE28
Adam ScottE29
Aaron WiseE30



 
I bought one of those PXG gen 5 drivers they have been advertising relentlessly and just used it at range for the first time yesterday. I really like it! I'm not good enough to get into the minutiae of a golf club, I just know this thing hit the ball suprisingly father then my prev driver - a used Cobra Radspeed Xb - that I had picked up out of the used club bin a year ago

On the Gen 5 I got the "more forgiving" model, and also I did some sizing based on my arm measurement to the floor (crease of wrist to floor) and according to all the info I found, despite being 6' tall my 34" measurement to the floor indicated a 1/4" shorter club. never quite felt comfortable with the used driver, so for the $299 sales price i figure "what the hell" and and got the PXG in 1/4" shorter lenght. I have to say, I think the sizing is better and except for one wiff (totally swung over the ball, missing it completely, then acting like I meant that as a practice swing) i was crushing it (for me). was worried shorter would mean topping it constantly but nope, worked great.

I had made a comment earlier in this thread on how it looked like Tony Finau was using kids clubs.... guess his long arms offset his height, and he sure seems to do well.
 
I bought one of those PXG gen 5 drivers they have been advertising relentlessly and just used it at range for the first time yesterday. I really like it! I'm not good enough to get into the minutiae of a golf club, I just know this thing hit the ball suprisingly father then my prev driver - a used Cobra Radspeed Xb - that I had picked up out of the used club bin a year ago

On the Gen 5 I got the "more forgiving" model, and also I did some sizing based on my arm measurement to the floor (crease of wrist to floor) and according to all the info I found, despite being 6' tall my 34" measurement to the floor indicated a 1/4" shorter club. never quite felt comfortable with the used driver, so for the $299 sales price i figure "what the hell" and and got the PXG in 1/4" shorter lenght. I have to say, I think the sizing is better and except for one wiff (totally swung over the ball, missing it completely, then acting like I meant that as a practice swing) i was crushing it (for me). was worried shorter would mean topping it constantly but nope, worked great.

I had made a comment earlier in this thread on how it looked like Tony Finau was using kids clubs.... guess his long arms offset his height, and he sure seems to do well.

Congrats on the new driver. The wife and I were talking about a birthday gift for our younger son and a new driver came up. I will check this one out.
 
so here's the 30 players for next weekend finals. Scottie will start the tourny with a -10.
Scottie Scheffler-101
Patrick Cantlay-82
Will Zalatoris-73
Xander Schauffele-64
Sam Burns-55
Cameron Smith-46
Rory McIlroy-47
Tony Finau-48
Sepp Straka-49
Jon Rahm-410
Justin Thomas-311
Scott Stallings-312
Cameron Young-313
Matt Fitzpatrick-314
Sungjae Im-315
Max Homa-216
Hideki Matsuyama-217
Jordan Spieth-218
Joaquin Niemann-219
Viktor Hovland-220
Collin Morikawa-121
Tom Hoge-122
Corey Conners-123
Billy Horschel-124
Brian Harman-125
K.H. LeeE26
J.T. PostonE27
Sahith TheegalaE28
Adam ScottE29
Aaron WiseE30




We will be in Chicago for a wedding next weekend so I will not see much of this tournament. That said, I am not a big fan of this format. I can see season points leader getting an advantage to open the FedEx Cup series so that he has a better chance of surfing to the final but that is all. How does Aaron wise think he can make up 10/9/8 shots on the field of 30 guys? He can't.
 
Congrats on the new driver. The wife and I were talking about a birthday gift for our younger son and a new driver came up. I will check this one out.
The sale supposedly ends at end of August and they go back to $499 on Sept 1st. my oldest son needs a new driver and I was trying to nonchalantly get him to measure his wrist-to-floor without giving away that I was thinking of ordering him one. he hasn't done it yet so if not soon I'm just gonna have to blurt it out and say if he wants a new driver for xmas, measure up! (he's away at college)
PXG site says you can go to local places that they work with to get fitted (assume they mean fiddle with the weights in the driver head), so I'll check that there's something near him.

I golf lefty but both my sons golf righty, which kinda sucks in being able to try each others stuff.
 
We will be in Chicago for a wedding next weekend so I will not see much of this tournament. That said, I am not a big fan of this format. I can see season points leader getting an advantage to open the FedEx Cup series so that he has a better chance of surfing to the final but that is all. How does Aaron wise think he can make up 10/9/8 shots on the field of 30 guys? He can't.
No Wise probably can't win, but it's more about the payout for the guys out of the top 10. So, players who can't finish first overall, will be playing to move up for a bigger payout.
ositionPrize Money
Winner$18,000,000
2$6,500,000
3$5,000,000
4$4,000,000
5$3,000,000
6$2,500,000
7$2,000,000
8$1,500,000
9$1,250,000
10$1,000,000
11$950,000
12$900,000
13$850,000
14$800,000
15$760,000
16$720,000
17$700,000
18$680,000
19$660,000
20$640,000
21$620,000
22$600,000
23$580,000
24$565,000
25$550,000
26$540,000
27$530,000
28$520,000
29$510,000
30$500,000
 
The sale supposedly ends at end of August and they go back to $499 on Sept 1st. my oldest son needs a new driver and I was trying to nonchalantly get him to measure his wrist-to-floor without giving away that I was thinking of ordering him one. he hasn't done it yet so if not soon I'm just gonna have to blurt it out and say if he wants a new driver for xmas, measure up! (he's away at college)
PXG site says you can go to local places that they work with to get fitted (assume they mean fiddle with the weights in the driver head), so I'll check that there's something near him.

I golf lefty but both my sons golf righty, which kinda sucks in being able to try each others stuff.

You stand on the wrong side of the ball.

Just sayin'.
 
You stand on the wrong side of the ball.

Just sayin'.
considering how erratic my game is, I should probably try just swinging a few righty when I can't seem to hit anything straight my usual way! :coffee:
 
considering how erratic my game is, I should probably try just swinging a few righty when I can't seem to hit anything straight my usual way! :coffee:

A lot of the best golfers play off hand. Jack and Tiger to name a few.
 
The other day I had a tee time. Arrived at the golf course on time and my phone rang, it was the guy I was supposed to play with telling me that he couldn't make it. So, they sent me out with 2 guys that I didn't know.
Both were real nice guys and when we introduced ourselves, I found out that one was 89 years old.
He sure didn't look it and although he didn't hit the ball for much distance he hit it straight every single time. I had only signed up for 9 holes because of my ankle injury.
I assumed that the 89 year old would only be playing 9. Nope, he and the other guy in his early 70s were playing the full 18. I was amazed the a man 89 years old could play18. God bless him.
 
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The other day I had a tee time. Arrived at the golf course on time and my phone rang, it was the guy I was supposed to play with telling me that he couldn't make it. So, they sent me out with 2 guys that I didn't know.
Both were real nice guys and when we introduced ourselves, I found out that one was 89 years old.
He sure didn't look it and although he didn't hit the ball for much distance he hit it straight every single time. I had only signed up for 9 holes because of my ankle injury.
I assumed that the 89 year old would only be playing 9. Nope, he and the other guy in his early 70s were playing the full 18. I was amazed the a man 89 years old could play18. God bless him.
So, did you bail out or hang in there? :rofl: :

Cheers
 
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