Boy was I wrong

[slag]

It's great watching pros playing like regular humans when they make the conditions as hard for them as it is for us when we play tough courses that they can kill.

I can't believe Mickelson was so tight.

If he executes shots he generally makes in his sleep he wins that going away.

Burns the edge with 3-4 putts, then two doubles send him in the wrong direction ... then that luck-out eagle from the rough should get him right ... but instead he flubs an easy chip (for him) and airmails a green we could hit.

He's not going to sleep for a week.

[Riccardo]

awesome day, except for some rain

yeah Phil was up and down all day but that course was kicking everyone's ass. we parked behind the 7th green watching the last 12 groups and only saw maybe 4-5 birds. Right there along the fairway when Phil holed that eagle. Funny watching the crowd heckle Roger Maltbie - the FF had his own personal golf cart to drive him around

[Riccardo]

It is beautiful

would love to play it, too. prolly shoot well over 100

[Damned Thing]

The bogey on 13 will haunt him. The doubles he made can be chalked up to the playing conditions, but getting a bogey on 13 was unexcusable, particularly because of the easy pin placement.

[Damned Thing]

Played it from the whites the Monday after the '71 open while it was still in Open condition--first time I broke 100 (96). You have to know the course intimately to know how to play it well.

[Damned Thing]

In the '81 Open, the 3rd green was 14 feet on the Stimpmeter. There were a number of four and five putts. 10.5 feet is the recommendation for the Open but the greenskeeper was a sadist. David Graham, who won that year, is the only pro I've seen that knew how to play the course with enough control (and humility) to make it pay off. The course was even tougher this year (due to the added distance and bunkers), but the strategy is the same. The keys are simple--put your drive in the fairway, and know how to putt on a glass surface.

[slag]

He had it ... it was right there in front of him if he just executes shots down the stretch he was making in the first three days.

I can't read minds, but I commented "he looks too tight" a number of times.

The early shit was evened by the lucky eagle and I was thinking he had it after that, but he just couldn't close ... again.

[Riccardo]

In the '81 Open, the 3rd green was 14 feet on the Stimpmeter. There were a number of four and five putts. 10.5 feet is the recommendation for the Open but the greenskeeper was a sadist. David Graham, who won that year, is the only pro I've seen that knew how to play the course with enough control (and humility) to make it pay off. The course was even tougher this year (due to the added distance and bunkers), but the strategy is the same. The keys are simple--put your drive in the fairway, and know how to putt on a glass surface.

hardly anyone could read the 7th green - amazing how many misread it - very few birds that we saw. Also interesting at the disparity of driving options on the 359 yd 8th. Most used a 4-5 iron, but we saw everything from an 8 iron (Ernie Ells) to a driver (Cholly Hoffman).

[Loki]

Best call to the Mikey Miss show last week...

Tiger Woods inspired a caller to take up miniature golf. Bwahahaha. Really?