The 109th United States Open Championship

#52
#52
i spent two days last year at the Knoxville Open following Jeff Behaut and now he's (not really but kinda) leading after the first day. i can't figure out how he qualified.
 
#53
#53
No momentum at all for Tiger heading into the 2nd round.
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#55
orange+white=heaven said:
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. –....Atop most stories of woe on Tuesday was the par-4 seventh hole. At 489 yards it played into a slight breeze during practice rounds and the results were the stuff of legend. Up-and-coming Australian stud, Michael Sim, hardly among the field’s shorter hitters, hit driver-driver and was short of the green. David Toms hit driver-3-wood and still had 30 yards to the putting surface, and J.B. Holmes, the poster child of the bomb-and-gouge set, made it to 15 feet hitting driver-5-wood.

“I hit a good drive, right in the middle of the fairway, and had 241 (yards) in . . . 241,” Stewart Cink sighed, repeating the distance as if to convince himself it really happened.

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Briny Baird is discovering the way to a New Yorker’s heart is through his stomach.

At several turns Tuesday in his practice round, Baird heard the refrain: “Thanks for the wrap, Briny!”

Baird’s excellent shot making won free chicken lettuce wraps at P.F. Chang’s for adults across the nation with the purchase of an entrée at the restaurant.

“People yelling out thanks is pretty common out there, it’s funny,” Baird said.

If you missed it, Baird won the wraps for customers of P.F. Chang's by climbing to the roof of the Omni San Diego Hotel last month and hitting a bull’s-eye painted 375 feet below in right field of Petco Park. All he had to do was hit it once with 10 golf shots as part of the promotion, but he hit it eight times. He also won $25,000 for the San Diego Navy/Marine Corp Relief Society. Baird counts P.F. Chang’s among his sponsors and wears the company logo on his hat.

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While greater New York was taking Phil Mickelson onto its burly shoulders early Wednesday, a member of Lefty's foursome was quietly making a statement.

Say what you will about a wet Bethpage taking the trophy out of the hands of the likes of mid-weight Jim Furyk, but the major winner looked Grand Slam good on hump day.

Furyk rolled in birdie putts from Montauk to Manhattan on his opening nine, the Black's back nine, and wasn't missing many greens or fairways.


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Ernie Els was walking off the driving range Tuesday afternoon when a woman asked the Big Easy for an autograph. He politely declined and continued walking.
Then she belted out in a thick New York accent, "Hey, but you promised me earlier that you'd sign."
Els chuckled and obliged for the lone request.
Then the man standing next to the woman retorted with, "Hey Ernie, don't worry about it. She promises me stuff all the time and doesn't deliver."




-tidbits from golfchannel.com
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thanks
nice reading
 
#56
#56
Lefty with an early birdie. If he can get it going, he'll make the Tiger roars seem like mere purrs.
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#58
#58
crazyguy said:
I still think the 3 Wood argument is bogus. You hit what you can hit well to score the lowest.
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it's not bogus. This is a course that requires the driver, so trying to take Memorial stats and translate them to this track is just dead wrong.
 
#63
#63
I've come to like him quite a lot now. Hate it for him that he dropped off the map for so long. Maybe he can hang around a while at the open.
 
#70
#70
What's curious to me is this: yes, the greens are soft, but the waterlogged course would seem to play even longer, which makes Mike Weir's 64 all the more amazing to me, given the fact that he's a medium-length driver at best. I guess these guys can hit 3-irons, 4-irons and hybrids into damp, receptive greens from 200+ yards and stop them.

My guess is that the field comes back to Tiger tomorrow, but he still needs to shoot 68 or better to have a realistic shot.
 
#71
#71
10 strokes is a long way to come back. If anyone can do it, Tiger can. It'll be interesting to see how he does today. I think they expect rain later today.
 
#72
#72
The field comes back to Tiger but he has to shoot two under to have a realistic shot? That makes no sense.

GA is right though. The thursday morning bunch got screwed unless the weather reports are wrong and they can get most of their 36 in today. They haven't had a chance to get any sort of rhythym and the course was in great scoring shape mid day yesterday, and they were all sitting in the clubhouse.
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#73
#73
volfanbill said:
The field comes back to Tiger but he has to shoot two under to have a realistic shot? That makes no sense.

GA is right though. The thursday morning bunch got screwed unless the weather reports are wrong and they can get most of their 36 in today. They haven't had a chance to get any sort of rhythym and the course was in great scoring shape mid day yesterday, and they were all sitting in the clubhouse.
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He has to shoot 2 under to get to the cut line. I agree. the weather has played hell on the players. Looks like it will today, too. 1-2 inches of rain by tomorrow morning. sheesh.
 
#75
#75
MphsBlues said:
Tiger's playing in some good company today. They may feed off each other.
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Two things, it's the same company he shot 4 over with in round one and half the field hasn't played round 2 so the cut line might be way more than ten strokes.
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