berryfrog95
Active Member
The 18th has been filthy on the putting.....
Colonial and TCU
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BABYFACE
Full Member
This is what always made Colonial great with a little wind.
Pros in the recent past got used to TPC style courses of smash it on the drive and chip onto the green. Colonial made the course a bit easier during the tournaments to satisfy their whining arses. I like when Colonial is set up like a US Open.
As good as a golfer that Woods was, he set the bar for whining the time he came thru Colonial.
Byron Nelson crowds evolved into a social tent scene when they moved to Las Colinas. Colonial had it’s tents and social patrons also, but also still a true golf crowd at heart.
Good times back then with Fuzzy hitting on the women as he made his way up the fairway. Trevino was my first autograph that I got at Colonial as a kid. Saw many of the greats out there. Nicklaus, Watson, Crenshaw, Couples, Norman, Irwin, Price, Kite, and many others.
Pros in the recent past got used to TPC style courses of smash it on the drive and chip onto the green. Colonial made the course a bit easier during the tournaments to satisfy their whining arses. I like when Colonial is set up like a US Open.
As good as a golfer that Woods was, he set the bar for whining the time he came thru Colonial.
Byron Nelson crowds evolved into a social tent scene when they moved to Las Colinas. Colonial had it’s tents and social patrons also, but also still a true golf crowd at heart.
Good times back then with Fuzzy hitting on the women as he made his way up the fairway. Trevino was my first autograph that I got at Colonial as a kid. Saw many of the greats out there. Nicklaus, Watson, Crenshaw, Couples, Norman, Irwin, Price, Kite, and many others.
CryptoMiner
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QuilterFrawg
CDR USN (Ret)
Another head-shaker putt to end it!
Pharm Frog
Full Member
Thinking that as good as this was to watch it may cause even more players to do something else this weekend next year. I hope not. That was just brutal coming home.
Dogfrog
Active Member
That Morikawa putt just too much speed. It jumped hard out of there on the lip out. Gotta know the wind and heat have made the green faster at the end of the day.
Brog
Full Member
Don't know, but as I understand it the Colonial next year will be back in its late May slot, not off here in mid=June. Hope so, anyway.
Same Ole Wiley
Active Member
Interesting. Were you also pissed when App St beat Michigan in the big house?
Yep exactly the same scenario
HToady
Full Member
More like going to see the Stones and you get Weird Al Yankovic instead.
Pharm Frog
Full Member
WAY is a freaking genius...
Brog
Full Member
And did you have that awful feeling when Stephen F. Austin beat Duke? (To put it all out there, I rejoiced mightily.)
froggolf65
Active Member
Never heard of greens getting faster as the day goes on.
Dogfrog
Active Member
they had to pour the water on preround to save the bent grass, making them soft. As they dried during the round you don’t think they got harder and faster?
Eight
Member
more like going to see garth brooks and instead getting chris gaines
gohornedfrogs
Tier 1
He took the putter back way too far inside and pushed it. As much as I hate the term being applied to guys who made it all the way to a playoff, he choked that one. Hands took over.
gohornedfrogs
Tier 1
It won't be the finish this year that will send them elsewhere next year. It will be the money overseas for the European BMW PGA Championship.
Personally, I thought the golf was fantastic given they hadn't competed in three months. Colonial brought out some strategy and creativity in the players that you just don't see that often. Plenty of risk/reward out there. Even though the two guys in the playoff were medium length, plenty of long hitters were right up there at the end (DeChambeau, Woodland, Rose, Kokrak, Bubba Watson, Justin Thomas). Hopefully, they will see that long hitters have just as much of a chance here.
gohornedfrogs
Tier 1
Forgive me for the correction, but there is nothing about Colonial that is similar to links golf. Colonial is pure inland American golf. Tree-lined fairways, small greens, and nines that return to the clubhouse.
Rory's advantage is that he's the best in the world with the driver in his hand. For him, there are too many holes at Colonial that you shouldn't use that club.
