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JogginFrog

JogginFrog

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I've renewed the PGA Championship league for KF.c on Superbru. If you've played in the past, you should have an email. If not, here's the link and info:

www.superbru.com

KillerFrogs.com on Superbru - The PGA Championship Fantasy Game

Join KillerFrogs.com on Superbru. Play a fantasy game for PGA Championship.
www.superbru.com www.superbru.com

Or download the Superbru app and search for the pool with code: dastgant

Action starts at Aronimink on Thursday--get your picks in!
 
froginmn

froginmn

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JogginFrog said:
I've renewed the PGA Championship league for KF.c on Superbru. If you've played in the past, you should have an email. If not, here's the link and info:

www.superbru.com

KillerFrogs.com on Superbru - The PGA Championship Fantasy Game

Join KillerFrogs.com on Superbru. Play a fantasy game for PGA Championship.
www.superbru.com www.superbru.com

Or download the Superbru app and search for the pool with code: dastgant

Action starts at Aronimink on Thursday--get your picks in!
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Pretty sure I'm in. :)

Pro tip: the invite email with the link got caught in my Gmail promotions folder.
 
HornyWartyToad

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Pretty good story about the PGA championship. My dad’s brother, who played hoops at Arkansas, gave Hal Sutton Jr. his first set of clubs. He had a very athletic son who was Hal’s age and in high school apparently a better golfer(I’ve played with him and can believe it). Son decided that rather than golf he’d take his talents to Pepperdine so he could surf.
The year Hal dukes it out with Tiger for the title and won, Unc was in ICU with cancer he thought was going to get him. The first thing Hal did when he came off the course was to call and check on him. Class move.
 
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Mean Purple

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HornyWartyToad said:
Pretty good story about the PGA championship. My dad’s brother, who played hoops at Arkansas, gave Hal Sutton Jr. his first set of clubs. He had a very athletic son who was Hal’s age and in high school apparently a better golfer(I’ve played with him and can believe it). Son decided that rather than golf he’d take his talents to Pepperdine so he could surf.
The year Hal dukes it out with Tiger for the title and won, Unc was in ICU with cancer he thought was going to get him. The first thing Hal did when he came off the course was to call and check on him. Class move.
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Sutton is one of those down to earth, plain spoken and cool guys. Just a big country boy crossed with southern gentleman who is more comfortable eating a bagged lunch in a john boat fishing or out hunting. He's actually a pretty good instructor. And he is one of the best speakers to go listen to. His philosphy to separate your swing from your mind has so much depth because what he went through with his game. It's good to see his family life where he wants it again.

Great read. My dad, even though tough and pushing us to work hard, has always had the balanced approach Hal mention's in this.
golfweek.usatoday.com

Hal Sutton wants golf parents to consider: How do your kids perceive your love?

If you’re not following Hal Sutton on Twitter, change that now. Fantastic anecdotes from his playing career and time spent with greats like Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan fill his feed. The 14-time PGA Tour winner opened Hal Sutton Golf in Houston on Aug. 1, about a driver…
golfweek.usatoday.com

www.courant.com

SUTTON ENJOYING A SECOND CAREER

He had gone from The Bear Apparent to barely apparent. The latest “Next Jack Nicklaus” became a guy wondering where his golf ball was headed. His personal life, too, fell into an abyss, leading to three divorces. A bad dream had…
www.courant.com www.courant.com

Back half of this video he gets into the game and mind.


Thanks for reminding me of all this, @HornyWartyToad . Sutton is always a good reminder to us to focus on being ok with us.
 
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JogginFrog

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Wexahu

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JogginFrog said:
The Fried Egg is making is lowering its paywall on its Aronimink course profile this week. They are bigger fans of the tree removal than Rory or Wex. https://www.thefriedegg.com/courses/aronimink-golf-club

Also, get your first-round picks in! Play starts first thing on Thursday.
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LOL.

It's a perfectly fine golf course. For a major championship venue with a field full of guys that hit it 300+ yards, it's not very interesting. Golf course architecture must be one of the few things in the world that people get worse at over time. We should all be glad that the greens and architecture are being returned to what some dude thought was proper 100 years ago when golf balls didn't have dimples and clubs were hickory sticks. Watching guys try to navigate two-putting from 30 feet on these vintage restored Ross greens will be a thrill ride. Hehe.
 
ShreveFrog

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Lets Go Reaction GIF by The Lonely Island

Thanks again, @JogginFrog !
 
Dogfrog

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Wexahu said:
LOL.

It's a perfectly fine golf course. For a major championship venue with a field full of guys that hit it 300+ yards, it's not very interesting. Golf course architecture must be one of the few things in the world that people get worse at over time. We should all be glad that the greens and architecture are being returned to what some dude thought was proper 100 years ago when golf balls didn't have dimples and clubs were hickory sticks. Watching guys try to navigate two-putting from 30 feet on these vintage restored Ross greens will be a thrill ride. Hehe.
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Many years ago after college I worked in Philadelphia and lived in Media. My boss was a member at Aronimink and we played there several times. Great old club and course. Met Jay Sigel there although I didn’t know who he was at the time.
 
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Dogfrog said:
Many years ago after college I worked in Philadelphia and lived in Media. My boss was a member at Aronimink and we played there several times. Great old club and course. Met Jay Sigel there although I didn’t know who he was at the time.
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Just to be clear, I have zero doubt of that. I'm sure it's an amazing club and the golf course is always in near perfect condition. Would love to be able to play at a place like that every day. As I said, it's a perfectly fine golf course.

But with so many of these courses (especially those from that era), it's the history and the fact that it's a monied club way more than the design or architecture that gives it all it's credibility. There's nothing all that intriguing about the design. It's boring as a tournament course for the best players in the world. So there are some greens with some swales and runoffs and shelfs and what have you. That's pretty easy to replicate by any golf architect, that's not all the interesting. And the massive tree removal thing is awful. As if architects planted oak trees lining the fairways in the 1920's never expecting them to grow. I get it, some courses just get a little overtaken by tree growth, but if a course has 2,000 trees, get rid of 500-1,000 of them, not 1,900.
 
Dogfrog

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Wexahu said:
Just to be clear, I have zero doubt of that. I'm sure it's an amazing club and the golf course is always in near perfect condition. Would love to be able to play at a place like that every day. As I said, it's a perfectly fine golf course.

But with so many of these courses (especially those from that era), it's the history and the fact that it's a monied club way more than the design or architecture that gives it all it's credibility. There's nothing all that intriguing about the design. It's boring as a tournament course for the best players in the world. So there are some greens with some swales and runoffs and shelfs and what have you. That's pretty easy to replicate by any golf architect, that's not all the interesting. And the massive tree removal thing is awful. As if architects planted oak trees lining the fairways in the 1920's never expecting them to grow. I get it, some courses just get a little overtaken by tree growth, but if a course has 2,000 trees, get rid of 500-1,000 of them, not 1,900.
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Don’t disagree with any of this.
 
gohornedfrogs

gohornedfrogs

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Wexahu said:
Just to be clear, I have zero doubt of that. I'm sure it's an amazing club and the golf course is always in near perfect condition. Would love to be able to play at a place like that every day. As I said, it's a perfectly fine golf course.

But with so many of these courses (especially those from that era), it's the history and the fact that it's a monied club way more than the design or architecture that gives it all it's credibility. There's nothing all that intriguing about the design. It's boring as a tournament course for the best players in the world. So there are some greens with some swales and runoffs and shelfs and what have you. That's pretty easy to replicate by any golf architect, that's not all the interesting. And the massive tree removal thing is awful. As if architects planted oak trees lining the fairways in the 1920's never expecting them to grow. I get it, some courses just get a little overtaken by tree growth, but if a course has 2,000 trees, get rid of 500-1,000 of them, not 1,900.
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Are you watching any of this today? I don't think it's a boring or uninteresting course at all. Like all Donald Ross courses, the defense is the greens. But to say those bunkers, the contours of the fairways, and the elevation changes are uninteresting is hard for me to understand.

Some of my former colleagues were on the tour staff at Aronimink for the 2010 and 2011 events. They had offices there for a couple of years. They raved about the course.

The only thing I see about this course that you can critique is that there are too many short par 4s. Way too many wedges, but right now, they're having difficulty getting the distances right and controlling spin to get at those hole locations.
 
froginmn

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gohornedfrogs said:
Are you watching any of this today? I don't think it's a boring or uninteresting course at all. Like all Donald Ross courses, the defense is the greens. But to say those bunkers, the contours of the fairways, and the elevation changes are uninteresting is hard for me to understand.

Some of my former colleagues were on the tour staff at Aronimink for the 2010 and 2011 events. They had offices there for a couple of years. They raved about the course.

The only thing I see about this course that you can critique is that there are too many short par 4s. Way too many wedges, but right now, they're having difficulty getting the distances right and controlling spin to get at those hole locations.
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Sure seems like it will be fun to watch, but Wex won't be moved from his position even though about ten guys are currently below -1 and fewer than 30 are under par.
 

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