2012 U.S. Open Golf Thread

[Cubswin11]

Figured I'd start a thread since guys are starting to tee off in about 30 minutes. The Tiger/Mickleson/Watson group tees off at 9:33 CST. Hole 16 looks like it could provide us with some very interesting moments this week, 670 yard par 5, they are saying if you miss the fairway on your drive or second shot you are easily looking at a 6 and 7 or 8's are very much in play on it this weekend. Should be a good tournament.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Pretty sure you can watch Tiger and Phil's group online at usopen.com

[Cubswin11]

Pretty sure you can watch Tiger and Phil's group online at usopen.com

http://www.usopen.com/en_US/video/liveVideo.html

 

There's the link, looks like the are starting the broadcast when those guys tee off or they are just showing that group the whole time. TV coverage starts at 4 on ESPN, I think.

[Banedon]

Phil's starting pretty crummy.

[kujay]

The feed was really crappy today, though maybe it's my work network. Only worked for about 15 seconds before freezing multiple times.

 

If Tiger is in contention, this is just about all I will be doing this weekend. Which is cool because it's supposed to be stupid hot here this weekend.

[Butterscup1679666578]

i didnt have much problem at all with the USOpen.com feed. Skipped or stuttered here and there but it was really sporadic, and the picture quality was good.

[Wilson A2000]

Congrats Webb Simpson (and his gorgeous wife). Talk about flying under the radar.

[Soul]

What sticks out in my mind is how tough the course was. Not one golfer made par for the tourney.

[Wilson A2000]

What sticks out in my mind is how tough the course was. Not one golfer made par for the tourney.

 

The USGA tries to make their signature tournament like a British Open championship which just doesn't make sense. Bouncing the ball up onto the green isn't American golf.

 

Wow that drunk Brit scared the heck out of me. It's like he just jumped out of the TV.

[SpongeWorthy]

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[TruffleShuffle]

What sticks out in my mind is how tough the course was. Not one golfer made par for the tourney.

 

i don't even want to know what i'd shoot on a course like that. probably like 200.

[Guest]

What sticks out in my mind is how tough the course was. Not one golfer made par for the tourney.

 

Doesn't some of that have to do with the par being 70 rather than 72? If it was a par 72, the winning score would have been -7 and 26 players would have finished under par.

[Splendid Splinter]

What sticks out in my mind is how tough the course was. Not one golfer made par for the tourney.

 

i don't even want to know what i'd shoot on a course like that. probably like 200.

 

 

While I would like to think that I would break 100 easily there, but I'm not too sure. This is coming from a guy whose handicap is anywhere from 3-8 during a summer (from Indiana so can't play year long and stay consistent- start spring at 6-8 handicap and usually end summer/fall around 3-4) and shot 85 at Torrey Pines South 2 years ago from the blue tees (7200 yards I think? which is farther than anything we got around here except for Purdue Univ. golf course- Kampen Course at 7500 yards from the black tees... 6900 from blues which is what I plays at). Black tees were like 7600 yards or something crazy, but they recommended me not to play from there.

 

Olympic Club just look nasty with the elevations/slopes and not to mention how long (7100 yards on a par 70) and how extremely tight the fairways were. It reminds me of Dale Hollow Lake golf course in terms of elevations/slopes on each hole although I'm sure it's nowhere near as difficult either as their fairways are pretty wide and open.

[Banedon]

I watched a good chunk of this tournament, and I think that Beau Hossler got more screen time than Webb Simpson did.

[Soul]

I didn't watch the post game interview with Costas & Simpson live. Kind of wish I did now.

[Wilson A2000]

What sticks out in my mind is how tough the course was. Not one golfer made par for the tourney.

 

Doesn't some of that have to do with the par being 70 rather than 72? If it was a par 72, the winning score would have been -7 and 26 players would have finished under par.

 

Considering that the extra 2 strokes to par would have been par 5's, you are probably right.

[Guest]

shot 85 at Torrey Pines South 2 years ago from the blue tees (7200 yards I think? which is farther than anything we got around here except for Purdue Univ. golf course

 

I just played Torrey Pines South for the very first time last Friday. It was part of my bucket list of golf awesomeness week. Within 6 days, I played Torrey Pines South, Pebble Beach, Spyglass, Spanish Bay and Del Monte.

 

Could have golfed a little better than I did, but other than that it was simply amazing.