He is for sure going to get the letter from the USGA that says you ****ing suck don't waste our time in the future.

wow, 2 bogeys is the best he did........

i also assumed the 11 and 14 were two of his last 3 holes i.e. injury or something... but no, they were his 7th and 9th holes of the day.

haven't thought this through but surprised they don't have some interim number - +20 or something like that - that bounces you from tourney - like a mercy rule in little league baseball.. obviously for lesser events the leniency would be really really high.

If they moved The Players any later than May it would not be the same course. There is no such thing as firm and fast later in the year. It's more like plug, lift, clean and place.

They just might show up at his house and tell him in person.

Also, who brings enough balls with them to shoot 127 without running out?

here'a wacky idea i had,

how about a golf tournament process that lasts 3-4 years that is truly open? everyone under a 18 handicap could start at local level paying $100 and then people would continually progress.. and then at end would be pretty small and huge $$$ tourney (sponsors and alot of the $$$ flowing up)

The first 2 years seems worthless. Like an 18 is just never beating a scratch player and any kind of net tournament would be a joke. US Open is actually fairly open. Just get yourself a nice vanity cap and you are good to go.

Going to be really awkward if he is playing ksigs and runs out with the whole 1 ball rule probably in effect.

If the USGA wanted to back up the money truck (I mean more than they already do), here's what I'd like to see. For one year, make it truly open and add pre-locals all over the country. Anyone can sign up and play one round as long as there is space. Exempt a whole bunch of people from the pre-locals so they don't have to play with us hacks. You don't have to let many people get through to the locals. But let anyone play, just declare pro or amateur and go.

Obviously you'd have to sign up a ton of courses to host a pre-local, but it would be a publicity bonanza. Maybe tie it in with the 125th year in 2025 or something. I'd play just to say I did, at least if I could play a decent course.

Probably bought more at the turn.

on the completely open tournament - maybe subject to at least having a registered handicap - many people are thrilled to run the new york city marathon even though their time is 2.5 times the winner....... complete aside: i ran a giant 10k the other day. all the fast african runners crossed the finish line an hour BEFORE i started.

i think it would do wonders for golf sales/participation/etc.

for $300 here in vancouver last summer, i could have played in the same small 3-day tournament that adam hadwin was playing in.

I don't like the idea of a wide open US Open. This isn't the WSOP, and even if they made it wide open there will never be a Jerry Yang of golf. Its still open in the sense that anyone can participate, they just need to get their handicap low enough.

About 20 years ago played with a chop in a Byron Nelson qualifier, kept his card. His hole by hole is as follow which has been burned into my memory forever.

7-7-5-7-7-5-5-10-10=63
4-8-8-12-4-5-10-8-6=65=128

He lost exactly 12 balls. The others in our group knew we were in trouble on the first tee when identifying balls, he was playing a Top Flight XL.

Some highlights...

4th hole, par 3 over water. George chunks one into the water, looks at us and asks where he hits his next shot from. We point out the drop zone. He goes to the drop zone and carefully places his ball on the grass. We explain he must drop the ball. He drops and promptly chunks another into the drink. He turns to us and asks if he has to drop again!

9th hole, in a fairway bunker 200 yards from the green. Smashes a 3-wood directly into the lip of the bunker, balls comes back and hits him square in the face. As he rubs his nose I inform him he just incurred a 2-shot penalty. He is confused.

13th hole, trying to escape a forest his ball ricochets off a tree and into his cart. (we were allowed to ride in the olden days) Once again I inform him he has incurred a 2-shot penalty. And once again his is dumbfounded.

Upon completion of the round I force him to sign his card and deposit it on the scoring table. Official asks if this is accurate, I calmly state "every ****ing stroke".

There were so many players that day it took 6 hours to finish so we were still waiting on every shot. That's the main reason we didn't have him DQ'd. Plus it was great stress relief to watch all this.

Finally was able to get my son out to play yesterday, first time in almost a year. For not picking up a club and not being sporting inclined he was able to double bogey 6 the #3 handicap hole. My boss drained a 30 footer for bogey to clip him by one on the hole. Would have been so great for him to push or win a hole.

He is also capable of doing something I can't do and that's hitting a draw. Since he is not in any summer camps this year I hope to get him out to the course at least once per week.

Bolded has my LOL

I think Lee Trevino used to have a saying: wood in a bunker = wood head

Playing a course with 5 par 5's and 5 par 3's tomorrow. Don't think I have ever played a course with that configuration before.

Sounds fun.

I play one with that configuration pretty often. I like it.

Used to play a course with 6 each of 3/4/5. That was very different.

I wish I saved mine and framed it. Was -1 through 7 and shot 95! Back 9 was "hit the fairway or it's a lost ball". I lost a few balls

it looks like i'll be caddying for the vancouver canadian golf tour event at point grey country club the start of june.

anyone have experience caddying for events like this? spoke to a couple of acquaintences who do this alot. they basically said just do your job, stay out of the way and that the player doesn't want any input - or at least very minimal - from you... is that consistent with people's experience caddying for randoms in tourneys? obviously caddying for a buddy and you being a good player is different.

fyi, canadian tour is 3rd level of tours. below web.com but 5 tickets to web.com tour up for grabs.. quite a few players have gone from canadian tour to pga winner in fairly short order.

i know there are a bunch of ways a caddy can cost his player a penalty but i'm thinking one huge way is stepping on the line of his upcoming putt.

is that correct? anything else you have to be very careful with? do all the rules that apply to the player apply to the caddy?

Don't touch the ground in the line of a putt with the flagstick.

One thing I've noticed is caddies when holding the flagstick is they hold it upside down (so the flag is almost touching the ground). Is that the reason they do it? Never understand why they would before.

I caddied in a Canadian Tour event a few years ago. Just make sure your guy doesn't have more than 14 clubs, keep the clubs and ball clean. The other caddies will help you out with raking bunkers, the flag etc

It's usually to stop the flag from flapping in the wind