No pics/video of him damaging the greens. This article says it was up to 5 and they were so bad that other groups behind him complained. Here’s him going nuts on a bunker. Dude’s got some issues.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gol...own-saudi/amp/

Some of the best players in the world basically plays in support of Saudi Arabia, but what causes outrage and headlines in the golf world, is that one of them threw a temper tantrum while doing it...

I don't even...

May go out and watch the first day of the web.com event tomorrow. Some interesting names, Stuart Appleby and Boo Weekly are playing together in the a.m., and Angel Cabrera and Mike Weir are playing together in the p.m. Another interesting name from 2+2 lore is Will Zalatoris, who is playing with Trevor Sluman, whose uncle is a pretty famous golfer.

keeping the politics to politics

Australian guy makes a double and then proceeds to birdie the next 9

He obviously wasn't shook by the double.

No. Rose has to be extremely clueless to think this has anything to do with politics or politicians. It has to do with being a decent human being.

i have mixed thoughts on saudi events.....

that's not why i posted though.

mike weir one off the lead in the panama web.com event. i was never as bearish on older mike as many people here but i certainly didn't think he'd be near the lead on the web.com...... i sense that the non-usa golf courses on web.com might not be the bombers paradises like they are in the USA

I've been mega-bearish on Weir for years, but its good to see him playing well.

The course is one that long hitters don't really have an advantage this time of year because it's super dry and windy. Controlling the ball seems to be more of a premium than bombing it.

I didn't follow Weir on Thursday since he wasn't paired with Cabrera, whom I did follow. It was kind of cool since I was the only guy walking with the group. The highlight was Cabrera peeing in the bushes right near a bathroom. Obviously he is out of F*cks to give playing pro golf.

Ángel

Mike Wwir at minus 6. Not sure where they are this week

Weir.. Fat fingers from mobile

He's playing pre-season tour season-long exemption

Ouch.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...aign=editorial

to his credit he played the last 11 holes of that round +1.

and he finishes -7 for the round. ho lee ***.

cliff notes: seems like on the web.com tour that the difference between making a little money in first 4 events and not making any is huge. not that way on pga tour as many many players sit out events.

something i'm curious about on web.com tour.

i followed 3 golfers i had a special interest in last year on web.com. it seemed like none of the three accomplished much in terms of money finishes but they all played the entire year (or very close to it)

i had 2 friends play it a few years ago and a friend playing it this year. the 2 friends disappeared really fast. and my friend this year seems to be off the tour now with zero earnings.

i am thinking with the reshuffles on the web.com, and every player playing every event that they can, that the difference between making the cut in one of the first four events and not is huge. make a cut with decent money in first 4 and then further on just make a few cuts here and there and you are set for season.

i wonder if the players are highly cognizant of that dynamic. much different than going all out to win, especially as cut line approaches.

another thing to add is it seems like it is so much easier to stay at XXX level golf than to get to there in the first place. 2 canadian golfers i can think of have been bouncing between web.com and pga tour for a long time now. one for a very long time.

i should add that i'm not sure playing 100% to make the cut is a good strategy. probably more like play normal game with some moderate adjustments. and then major adjustments when you are tight to the cut line.

It's a nasty life out there for guys outside of like the top 150. For the web.com, it's 4 stages of q school (or less if you have some status), and it's -17 in 4 rounds to get 8 guaranteed starts on the web.com. I don't care how easy the course is playing, it's tough to shoot -17 in a golf tournament, especially with pressure. And to my knowledge, if you miss by a shot, you essentially get no status whatsoever.

Then in those 8 starts, you need to play well, or as you said, you functionally lose all your status. Some of the courses they play at the start of the year are really nasty/weather prone. I played the abaco club a few times last year, and it's just not a course I'd ever want to play in a stroke play tournament. We had pretty psycho wind every day... but it definitely heavily favors guys who grew up in Florida or similar places, that are straight/solid wind players.

Even if you make it through the top 25, or in through the web.com playoffs, you get more status on the tour (in terms of getting starts) the closer you are to #1 at the end of the year... and you have to play pretty well at the start of the season, or you'll have a hard time finding starts later in the year.

Gives me anxiety just thinking about it. Really gotta just get hot and get like a top 5 early on to cement some status on any tour. I think if you don't realistically feel like you can get hot enough to win a tournament, you're gonna struggle to maintain any status.

huge 10 from 11 playoff (for the right to play ANGC on Saturday) commencing within the hour at the ANWA. earlier this week they mentioned on the site that this playoff would be broadcast on the site.

That's going to be a soul crush for the one person who misses out.

ghana be sick. keep in mind that all 72 players do get to take part in tmr's practice round at ANGC.

i found the link for the playoff on the official twitter page:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OyKApMXbRaxb

I hope Kupcho is able to tid this afternoon. I really want her to be the first winner of this event.

Kupcho lives very close to where I do and a couple of my friends are members at her home course. They've been talking about how good she is for several years now. Its awesome to see her take down a tournament like this.

How bout those shots on 13 and 15!

Masters always has some sort of announcement every year lately for something new. Hope to see some limited field LPGA event there. Think it will ever happen?