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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,609
    bbiggs said:
    Cliffy6745 said:
    Yeah the waste management is the worst

    https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1091789902998634498?s=21
    It is a complete shit show. I have a friend who moved to Scottsdale a year ago. He has never picked up a golf club in his life and has never watched a golf tournament. He texts me last week and says how excited he is for the WM (he was going). That should put it all in perspective as to what a mockery of the sport this has become. 

    some guys would rather golf with their buddy


    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • BIGDaddyWil
    BIGDaddyWil Michigan Posts: 3,083
    Cliffy6745 said:
    Not a Rickie fanboy. Like him and want him to do well. That’s a big win for him 
    Huge win!!!!
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  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,965
    Cliffy6745 said:
    Not a Rickie fanboy. Like him and want him to do well. That’s a big win for him 
    Good for Rickie. I hope he finally gets his major this year. 
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,065
    HOLY SHIT

    https://twitter.com/dylan_dethier/status/1092261326313930752?s=21

    No suspension and this is not even what he got the DQ for?!? The second he steps foot on US soil, he need to be ridiculed 
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    Brace yourselves for THE SEASON OF FOWLER! It's gonna happen this time!
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    bbiggs said:
    Cliffy6745 said:
    Yeah the waste management is the worst

    https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1091789902998634498?s=21
    It is a complete shit show. I have a friend who moved to Scottsdale a year ago. He has never picked up a golf club in his life and has never watched a golf tournament. He texts me last week and says how excited he is for the WM (he was going). That should put it all in perspective as to what a mockery of the sport this has become. 
    You guys are funny. 

    For one tournament, in the dead of winter, during Super Bowl week, there's nothing wrong with having a different kind of a feel like you get at this one. It comes across well on tv too. 

    Sure there will be some drunk assholes, but there are drunk assholes at all major sporting events....and they're always the minority---except nowadays you always hear about them because of social media.

    One chick pounded a couple beers. People cheered. THE HORROR!!! haha
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,065
    The Juggler said:
    bbiggs said:
    Cliffy6745 said:
    Yeah the waste management is the worst

    https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1091789902998634498?s=21
    It is a complete shit show. I have a friend who moved to Scottsdale a year ago. He has never picked up a golf club in his life and has never watched a golf tournament. He texts me last week and says how excited he is for the WM (he was going). That should put it all in perspective as to what a mockery of the sport this has become. 
    You guys are funny. 

    For one tournament, in the dead of winter, during Super Bowl week, there's nothing wrong with having a different kind of a feel like you get at this one. It comes across well on tv too. 

    Sure there will be some drunk assholes, but there are drunk assholes at all major sporting events....and they're always the minority---except nowadays you always hear about them because of social media.

    One chick pounded a couple beers. People cheered. THE HORROR!!! haha
    Eh, it normalizes obnoxiousness (barstool'ification) at golf tournaments.  These clowns are now going to other tournaments too and acting like dipshits, obviously. 

    Golf is different than other sports. You can't even compare. 
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,065
    The Phoenix Open has always been the wildest tournament on tour. It;s just attracting a younger crowd, add on social media, and you have a disaster.  It went from boomers getting bombed to obnoxious 20 somethings and its horrible

    GET OFF MY LAWN.
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    edited February 2019
    Cliffy6745 said:
    The Phoenix Open has always been the wildest tournament on tour. It;s just attracting a younger crowd, add on social media, and you have a disaster.  It went from boomers getting bombed to obnoxious 20 somethings and its horrible

    GET OFF MY LAWN.
    And if social media was around in the 90's you probably would've seen some of the same stuff you see now. I think you're making too much of this. Maybe unfollow barstool on twitter? 
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,065
    The Juggler said:
    Cliffy6745 said:
    The Phoenix Open has always been the wildest tournament on tour. It;s just attracting a younger crowd, add on social media, and you have a disaster.  It went from boomers getting bombed to obnoxious 20 somethings and its horrible

    GET OFF MY LAWN.
    And if social media was around in the 90's you probably would've seen some of the same stuff you see now. I think you're making too much of this. Maybe unfollow barstool on twitter? 
    I follow one barstool employee on twitter and he is the Yankees guy who is pretty normal.  The golf guys suck
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    Look, I was in my early 20's in the late 90's. If my buddies and I had any kind of money back then and flew out to this tournament, and social media existed, you very could have seen a near blacked out Juggler on twitter pounding way too many beers and heckling anyone and everyone who got within a 30 foot radius of me.
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,065
    The Juggler said:
    Look, I was in my early 20's in the late 90's. If my buddies and I had any kind of money back then and flew out to this tournament, and social media existed, you very could have seen a near blacked out Juggler on twitter pounding way too many beers and heckling anyone and everyone who got within a 30 foot radius of me.
    1. You're old! 2. Completely agree and I am in the same boat. I would have been an idiot there.  I was an idiot at other sporting events, until closer to 30 or so. Hell, I can still be a jackass. That said, I just don't like the celebration of it and do think it leads to the tools yelling after every shot at other tournaments.  Players are complaining day in and day out, and I think it stems from this crowd taking a bigger and bigger liking to going to golf tournaments and I think the WM leads the way on that.

    Golf is better without that crowd
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,924
    The Juggler said:
    Look, I was in my early 20's in the late 90's. If my buddies and I had any kind of money back then and flew out to this tournament, and social media existed, you very could have seen a near blacked out Juggler on twitter pounding way too many beers and heckling anyone and everyone who got within a 30 foot radius of me.
    Yep.  I would have loved to have gone to this tournament 10-15 years ago. 

    The Tour is obviously doing as much as they can to appeal to younger people and this tournament is a big part of it.  I don't have a problem with it.  And like you said earlier, there are going to be drunken assholes at any sporting even you go to.
  • bflynn1
    bflynn1 Posts: 1,394
    Spent 2 and half hours at the driving range today. Weather was 70 degrees. Hit two buckets of balls, chipped/pitched and putted. Great day. 68 tomorrow but then back down to 30s and 40s again. 
  • bflynn1
    bflynn1 Posts: 1,394
    Forgot about using our indoor facility they just opened at the range. I spent another hour and a half there today. It has a full putting green, 6 hitting bays that face out to the range (with heaters if needed), and a simulator with 53 courses to play.  
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,924
    Surprised so many big name guys play in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.  Seems like a giant pain in the ass to be playing your own ball as well as alternate shot with whatever amateur you get paired up with.  Regardless of that, what a beautiful setting....had a chance to extend my trip a couple days and go hang in that area a few years back when I was in SF and didn't do it.  Really regret that one.
  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,965
    Indifference71 said:
    Surprised so many big name guys play in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.  Seems like a giant pain in the ass to be playing your own ball as well as alternate shot with whatever amateur you get paired up with.  Regardless of that, what a beautiful setting....had a chance to extend my trip a couple days and go hang in that area a few years back when I was in SF and didn't do it.  Really regret that one.
    I wouldn’t regret not playing pebble for the $700 price tag (with caddy). Take that money and go play bandon dunes a little bit north of there and get a damn near equal experience for half the price. 
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,065
    Indifference71 said:
    Surprised so many big name guys play in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.  Seems like a giant pain in the ass to be playing your own ball as well as alternate shot with whatever amateur you get paired up with.  Regardless of that, what a beautiful setting....had a chance to extend my trip a couple days and go hang in that area a few years back when I was in SF and didn't do it.  Really regret that one.
    Better field this year because of the us open 
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,924
    bbiggs said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Surprised so many big name guys play in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.  Seems like a giant pain in the ass to be playing your own ball as well as alternate shot with whatever amateur you get paired up with.  Regardless of that, what a beautiful setting....had a chance to extend my trip a couple days and go hang in that area a few years back when I was in SF and didn't do it.  Really regret that one.
    I wouldn’t regret not playing pebble for the $700 price tag (with caddy). Take that money and go play bandon dunes a little bit north of there and get a damn near equal experience for half the price. 
    Oh no it wasn't to actually play golf there...just to go stay in that area for a couple days.  I'm nowhere near good enough to even consider paying that much for a round of golf!
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,924
    edited February 2019
    Cliffy6745 said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Surprised so many big name guys play in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.  Seems like a giant pain in the ass to be playing your own ball as well as alternate shot with whatever amateur you get paired up with.  Regardless of that, what a beautiful setting....had a chance to extend my trip a couple days and go hang in that area a few years back when I was in SF and didn't do it.  Really regret that one.
    Better field this year because of the us open 

    True.  But always seems to be a very solid field every year for what pretty much is a gimmick tournament.  Always hear about how much the golfers hate the Wednesday pro-am day before a tournament starts.  But hey, I guess Bill Murray will do something wacky!  I wish he would just go away..

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