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  1. 2 hours ago, OldSchoolFlusher said:

    So as I understand it the 15 lines in the tiger logo mean 1 for each major he’s won…. So….

    In the (probably unlikely but you can never rule out) event he wins another, does the logo get another stripe? Would you want to change the logo ?

    Or is this admittance, unconsciously perhaps, that he’s done with 15….

    hmm 🤔

    It's in the original press release. If he wins more majors they're adding more stripes.

  2. 13 minutes ago, Woodrow72 said:

    There we will disagree , Norman just wanted a replica of world golf events since Finchen basically stole his idea for the big World events and shoved Greg’s face in the sand by doing so , Greg definitely had an ax to grind but this was his chance to do something different and new which was what his original plan was way back when Finchen slammed him down and took his idea and credit for such , PGAT has gotten very stale , majors are the only thing I watch now as they are so much under the thumb of NBC G C and I like watching every player at the same time  But to each their own 

    Norman wanted that 30 years ago. He didn't want that a few years ago when this whole thing started. Nothing in his actions speak to that. If he actually just wanted that he would have approached the PGA Tour much more collaboratively. He did not. He was hostile the entire time. The PGA Tour responded in kind.

  3. I think the crazy part about this is it happened prior to the season even starting and the move isn't even for another year. I think that might say a bit about how Lewis is feeling about this upcoming season, i.e., he doesn't have much faith that Mercedes have sorted out a ground effect car.

    Lewis going to Ferrari isn't so much a surprise in itself. He's said a lot of positive things about driving for Ferrari in past years so I'm not overly surprised he's making it happen. Just surprised about the timing of it.

    Definitely leaves a lot of questions for the future though for many teams.

  4. 4 hours ago, DiscipleofPenick said:

    Huge asterisk next to his name in the NFL, will never be the Goat. Not a Michigan fan but what he did in college was fine. 

    We know for a fact New England cheated to win the Rams, Panthers, and Eagles Super Bowls.

    Deflate-gate, more cheating, was 2014 against Seattle, so his first four rings don't count.

    I can't find anything suspect in the wins over Atlanta and Los Angeles. When he went to Tampa, the refs penalized the crap out of KC in that bowl.

    But Belicheck was found to still be recording other teams practices in 2019, so he never stopped. Zero NFL legacy for either.

     

    Let's see, Spygate... They filmed from the wrong spots. That was the issue. Not that they were filming, but where they filmed from. Oh, and Bill Cowher admitted a lot of other teams did it too. Even Eric Mangini who started the whole investigation regrets it.

    Deflategate didn't happen during the Super Bowl. It was the game before. In a game they won 43-22 mostly running the ball and scoring rushing TDs, so an under-inflated ball basically meant nothing. Not to mention the under-inflation measured could easily be explained by high school level science. Also, Aaron Rodgers came out and admitted to having his balls over-inflated. No one cared about that though. Deflategate was the biggest crock the NFL has ever put out. Even independent organizations have come out to blast how flawed the Wells report was.

    The TB-KC SB was a blowout. Had the refs called a few less penalties, the result would not have changed measurably. The biggest difference in that game was KC having a patchwork O-Line and Mahomes having to run for his life on almost every snap. Also his receivers couldn't catch a ball.

  5. 2 hours ago, DiscipleofPenick said:

    Huge asterisk next to his name in the NFL, will never be the Goat. Not a Michigan fan but what he did in college was fine. 

    We know for a fact New England cheated to win the Rams, Panthers, and Eagles Super Bowls.

    Deflate-gate, more cheating, was 2014 against Seattle, so his first four rings don't count.

    I can't find anything suspect in the wins over Atlanta and Los Angeles. When he went to Tampa, the refs penalized the crap out of KC in that bowl.

    But Belicheck was found to still be recording other teams practices in 2019, so he never stopped. Zero NFL legacy for either.

     

    Yawn

  6. 7 minutes ago, StrokerAce said:

    I'm not sure I understand the fascination with Anthony Kim. Every year or so his name comes up for a little while and people talk about him coming back and then it kind of dies down. Why are people so interested in him? Am I missing something?

    Not sure if you watched pro golf when he was playing on tour but he was just a great character and a great golfer. Super fun to watch and could go birdie crazy at any moment. Think he had 11 birdies in one round at the Masters once.

  7. 9 minutes ago, Owengeorge13 said:

    You’re completely entitled to your own opinion, I’m not sure this bothers me.  To each there own…

    I just think it's unnecessary but the alleging of theft of his designs, which weren't even that original, is my main sticking point

  8. 5 minutes ago, Owengeorge13 said:

    Interesting, I don’t see anything about that.

    He might have purged it from his twitter or X profile. I don't know. But it happened many times, and I personally called him out on it a couple of times. I don't have X anymore so I can't go back and look. But here's an example of an unnecessary marketing meme from a month ago on their FB page.

    Screenshot_20240124-102943.png

  9. 1 hour ago, Owengeorge13 said:

    And that is?

    Disparaging other companies to prop up his, alleging another company stole his design when his design is very familiar to numerous others that came before over a couple decades, etc.

  10. 29 minutes ago, Owengeorge13 said:

    Ryan Moore and his brother own the company.  What did Ryan Moore do to offend you?  The previous wonder sold the company a couple years ago.  

    I see no official news releases that Ryan Moore and his brother own the company. All I can see is posts on forums saying the founder sold the company to the Moores sometime in 2023.

    My issues with the company stem from the previous owner if him selling is legit, and by the looks of their FB page, they're still using similar marketing tactics as when he was in charge.

    I haven't followed the company in awhile because of how the original founder comported himself.

  11. 3 hours ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

    The number of people in the industry and on tour that support are a very few minority.

    Callaway is one of not the only oem that supported bifurcation which makes no sense and just another reason outside of their equipment not being a good fit for me and a terrible interaction and nothing but lies from Sean Toulon, that  I will give no money to calllaway or any of their other entities.

    the players in support happen to be the longer hitters on tour such as Rory who stayed in his own words he wants the rollback because it gives the longer hitters and advantage. He wants to maintain his advantage while at the same time putting his competitors at a bigger disadvantage c life selfishness for wanting the rollback.

    then the courses that want it and are pressuring the ruling bodies represent less than 1% of all courses and are also exclusive clubs that can afford the choice to expand if that’s their desire.

    please don’t make it seem like there’s an even split. It’s a big gap between those who want things left alone and those who want a rollback. Which again to date nobody has been able to state what problem is caused by more pros hitting be ball 300 yards in 5,10,15,20 years or what problem is caused by it today. Everything presented as the problem has studies showing the opposite such as courses aren’t getting longer so there’s no sustainability issue that gets tossed around.  It’s about not liking low scores by the best in the world, it’s those who are into course design that want course features preserved which most fans don’t care about. It’s wanting courses that used to be on tour in ten 80s and before to come back. Thats not going to happen because there’s no room for hospitality tents, parking, accommodations for the pros, the areas can’t handle the additional traffic. 

    I'm not personally in favour of the rollback. I know the arguments for and against. I've seen the data. I've seen you spout it about 100 times in this thread already as well. I don't need to be convinced on this topic.

    I am merely pointing out that saying "this person and this company don't support this" cuts both ways for people on this topic, because the people on the other side have people and companies they can point to as well. Appealing to experts isn't going to change anyone's mind.

    Nor is the data at this stage either, because it depends on a number of factors for people. Some people are looking at more recent timeframes and some are looking at broader more historical timeframes. There are stats that can support both. Context is important when it comes to statistics.

    This topic was exhausting a year ago. And somehow it's even more exhausting now. You are welcome to loathe whoever you wish in the industry for supporting/enforcing this rollback. I just happen to care a lot less. I don't support it but I'm not going to protest it. At the end of the day I just like golf. It'll suck to lose some yards but I'm still going to play nonetheless. If you want to do something about it, maybe voice your opinion towards the usga and the r&a instead of repeating the same lines over and over and over and over again on a forum(s). Maybe you can precipitate some actual change that way.

  12. 14 hours ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

    Their distance report was called out by tour pros and multiple other people in the industry. Kind of hard to support their data when many have shown data that direty contradicts their data and talking points. When listening to whan speak it’s easy to see he doesn’t even believe what he’s saying.

    Not looking to go back and forth ws pointing out the flaw in your description of those as you call us done loudest as being against change. That characterization is wrong and disingenuous 

    There are tour pros and people in the industry that support the distance report and the rollback too. The appeal to experts cuts both ways.

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