Liv Golf Central Thread: Events and News

[Thin2win]

17 minutes ago, shootmyage said:

i still think there are only 2 majors --pga championship and us open , anyone who is a pga member can try , anyone who is a usga 1.4 hc can try .,  

British open has basically the same qualifying options as the US Open,  and the Masters invites every usga amateur champion as well as many of the global amateur champions. So for amateurs it has the most opportunity to get into.

But cool story.

[RickyBobby_PR]

2 hours ago, Thin2win said:

The FedEx Cup and Olympics don't even really matter, they are good side notes, but they aren't a major and they don't really count. And to that, PGA tour wins don't really matter.

Saying the Olympics don’t matter is the craziest thing I’ve read on the internet this week and there’s some crazy stuff on the internet.

People want to be Olympic champions and the prestige that comes with that around the world is a lot higher than winning a major in golf.

1 hour ago, shootmyage said:

i still think there are only 2 majors --pga championship and us open , anyone who is a pga member can try , anyone who is a usga 1.4 hc can try .,  

this is the second time I’ve seen you say this. Ignoring The Open as a major and putting the PGA championship above it is the second craziest thing I’ve read.

The Open is the oldest and most prestigious of the majors. As an American I would take winning The Open over the US Open and would take the US Open over The Masters other than the lifetime exemption that comes with The Masters winning an Open is more prestigious.

 

[CarlH]

14 minutes ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

.....craziest thing I’ve read on the internet

 

Most of the comments on this thread may qualify.

[Thin2win]

44 minutes ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

Saying the Olympics don’t matter is the craziest thing I’ve read on the internet this week and there’s some crazy stuff on the internet.

People want to be Olympic champions and the prestige that comes with that around the world is a lot higher than winning a major in golf.

Golf in the Olympics is cool, but it doesn't pull that much weight. The Olympics themselves are awesome, and all the sports that have the Olympics as their pinnacle are spectacular. Golf is so new and the field is so limited that it is hard to put much stock into it as more then just cool. But, obv, that is my opinion.

[shootmyage]

1 hour ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

Saying the Olympics don’t matter is the craziest thing I’ve read on the internet this week and there’s some crazy stuff on the internet.

People want to be Olympic champions and the prestige that comes with that around the world is a lot higher than winning a major in golf.

this is the second time I’ve seen you say this. Ignoring The Open as a major and putting the PGA championship above it is the second craziest thing I’ve read.

The Open is the oldest and most prestigious of the majors. As an American I would take winning The Open over the US Open and would take the US Open over The Masters other than the lifetime exemption that comes with The Masters winning an Open is more prestigious.

 

you have your opinion and i have mine , i know if i was a pro golfer i would rather win the us open and the pga championship than the masters and the open .

at least you are reading my posts , thanks

Edited September 15, 2022 by shootmyage

[shootmyage]

3 hours ago, Thin2win said:

Hagen, Watson, Ballesteros, Daly, Kite, Montgomery, Duval, Player, Trevino, Singh, Norman, Els, Langer, Faldo.... shoo fly.

i can very easy agree with gp and lt .

[cleve981]

3 hours ago, Bang60 said:

I would be surprised if Liv golf doesn't become "PAY per view" ....

Yeah, then we'll see how many really love LIV golf.

[RickyBobby_PR]

54 minutes ago, Thin2win said:

Golf in the Olympics is cool, but it doesn't pull that much weight. The Olympics themselves are awesome, and all the sports that have the Olympics as their pinnacle are spectacular. Golf is so new and the field is so limited that it is hard to put much stock into it as more then just cool. But, obv, that is my opinion.

You look at it thru the glass of the sport being played and that is a narrow mindset and ignores the big picture. When a person shows up with an Olympic medal they are given a lot of respect and honor. They have doors open for them that aren’t there from just winning a golf major.

The Olympic medal itself commands respect and those who have them also get that respect and the tons of privileges that go with it. 

In many countries winning the Olympics or a world championship comes with lots of perks from the winners government. Here in US unless you are a Tiger Woods you aren’t getting your face on a wheaties box as a golfer but you will for winning a gold medal. 
 

[Bang60]

28 minutes ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

You look at it thru the glass of the sport being played and that is a narrow mindset and ignores the big picture. When a person shows up with an Olympic medal they are given a lot of respect and honor. They have doors open for them that aren’t there from just winning a golf major.

The Olympic medal itself commands respect and those who have them also get that respect and the tons of privileges that go with it. 

In many countries winning the Olympics or a world championship comes with lots of perks from the winners government. Here in US unless you are a Tiger Woods you aren’t getting your face on a wheaties box as a golfer but you will for winning a gold medal. 
 

Olympians are Heroes in my Country, very special people which also includes the "All Blacks Rugby Union Teams...

[BIG STU]

7 hours ago, shootmyage said:

you have your opinion and i have mine , i know if i was a pro golfer i would rather win the us open and the pga championship than the masters and the open .

at least you are reading my posts , thanks

Well everyone has their opinions and are certainally entitled to them------ For me being biased it would be the Masters period--- Being born and raised in the South the Masters holds a certain reverence in our hearts. Masters week is the only week I will sideline other plans to watch.  I go as far as to cutting my phone off and putting my Do Not Disturb sign on the front door

[BIG STU]

10 hours ago, Bang60 said:

I would be surprised if Liv golf doesn't become "PAY per view" ....

As much disposable money as they have I would not be surprised if they bought their own Sattelite or launched one and do their own channel. 

[Middler]

10 hours ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

Saying the Olympics don’t matter is the craziest thing I’ve read on the internet this week and there’s some crazy stuff on the internet.

People want to be Olympic champions and the prestige that comes with that around the world is a lot higher than winning a major in golf.

this is the second time I’ve seen you say this. Ignoring The Open as a major and putting the PGA championship above it is the second craziest thing I’ve read.

The Open is the oldest and most prestigious of the majors. As an American I would take winning The Open over the US Open and would take the US Open over The Masters other than the lifetime exemption that comes with The Masters winning an Open is more prestigious.

 

Different strokes. I’ve never watched Olympic golf in my life, means nothing to me as it’s a weaker field than any major and most PGA tournaments.

And I think many of us consider The Masters the pinnacle of pro golf period.

[Bang60]

1 hour ago, BIG STU said:

Well everyone has their opinions and are certainally entitled to them------ For me being biased it would be the Masters period--- Being born and raised in the South the Masters holds a certain reverence in our hearts. Masters week is the only week I will sideline other plans to watch.  I go as far as to cutting my phone off and putting my Do Not Disturb sign on the front door

Yeah the Masters is one course I'd love to play, the rest not so much...

[Headhammer]

3 hours ago, BIG STU said:

Well everyone has their opinions and are certainally entitled to them------ For me being biased it would be the Masters period--- Being born and raised in the South the Masters holds a certain reverence in our hearts. Masters week is the only week I will sideline other plans to watch.  I go as far as to cutting my phone off and putting my Do Not Disturb sign on the front door

I'm just a transplanted southerner, but if I were a pro golfer the Masters is the one tournament I would want to win as well!

[LICC]

12 hours ago, shootmyage said:

you have your opinion and i have mine , i know if i was a pro golfer i would rather win the us open and the pga championship than the masters and the open .

at least you are reading my posts , thanks

The PGA Championship is by quite a margin the least of the four majors. It's a great event and in recent years the PGA has done a terrific job elevating its quality, but there really is no reason for it to be a major anymore. It's a glorified high-level Tour event run by a different organization.

[RickyBobby_PR]

2 hours ago, Middler said:

Different strokes. I’ve never watched Olympic golf in my life, means nothing to me as it’s a weaker field than any major and most PGA tournaments.

And I think many of us consider The Masters the pinnacle of pro golf period.

Yes to most golf fans the Olympic golf isn’t important and doesn’t have a strong field. But that’s the same for many of the Olympic sports. There are a handful of people/teams in most Olympic sports that have a chance to win a medal. In swimming for example there may be 3-5 swimmers who are going to have a chance to win a medal in any race and some may be from the same country. The rest of the field is just there. But there’s also that chance some unknown ir unexpected person/team wins.

But when you put Olympic champion or Olympic medalist on your list of achievements people see that and automatically give respect. That medal opens doors for athletes that winning a major doesn’t. Those athletes can stand in front of a crowd they are speaking to and can say I won an Olympic medal and the crowd no matter what they are into or not recognize and understand what that means. Like you and others that don’t care for Olympic golf there’s a large amount of people that don’t care about golf and what a major is, but that same group knows about the Olympics.

Its not about the sport but what winning a medal at the Olympics brings.

Its the same for anyone who wins a word championship of any kind. The word world champ carry weight. People understand and respect that.

[shootmyage]

The U.S. Open demands more from its competitors than any championship in the game. That bears out statistically, no matter how one dives into the numbers.

 

Since 2011, the average champion has been under 28 years old, by far the youngest of the four majors, implying it’s a strong physical test. The setups are the most difficult, too: Since 2000, the average winning score to par has been 4.5 under, while each of the other three majors has yielded an average winning score double digits under par.

if i could i would play --the old course and st andrews before any course in the us ., but that's just me not pro golf .

[LICC]

1 hour ago, shootmyage said:

The U.S. Open demands more from its competitors than any championship in the game. That bears out statistically, no matter how one dives into the numbers.

 

Since 2011, the average champion has been under 28 years old, by far the youngest of the four majors, implying it’s a strong physical test. The setups are the most difficult, too: Since 2000, the average winning score to par has been 4.5 under, while each of the other three majors has yielded an average winning score double digits under par.

if i could i would play --the old course and st andrews before any course in the us ., but that's just me not pro golf .

I would love to play St. Andrews Old Course, just for the history of it, but if I could pick any course in the world to be able to play, there would be quite a few ahead of it. Not a whole ton of courses, but quite a few. I think Cypress Point would top my list.

[shootmyage]

1 hour ago, LICC said:

I would love to play St. Andrews Old Course, just for the history of it, but if I could pick any course in the world to be able to play, there would be quite a few ahead of it. Not a whole ton of courses, but quite a few. I think Cypress Point would top my list.

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[PeterHenric]

I feel like, at LIV golf, players shouldn't be allowed to ask the gallery to be quiet. This is supposed to be golf, but louder. There is music playing in the background, the gallery should be allowed to talk as long as they don't do the thing where they yell in the middle of a swing.

[Rickp]

4 hours ago, LICC said:

I would love to play St. Andrews Old Course, just for the history of it, but if I could pick any course in the world to be able to play, there would be quite a few ahead of it. Not a whole ton of courses, but quite a few. I think Cypress Point would top my list.

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[chisag]

... Having absolutely nothing to do with golf, this looks like it could be an Ad for any fraternity looking to recruit more rich Frat Boys:


 

 

[fixyurdivot]

It's great seeing Matthew Wolfe back and playing well after the rocky period.  This format/venue really seems to agree with him.  Team 4 Aces are once again leading the pack - certainly the others are getting tired of this pattern.  Looks like the shorts to pants ratio is still in that 60:40 range.  I wonder if some just are superstitious?  As bad as some of the scores are, some should probably make the switch .

 

[RickyBobby_PR]

27 minutes ago, fixyurdivot said:

It's great seeing Matthew Wolfe back and playing well after the rocky period.  This format/venue really seems to agree with him.  Team 4 Aces are once again leading the pack - certainly the others are getting tired of this pattern.  Looks like the shorts to pants ratio is still in that 60:40 range.  I wonder if some just are superstitious?  As bad as some of the scores are, some should probably make the switch .

 

Wolff didn’t have the right mindset to be on the pga. Don’t know if it was the pressure or he just doesn’t do well on his own. He talked about being lonely on tour and lacking a support system. LIV is more like us college days and he can relax.

i like him and it sucked he couldn’t thrive in tour like hovland and morikawa 

[fixyurdivot]

21 minutes ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

Wolff didn’t have the right mindset to be on the pga. Don’t know if it was the pressure or he just doesn’t do well on his own. He talked about being lonely on tour and lacking a support system. LIV is more like us college days and he can relax.

i like him and it sucked he couldn’t thrive in tour like hovland and morikawa 

Interesting, I'd not heard about him saying he felt lonely on tour.  It's kind of hard to imagine that being the case, especially for US players.  We probably don't consider the mental aspects of why some players thrive and others do not - mostly due to folks being reluctant to speak about such matters publicly.   

DJ scorching the course with a 63... and, even bigger news... Phil shoots an under par round 70 .

[shootmyage]

pga vs liv best quotes 

varner's wife said  " ---- everybody , do what you want "

rory after 21 tour wins said "one more than somebody else "

norman then said " his next goal is to win more than 91 tournaments globally and be number 1 in the world more than 331 weeks .

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[MacTourney]

16 hours ago, fixyurdivot said:

Team 4 Aces are once again leading the pack - certainly the others are getting tired of this pattern.  

It's amazing to see what Perez is raking in this year while playing way below what would usually be associated with that amount of cash winnings.   He's got to be laughing all the way to Wells Fargo with a wheelbarrow in tow. 

[shootmyage]

6 hours ago, MacTourney said:

It's amazing to see what Perez is raking in this year while playing way below what would usually be associated with that amount of cash winnings.   He's got to be laughing all the way to Wells Fargo with a wheelbarrow in tow. 

if liv was a 4 man abcd scramble  i would put perez as a middle c , the way phil is playing he would ba a middle b golfer  , yesterday he would be a low a or high b  golfer .

liv chicago 7700 yds  slope 153 , rating 78 , plus drones and dogs and corn . can't get much better . phil was rolling along then his wheels fell off ..

Edited September 17, 2022 by shootmyage

[fixyurdivot]

Just catching the last few holes for todays round.  Looks like the Chicago folks are pretty open minded about giving LIV a look... much bigger crowds than yesterday.  DJ and Cam tied going into #16.  Either the course is playing a bit tougher or the field isn't feeling it today - not much of a gain from yesterdays finish.

 

[Bang60]

9 hours ago, shootmyage said:

pga vs liv best quotes 

varner's wife said  " ---- everybody , do what you want "

rory after 21 tour wins said "one more than somebody else "

norman then said " his next goal is to win more than 91 tournaments globally and be number 1 in the world more than 331 weeks .

 . 

 

 

Hmmm rory best get cracking lol...