2023 Women's US Open

azgreg · 2023-07-04T22:49:17+00:00

Blows me away (a bit) that the women's US Open has never been held at Pebble before.

ode

Come to think of it the coverage was a lot like the PGA only showing certain players....every once in a while they'd show that big gal from England, Hewison🤔

Spuzz

Bravopilot Can't tell if they used the coverage to help find Lydia Ko's ball on that Par 3

Ball was not found. You could hide a body in those bushes 😮
She played provisional from right hand bunker and chopped it up from there for a 7 I think.
I can relate, sadly. :/

Bravopilot

Spuzz Right, had they looked at the ball flight, they would spend the time looking behind the bushes. Now if I played and paid $500+ green fee, that ball better had jumped out onto the green.

fatshot

I was just checking the whole leaderboard on The Golf Channel website. There are only about 40 American girls
who even qualified for our Open!! And of those 40, only two.....Alison Corpuz and Bailey Tardy.....are in the top 20...!!!
WTH is wrong with the American girls???? I realize it's only the second round, but .......?????

Sneakylong

fatshot

I do know that after Se Ri Pak came on the scene in the late 90’s that South Korea really invested in women’s golf big time.
I worked with a woman from South Korea and Se Ri Pac was huge. She even started playing golf in her 40’s because of Pak.

Pak’s success (25 wins / 5 majors) has paid off for women’s golf in South Korea. That evidence is clear.
So, my guess is we just haven’t invested in women’s golf certainly as much as other countries, i.e. South Korea.

Spuzz

Bravopilot had they looked at the ball flight, they would spend the time looking behind the bushes

It was OB behind there.
There was a posse that started looking before Ko left the tee box and nothing.
After she showed up, she had 3 mins to find it, but really only pretended to look, as the ruling would have left her in a worse spot than the provisional bunker did.

At 500 bucks a round, they need to put hockey rinks boards around that hole LOL

azgreg

The on course interview with Hannah Green was pretty good.

ode

Spuzz the purpose for finding it was to hit a 2nd shot from the tee after taking an unplayable from where it was found as there would have been no where to drop and her original provisional would have been null and void. She would have then had to retee as that is an option with an unplayable. Would have likely been better off vs. where whe was on the provisional. I would have tried like hell to find that ball.

Bravopilot

Spuzz When I was stationed out that way, it was only $185 then but still outpriced us AF types. We would go play Ft Ord (closed) gold courses, very nice and same views. When they closed Ft Ord they gave the golf course away or sold it, I see it in the rotation for US Open qualifying and the same for PGA Tour local qual. $30 vs $185 wasn't too hard.
Lived up to the joke, "The coldest I've been was a day in the Bay area in the summer".

Sneakylong

Just heard that the winner gets $2 million this week. The entire purse next week is only $1.75 million. 😏

Spuzz

ode Would have likely been better off vs. where she was on the provisional

That is speculation of course.
😉

ode

Spuzz

,🙃Indeed......would have been painful to watch as the two prior swings were TRBL.

I wonder if she knew the extent of the rule🤔.....didn't appear to be trying very hard to find ball.

Bravopilot

ode Agreed, the entire thing and group seemed to not care at the least.

Par4QC

ode If you recall the size of the bushes, you'd realize there may not have been any room for relief anyway, esp. if it was to be on the backside of them. In a case such as that, you never want to find the ball; take the stroke you will have to take either way, and just re-tee, as she did. Smart move, imo. Just an overcompensated shot cost her more than she should have had.

Been there, done that. Tooo many times!😫

ode

Par4QC the retee was for OB or lost ball. The benefit of finding was to retee for unplayable as her OB/not found provisional was in a bad spot! IMO she would have ended up no worse then 7 with decent odds on a 6 having to retee for unplayable, but🤔

Spuzz

ode IMO she would have ended up no worse then 7

She shit her pants with her bunker shot, just as Paige was saying how great her short game was, man or woman.
lmao

Par4QC

ode Made me go to the rule book, damn you. 😅
Now I understand; the found ball would essentially wipe out the provisional, giving her yet a 3rd shot to hit the green.
Might even have got a Par, if found!!

ode

Par4QC yeah,let's just say I learned something too🙃. I would have played a wrong ball in the scenario where the ball was found but unplayable and been DQ,d🤔 or 🤔🤔

Bravopilot

The Marquee TV group is Sorenstam, Wie West, and Chun (current player), really USA network, watching bogey golf.

Par4QC

Bravopilot That was yesterday. Have not seen 1 shot from them today.

rsvman2

Bravopilot I was at Ford Ord for three years... played both Bayonet and Black Horse lots of times. Bayonet was brutally difficult.

Par4QC

Sneakylong So, my guess is we just haven’t invested in women’s golf certainly as much as other countries

Not sure if you are married to an American woman or not, but just an FYI......they don't really want to be told what to do or when to do it.
Might explain the lack of results for American female golfers.

😜

Bravopilot

Par4QC Now you tell me, thought it was I am as pretty as I can be.😆

Bravopilot

Par4QC No today, might be sparing you, the mid-western crowd, they have slowed down showing them since they are not doing well.

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