General Tour Talk

azgreg · 2021-02-20T23:52:55+00:00

Early chip of the year candidate.

azgreg

Max Max Max.................

Eguller

Except for....

Eguller

Treed up. Oh my...

azgreg

What a chip from Homa.

garyt1957

Woo hoo! I had $5 on Homa at 12-1 ! I actually feel bad for Finau

Hoss7504

garyt1957

Tony can't stop stepping on his own dick. He should have at least 5 wins by now. 21 top 5s, 1 win. My man can't close.

Spuzz

Hoss7504 Tony can't stop stepping on his own dick

He's a poor man's Matt Kuchar of sorts.

garyt1957

Hoss7504 Yep, you kinda hate to say it, but he definitely seems to have the choke gene

azgreg

Homa's winning witb:

Driver: Titleist TSi3 (9 degrees)
Shaft: Aldila Rogue Black 130 MSI 60 TX

3-wood: Titleist TS3 (15 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Aldila Rogue Silver 125 MSI 80 TX

7-wood: Titleist TSi2 (21 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD XC 9 TX

Irons: Titleist 620 MB (4-9)
Shafts: KBS $ Taper 130 X

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM8 (46-10F, 50-12F, 56-14F, 60-04L)
Shafts: KBS $ Taper 130 X (46-56), KBS Hi Rev 2.0 125 S (60)

Putter: Scotty Cameron T5W

Grips: Golf Pride BCC

Ball: Titleist Pro V1

candukid

azgreg
wonder what the retail cost of that WITB is....

ode

Two yanks from short/ish range by Finau....caught up to him. Homa and his caddies read on 18 were trbl! And I'm amazed at just how far off the announcers are on the reads. Playoff hole #2 = right edge🤔. Nope....then they see the putt sharply break and say it was 6"....🤔nope...LOL

Homa got away with it.

Spuzz

ode Homa got away with it.

Yes and no.
Finau is a choker. Plain and simple.
At the 2021 Saudi International he finished bogey-bogey (18 is a Par 5) and handed the win to DJ.
The par putt to extend the playoff today missed the hole entirely. C-mon man!
Hoss said it perfectly.

ode

Spuzz that putt broke quite a bit. No where near as bad as the read on 18 for Homa! Agree it was a choke job by Finau....almost anyone else wins or is going another playoff hole. To pull/hook those to irons so badly is poor....I suspect it's his miss and when under pressure it gets magnified. At least Homa hit a great shot into 18 followed by an equally terrible attempt to birdie and win outright.

Par4QC

Spuzz You'll notice a lot of these guys never practice the $1.4M putt, apparently. They need to rethink their range time. I don't think the putting stroke gets ingrained as the 'club' swing does. Don't touch any club for a few months, go out to play, what is the poorest thing you got going that round? And it's the only club in the bag that will cash a $1.4M check, when that check is on the line.
Tony is very lacking in cashing the biggest checks with his putter. Not the club he used to hit in the bunker, or the one he used to hit in the rough. 1 putt will make up for those 2.

KCee

Spuzz Hate to agree with a statement like that, but I do. He's been there too many times. This time really was proof as he played great until he got in the mix. If he wins again he's going to have to come from behind and sit in the clubhouse with the lead while others gag it up. Maybe in Ryder Cup he can find something to get going or he needs to play some money matches with Phil.

sdandrea1

I'm always rooting for Finau.......and keep getting disappointed. I won't stop, tho.

Walterjn

sdandrea1 that's ok. I've been rooting for Spieth.

fatshot

sdandrea1 I'm always rooting for Finau.......and keep getting disappointed. I won't stop, tho.

Walterjn that's ok. I've been rooting for Spieth.

Throw Ricky Fowler in there and you've got a threesome of "close but almost" losers!

sdandrea1

Walterjn that's ok. I've been rooting for Spieth.

Me too. We can pick 'em, yes?

Walterjn

sdandrea1 could be worse... We could have picked someone who wasn't even there.

garyt1957

Par4QC Not the club he used to hit in the bunker, or the one he used to hit in the rough. 1 putt will make up for those 2.

Sure the putts stand out because they're the last shot but as you said he DID hit that shot in the bunker when a ball on the green would have allowed him to two putt and move on. Choking is choking. He just plain underperforms under pressure. Maybe if he wins one somehow that will all go away.

Spuzz

Par4QC the putting stroke gets ingrained

He's been messing around with different putting grips and now he's messing around with ball position (further away) and flatter lies with his putter too. It was very noticeable on that last putt in the playoff.
I notice he over reads putts on Sundays, aside from yanking short irons or missing the fairway when it counts the most of course.
Too bad, but he has lots of kids and none are going hungry, so there's that.
😉

Par4QC

Spuzz I see certain guys choking on those 2-3' putts a lot on Sunday, esp. when near the top. Always the big names. The guys like Burns, yesterday, will do it off the tee, as he did. I'm not worried though, as he gets better, he will choke on those putts instead. Be sure of it.

My wife hates watching on Sunday, with me. Countless times I've said...."He's gonna miss this one".....and 'he' has. You just know when it's going to happen, from TW to Tony Finau to Adam Scott(huge putt choker, btw) to......???... the name does not matter.

They do not practice the $1.4(or higher) putts! It is a different putt than a 2'er.