Creating this for posting your thoughts, commentary, memes in response to the live blog.
I’ll start:
On a similar note, I always chuckle thinking about hiring a strategy guy to calculate all these fractional shots I can gain and then proceeding to hit my first tee shot off the planet.
This is my golf game. Arccos is always like “have you considered not losing 4.5 strokes per round in penalties?”
Are the old skill slopes available? The 1.80 Oakmont is currently producing is crazy high even on such a small sample…
Matt, why is it not favouring accurate players if there is such a big missed-fairway penalty?
I think this is because the “scrubs” who are this tournament tend to be longer than more accurate. Qualifying favors different skill sets and they tend to be younger guys. PGA is the opposite. The Bridgecore Trust Account guys tend to be shorter.
Possible. Forgot that we had a bunch of “scrubs” this week (not as scrubby as the PGA though). Will see how much they are affecting the live insights.
Anyone with a skill below -2 is already getting dropped (left over code from PGA). Might refine the sample a bit more, but basically they aren’t affecting things currently.
Smart. Maybe just small sample size then.
@matt_courchene very clear on television the intermediate is long enough for “good” and “bad” lies. Players having to judge their lie too. It looks about as long as the rough was in Houston.