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Jagdaddy
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I don’t like him, but my alternative hypothesis is that he thought he could go to the more money for less work with less competition league and still be sharp enough to win majors, which is all he really cares about, and has realized that he’d lost his edge away from the PGA Tour and wants to get it back so he can be relevant again.
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I’m of the mindset he wasn’t sure he could come back from his injury enough to play at an elite level. He took the money on the chance he couldn’t. Now he knows he can, so I agree he wants to get the edge back and be relevant.
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billmac91
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The issue with Brooks is he always played a “light” PGA Tour schedule anyways. He has never liked to grind, and he’s an admitted “home-body”…..nothing wrong with that, IMO.
For all the shit LIV players get, their schedule is mandatory to qualify for the contractual $$$, and the schedule is all over the world. Brooks hates that.
Add in LIV went to (4) round tournaments (like the PGA Tour) to qualify for World Ranking points, and many of the reasons Brooks joined LIV (for less wear and tear on his body) basically disappeared over 2 years.
He’s going to play a light PGA schedule, but be much happier.
The last thing I’d point out….he made his brother Chase $5M on LIV. Chase ended up being relegated but he earned over $5M in his short time in LIV, only bc Brooks called that shot (that Chase had to play the first season). Now that Chase is relegated, he can’t really do his brother any favors….
But at least the next time Chase calls from the Philippino Tour asking for $$$, Brooks can say “what’d you do with that $5M I made you?”
Was probably worth it for that alone.
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Meh….waiting for some of the Americans besides Scotty to start showing up consistently in majors
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I was laughing and remarking to my wife how much nicer people were treating Rory at Augusta this weekend versus how he was treated at Bethpage a few months ago at the Ryder Cup.
We had a chuckle.
We had a chuckle.
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Got himself onto a couple of exclusive lists during these last 2 Masters.
1 of 6 with a career slam, and 1 of 4 to get repeat Green Jackets (Jack, Faldo, Tiger).
But he was dumb enough to hit driver on 18 with a 2-stroke lead. Reminded me of Mickelson at Winged Foot.
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
Dunno, the way he hit the big stick yesterday, all day, seemed to be the best solution, until it wasn't. Not that I'm near that level, but if you've been doing it, why would you change. Playing if soft, or safely, means you are overthinking it, and have seen that crater more often than not. Golf is not a game where you can 'guide' the ball, you must put your best swing on it at all times. Anyway, he exhibited all day that he has all the shots, and some he made from the boonies were tremendous. Tip of the hat to Rory.
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Sorry, I just can’t buy that. As he approached the tee on 18, the only 2 ways he could lose the tournament was if Cameron Young holed out for an eagle (about 1000 to 1), or if Rory got a double bogey or worse.
The 18th is only a 465 yard par 4, and has a narrow fairway with trouble on either side. A 320-yard drive isn’t needed to par the hole, but an accurate drive is essential in avoiding big numbers. And Rory was a guy who was 90th out of 91 golfers in hitting fairways over the first two days! And now he’s dealing with the pressure of trying to close it out.
He had played well being aggressive from 7 through 17 (4 under for 11 holes), but he needed two great chips to par 16 and 17. He didn’t need a birdie or even a par on 18, he just needed to avoid disaster.
It‘s a similar situation to protecting a lead in football or basketball. A football team might have a strength of throwing the ball, but if they have a lead late they run the ball to close out the game by reducing the chances of disaster and shortening the game. And a basketball team that likes to run and gun, if they aren’t idiots, quit jacking up quick 3s when they have a multi-possession lead in the last minute. It doesn’t maximize their points per possession, but it decreases the chances of blowing the lead at the end of the game.
There are famous situations of folks not closing out contests by failing to be wisely conservative at the end of sporting events. Joe Pisarcik should have taken a knee against the Eagles in 1978; and Jean Van de Velde on the 18th hole at Carnoustie in 1999, where he hit driver with a 3-stroke lead, compounded his problems with his second shot, and lost in a playoff.
If Rory’s bad drive had ended up behind a tree, he could have lived to regret hitting the driver on 18 with a 2-stroke lead.
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