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The 2006 PGA Championship--Official Thread

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fourteenandoh weir -5
Bucklion glover -4
iambrutus dimarco -3
Saw31 furyk -2
THE WOOD verplank +4 MC

No one is out to a big lead. looks like all of our picks are playing well (except verplank, what a hack j/k) I must say that the Ogilvy, Woods, Mickelson group lived up to their expectations. all three are right in there. Tiger is playing his typical early round major game. just plodding along making an occasional birdie and no big numbers. if he gets it going tomorrow it will be over IMO. Me and THEWOOD are heading out there tomorrow and i can't wait. it will be my first time going to a major. we will probably follow phil around all day and catch a little bit of tiger when we can. this is going to be another great weekend for major championship golf. hopefully we can see someone challenge tiger down the stretch similar to 00 when bob may took him to a playoff or 99 when he and sergio went at it. just once i would like to see someone go toe to toe with tiger and win.
 
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Verplank sucks balls, he was even after the 15th hole lastnight. Guy just couldnt keep it together, oh well.
Should be a great day out on the course. Hopefully Mick can put some birdies together and keep his driver in the fairway.
 
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Buckeye Gets Double Eagle!!!

Sindelar's double eagle is golf's rarest

MEDINAH, Ill. - Joey Sindelar holed out a 3-wood from 241 yards on the par-5 fifth hole Saturday for a double eagle, the rarest shot in golf and only the third in <FORM class=yqin action=http://yq.search.yahoo.com/search method=post></FORM>PGA Championship history. Sindelar was 2 over for the tournament when he made the albatross.
It was the first double eagle at the PGA Championship since Per-Ulrik Johansson at Riviera in 1995. The only other was by club pro Darrell Kestner at Inverness in 1993.
Gary Evans was the last player to make an albatross in any major, in the first round at Royal Troon two years ago in the British Open.
The most famous double eagle in any major came at the 1935 Masters, when Gene Sarazen holed out with a 4-wood from the 15th fairway at Augusta National, a shot that enabled him to get into a playoff and beat Craig Wood the next day.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060819/ap_on_sp_go_ne/glf_pga_double_eagle_1
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Sindelar's double eagle is golf's rarest

MEDINAH, Ill. - Joey Sindelar holed out a 3-wood from 241 yards on the par-5 fifth hole Saturday for a double eagle, the rarest shot in golf and only the third in <FORM class=yqin action=http://yq.search.yahoo.com/search method=post></FORM>PGA Championship history. Sindelar was 2 over for the tournament when he made the albatross.
It was the first double eagle at the PGA Championship since Per-Ulrik Johansson at Riviera in 1995. The only other was by club pro Darrell Kestner at Inverness in 1993.
Gary Evans was the last player to make an albatross in any major, in the first round at Royal Troon two years ago in the British Open.
The most famous double eagle in any major came at the 1935 Masters, when Gene Sarazen holed out with a 4-wood from the 15th fairway at Augusta National, a shot that enabled him to get into a playoff and beat Craig Wood the next day.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060819/ap_on_sp_go_ne/glf_pga_double_eagle_1
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I got a double eagle a couple years ago...Yes, I am bragging!! :biggrin: Holed out a 7 iron on a par five for a two...I actually tried to walk off the course (hole 16) but my friends wouldn't let me. I had no motivation to finish...It was the shot of my life and what could I possibly do beyond that, except ruin the feeling...I think I went double bogey, double bogey to finish....:lol:...Still waiting for my hole-in-one though...:biggrin:
 
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how awesome was that saw? an albatros. those don't happen very often. btw, what were u doing hitting a 7 iron into a par 5? were u on a pitch n putt:biggrin: totally kidding. anyway, just got back from medinah and all i will say right now is that i wanted to puke all over medinah when el tigre made birdie from a divot on 16. screw that guy. 11 and 0 when has a share of the lead going into sunday... i guess he's due to f up tomorrow. go mike! i'll update the scores when i wake up in the morning. btw i'm winning!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
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fourteenandoh said:
how awesome was that saw? an albatros. those don't happen very often. btw, what were u doing hitting a 7 iron into a par 5? were u on a pitch n putt:biggrin: totally kidding. anyway, just got back from medinah and all i will say right now is that i wanted to puke all over medinah when el tigre made birdie from a divot on 16. screw that guy. 11 and 0 when has a share of the lead going into sunday... i guess he's due to f up tomorrow. go mike! i'll update the scores when i wake up in the morning. btw i'm winning!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
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It was a big dog leg right that if you could cut the corner just right you got a very short approach. Normally it's 1) driver - 2) fairway wood, maybe long iron, to have a chance to get home in two, but I got the corner that day. 165-170 yards out, all down hill...<I would like to be able to say I hit it over the flag and spun it back and into the hole. That would make for a good story> :biggrin: But actually I was in the rough. Hacked it/half-skulled it out, landing it 20 or so yards short of the green, bounce/roll/body english/"go ball go", up and in...It was complete bullshit luck (very, very friendly bounces), but they don't ask you how pretty it looked when you write it on the scorecard. :biggrin: And about how it felt...I dropped my club, raised my arms and yelled "double fucking eagle!!" (or something to that effect) as loud as I could, then tried to walk off the course...I may have even threatened to never play golf again...:lol: But they made me finish and as I said, I fell apart completely after that. I gave those strokes back to the course very quickly...Had absolutely zero concentration after that shot. :lol: I've been playing since 8 years old. I knew exactly how fucking ridiculous getting an albatross was...:biggrin:

And yes, that shot out of the divot by Tiger was ridiculous. You ain't supposed to be able to do that shit...I'm hoping somebody pushes him a little today. I really don't care who wins, but I don't want to just see the rest of the field fold under the pressure when Tiger is there on Sunday...
 
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It beginning to look more and more likely that Tiger will pass Jack in total majors. He may finish with 22+ major victories, unless some young stud comes along in the next few years.

I do believe that Jack had tougher competition over the years although the overall field in today's game is superior. Jack's major career lasted 24 years and he had to outlast some present and future Hall of Famers (Palmer, Player, Casper, Boros, Trevino, Watson, Ballesteros, Floyd, Irwin, Nelson) as each of the before mentioned had more than three major victories in their career. Only time will tell in the next decade whether Tiger's competion will stack up against Nicklaus' competition.
 
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