No point in Froome attacking before the barriered section as the crowd would probably block his way or just knock him off his bike deliberately or not.
The guy who hit it in the fairway won. Woods and spieth couldn't keep the small round white thing in the short grass so lost. also Mcilroy. that hateful **** sunk and eagle and it was oh **** no not that manc loving two faced twathead. .... but he's **** and can't keep the small white thingy in the short grass either. My view of golf is this...... theres no need for longer courses. let them hit as long as they like. just narrow the fairways and grow the grass long. separates the men form the boys every time. oh and put crocodiles in the water and scorpions in the bunkers
Links sorts the men from the boys. Variant weather... tough conditions , tricky greens. Although they keep the rough playable but punishing if you don't have the skill. The USPGA could learn a think or two for their majors. They either make it so easy it's a shoot out with 20 under winning it or flag positions, rough and greens literally unplayable..and it becomes a lottery not a test of skill. You're right... far too much emphasis on power and distance in recent years rather than finesse or imagination...
95% of course on the US PGA are a hitters course. Yanks seem to like lots of scoring, lots of spin and tricks on the green and guys who smash it 400 yards from anywhere. their fairways are a mile wide and the rough if you could call it that doesn't even stop the hitters putting spin on anyway. IMO there's a few reasons why mcilroy has become a complete knob jockey (spelling for the pedants) 1. PGA courses forgive long hitters who can't keep it on fairway. so he's learned to smash it and not worry. then you are so clse you can hit these easy greens and spin the ball back past the hole or stop it dead. 2. he took the massive money from nike. imo he was never the same having changed balls and clubs. 3. he dumped and dumps again girls and basically got into the trading up routine. 4. he's a manc **** who deserves to lose The open this week had: a) proper rough, not killer but proper rough b) slow greens that required a proper hit of the ball. none of this tap it downhill and it rolls in stuff c) undulating greens that were harder to read and massively long puts d) real hazards not bunkers that you can drive from almost. e) actual wind. not gales, just enough f) actual rain. not miserable but tough enough g) on day 3 it had easy pin positions allowing for a big move and real excitement to set up the last day Lads who hit the ball anywhere ended up with big scores on some holes. it killed off most yanks and mcilroy who was bragging before each day. oh wind thats suit me etc etc.. Lads who can't put didn't score well. The guy who won won like this 70 72 65 69 thats very steady golf and there wasn't much that actually separated the top 10. Interestingly MOLINARI, 70 72 65 69 276 T2 ROSE 72 73 64 69 278 T2 MCILROY, 69 69 70 70 278 T2 KISNER, 66 70 68 74 278 T2 SCHAUFFELE, 71 66 67 74 278 T6 PEPPERELL, 71 70 71 67 279 T6 WOODS 71 71 66 71 279 T6 CHAPPELL, 70 69 67 73 279 T9 SPIETH, 72 67 65 76 280 Kisner and Schauffele faded badly on day 4 in a bit of wind. Speith will be kicking himself cos he absolutely threw this away. Rose lost it on day 1 and 2. He actually did amazing well to be anywhere close but really the yanks fading made him look closer. Mcilroy was all over the shop scoring when the ball could run but ****ing up and he hacked round in a very consistent just under par way all week. He ****ed it up on day 3 and really should have been closer. Really molinari was there or there about in all conditions but made the most of the day 3 scoring and then really ground it out and made no errors on the final day.
He was lucky as man If that drop had been longer/deeper he'd have been in big trouble Handled it well though !!
Another rider was killed going over that exact same wall actually Yates went down on the descent as well but it was a great win from Alaphilippe who I think would've caught him anyway without the fall
