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Weekday tickets to this year's US Open were $280 and weekend were ~$400 for GA if I remember correctly. Not sure if there's some price adjustment for North Carolina vs. Los Angeles, but I assume they'll be similar since they're selling out regardless of venue.
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BCRock posted:Weekday tickets to this year's US Open were $280 and weekend were ~$400 for GA if I remember correctly. Not sure if there's some price adjustment for North Carolina vs. Los Angeles, but I assume they'll be similar since they're selling out regardless of venue. There were only 23,000 total tickets available this year, 14,000 were hospitality tickets, so there were only 9,000 GA tickets available each day. Rumor has it that LACC bought about half of those, so there were realistically only 5,000 total GA tickets available each day. Last year there were 40,000 tickets each day, no clue on the breakdown.
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Jun 19, 2023 19:55
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It's true that there were far fewer GA tickets sold this year than last year, even though most of those numbers that keep getting reported are a ways off of reality, but I'm pretty sure that the prices for last year at Brookline were roughly the same, despite there being almost twice as many GA tickets sold. Boston and LA are much higher profile markets than Pinehurst NC is, but my point is that they could probably make all of the tickets $500 and they'd still sell out there because it's the US Open and there are enough golf fans who'd pay that, basically regardless of venue.
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Jun 19, 2023 20:50
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Yeah $400-500 was my top line for the weekend. I'd happily pay that for a "once every 5-10 year" experience. edit: and there'd be no travel costs for me which is a huge help
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Jun 19, 2023 21:32
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Look what turned up in the mail today
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Jun 19, 2023 23:20
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Bought one ticket for Valhalla Sunday. I look forward to walking from my house there next year.
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Jun 20, 2023 14:21
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New suggested rule. No hunter's orange, fluorescent golf shirts. Guy wasn't particularly moving about, but if he was in any way in your sight line, any movement was eye catching. Also, it was an ugly shirt.
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Jun 20, 2023 17:58
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torgeaux posted:New suggested rule. No hunter's orange, fluorescent golf shirts. Guy wasn't particularly moving about, but if he was in any way in your sight line, any movement was eye catching. Also, it was an ugly shirt. You won the tournament Wyndham, relax.
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Jun 20, 2023 18:04
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Shrapnig posted:You won the tournament Wyndham, relax. Rickie's look was subdued in comparison
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Jun 20, 2023 18:25
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Haha, I get it, especially that shade of orange, which I guess makes sense if hunters are wearing it to avoid getting shot.
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Jun 20, 2023 19:01
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My friend got hit in the head with a drive during our round on Friday. 14 year old kid sliced a driver 280 yards into our fairway and didn't yell fore. The kid was crying because he thought he killed him. Good reminder to always yell when your drive goes into the other fairway.
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Jun 20, 2023 19:20
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daslog posted:My friend got hit in the head with a drive during our round on Friday. 14 year old kid sliced a driver 280 yards into our fairway and didn't yell fore. The kid was crying because he thought he killed him. drat, was your friend okay, like concussion or anything? e: Is there a best practice of what to do if you hear fore? I usually just cover my neck and turn away from when I heard it unless I can move behind a tree or something
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Jun 20, 2023 20:47
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daslog posted:My friend got hit in the head with a drive during our round on Friday. 14 year old kid sliced a driver 280 yards into our fairway and didn't yell fore. The kid was crying because he thought he killed him. I hardcore sliced a drive into an opposing tee box and yelled fore at the guys standing there. When I got up there I started to apologize for hitting into them and one of the guys says "thanks for yelling it out, Steve spotted it and caught it in his hat." Which like, cool. But like what's the ruling on that? Is it considered unplayable?
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Jun 20, 2023 21:40
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Sliced one badly into another fairway once, right at a solo player. I yelled fore as loud as I could. Ball hit him square in the chest. Guy was deaf. He was fine thank god, mentally I was not for the rest of the round.
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Jun 20, 2023 22:00
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I hit past the group in front of us yesterday. Par 5, they were in the fairway, hit their second and drove out of sight. Another player tees off, he couldn't reach them where they were, but waited, wisely. Then, I got up, hit about 20 yards past where they had been, and they come out of the tree line! Apparently had hit into the trees ahead went up to one ball and hit and came back to look.
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Jun 20, 2023 22:26
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When I was like 20 years old I hit by far the best drive of my life on the 18th. Didn’t think I had a chance in the world to reach the twosome ~300 yards away in the middle of the fairway. My drive landed like 30 yards short of them and rolled up to somewhere within 10 feet or so of them (Two 40 year old or so Italian dudes). I yelled fore with plenty of warning time. They immediately picked it up, got in their cart, drove all the way to the tee, got out, and threw the ball at me as hard as they could. I caught the ball with one hand and that really pissed them off so they get out of their cart and start coming at us saying they are gonna kick our asses. I told my friend to stay in the cart. I get out and walk up to them like I’m gonna fight them. And then just run by them and get in their cart and take off with it. They had no chance to do anything because they were two 40 year old fat dudes and I was 20 years old. My friend follows me in our cart. We drove the carts to the parking lot. Threw our bags in our cars, and threw the assholes bags into the pond. I’ve never been back to that course.
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RCarr posted:We drove the carts to the parking lot. Threw our bags in our cars, and threw the assholes bags into the pond. I love everything about this story.
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MustardFacial posted:Look what turned up in the mail today strongly considering re-naming the thread 'dick-butt balls' BCRock posted:I love everything about this story. not an empty quote
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Jun 21, 2023 09:22
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BCRock posted:I love everything about this story. Sames lol
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Spitfires posted:drat, was your friend okay, like concussion or anything? He's ok. We finished the round, and I shot an 87. I'm an 18 handicap, so that's a good number for me. I usually turn away and protect my face.
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Jun 21, 2023 14:34
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Got tickets to the Thursday round at Valhalla, major #2 for me.
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Jun 21, 2023 14:35
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Managed to play 9 and not lose a ball. The score is irrelevant, I started and ended with the same ball.
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-06-20/riviera-country-club-selected-to-host-2031-us-open This has been the assumption for a while, but it's official now. I'm curious what they'll be able to do to Riv to make it US Open level difficult since the winners at the regular Riv tour event every year are always way under par. Around LA there's a constant debate over which course is the best between Riv and LACC North. Having now been to LACC for 2 rounds of the US Open (haven't played it though) and Riv many times for the PGA event (and played it ~8 times), I understand the debate a lot better now since they are wildly different golf courses. LACC on an average day with normal length rough and member level green speeds is an "easier" golf course than Riv is, but LACC can have the difficulty cranked way up to a level that I don't know that Riv can match. They're both difficult courses just by virtue of their layout and how nuanced the greens are, but Riv has kikuyu rough, which is thick and sticky and massively inconsistent, which creates a ton of challenge for any shots that miss the greens or fairways, but you can't just grow it out super long to make it harder, because it just doesn't grow that long and when it does it's more impossible than challenging. Meanwhile, LACC has bermuda that allowed them to grow it out for the US Open to make it tougher (or at least they tried to, but it's been too cloudy here to get it where the USGA really wanted it). LACC can also be stretched out a lot longer than Riv can for a tour event. The back tees for the members at Riv are the same ones the tour plays on like 15 holes. They take the 12th tee from like 390y for the members to almost 500y for the pros, but the other couple holes are only a little bit longer. LACC maxed out for the Open added like 800 yards from the regular back tees and can do crazy poo poo like swapping the 11/16th tee boxes. Going to be interesting for sure.
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RCarr posted:When I was like 20 years old I hit by far the best drive of my life on the 18th. Didn’t think I had a chance in the world to reach the twosome ~300 yards away in the middle of the fairway. My drive landed like 30 yards short of them and rolled up to somewhere within 10 feet or so of them (Two 40 year old or so Italian dudes). I yelled fore with plenty of warning time. They immediately picked it up, got in their cart, drove all the way to the tee, got out, and threw the ball at me as hard as they could. Lmao
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daslog posted:My friend got hit in the head with a drive during our round on Friday. 14 year old kid sliced a driver 280 yards into our fairway and didn't yell fore. The kid was crying because he thought he killed him. I feel bad for that kid but I'm glad your friend is okay. Crouch and turn away from the sound, cover the back of your head
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Oodles posted:Managed to play 9 and not lose a ball. The score is irrelevant, I started and ended with the same ball. This is a great feeling, with the added bonus that it enables you to start playing better quality/more expensive balls without the fear of immediately losing them. I started stocking up on Vice Pros towards the end of last season when I got to a point where I was regularly losing 0-2 balls per round instead of 5-6+.
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Oodles posted:Managed to play 9 and not lose a ball. The score is irrelevant, I started and ended with the same ball. Awesome! I still have the ball I played my first one ball round with somewhere, it's a milestone for sure.
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44 putts on a goat track par 3 course is unacceptable. I have brought shame to my house.
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Shrapnig posted:Awesome! I still have the ball I played my first one ball round with somewhere, it's a milestone for sure. Me too. It was a Wilson ball with Patrick from Spongebob printed on it. Conversely, my first shot with Spongebob from the same sleeve immediately landed in the water.
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Bought a PXG GEN5 0311X Driving Iron after winning my US Open pool. Excited to see how it plays....as I never had anything like this on my radar until recently.
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gently caress yeah, playing golf on my Ireland trip! This should be fun
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Day two update; lost two balls but score came down. Op Success?
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MustardFacial posted:44 putts on a goat track par 3 course is unacceptable. I have brought shame to my house.
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Denny McCarthy is currently -8 thru 12 today. 
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gvibes posted:I shot six over this morning. With two 4 putt doubles from ~30-40 feet. I’m usually 6 over by the 4th hole.
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Dango Bango posted:Denny McCarthy is currently -8 thru 12 today. Scott just ripped off 5 straight birdies and is 9 under after 15. If not for a bogey on the 7th, he’d have a real chance for a 58. Still a good chance for a 60!
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Scott just blew it into the water on the 17th. Bummer. Edit: and McCarthy left his birdie putt short by about 6 inches. No sub 60s today. Double edit: omg he almost eagled his last for a 59. Missed it by a whisker. So close to a historic round. Aggro fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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torgeaux posted:I hit past the group in front of us yesterday. Par 5, they were in the fairway, hit their second and drove out of sight. Another player tees off, he couldn't reach them where they were, but waited, wisely. Then, I got up, hit about 20 yards past where they had been, and they come out of the tree line! Apparently had hit into the trees ahead went up to one ball and hit and came back to look. The group in front of us on Saturday kept doing this? At least like three or four holes, once they’d hit their second shot and start scooting down the fairway one of us would tee up and then all of the sudden one of their carts would turn around and come back up the fairway. Like, if you’ve moved past your errant tee shot and dropped and hit a second ball, don’t fuckin come back looking for your first one you goobers! RCarr posted:I’ve never been back to that course. This is some Happy Gilmore poo poo and it’s hilarious
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Shot an 86 today. Probably more like an 89 or 90 since....due to my skill level.....I take a mulligan every once in a while. Score is less important than the fact that my play has been getting noticeably better. Mostly due to the fact that I've been hitting my irons really well. And due to that newly found confidence in my irons.....I've been more strategic in playing out a hole.....like opting to hit something like a 4 or 5 iron off the tee rather than my (erratic) driver if the fairway is too narrow or if a hole falls in that 325-400 yard range where I'll need two shots to get there regardless. Ordered a PXG 0311 x Driving Iron a few days back and should have it sometime this next week. I realize that they aren't necessarily the easiest to hit....but I figure that if I can figure it out....that would provide even more flexibility.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Shot an 86 today. Probably more like an 89 or 90 since....due to my skill level.....I take a mulligan every once in a while. Score is less important than the fact that my play has been getting noticeably better. Mostly due to the fact that I've been hitting my irons really well. And due to that newly found confidence in my irons.....I've been more strategic in playing out a hole.....like opting to hit something like a 4 or 5 iron off the tee rather than my (erratic) driver if the fairway is too narrow or if a hole falls in that 325-400 yard range where I'll need two shots to get there regardless. I would say don't take mulligans once you shoot in the low 90's, you are just cheating yourself. Count every shot and every penalty. That, or just don't keep score at all. Being able to mentally handle hitting a tee shot out of bounds and still get a bogey is a skill you only learn with practice.
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