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- Craig I have a message for you.
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- Stop naming "niceties"
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9 comments:
Ott was a former student of Stan the Man's, back when he was a junior golfer.
So great for Jaxon Brigman! We named our kid after him!
Ott has been known to implode on the golf course a time or two (specifically on a harmless cardboard trashcan... good times!)
JG is in sectional qualifying the Monday after the Memorial.
Good luck to JG on his qualifying for the Open. Hopefully he is on his upswing since I just used up my trade (and dropped $20 bucks) for him!!!! He reminds me of myself...a big fella that can pound out drives!! :) Let's hope I haven't jinxed him by adding him to my FPGP roster!!!!
I hope that JG's attempt at Sectional Qualifying will quell Shades' yearly tirade about that particular Sectional. Every year I hear how "The Open really isn't Open" because there is always a Sectional right after the Memorial that is loaded with Tour guys and there are a ton of spots (relative to the other Sectionals) available. He sees this as a great injustice, and apparantly would rather see the Open contested by a group of mini-tour players and amateurs that got hot for a weekend.
His Sectional logic is right up there with his "Tiger is bad for the Tour" and "The one-two punch of Kuehne and Perks will finally get me into the money in the FPGP."
Sigh.
Oh... Shades is on Tommy Gainey's bag today at the local qualifier at Daniel Island. His first loop... we'll have to see how it turns out.
TTG couldn't get the putts to drop. 74 (+2). I don't think his head was in it though. He's still thinking about the Wachovia, testing new irons and thinking about the Nationwide event he's in next week.
As for that post-Memorial sectional. I will not change my opinion of it. If you don't get in directly from the USGA exemptions, then you should have to qualify the same as everyone else. A mini-tour player should have the same chance as some of the guys who get that special post-Memorial qualifier. For those that aren't aware, in that post-Memorial qualifier 1 in 2 get in to the US Open (or close to that ratio), everyone else plays a qualifier to get into another qualifier. In the first qualifier about 1 in 20 get to go to the regional qualifier where 1 in 60 get in. Do we want to see minitour guys on the big tour? As long as the top 20 to 30 in the world are there, who is concerned about who makes up the other 120 in the field. Of course we care about JG, but other than that are you not going to watch it if there are 120 no-names or if there are no Tiger, Phil, and Els.
I think the goal, Shades, is to have the best possible field for the U.S. Open. That said, having the top 20-30, plus a group of rag tags that would struggle to shoot 85 is a particularly lousy idea.
To paraphrase Ben Hogan... if you don't like the the way it works, make more birdies.
And further still... let's not forget about Steve Jones, who won the Open as a local qualifier, and our own JG who was able to make it through qualifying and then play in the last group on Sunday.
And finally, I would argue that if you simply dispersed the Tour guys among those other sectionals, and then gave more spots to each of those sectionals, you'd get pretty much the same result. The cream would rise as it always does. Maybe you'd get another 1 or 2 nobody's in, but that would be it. Don't kid yourself into thinking that on the same golf course with the same pressures of Open qualifying that a dozen Gateway Tour guys would beat out the mid-tiered PGA Tour guys... if they could... they wouldn't be on the mini-tours in the first place.
Come to think of it, there is actually an argument to be made that getting most of the non-exempt PGA Tour guys into one sectional HELPS the scruffers... think about the 1/2 of so (according to your numbers) that don't get in on that Sectional... if you distributed them around to the other Sectionals, there would realistically be fewer spots available for the club pros, Tin Cups, hot amateurs, etc. My guess, and this is totally a guess, is that if I am someone like Pat Perez trying to play into the Open field, I'd rather go to a Sectional with 20 spots but only 15 pga tour guys, than one with 45 spots, with 60 guys.
If cream rises to the top, then pour everyone into the same cup. As you say the cream will rise and the mini-tour guys will not make it.
The mini-tour guys already haven't made it... that is why they play for 1st place checks of $12,000.
If you are that interested in watching the little train that could on the golf course, rent Tin Cup.
LOL. How do we get into this discussion every year? I'm sure we could just find the blog of it from last year and the year before and just change the date to move it to the top.
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