Live From reviews Rory McIlroy’s 5-under (65) during Round 1, his fifth straight subpar opening round at the U.S. Open, and discusses how golf needs to change in order to make things more challenging for current players. #GolfChannel #USOpen #RoryMcIlroy
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PGAT & Golf Channel thinks Rory is the Golden Child. NEWSFLASH- he aint! lol
100 Chamblee👏👏 u get it…… just make the courses harder and applaud the best players who navigate them better
I like 20 under par which means lots of birdies and makes it exciting for the spectator. If they make a course too difficult it becomes frustrating both for the players and patrons and will be like going to a soccer match that ends 0-0. No fun for me!
Roll back the ball it'll be so much easier to hold greens from distance with the added spin
Also they arent anywhere close to peak club speed yet.
Not sure about anyone else, but I don't want to see the pros out there all the time struggling to break par, I want to see them hit massive drives, and stitching wedges, or hitting the green on a 600yard par 5 in two. There will always be wayward shots and great recoveries, as there is now with the top players in the world. 20 under? Why not?
Nope
A wedge to every par 4 but one….sounds like the admin chose the wrong course…that’s not a test.
Nearly 10mins of McGinley talking nonsense? Must do better.
Old heads who want golf to stay in the Stone Age.
Let's celebrate tech and athletism. Limit the course distance to 7000 yards. Let's enjoy a game where 8 under is reasonable every round. Let's appreciate a tournament where 40 under par is probable. These players are that good.
The other solution is much simpler and more impsctful: shrink the putting cup diameter by 1/4 inch. That will go much further in protecting par than limiting the technology.
They should shorten the golf courses so all par 4's are drivable!
If i watch Augusta, i always have a views on the old guys and here i see Bernhard Langer every year competing with guys like Bryson Dechambeau. Nearly EVERY year the old man is placed in front of them! Why? Because he has a full rangers of shots, understandable how a course is build, knows where to place the ball and if then where to miss the greens. Golf is so much more than hitting bombs from the tee!
If i have a view on this course I'm full of fear because o hit distances like Langer does, maybe longer with the driver but shorter with the long irons because nevermore Hitt them as good in the center like he does. For me this course seems like a monster, playing 500 yards par 4 or 280 par 3 holes I'm not having the distance or the game. I learned golf with persimmon drivers and I think it would be one solution for the tour golf giving them such a wooden wood with steel shafts. But then many of these guys wouldn't hit fairways and the industry would do all against because they want sell distance dreams to the golfing world. The second chance is bringing the ball back to standards from 20 years ago. Then they are 10-15% shorter from the tee and that would work…..
Maybe we get windy and wet Wheather this days, than also nobody will talk about a easy course….. I remember (but don't know exact) that 2014 the winner Martin Kaymer was the only player under par in the red…. 8 (?) shots to the runner up. At the moment he's after his injury not in form but all these guys there are magnificent players who can do all every round! In the past there were some, today there are many! Kaymer for example shotgun 20 years ago on a challange tour event on s 7200 yard long difficult course a 13 under 59 after he bogeyed the first…. 14 birdies on 17 holes!!! That shows the quality of all this guy's and that's the third reason why there are many in the red!
For Paul's sake – they could have easily quit watering the course 2 weeks ago!!! They're blaming it on the weather, but there hasn't been any real rain in LA for a month. Sure there's moisture and some morning dew, from overnight cool down, due to humidity in the air from the marine layer, but they've been watering the course steadily to keep it green and to measure the playability the way the USGA have wanted it. But the truth is, if they wanted it dry and crispy, they could have switched off the sprinklers and the hand-watering of the greens easily, a couple weeks ago!!!! And then triple rolled the greens. They say it's 13.5 on the stimp, but they weren't that today, not at all.
And to counteract the driving distances, sure they can make the fairways tighter – as well as not cut the fairways so short and tight!
But, if there are no aerial obstacles such as trees that narrow shots off the tee and get in the way, these athletes are going to air it out and release it full bore, even curving it as wide as they need to bring it back in.
This obsession, the romantic obsession of having courses "play like they used to" when they were first built – there were no tall trees to speak of, and most of the courses all around LA looked like links courses, built on chaparral and desert lands that had no tall trees, unless they went to an oak tree forest slightly higher in elevation from these coastal and desert courses.
They could also go to courses that actually have bunkers and barrancas that they literally have to navigate properly. There are a couple at Pebble Beach, which even have ocean cliffs to deal with. Not at LACC.
LACC looks nice, and they keep it that way for the members, as Chamblee points out correctly – but to make it a challenge at US Open levels, they should have let the grass die and get dry and brown by not watering for 2 weeks prior to this event. (Problem with that, is, the course won't be playable for the member next week for a month or so after the tournament is gone, from having to revive the grass and bringing it all back to the green nice levels that the members want and expect).
Chamblee nonsense. Makes reference to baseball and basketball no technology improvements. That's the point. In those sports doping is cheating, altering bats is cheating, in cycling we've seen instances "mechanical doping" used to cheat. But in golf we have legal altercation of the equipment which gives the players an advantage. All the courses can do is lengthen which is not good for the game or the environment.
No roll back no bifurcation. The only issue is par so whats the problem
Hwrd and fast and make them use the ground the way the game was designed. I hate dart golf
Great debate guys 👏
What a joke this US open is
Why would make it easy on these guys that hit the ball over 310 yards
Give me a break
These guys aren’t tested all year and the biggest tournament you guys are setting up a course to shot 62
I guess LiV golf set tge course up
Maybe drives of 350 to 400 yards by the pros just aren't good for the game. Roll the golfball back 20% and engineer it so that it is more progressive in that the distance is not linear from clubhead speed – softer golf balls with rebound would help. Maybe a spec for how grippy a ball's cover is too and lastly, lets cut the driver back to 44" and get rid of the springy faces for all clubs – yes it is essentially going back to the 1980's, but that is okay.
Rory just needs to make putts on Sunday. It's really that simple. Just about every elite player has had their time in the sun where they blew the field away, as Rory did in his youth, but that doesn't last. Even Tiger and Jack had to grind on Sundays. Call it magic with the flat stick, good technique, ferry dust, whatever it is, he has to find it on Sunday.
7:14 – 7:21: McGinley nails it. Watching the best players in the world bombing errant drives and then gouging wedges out of 6 inch rough just isn't that fun to watch as viewers. These golfers can hit irons better than anyone else on the planet, let's see them make golf shots. I don't think a roll-back is necessarily the answer but I don't think growing the rough out is either because it's not a bad shot anymore for these guys… that's where I disagree with Brandel.
USGA going rogue, flying in Sarah Palin to cut cups. The club pro and superintendent could do a better job than the USGA.
02:50 Chamblee you're wrong. In basketball for example there's a constant debate about better generation etc
Persimmons and balata balls are the answer
Nobody’s arguing that golfers aren’t better athletes today than they were 100 years ago, but it’s hard to compare them when technology plays such a big role in distance and accuracy.
Need more Merion and Sawgrass like courses. More length is not the answer. Roll back would be good too. College baseball players get to use metal bags. But make it to the professional level, and they use wood. The best golfers in the world will still be the best with different equipment
THE GREATEST COURSES ARE ON THE EAST COAST, SMALL HILLY GREENS, STEP 14 DEEP ANKLE LENGTH 3 CUT ROUGHS, TREE LINED SMALL FAST FAIRWAYS, 5 TEE BOXES…..
Nobody wants to embarrass a game of professional golf. Those guys sound like bitter old jealous men. It's called evolution.
BITTER OLD MEN
"GET OFF MY LAWN"
Golf is more comparable to F1 than basketball. Poor take.
I’m not against technological limitations as such. I’m definitely against the professional tier having different equipment to the casual player. Any “rollback” needs to be applied universally.
I’m also not against pro’s scoring -20.
Perhaps we do need “new architecture” for top tier golf courses. I’d argue more Sawgrass than simply adding 100 yards to technically easier courses like LACC.
is anybody going to get rid of that stupid BLIMP, the noise it makes is driving listeners and players crazy. I saw Rose step out of his shot 3 times on a par 3 and the Blimp was making its droning sound back and forth. That is crazy and useless