WOW! The USGA are furious about the open championship 2023 and this video will tell you exactly why! The open championship 2023 has been an unbelievable and has been filled with so much drama, excitement and unbelievable golf! Brilliant Brian Harman becomes Champion Golfer of 2023!! Open champion Brian Harman says he will celebrate winning the biggest prize of his career by mowing the grass of his 40-acre property on his new tractor!
The open 2023 was jam packed with golf fans who made a fantastic atmosphere that all the professional golfers were so grateful for! A lot of golfers have been talking about the open championship highlights as well as the liv golfers, pga tour golfers and DP world tour players since the liv golf tour merger.Brian Harman’s work, long wait pays off with Open win!!
THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 HAS MADE THE USGA VERY JEALOUS!
There was a lot of talk about the US open 2023 and the us open due to backlash, well this has been compared a lot to the open 2023!!
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What do you think? This was one of the BEST for me for a number of reasons!
Attendances are always large for the Open due in many ways to the openness of links courses. Parkland courses tend to have trees etc that prevent grandstands being set up.
It helps that it’s THE event of the golf calendar
Astute comparison between the R&A and USGA Open tournaments this year. The Open, once again, a true test of grit and resolve in adverse conditions. Well done R&A! However, what can be done about the increasing belligerent fans, not just in The Open; the Americans were quite belligerent to Matthew Fitzpatrick at the US Open in Brookline. It's hard enough to win a major, there's no need for lewd comments directed towards players. Glad to hear Harmon overcame that and even used it as motivation when someone said "he didn't have the stones to win"
Did anyone pick him? I've never heard of him! I've followed the pga for the last 55 years and I've never heard of him. He did a masterful job winning this oldest of all tournaments!
The US Open at LACC raised more money for the game of golf than the Open at Royal Liverpool…. yes it should have had more fans and less corporate tents to raise the volume. However, I have been to many golf tournaments and you could see the players better at this LACC US Open than at any I have attended. 65,000 fans would have been ridiculous. I would say 30,000 is a better number like at Brookline. Is the purpose of attending a golf tournament to stair at the back of everyone's head, or is it to watch golf? LACC was a huge success for the people that were there… and made the most revenue ever for the USGA. The US Open funds all the USGA golf tournaments, as well as projects the USGA has created to help the game of golf.
Furthermore… I think it is great when the USGA or RA go to world class interesting golf courses. Many of these courses like LACC have incredible terrain that makes it a bit more difficult to walk around… These courses show incredible on TV (LACC US Open had very hight TV ratings). The Major championships are more than just the fan experience… they are about identifying the greatest golfer. Of Course a flat course like Royal Liverpool is easier to get around… but In no way was it a more beautiful viewing experience than at LACC. LACC challenged the US Open players in a different way than the typical US Open with wider fairways that played smaller because of their slope. Had it not rained the first morning the winner would have been 4 under par…. The US Open was a tremendous success for the community and the USGA
The USGA chose the wrong course for the U.S.OPEN. It will not come back to the Los Angeles CC again.
LA CC was the wrong place for the US open
LACC was a terrible place for a US Open. We usually have hundreds of thousands at our events. Hell we get 260,000 a day in Phoenix. You can’t use the LACC example, with forgetting about Winged Foot, Oakmont, Shinny, Marion, Pebble. Etc… I love the Open, but you don’t know what your talking about.
Golf Digest in the US posted an article that the championship this year was a dud… Just another reason why I canceled my subscription years ago.
Thanks for your insights. I'm from NorCal and have been to many US Opens here, mostly at Pebble. The Open is a huge cash cow for the USGA and the locals with places to stay. Hotels, motels, resorts, Airbnb, etc. They make the price of just staying there for the week impossible, most want a 7-day stay minimum, unless you are wealthy. For example, a $85 dollar a night, clean, decent motel room usually works for a few days. During the US Open, they want a 7-day minimum at $500+ a night! Use your imagination when it comes to what nice and real nice places cost. Payment upfront, no cancellations or shortened stays. Tickets are a hundred, add in food, bev, shcwag and it's a rip off. So, the crowds are smaller, quieter and it's not as fun anymore. Rich people being so conservative and competitive. We used to have loads of fun going to tournaments and Open's, but they are pricing the non-wealthy out, plain and simple. One year, they pissed off thousands of us fans by announcing the shuttles will stop at 6:00pm, when the leaders were teeing off at 3:00! Do the math and aahhhhh, who came up with that brilliant idea?? That stranded all of us and it took hours of confusion to get back. We were planning to go out that Saturday night, but just grabbed some fast-food burgers around 10:00 and crashed, exhausted by it all. I saw that the R&A had that 'glamping' village and I could only imagine what those would cost at Pebble….10 grand a night and up, I'd bet! I hope the USGA takes notes and wants to build the game by making their big championship more affordable and fun for the average golf fan.
I like nearly everything about the British Open over the US Open except the camera work following golf balls was bad on most full shots.
Great tournament, but I will say I've never seen the commentators have to speak up so often about the things fans kept saying to the competitors. That's unacceptable in a gentleman's game
It was great to watch on TV and I commented on the number of people more than once. But the best part was finally getting a break from American commentators and presenters and that most annoying Australian Luke Elvey.
The Open has become so boring. The courses are pretty dull and seldom produce any drama.
Get the dreary Old Course on a ten year rota, not five and introduce 3-4 more courses.
What’s the big deal? We all know the Open is the greatest golf tournament, period. 🇨🇦
Worst course for viewing currently on the rota……
St Andrews..🤮🤮
Best course for viewing……
Royal Birkdale..👏🏻👏🏻
The 14th tee right behind the tee box was so good and you good see the whole of the 13th par 3 tee shot to green . Was so easy to walk around every hole was absolute class 🙌🏼🙌🏼
I was a BIGGA (British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association) Bunker Volunteer this week. We get selected from across the country to assist in raking bunkers behind each group. This is not only a great experience, but it helps keep pace of play and ensures the course is set up perfectly for every golfer. A few American players were saying it would be good to have this in America, maybe something to consider USGA!?
I went up for three days. It was fantastic. This is the third time I have been to Hoylake. The only disappointment for me what’s the putting green you have to have a special pass to get near the one on the clubhouse which most of the players are used some use the chipping area by the second green, but you couldn’t really see them, and they all seem to put with their backs to the crowd. All the stands and the natural viewing places were fantastic, Roll on Birkdale 2025.
One thing that stood out to me was the size and volume of the stands. It felt as if they wanted as many fans there as possible. Considering golf gets little to none terrestrial TV broadcast in the UK it’s clear that there is a demand for golf as a spectator.
At the beginning of the month my wife and I went to the British Masters at the Belfry and it was the same, the tees and greens were set up so that everyone could get a good view and there were grandstands and viewing platforms at several of the key holes. I agree that the uk is getting golf events right at the minute.
Jon Rahm? Not until he learns how to putt under pressure. The USGA's choice in L.A. was horrific. Somebody owed somebody something….what a nightmare. Then all the Richie-Rich folks with their hands out made for a sickening weekend as well. Then again, Los Angeles, California is the definition of "nightmare" so while someone knows what the USGA was thinking, like our POTUS nightmares, we may never know.
You have to remember that the USGA is run by Americans. Americans are to busy worrying about other important things. You know, important stuff like DEI, transgender studies, getting inflated student debt balances paid off by the government. You Brits don't seem to worry about that kind of stuff.
LACC was NOT your typical USGA location. What were Brookline’s stats? Come on ALex, you know what happened this year at LACC, and that it was not a normal US Open.
Short and punishing is better to watch then stretching distance of a golf course.
USGA and La Country club completely screwed up the US Open, from number of fans to course layout .. bad National Championship .. end of story
Sorry, the video coverage was crap most shots into greens from players had no distance to pin description
Wow. I agree it was pretty awesome. I think they have learned from LIV how to host an event.
The 65k was increased from…? How ? Why? It’s just numbers. Plus an amount is not a percentage
The choice of Los Angeles Country Club is a head scratcher for me. It wasn’t even good for television viewing. I was bored watching it. Just not a very interesting course imo. Wonder what the price difference was for a Sunday ticket? ⛳️
Just to let you know that '' hoi polloi'' is another way of saying the masses or the common people. You seemed to suggest the hoi polloi were the upper class who enjoyed the hospitality. Where as the complete opposite of this is true.
What happened to your Buddy Rory Mcilroy? Incredible driving game, incredible iron play – still can't putt. He'll never win another major unless he fixes his putting. He should have won 10 majors by now – but his putting sucks compared to the rest of his game.
My view is that the USGA has to take into account that US crowds are less well behaved then pretty much everywhere else in the world and this has a marked influence on how they run these types of tournaments.
… ticket prices. .. check it out.
I was going to go to brookline, then I discovered the cheapest ticket available was 600 dollars for one day.
I just can't do that.