Was Matt Kuchar Right? | No Putts Given

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   @WesternGolfAlliance 3 months ago

   Let's be clear about the Kuchar situation. Yes, this unfortunately negatively impacted the volunteers, however SOMEONE needs to start calling out the PGA Tour for their absolute mismanagement of … everything … ranging from event scheduling, to on-course rules administration. This actually called into sharp relief everything the PGA Tour is screwing up. They schedule events in areas of the country during their most unstable weather seasons due to 'tradition'; They place obstructions for the benefit of advertisers and technology that then force nonsensical rulings; They fail to enforce pace-of-play rules; They create slow and protracted play due to nonsensical course setup; They allow their television broadcasts to devolve into unwatchable and protracted dog****.

   Sorry, Chris, you're wrong. Matt Kuchar is the hero we need, creating a single microcosm that highlights everything the PGA Tour is screwing up … or he would be highlighting it if you were focused on the issues and not the single unfortunate hardship for a handful of volunteers. We should be talking about … pace of play enforcement, course setup failures, tournament scheduling in general, and weather mismanagement specifically.

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   @ciarancummins7 3 months ago

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   @WesternGolfAlliance 3 months ago

   Making this a secondary note: The leaders shot 64 and taking 6.5 hours to do so. Two weeks ago I played Pacific Dunes in a 40 yard wind … shot 89, in 4 hours 20 minutes, and our group received THREE warnings about our slow pace of play. Holy $#!&, how can ANYONE stand playing SO SLOW as these tour prima donnas?!? The PGA Tour continues to fail those of us who try to maintain interest in their 'product'. Keep your eye on the prize, guys … we need to fix the PGA Tour, not Matt Kuchar.

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   @jaxongolf 3 months ago

   Don't be a Kuchbag.

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   @Golfzilla5000 3 months ago

   Chris, you're absolutely right to question that line-of-sight ruling. As a matter of fact, i think if there were NO line-of-sight rulings allowed in PGAT golf today, it just MIGHT work towards solving the distance problem. How many times have we seen long wayward drives blocked out because of grandstands or whatever that got put up by the TV crews for the tournament just basically let the golfer get out of jail scot free?

   Having said that, i don't think i heard either of you mention the golfers having to finish in the dark. Not the first time it's happened, and the PGAT shouldn't make the final groups do it. It is a definite hinderance.

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   @Golfzilla5000 3 months ago

   Concerning that ending bit about the club championship flub, something almost identical to this happened to me. i had just come off a birdie on the 14th hole (it was the first day of play), and our whole group strolled up to the 15th tee box. We've all played this course a million times so we knew where we were gong – the cart path basically takes you right to the tee box to hit your next shot. We were playing white tees (If you were in the championship flight on the final day, you'd have to play the blue tees which you actually have to always walk back to them and it's about 20-30 yards back). Anyway, I was pumped up so i jumped over there and teed off and hit a fantastic drive. The next guy in the group tees his ball up, and right before he addresses the ball he notices we were at the YELLOW TEES. What had happened was the superintendent had moved the yellow tees back to the normal white tees, and the white tees had been moved halfway back to the blue tees (the blue tees were the back tees, the yellow tees were the forward tees like most golf courses are set up)! I've played there 20 years and NEVER saw them do that before. I know it sounds idiotic, but the tee markers aren't big round colored balls here – they're basically small pieces of wood, and on the diagonal cut at the top of them is a small bit of paint in a 3"-4" circle identifying what they are. And they were aimed AWAY from us in the golf cart.

   I really felt rotten about it for a while, at least until Jordan Spieth and his playing partner screwed up and played the wrong tees in a PGA tournament one weekend 🙂

   In any case, lesson learned, it was my own fault for being careless and that's how i looked at it.

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   @Tom_Swift 3 months ago

   Consider this: If Aaron Rai doesn't play at a snails pace, Kuchar finishes long before darkness.

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   @jackiwannapaint 3 months ago

   Someone needs get one of these horns they use to stop play and attend Matts next tournament and on the tee at 18 Matt steps up and in the middle of his backswing we fire off a blast on the horn Hilarious!

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   @Radioghost717 3 months ago

   Kuchar is an asshole. That’s it

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    @fictionalgaming912 3 months ago

    6:32 to 11:53 the most asinine advocation of allowing 7 hour rounds. Jesus at least your golf ball reviews are unbiased.

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    @ashdrewness 3 months ago

    I can almost guarantee no volunteers were impacted by the Kuchar move. No need for Marshals, Hospitality, etc. Most of the grounds crew and tournament staff were going to be there the next day anyways to clean up & manage the sponsor scramble tournaments. At most it was an hour or so delay for their usual activities.

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    @henryaguilar4712 3 months ago

    Rule was there he used it🤷🏽‍♂️ don’t like it get the rules changed!

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    @per_growth 3 months ago

    Never really a Kuchar fan – but how much was at stake if he finished par vs bogey? If it's sizeable, considering the extremely slow pace of play, he was w/in his rights to finish the next day – then people should cut him some slack.

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    @mikeshaffner5050 3 months ago

    Tues Play great 6birdies 66 Atownmuni

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    @davekeogh4870 3 months ago

    Pace of play on pga tour is 100% to blame. Yet pga tour does nothing about it

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    @paulwilsdon8322 3 months ago

    Life thing!!
    Do to others as you would like them to do for you.
    Tell the guy he’s about to tee from the wrong teeing ground. I would expect that from my playing partners if it was me teeing up on the wrong tee.
    If you don’t and you win by one, is that a win?

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    @acutube888 3 months ago

    being a dick is totally his prerogative, but that drop was CHEATING!

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    @ericgodsoe3511 3 months ago

    Im of the mind , know where you are and what your doing, so im no surprised that they didn' say anything…. but I would say somthing. It happens in pool a lot somone goes to hit the wrong ball,and you say hey wrong ball its a sportmanship thing.

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    @Chip_in 3 months ago

    11:00 Pro par all day…and the next morning 🤣⛳

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    @Sueezedtight 3 months ago

    A PGA rules instructor told his students that: "Golf is the only game where the proper interpretation of the rules will get you hated." ALL golfers take advantage of favourable rulings, all the time. Kuchar saw the opportunity and decided to take advantage of it. More power to him and that is why the rules are there.

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    @Tincupflipper 3 months ago

    Kuchar is all about the money and very greedy. It's why he stiffed the caddy a few years ago who picked up his bag at a tour event that Kuchar ended up winning and he never gave the caddy a proper share. Only after the story broke did Kuchar make it right, just like this sh@t show. The guy had no chance at winning or advancing and he's a $45 million dollar career winner, yet he's so damn greedy that he made this decision to come back for 3 swings. What a tool….

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    @frslas 2 months ago

    I could build a ship in a bottle in the time it takes Aaron Rai play a hole. The only Apex is from Ben Hogan.

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    @smitty9733 2 months ago

    SLOW PLAY ! The bane of golf EVERYWHERE !

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    @Rich-ey7jv 2 months ago

    I thought letting them tap down spike marks was a good rule change. WRONG, worst rules change ever. Enough, no more tapping.

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    @gibsonmanz939 2 months ago

    Total dick move. He’s on par with Reid now.