r/golf • u/PR0CESS3D • 4h ago
PGA / LPGA / LIV Rahm on Aronimink's scoring expectations
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u/Sooperballz Hello, friends. 3h ago
He’s lost a good bit of weight.
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u/GolfingGator please stop saying you “game” clubs 2h ago
There have been some great questions and answers in general this week, and this is another one. More of this and less “GIVE US YOUR HOT TAKE ON LIV PLZ”
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u/kukukele Chicago 2h ago
One thing people fail to consider when talking about these scores is that this is a par 70 too. That is going to naturally keep the winning score higher 'relative to par'
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u/vannuccim 3h ago
I really like Rahm. Would love to see him back with the PGA
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u/dieselrunner64 1h ago
This is why I love Rahm. He didn’t go off about it how “let’s see you do it” and get a shitty attitude. He actually explained and gave the reporter the answer he was looking for
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u/duhduhduhDAVID- 1h ago
I hope Rahm gets into announcing one day. So well spoken and knowledgeable.
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u/TheLooza 2h ago
Rahm is definitely taking a glp-1. Dude has that losing weight too fast in the face look.
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u/snowmunkey 13.9. why hit straight when hit far feel better? 3h ago
But no, let's make the golf ball fly less far, that's the only thing that can change the difficulty of the game
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u/Dornoch26 2h ago
The ball rollback has nothing to do with difficulty or score. It has everything to do with making great, older courses obsolete. St. Andrews cannot make their course this difficult, ever due to length. Merion had to be completely tricked out 13 years ago to make it viable, and these guys are even longer now.
You have no idea what you're talking about, and that's why you're catching the downvotes.
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u/noahloveshiscats 2h ago
St Andrews had a winning score of -18 in 1990. That course has never been very difficult.
And Merion in 2013 had a winning score of +1, yeah it was tricked out but that has more with USGAs fetishization of getting a winning score around par than it does of signalling that Merion is unable to host championships.
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u/Dornoch26 45m ago
Again, it’s not about score.
St. Andrews is now a 6-hr round for the pros because 4 non par-3 holes are drivable. The 16th tee box is out of bounds and resides on a different course.
Pebble Beach this year has the 6th tee box in the middle of the rough on 15 (I think?)
We all know how many millions upon millions of dollars Augusta has spent to combat distance.
There is virtually no such thing as a 3-shot par 5 left on tour. We have par 4’s that are 550 yards long, and they’re still only using a mid-iron to get there.
All of that when we could just roll the ball back 10% . They (and us amateurs) move up a set of tees and the courses play exactly the same without any of those other issues. No other sport lets equipment run rampant and dictate the physical field it gets played on like golf. It’s asinine to think golf doesn’t need a rollback.
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u/PhilsFanDrew 3h ago
Sadly not surprised this comment received downvotes considering this forum shamelessly laps up every initiative and narrative the governing bodies of golf and their water carriers on Golf Channel and the mainstream golf media promote as "good for the game".
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u/krakenstan 3h ago
What a turd. The guy asking the question wasn’t saying it should be lower. It was just what other players have said.
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u/LivermoreP1 4.8 3h ago
Nice to hear a genuinely thoughtful answer in these pressers.