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[aoxamaxoa]

OUCH!!!
durn truth tellers.... http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1648325,00.html?cid=feed-tours_news-20070731-1648325
The trouble with Tulsa
I'd like to thank the PGA of America for sending us to Tulsa in August. I guess Death Valley wasn't available. I'm not a huge fan of Southern Hills. It was great in its day — the 1970s — but doesn't hold up to today's power game. When we all lay up to the same spot on the corner of a dogleg, it seems like the staggered start of a 400-meter race. I hope they've fixed the 9th and 18th greens, which were such a joke in the '01 Open that they had to mow them to a different length to make them semi-playable.

[sgrizzle]

If you read Tiger's press conference awhile back he had different comments about the same things. What this writer considered "not suited for today's power game" Tiger said was "more challenging." If every hole is drive-chip-putt, drive-chip-putt, drive-chip-putt then there is no real challenge or entertainment. This is the kind of course that Happy Gilmore would suck at, and that is good.

[Breadburner]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

If you read Tiger's press conference awhile back he had different comments about the same things. What this writer considered "not suited for today's power game" Tiger said was "more challenging." If every hole is drive-chip-putt, drive-chip-putt, drive-chip-putt then there is no real challenge or entertainment. This is the kind of course that Happy Gilmore would suck at, and that is good.

Top shelf......

[cannon_fodder]

I'll see YOUR truth teller and raise you MY truth teller:

quote: Southern Hills - The Most Unsung Course of the Majors

Ask any golfer to list the private masterpieces he or she would love to play before dying and you'll get many similar answers. Augusta National, Shinnecock Hills, Winged Foot, Oakmont, Cypress Point, Pine Valley and Merion top most people's lists. Fans of golf course architecture will add such gems as Sand Hills, Friar's Head, Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Shore Course) and Crystal Downs. Yet casual fans and architecture experts alike almost uniformly overlook Southern Hills in Tulsa.

Perhaps it's because Southern Hills is in Tulsa and is known more for blistering heat and a seemingly repetitive narrow, tree-lined parkland layout. Maybe it's because - despite having hosted three U.S. Opens and three PGA Championships - the course's strength is in its design strategy and cleverly sloping greens, which don't translate on television like Pebble Beach or Whistling Straits, which have arresting natural settings. Maybe it's because we've devolved into a "flyover state" mentality in golf and believe that if it doesn't border water, it's second-class. Well, whatever the reason, get ready to be pleasantly surprised by Perry Maxwell's Midwest masterpiece when it hosts this year's PGA Championship August 9-12.
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Combined with the design features of the rest of Southern Hills, the greens cement what will prove to be the fairest and most complete test of golf skill in this year's majors and will ensure that grinders and shot-shapers will have an equal chance with the long bombers.

http://www.cybergolf.com/indexgenerator.asp?newsid=5253

[AMP]

Wonder if many of the Tulsa trailer food vendors will set up around 61st and Peoria on those vacent lots during the PGA?  

Most of those vendors that offer the $1.00 Tacos and 50 cent Cokes would make a killing during the PGA tour in Tulsa.

And the Ice Cream guys with the little green karts would be hauling in the bucks with their 25 cent popsicles.

[aoxamaxoa]

TIGER TIME!!!!![:O]

[inteller]

If Southern Hills didn't bring something special to the mix it wouldn't be hopsting the championship FORTHE RECORD 4TH TIME.

Southern Hills (along with the southern heat) separate the men from the boys.  I predict Tiger will have a meltdown...literally if not figuratively.  Someone else is taking this championship.

[aoxamaxoa]

Better get out there and enjoy it.

I bet you he crunches the field. He's the best man in this activity.

[Johnboy976]

Tiger is hacked at the course because he struggles EVERY SINGLE TIME HE PLAYS IT!!! I'm sorry, but when most experts agree that the course is one of the best in the country, Tiger's own opinions fall short of validity.

[aoxamaxoa]

He will show us he is the greatest golfer ever.....again!

And he will show us what a class act is....

[Rowdy]

quote:Originally posted by aoxamaxoa

He will show us he is the greatest golfer ever.....again!

And he will show us what a class act is....

You must be one of those that would shake his hand and never wash it again.

[aoxamaxoa]

^last time we shook hands it was his authenticity that took hold....not the clasp of the hand shake.

[restored2x]

I'm rooting for Tiger. The guy is incredible! Did you see him make the course his *itch this past weekend? Wow. A hard game that he makes look easy.

[aoxamaxoa]

John Daly is staying at a local casino, did not practice, and just showed up to play....and more than golf evidently. Whadda ya expect from a Hooters sponsored golfer.

He's leading the PGA.

He shoots 85 tomorrow.

[Conan71]

Think Daly will start snapping clubs and leave in a pissed off huff after tomorrow night.

At least beer sweats help keep you cool.