Deleterious Posted December 1, 2024 Posted December 1, 2024 Sure would take the edge off of those 5 hour rounds. Quote
Deleterious Posted December 4, 2024 Posted December 4, 2024 LPGA Updates Gender Policy for Competition Eligibility Quote DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Dec. 4, 2024 – The LPGA has updated its Gender Policy for Competition Eligibility, effective starting with the 2025 season. The policy—informed by a working group of top experts in medicine, science, sport physiology, golf performance and gender policy law—was developed with input from a broad array of stakeholders and prioritizes the competitive integrity of women’s professional tournaments and elite amateur competitions. This working group has advised that the effects of male puberty confer competitive advantages in golf performance compared to players who have not undergone male puberty. Accordingly, under the new policy, athletes who are assigned female at birth are eligible to compete on the LPGA Tour, Epson Tour, Ladies European Tour, and in all other elite LPGA competitions. Players assigned male at birth and who have gone through male puberty are not eligible to compete in the aforementioned events. The policies governing the LPGA’s recreational programs and non-elite events utilize different criteria to provide opportunities for participation in the broader LPGA community. For more details, please refer to the full policy at lpga.com/gender-policy . Golf offers opportunities for all athletes to compete at professional and elite amateur levels. Individual competitions are generally categorized as “women’s events,” which have specific eligibility requirements, or “open events,” where any player, regardless of sex, is eligible to compete. “Our policy is reflective of an extensive, science-based and inclusive approach,” said LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan. “The policy represents our continued commitment to ensuring that all feel welcome within our organization, while preserving the fairness and competitive equity of our elite competitions.” 1 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted December 4, 2024 Posted December 4, 2024 43 minutes ago, Deleterious said: LPGA Updates Gender Policy for Competition Eligibility Interesting approach. Gets away from trying to definne 'gender' and specific genetic categorization. We'll see if it flies. Quote
Deleterious Posted December 18, 2024 Posted December 18, 2024 Is Rory selling supplements in the middle of the match? Quote
Screwball Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 (edited) 8 hours ago, Deleterious said: As a dad, a golfer, and 3 boys who golf, this is as good as it gets. Bravo! Edited December 23, 2024 by Screwball Quote
CMRivdogs Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 10 hours ago, Deleterious said: Very cool. How would you like to be one of Gary Player's offsprings Quote At 89, Gary Player has six children, 22 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, and there’s hardly a non-golfer in the bunch. “That’s a lot of choices,” Player told Golf.com. What’s a patriarch to do? Between 2001 and 2006, when his family tree was smaller and the tournament was known as the Office Depot Father/Son Challenge, Player ham-and-egged it with his son, Wayne. But as time wore on, and the clan expanded, the 9-time major winner found it tougher to settle on a teammate. What’s more, because he is competitive to the bone, he wanted to ensure that he chose the family member in the finest form. His solution: hold a competition for the spot. Four years ago, the South African star established what he calls—depending on the cheekiness of his mood—the Grandsons Challenge, the Cousins Qualifier, or the Choker’s Cup. By any name, the format and the stakes are the same: 18 holes of stroke play; winner gets to peg it with the paterfamilias in the PNC. In this year’s qualifier, held just before Thanksgiving at the Bear’s Club, in Jupiter, Fla., four of Player’s grandkids teed it up, and the youngest in the group, 17-year-old Alex Hall, took the title, posting a 78, seven shots clear of his cousin and past Grandsons Challenge winner, Jordan Player. https://golf.com/lifestyle/gary-player-grandsons-qualifier-pnc-championship/ 1 Quote
Screwball Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 That's sweet. I remember watching Player, Nicklaus, Trevino, Palmer, etc. Great stuff back in the day. Bobby Jones was the best ever. I can't prove it of course. I read he had a club head speed of 135. That would have been with a hickory shaft. Quote
Deleterious Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 I would give just about anything for one more round with my dad. Quote
Screwball Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 4 minutes ago, Deleterious said: I would give just about anything for one more round with my dad. Me too. He taught me. Honest as the day is long - he looked exactly like Ben Hogan. He even wore his hat. Might have hit more golf balls too. He was even on the front page of the local paper when they took a picture of him hitting balls at the local park - which he did every day before he went to the golf course. It was titled "Mr. Chips." That was off the charts cool. He not only taught me how to play golf, and he was a student, he taught me about life. I was a lucky guy. We only got to do one Father/Son tourney. We didn't win, but we were right there. I played in scrambles with my boys, and a league with one. But thanks the gramps, golf was passed down to through the generations. A truly great game. Very humbling, difficult, and cerebral. 1 Quote
Deleterious Posted January 2 Posted January 2 I see all the reviews dropping for the new Callaway Elyte driver. I subscribe to the theory that technology doesn't change nearly as much as these companies want us to believe. Go buy yourself a driver released 5 years ago and save a bunch of money. You won't notice much of a difference than these $600 drivers. Quote
Screwball Posted January 3 Posted January 3 2 hours ago, Deleterious said: I see all the reviews dropping for the new Callaway Elyte driver. I subscribe to the theory that technology doesn't change nearly as much as these companies want us to believe. Go buy yourself a driver released 5 years ago and save a bunch of money. You won't notice much of a difference than these $600 drivers. It's probably a myth - drivers... Guys spend thousands of dollars on new clubs all the time. Drivers especially. Does it matter????? I don't think so. For the golfers out there; how many times did you buy a new driver and it was spectacular - until it wasn't. It all of a sudden was just as bad as the driver you just replaced. Imagine that. It ain't the arrow - it's the Indian. Bobby Jones, according to today's technology, shows he had a clubhead speed of 130+ - with hickory shafts. Drink beer and forget it. And don't play the guy with the best tan for money. 1 1 Quote
Hongbit Posted January 7 Author Posted January 7 TGL kicks off tonight. I wasn’t that excited when the concept was announced but they have definitely peaked my interest after seeing it. Tour players on the world’s largest simulator and the craziest greenside setup that I’ve ever seen will be great. The thing I like the most is they haven’t tried to recreate famous courses like most simulators. They’ve created their own video game holes practically straight out of Golden Tee. Quote
Deleterious Posted January 7 Posted January 7 Golf is like soccer, fun to play, god awful to watch on TV. Quote
Deleterious Posted January 7 Posted January 7 Add poker to that list of things that are fun to play and bad to watch. Quote
Hongbit Posted January 9 Author Posted January 9 I believe the club just barely made it without damage. I don’t think they play the Genesis in 6 weeks. There’s no parking lot at Riviera. Fans take in shuttles from the high school that’s no longer there or park in the surrounding neighborhoods that are also gone. Quote
Hongbit Posted January 9 Author Posted January 9 As for TGL… I enjoyed it but it started to get a little boring after the initial allure wore off. Maybe the fact it wasn’t a close match had something to do with it but I don’t know how this will do in the longterm. I’ll watch again next Tuesday but I’m out if it’s the same thing. The host sucks. Never heard of him and he was cringeworthy. I also think this was a terrible group of players to start out with from a personality and entertainment standpoint. Not much banter between the players and of what they had was too much Matt Fitzpatrick and Rickie and not enough Xander. Quote
Deleterious Posted January 10 Posted January 10 It doesn't solve an existing problem. We have top level golf on 4 days a week now. I doubt Thursday and Friday ratings are very big. Nobody was saying we need a fifth day of golf. Seems like it would have a better shot at success if they put this on between the end and start of the season. Also, a lot of the holes were pretty cool. But I think they are underestimating the appeal of existing courses. It's a lot of fun watching Scottie play a hole that Tiger and Jack played 20 and 50 years ago. I'm not saying go play 18 at Bethpage. But maybe have a week where you take individual holes from existing courses and create your own virtual course from them. I suppose they would have to pay licensing fees then. I saw the ratings were just over 900K. Curious to see what that looks like a couple of weeks from now. Quote
Hongbit Posted January 14 Author Posted January 14 Make or break night for TGL. If watching this group isn’t engaging and able keep viewer interest for the entire 2 hours then TGL will be very short lived. Quote
Hongbit Posted January 15 Author Posted January 15 (edited) I’m out. I didn’t make it through the singles matches. It wasn’t captivating enough. As much as they want to make a sim feel just like the real thing, it’s not. This goes for all sims, even the world’s largest one. We saw that evident last night as the best golfers in the world were unable to dial in their shot distance. Every one of them was long by a significant on many shots. These are guys that are dialed in down to the yard with their shirt irons. Sahith was a good soldier and tried to keep up the illusion that it was adrenaline that had caused him to hit so much farther. It wasn’t adrenaline, it was an imperfect simulation. Doing a little more research and it turns out this whole thing is really just a marketing vessel for Full Swing, the shot tracking and sim technology company that is used by TGL. Tiger just so happens to be a large investor in the company. TGL is just really one big commercial for their product. If they can convince people that sim technology has become almost the same as the real thing, they stand to make a whole lot of money. Their home setups can cost between $30 and $100k. Edited January 15 by Hongbit Quote
Deleterious Posted Thursday at 08:09 PM Posted Thursday at 08:09 PM Ratings seem good. I'm sure Tiger gave them a little bump at least. Tiger Woods' TGL debut tops 1 million viewers despite rout Quote
Hongbit Posted Thursday at 11:26 PM Author Posted Thursday at 11:26 PM Next weeks ratings will be very telling without either opening night or Tiger to boost interest. Quote
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