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Title: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: David_Tepper on July 12, 2022, 02:52:24 PM
Anyone think we may see an ace on #18 at TOC this week? :)
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Tom_Doak on July 12, 2022, 03:17:44 PM
There must be a line set on this at the overseas bookies . . . I wonder what the odds are?

Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Jim_Coleman on July 12, 2022, 03:23:15 PM
   Do they ever put the pin in the valley?
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Tony_Muldoon on July 12, 2022, 03:31:44 PM
   Do they ever put the pin in the valley?


No because it wouldn't be on the green and after all it is a 'gathering area'.


However on Sundays they put the pin and flag off to the left of the green so tourists can get a picture of themselves on the 18th green - the one with the R&A clubhouse behind them! And the green is saved wear and tear.
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Jim_Coleman on July 12, 2022, 03:35:26 PM
    Good to know. I always thought the valley was part of the green, like 17 at Merion.
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: David_Tepper on July 12, 2022, 03:47:29 PM
Second question - how many 2's will be made on #18?
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Jeff Schley on July 12, 2022, 04:15:15 PM
David your third line could be how many will hit Rusacks and go OB trying to go for the green.
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Thomas Dai on July 12, 2022, 04:32:15 PM
A fair few 2’s might be beneficial to the game in the long term.
Atb
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Tom_Doak on July 12, 2022, 04:43:23 PM
David your third line could be how many will hit Rusacks and go OB trying to go for the green.


When I played in the Dunhill 15 years ago, one of the pros in our group [who was well under par for the day] blocked his tee shot into Rusack's, but somehow it came back onto the course. 


As we walked off the tee I gave him a wide-eyed look, and he said he had a last-second fear that he would drive it through the green and o.b. because we were very downwind, so he quit on the shot and blocked it right. It's a good bet that someone will do that again this week, though hopefully not someone in contention!
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: David_Tepper on July 12, 2022, 04:52:10 PM
Don't forget, Nicklaus drove a 3-wood thru the 18th green 50 or so years ago.

(Yes, it was downwind and yes, it was with the small ball.)
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Tom_Doak on July 12, 2022, 05:18:46 PM
Don't forget, Nicklaus drove a 3-wood thru the 18th green 50 or so years ago.

(Yes, it was downwind and yes, it was with the small ball.)


Luckily for him, it didn't go out of bounds, or he might have clunked himself in the head, instead of almost getting Doug Sanders.


But I doubt his ball was chasing through 18 green with the same momentum some guys could have on their shots today.
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Kalen Braley on July 12, 2022, 05:57:08 PM
With how far the ball goes now, 18 would be a lot more interesting if there wasn't a 'saving' fence behind the green..

P.S.  It looks like the valley of sin is certainly cut to green length for a good portion of it, even if not all of it..

https://www.google.com/maps/@56.3432285,-2.804283,98a,35y,90h,39.57t/data=!3m1!1e3 (https://www.google.com/maps/@56.3432285,-2.804283,98a,35y,90h,39.57t/data=!3m1!1e3)
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Tim Leahy on July 12, 2022, 07:07:53 PM
On the Golf Channel broadcast today someone said 6 out of 30 some drives on 18 went OB over the green. Also to expect 6 drivable par 4's and some 400 yard drives because the ground is so firm. :o
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Rob Marshall on July 12, 2022, 09:56:35 PM
Looking at the telecast tonight it looks tough to tell the difference between where  the fairways end and the greens begin. Is that true in person?
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Wayne_Kozun on July 12, 2022, 11:49:05 PM
Looking at the telecast tonight it looks tough to tell the difference between where  the fairways end and the greens begin. Is that true in person?
Aren't the fairways brown and running fast while the greens are green and running a bit slower?
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Matthew Rose on July 14, 2022, 09:48:02 AM
So far, two eagles. Paul Lawrie was about six feet away.

Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Marty Bonnar on July 14, 2022, 09:51:25 AM
An ace, a 58 and a rollback.
F.
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Jonathan Mallard on July 14, 2022, 01:00:44 PM
Don't forget, Nicklaus drove a 3-wood thru the 18th green 50 or so years ago.

(Yes, it was downwind and yes, it was with the small ball.)


In the third round in 1995, John Daly drove it left of the green, it rolled WAY up the slope, but stopped just short of continuing OB.


It rolled back down to the 1st tee, Daly 2 puitted, and we all know what happened Sunday.
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Jeff Schley on July 14, 2022, 05:34:29 PM
I heard on the broadcast that someone hit the flagstick on 18 in a practice round.  Anyone know who?
Title: Re: Way OT - An Ace On #18?
Post by: Erik J. Barzeski on July 14, 2022, 10:14:01 PM
I heard on the broadcast that someone hit the flagstick on 18 in a practice round.  Anyone know who?
Lee Westwood.