Torrey Pines

It's been a while since I've talked about the PGA Tour here, but frankly, there hasn't been much to talk about.  I know that the season technically started last year because the Tour is still desperately trying to find a way to make those fall events relevant, but I honestly couldn't bring myself to care.  It's 2014 now, which is when the season should start, and so I have been paying attention.  However, there hasn't really been much going on yet.  This week was the first one that felt significant in any way, or at least when the tournament started, it did.  But the South Course at Torrey Pines is playing at U.S Open level difficulty right now, and that is not a good thing.  I don't care how exciting the U.S. Open was there, Torrey Pines South is not a good course.  You can really see that this week, just by looking at the leaderboard.  The people at the top are not people who are established good players.  Yes, I know Jordan Spieth shows a lot of promise, but for now, that's all it is.  You don't get to be a good player until you've actually proven it, and right now, he's just not experienced enough.  So, what we have this week is a course that discourages bold, heroic, skillful play in favor of plodding along fairways and greens and making par after par.  That's just not very exciting.  Watching birdiefests gets boring, but this is even worse. 

Thoughts on the PGA Championship

Well, I suppose it's only fitting that the most boring golfer won today, because this tournament has been a snooze.  I don't want to blame the golf course entirely, because no course should be set up like that.  Thick rough does not make for exciting golf, it gets rather dull when you watch someone pitch out into the fairway again and again and again.  I watched most of the back nine today, and all Dufner and Furyk were doing was hitting fairway, green, then two putts.  That's why Dufner won, because he didn't do anything wrong.  He just played calm, cautious golf because that's all he needed to do.  If you played aggressively, any slight mistake meant a bogey.  So, no epic charges today, because the golf course just wasn't set up for it.  This was just as painful to watch as the U.S Open.  I don't care for watching golfers back up on Sunday, I want to see them take the title by playing the best, not by making the fewest mistakes.  So next time, tone down the rough a bit.