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Mar072010

2010 Honda Classic Final Round Open Comment Thread

If the Bear Trap references top 100, we all receive advance copies of Gary Koch's forthcoming memoir, Better Than Most.

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Yeah...this would be too much for a drinking game.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterSpence
"Gary Koch's forthcoming memoir, Better Than Most."

Well you made my day with that line Geoff. VERY funny.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered Commentermel
Indeed. If it were a drinking game a bunch of cooped up golfers would die of alcohol poisoning in the first hour of the telecast. I'm gonna hafta miss it, though. Sun is out, birds are singing, and the golf course positively beckons. Somebody keep track of how Sam Saunders does for me.
If, as they say, brevity is the soul of wit...well done Geoff!
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterJS
Why is it that I don't like that course? I've never played it...but The Bear Trap and all those lost balls just doesn't do it for me. Frankly, I don't like 17 at TPC Sawgrass either. I like 16, I like 18...but 17 just seems goofy.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterMRP
Broadcasting tip: when you manage to invent a "storyline" where there is none, be sure to repeat it overandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandover again. Makes you look knowledgeable.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterBenSeattle
MRP -

This list of great architects is a short one.

and 17 at TPC Sawgrass.....it was never intended to be a test of golf, it's a test of intestinal fortitude.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterOld Hornet
That course must be hell for the average 18 handicap with a slice.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterJohnV
Re Sawgrass 17: It is a nine iron. Any mid-handicapper can hit a green with a nine iron. Surround it with water and make the green tough to hit it close, and you have a hole. You may call it gimmicky, but I call it the only way to ensure a pro has to hit a short iron with a high pucker factor.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterThe O
The NBC broadcast crew - particularly Koch and Hicks - with their gushing, repetitive references to "muscular, good-looking, powerful, etc" Villegas had me leaping for the mute button.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered Commenterohgeez
I don't know that I'd give my worthless endorsement of the architectural bona fides of the Bear Trap, but it certainly makes for interesting viewing as Tour players in contention puked all over themselves. None of the holes struck me as plain unfair, just plain difficult and, like most Florida golf holes, fairly plain in general.
03.8.2010 | Unregistered Commentertlavin
I kept looking to see if any marshall on the tee would signal when Villegas' drives went off line. It seems that Camilo does his own signaling.

Bear Trap references on NBC were only about 30% of the amount on the Golf Channel broadcasts.

Grain references from Miller were also on the low end of usual.
03.8.2010 | Unregistered CommenterKevin
I think Dan Hicks had to go for a cold shower after the telecast after the way he talked about Villegas.
03.8.2010 | Unregistered Commenterpitman55
Before I die it would be wonderful to have a PGA tour event done by the Renton Laidlaw and Co.
Just to hear a professional,l understated telecast once here that doesn't assume that we all have ADD.
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