Viewing Pro attacking Quail Hollow but another reality control for us hackers

Charlotte, NC – do you like to take the back track? You can make a car 100 miles, most of it on the two-lane highway, from the 18th and 18th hole Hollow Quail Club In the 18th 18th hole in Pinehurst No. 2, where the US Open was placed last year. This is when Rory Mcilroy closed with a father’s day, and Bryson dechambeau made a wild predecessor of sand to win his second US Open second. On Sunday, this Championship 103 PGA It can be placed in the spectacular closing hole. It’S’S A PAR-4 short, for Bryson, Rory & Co. It’S’S A good Par-5 for the rest of us. The separation has never been bigger.

It was a wonderful Saturday evening here, with long shades and a breeze drying. That is, it was great for Scottie Schefflerleading this tournament with three. It was great for Alex Noran, the former Mac O’Grady, who will play with Scheffler in the last double. It was semi-pleasant for the extremely interesting, slightly soft dechauuu, which, after a fraud at 16 and double at 17, made a 3-dru, 8-hekuri, long chip, short Putt 4 to 18 to finish in five under and not completely from it.

Hard to say what day it was for Mcilroy, who made the cut on Friday, had a long time, long Day in the office on Saturday and went on stage shortly after signing for a 72 (T49). He marched beyond a small group of reporters looking for a wild bite and an answer to a not too complicated question:

Why do you do it Change drivers This week?

Question forever: WWBJD?

(What would Big Jack do?)

But, indeed, it’s not Biggie. Without cheating on all things, this is a perfect EKED news storm and a potential non -conforming driver and a deep silence (Mcilroy) turning this into more than it is. No one is suggesting that Mcilroy did anything wrong. It looks – it looks! – He was said earlier this week, during a practical round, that his driver was non -conforming. A conforming driver can become non -conforming through regular use. The face becomes very thin, the effect of the springboard becomes very large. All you have to do is replace it. No big.

As is the case with all storms, this too will pass.

Ordinary golf does not understand the effect of trampoline Or the coefficient of return or characteristic time, all elite things, playing that other game, are often familiar with it. One of my golf friends said Saturday at night, ”I You need more trampoline effect with my driver. “Sorry, boy.

Back to the tournament. Maybe Scheffler will go so low in the fourth round of Sunday that it will be able to make a 5 in 18 and still win from two. It would be a kind of shame, but also semi -predictable, as this event, for every number of reasons, has felt more like an ordinary (but beautiful!) PGA Tour event than a great championship. Slow rounds in the triple during the first three days have a lot to do with this. So it has the long and soft course. And our familiarity with him, as PGA Tour makes an annual stop here.

But for anyone who does a 5 in 18 Sunday, let’s really have to play as a par-5 researcher for the vast majority of us, the sliced-220 of the TEE crowd which would have a modest chance to double a green that has numerous levels and is stimulating in 13ish. Let’s not even talk about its advancement from the rough. ‘Because this may not happen at all without hurting.

Dechambeau, who knows one or two things to play with 90-shooters, was asked how he would advise such a player just trying- trying – To make a principle in the 490-yard hole, uphill. He was asked how ordinary golf player could play it for a 5.

“For a 5 kick?” Make a break for two weeks and rest. I don’t know. It’S’S is impossible. “He described a strong stroke, a second blow, one third with an iron (optimistic) that actually gets green, two strokes from there. But where he hit 3-dru, 8

Now 5 may be all scottie Scheffler needs Sunday night on 18, but now we do not know and cannot know. That is why they play and why we look. They play a game with which we are not known, every latter from these pro tours.

The benefits of the club will tell you that. There were 20 on the field, all quality players. No one made the cut. You can’t get luck and shoot 143 for two rounds, one more, and make the cut on a course like Quail Hollow. Rory fired 143. The way his Saturday went, he might have wanted him to take a more blow in the first two rounds. But these players, most of them, are difficult to give every blow everything they have.

Sometimes you win, as Mcilroy did in Augusta. Sometimes you decide, as Mcilroy did in last year’s US Open. Sometimes you T22, as Mcilroy did at least in the Championship PGA, in Valhalla. The best players have a long career. Mcilroy, Scheffler and Dechambeau are destined to have long careers.

Three rounds of Scheffler this week: 68-68-65.

Dechambeau: 71-68-69.

Mcilroy’s: 74-69-72.

What we would give for a 74.

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