When the goods go down to your home course is humble as it is exciting

Furintown, without. – Home game is a strange thing. The circus has crashed into the ground Tillinghast course of the Philadelphia cricket club this week, and I would say that any of the fake would be recorded in my Ringer outcome here. I don’t know the exact number (the best result in each hole, no time limit), but it would be good under 60 years of age. I only loved me a few hundred rounds and 38 years to get there. Maybe one of the 72 players in this Trumpet will break 60 in a round. Okay okay. They are playing a course with which I am known; Their games, not so much.

Course, with curves back, rough and greens quickly, view LOT Challenging for me. Players think the greens are at average speed or probably on the slow side, approximately benign and the course is short. Really doesn’t matter. I can never break 100 where they are playing. Every day a player does not break 70 he will get bored. All is well. Everyone they shoot, they shoot. R & a Officials take that attitude towards any open British. It is the only sensitive, indeed.

Patrick Rodgers is using my closet this week, in a row where Corey Conners AND Nick dunlap You set up shop for the week, among other star players with surnames that began with C and D. Rodgers took 72-player on Tuesday when Jason Day withdrew. The best I can say, Rodgers is adapting immediately.

He took three flights on Tuesday to reach Philadelphia. Rodgers lives in Jupiter, Fla., With his wife and two young children, and had planned to play the opposite field event in Myrtle Beach this week, but the retreat of the day changed his day and week. Place of rodgers in Myrtle The tour went to Chez Reavie. Like every shot makes someone happy, every attraction also makes.

Tuesday night, as I was ready to leave the course, Rodgers and his caddy, Chad Reynolds, were going to play nine. (Nine rear for the members’ game. Routing for the Truist Championship is completely different.) It was a wind night and I fell into easy conversation with Rodgers, who will turn 33 years old. He grew up in Bloomington, tissue., Went to Stanford (played in two Walker Cup teams as an amateur) and has been a stable PGA Tour player for 10 years. Rodgers loves the architecture of the course, and he knows a lot about AW Tillinghastthe course designer you were playing.

“We don’t have to play courses very often,” Rodgers said. He was using words that you never listen to the tournament players using as he describes the features he liked. charmingFor example. Eighteen, while we play it, is a PAR-4 tall dogleg, down a hill, over a mess, in a steep green that almost abuts a Spanish courtyard tied to the club, a converted farm house.

“The final hole,” he said.

“That’s 18 for us, but not for you guys,” I said.

He, of course, knew that.

“I imagine they are finishing somewhere where more ancestors can get around green,” Rodgers said.

These guys know a lot about golf and the tournament golf. The tournament for the tournament is our 4th, a par-4 long no matter what it plays. Whenever I do a 5 there, I think of it as a par. In my early years at the cricket club it Was a par-5. Is a par-5. For us.

He is neat, entering the closet room and seeing all the tour bags and tournaments and tour cadets there. It is a room with spacious locker, in normal periods. This week is not normal time. Our range of steering is wide. It looks small and short, with the tournament players and their entrances and equipment. Eighteen is a driver and a slice hybrid for me. Is a driver and a short iron drawn from the course for them. Okay okay. Golf would be better if they played a ball that maximally at 300. Then 7,100 yards would make sense again. It will never happen, but the dream will never die.

When I joined the club in the late 1980s, there was a tree in a Spanish courtyard enclosed with a roof hole to accommodate the tree. Master Caddy, Joe Smondrowski, led a black cadillac and had more money in his right pocket than some members had in their control accounts. He checked the first Tee and much more. The course was loaded with trees. No one was thinking about the cricket club as a place for this Truist championship, a tournament event in the Champions, a USA championship or anything other than the club championship. Joe moved. New people with new ideas moved. Things change. All is well.

The course has a small parking and no one except players and some other people are smelling this week. There is a servant parking for cadets. I’ve been parking half a mile away from scratch, on a suburban road and walking inside there. One morning, a caddy stopped taking me while I was walking inside. It was Danny Sahl, who cadets for Corey Connors, neighbor of Patrick Rodgers’s closet room for this week.

I’m rooting for rodgers this week. I am rooting for the conners. I really don’t care what the winning outcome is. The Lodge brothers are playing an old charming course beautiful tilinghast this week. It’s more than enough course for me. To give up for a week brings nothing but joy.

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