not much star power, but if you like low scores and no-names then the JDC is for you
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What's Zach shooting today?not much star power, but if you like low scores and no-names then the JDC is for you
The timing of this event being before The Open every year really hurts the lineup.
Yeah, irrelevant for several years now. Hats off on winning 2 Majors. Pretty impressive for an Iowa boy.
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Zach's second major was the British Open. Sweet too.
Yep I screwed up 2 Majors not 2 Masters. Didn't realize he's 47?! Yikes where does the time go?
This is one of the worst fields I have ever seen. I swear the Tour does everything they can to bend over the JDC year after year. Incredible the tournament keeps plugging alongnot much star power, but if you like low scores and no-names then the JDC is for you
He won at St. Andrews and Augusta. That’s good stuff.
While the lineup isn’t full of current star power, I’ve always enjoyed it usually as a springboard for some of the younger talent. There are some some soon to be very solid players competing.
Really impressive in the era of big hitters, Zach was nowhere near the top.
Only a few more years and he can compete on the senior tour. I could see him doing well there for a bit. Steve Stricker has been dominating this year.
Always a few young rising pro's at the jdc like the guy Clark played with on the front 9 before playing with Zach I think it was Ludvig Aberg
Sure, it doesn't seem like much of a field now. Plenty of more famous players now have played and won years before they were more well known. The JDC is a great opportunity for guys to pick up their first career tournament win.
not much star power, but if you like low scores and no-names then the JDC is for you
I wouldn't say stars by any means but I did instantly recognize 7 of those names on there. Granted, I like watching golf.
There have been plenty of years where there has been a few bigger names out there. The Olympics screwed us out of getting Spieth again. Quite a few of those first time winners didn’t do much after. Easy Ed Fiori ruined the JDC getting Tiger’s first win.
I don’t know. I don’t follow golf (other than a major here and there) but I’ve been to the JDC a few times and had a blast. And got to watch some guys that I just thought we no-names that I now see in big tournaments. DeChambaueia (ha!), Kim, Speith come to mind and maybe some other guys (who is the guy they compare to a linebacker playing golf?) come to mind that I saw. I didn’t care at all, but they must have been on the right trajectory.
I figure golf nuts would flock to this to see a masters champ in the making. It’s a fun event (with beer).
I figure golf nuts would flock to this to see a masters champ in the making. It’s a fun event (with beer).
His game went south immediately after switching to PXG.
That's a fact, not an opinion.
The concerts really pushed ticket sales. Smart move by Deere.
I will be wondering the course on Sunday. Not a big golf fan but it’s fun watching their medium short games and how easy they make it look.
I will be wondering the course on Sunday. Not a big golf fan but it’s fun watching their medium short games and how easy they make it look.
Really liking this Peter Kuest story. Plenty of up and comers, Jordan Spieth obviously a big example for this event, play their way on tour without ever qualifying for it. However they get opportunities presented to them through sponsor exemptions. This dude parlayed a Monday qualifier, in which he may not have even advanced had a competitor not called a penalty on himself for slipping an extra club in during the round break, and now he's into certain Tour status by finishing 76 or better. And since on cut day he's in 3rd place I'm guessing that's gonna happen.
While they aren't the stars of the tour, it's still incredible to see how good these guys are. I say it every year, and it will never happen, but if the PGA wants to grow the game they'd require their players to play in every tournament every 5 years or so. That way you'd always have 3 or 4 stars at every event throughout the year.
I beg to differ...C. Young is a star...at baseball...100 years ago.not much star power, but if you like low scores and no-names then the JDC is for you
Zach’s Masters win was the only one with a score over par if I remember right…
…and then he mismarked his putt on 18 at the Open to incur a penalty stroke. Luckily he was up 2 shots…
…and then he mismarked his putt on 18 at the Open to incur a penalty stroke. Luckily he was up 2 shots…
I know the timing of the tournament has always been blamed for the weak fields, but it’s an easy course (for these guys) that doesn’t prepare them for the next major, and the purse sucks. There’s zero incentive for the top players to participate.
They want to win money. If it wasn’t right before the Open more guys would play it. There were bigger names in it in the fall. Generally.
- Sep 13, 2002
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This Par 5 is the site of my one-and-only eagle at TPC Deere Run. I'd hit a nice drive to around 200 yards short of the green (playing from whites, not blues, though). I hit an actually too good approach shot with my hybrid that flew about 215 yards and hit that red barn in the background right on the stone base. The ball then bounced back onto the green, about 12 feet from the hole and I sank the putt for a 3. Just how I drew it up!
The “stars” are in Scotland playing in the Scottish Open or prepping for The Open, next week.not much star power, but if you like low scores and no-names then the JDC is for you
Those golf course architects are an ingenious lot, aren’t they? Nice 3!
This Par 5 is the site of my one-and-only eagle at TPC Deere Run. I'd hit a nice drive to around 200 yards short of the green (playing from whites, not blues, though). I hit an actually too good approach shot with my hybrid that flew about 215 yards and hit that red barn in the background right on the stone base. The ball then bounced back onto the green, about 12 feet from the hole and I sank the putt for a 3. Just how I drew it up!
- Sep 13, 2002
- 95,149
- 193,797
- 113
To this day my golf partner says it's not a "legit" eagle since I didn't call bank shot.
I have never heard of “bank golf” before…….again, Nice 3!To this day my golf partner says it's not a "legit" eagle since I didn't call bank shot.
That was at the Colonial in Texas. Not the British.
Zach, Sam Snead and Jackie Burke all won The Masters with a 289 total…..Jack Nicklaus won in ‘66 with a 288 score.
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