Monday, September 3, 2012

Rory holds on to win the Deutsche Bank Birdie-Fest, er, Championship

Ireland's Rory McIlroy overcame a three stroke deficit going into the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship, and managed to hold on through a photo finish against Louis Oosthuizen this afternoon at TPC Boston. I'm glad to see these boys could cope with this brutal setup and eek out modest performances of -20 and -19, respectively. Seriously, though...-20?

Last week at the Barclays, I overheard Ian Poulter complaining about how ridiculously unreceptive the greens were at Bethpage Black on Saturday. I can't post exactly what he said here without using a lot of this stuff... %$#@ ... but his general point was that the pros play four majors a year, in which the expectation is that they're going to get the crap beat out of them for the jollies of golf fans everywhere--the rest of the season, they should be allowed to play the game the way it's meant to be played. He might have had a point. So what do you think? Should these courses be set up to let the guys put on a show, or should the courses be toughened so that the pros get beat up like the rest of us do on a typical Sunday?

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