My wife thinks we're a bunch of whiners

[MCirba]

Yesterday evening I was bemoaning the USGA setup of Shinnecock to my wife Jennifer.
She looked at me like I had two heads, and said;

Hey, sometimes conditions are tough, they should suck it up.   Isn't it you who always complains about these soft, over-watered conditions that yield birdie-fests week after week?   Isn't it you who says "brown is beautiful", and loves to see a shiny golf course where the glow off the grass is simultaneously compelling and frightening?  If you can't fly the ball into the middle of the green and get it to stop then maybe they should have to think on each hole where the best place to miss it is.   If they can't hit the fairway maybe they should club down.   
Oh My God...they have to go out there and actually think and re-think their strategies without their electronic devices?  Heavens forbid!

This is the National Championship on sandy soil that drains quickly and where the wind is unpredictable.   Everyone is facing the same golf course.   They are being paid millions of dollars for the privilege.   Shoot a lower score and you win!

And oh...aren't you the one who tells me how much fun Cobb's Creek is in the late fall when the grass stops growing and sometimes if you get in the wrong position the ball comes back to your feet?

Why are you depriving those pros of the same joy?  

[Adam Clayman]

I agree with her. Game minders! Extrapolated to the Nth degree from Behr's era, due to social media and a propensity for a type of Mob Rule.
 

[ward peyronnin]

I second and raise her call three moans
See my post on Dean's thread

[Kyle Harris]

DJ played his worst golf during the benign part of the round. JR kept it together and worked on the range after.


Just win.

[William_G]

well Mike, we know who wears the pants in your family, LOL

also yesterday was not a flighted event with the AM Handicap Flight and the PM Championship Flight, that was the real problem

first world problems for sure

[Bill Gayne]

well Mike, we know who wears the pants in your family, LOL

also yesterday was not a flighted event with the AM Handicap Flight and the PM Championship Flight, that was the real problem

first world problems for sure

+1. Mike what do you think?

[cary lichtenstein]

Yesterday evening I was bemoaning the USGA setup of Shinnecock to my wife Jennifer.
She looked at me like I had two heads, and said;

Hey, sometimes conditions are tough, they should suck it up.   Isn't it you who always complains about these soft, over-watered conditions that yield birdie-fests week after week?   Isn't it you who says "brown is beautiful", and loves to see a shiny golf course where the glow off the grass is simultaneously compelling and frightening?  If you can't fly the ball into the middle of the green and get it to stop then maybe they should have to think on each hole where the best place to miss it is.   If they can't hit the fairway maybe they should club down.   
Oh My God...they have to go out there and actually think and re-think their strategies without their electronic devices?  Heavens forbid!

No question she is 100% right

This is the National Championship on sandy soil that drains quickly and where the wind is unpredictable.   Everyone is facing the same golf course.   They are being paid millions of dollars for the privilege.   Shoot a lower score and you win!

And oh...aren't you the one who tells me how much fun Cobb's Creek is in the late fall when the grass stops growing and sometimes if you get in the wrong position the ball comes back to your feet?

Why are you depriving those pros of the same joy?  

[Ken Moum]

Tell Jennifer that my wife and I think she's a genius.


K

[John Kavanaugh]

I guess your wife never met GC7?

[archie_struthers]

 


Right on Mrs Cirba.     Damn whiners

[Lou_Duran]

Sometimes one needs to step back from the group think for a clearer view.  I have yet to hear a complaint from the golfers I've come in contact during this week about the course setup at Shinny.  Most seem to appreciate that the pros encountered similar, everyday problems (getting the ball to stop near the hole).