A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon May 20, 2024 9:49 am

That guy should have dug himself a hole right there and ended it all.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon May 20, 2024 10:19 am

Yeah it could have been an honest mistake, but still...no coming back from that.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon May 20, 2024 11:26 am

Jeez, now I have to start liking him?

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon May 20, 2024 11:36 am

mister d wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 9:49 am That guy should have dug himself a hole right there and ended it all.

Was he a journalist critical of MBS?

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri May 24, 2024 9:21 am

Wow. Just saw a piece of video from Louisville. The police report is a felony in terms of false reporting.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri May 24, 2024 10:15 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 9:21 am Wow. Just saw a piece of video from Louisville. The police report is a felony in terms of false reporting.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Fri May 24, 2024 10:29 am

A police report inaccurate? Next your going to tell me the police get on the witness stand and lie.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri May 24, 2024 11:26 am

Maybe we're not seeing the total thing, but what I saw was so far from what was in the report (cop dragged, ruined his pants, etc etc)... It's really baffling the DA hasn't dropped the felony charges. What a fucking clown shop.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Fri May 24, 2024 12:48 pm

Par for the course.

(It was right there, people.)

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri May 24, 2024 1:05 pm

The cop getting dragged to the ground always sounded weird to me...was he he holding onto the door handle or something? Nonetheless, if that did happen, it looks like it would have been right before this, because he's running from behind and clearly pissed off.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri May 24, 2024 1:22 pm

I'm also calling bullshit on this being some "cuh-RAZY" situation because someone got run over. Not trying to be a total prick, but cops deal with accidents and death fairly regularly. This guy was directing traffic. He wasn't in the middle of an active shooter situation.

Just kind of annoying that the coverage is making this sound like the atmosphere was all jacked up. Bullshit.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri May 24, 2024 1:25 pm

Jerloma wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 1:05 pm The cop getting dragged to the ground always sounded weird to me...was he he holding onto the door handle or something? Nonetheless, if that did happen, it looks like it would have been right before this, because he's running from behind and clearly pissed off.

Obligatory FUCK PORTNOY AND BARSTOOL...

Diana Moskovitz has a long piece about this nonsense over at the Defector this morning...[gift link included]...

Louisville Police Have Very Little To Say

Thursday's Louisville Metro Police Department news dump on their arrest of PGA golfer Scottie Scheffler last week began with spokesperson Sgt. Matt Sanders giving a quick plan for "today's run of show." The mayor would talk. The police chief would talk. No questions would be taken at the lectern. All questions were to be emailed afterward to the public information office. And at the end, several documents and videos would be released on LMPD's "forward-facing transparency page," a.k.a. a website. (Documents from the arresting officer's personnel file later would be published by WDRB journalist Jason Riley; more on that later.)

The cop in question is a real piece of work...

Later that day, WDRB's Jason Riley shared snippets from Gillis's personnel file, including that Gillis once was suspended for five days for doing donuts while on duty in his police car, with a drunk civilian passenger.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed May 29, 2024 12:14 pm

Charges against Scheffler dropped.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2 ... s-dropped/

Post by **brian** » Wed May 29, 2024 1:35 pm

Supposedly the Louisville PD wanted to make it contingent on them not getting sued but they don’t really seem to have much leverage.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed May 29, 2024 2:15 pm

The fact that his body camera wasn't on... I"m not saying it's suspicious, but it sure as hell was a huge factor in them dropping this case.

I also wonder if they were able to interview witnesses who did not see what the police report stated. You've got at least a half dozen vehicles right there with nothing to do but stare out their window.

I'm also a little curious why no one from the media was able to dig around on that front. Or that no one that saw it go down posted on social media or something.

Just an odd situation all around.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 29, 2024 2:24 pm

I could see a situation where the media did reach out and no one wanted to put their name on what they saw. Stop snitchin' isn't just about the bloods and crips.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed May 29, 2024 3:08 pm

mister d wrote: Wed May 29, 2024 2:24 pm I could see a situation where the media did reach out and no one wanted to put their name on what they saw. Stop snitchin' isn't just about the bloods and crips.

Cops have been known to remember who snitched, too.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Wed May 29, 2024 3:23 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: Wed May 29, 2024 2:15 pm The fact that his body camera wasn't on... I"m not saying it's suspicious, but it sure as hell was a huge factor in them dropping this case.

I also wonder if they were able to interview witnesses who did not see what the police report stated. You've got at least a half dozen vehicles right there with nothing to do but stare out their window.

I'm also a little curious why no one from the media was able to dig around on that front. Or that no one that saw it go down posted on social media or something.

Just an odd situation all around.

there was a widely-shared interview with ESPN's Bob Wischusen about what he saw from inside the car that Jeff Darlington was in

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed May 29, 2024 3:40 pm

I can also a prosecutor saying, "yeah not worth the time, effort, or reputation on a non-gimmie putt".

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed May 29, 2024 3:55 pm

Brontoburglar wrote: Wed May 29, 2024 3:23 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: Wed May 29, 2024 2:15 pm The fact that his body camera wasn't on... I"m not saying it's suspicious, but it sure as hell was a huge factor in them dropping this case.

I also wonder if they were able to interview witnesses who did not see what the police report stated. You've got at least a half dozen vehicles right there with nothing to do but stare out their window.

I'm also a little curious why no one from the media was able to dig around on that front. Or that no one that saw it go down posted on social media or something.

Just an odd situation all around.
there was a widely-shared interview with ESPN's Bob Wischusen about what he saw from inside the car that Jeff Darlington was in

I had seen this, but I probably am not a good barometer of how widely the story was covered.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed May 29, 2024 4:12 pm

I mean, normally I'd thank you for sharing an article I hadn't seen, but your tone kind of sucks, so... NOPE!

(I'm paying a moderate amount of attention and I hit a number of sports-focused web sites on a daily basis and hadn't seen that, so, in all seriousness, thanks for sharing.)

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Thu May 30, 2024 11:30 am

Yes the US Women’s Open is technically a major, but then again, so was the PGA Championship

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu May 30, 2024 12:37 pm

That was pretty casual.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Thu May 30, 2024 1:25 pm

Randy was way cooler. I thought it was gonna be 10ft off the tee holding driver.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Thu May 30, 2024 2:14 pm

Still, though, what a precision strike.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu May 30, 2024 3:09 pm

That reminds me of a very George Constanza like moment when I was in 6th grade. A couple of buddies and I were tossing the football around the backyard. One of them (who went on to start at QB for Texas Tech for a couple seasons) was looking down at something we couldn't see from our side and not throwing the ball back. Before we had a chance to say something, he threw the ball about 20 feet to the ground and all we saw from the other side of the yard was an explosion of feathers. He immediately began bawling and yelling "why didn't it move?! I thought it would move!!"

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu May 30, 2024 3:31 pm

I hit a goose last time I played. It deserved it.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu May 30, 2024 3:41 pm

A_B wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 3:31 pm I hit a goose last time I played. It deserved it.

That's what it gets for being in those tall weeds!

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu May 30, 2024 7:14 pm

A_B wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 3:31 pm I hit a goose last time I played. It deserved it.

Anthony Edwards getting killed, then disrespected.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Thu May 30, 2024 7:26 pm

Yeah I hit a bird on a golf course once. Maybe next time it’ll think twice about sitting inside the cup.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri May 31, 2024 7:00 am

Rex wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 7:26 pm Yeah I hit a bird on a golf course once. Maybe next time it’ll think twice about sitting inside the cup.

That is a pretty safe spot for most golfers.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri May 31, 2024 7:01 am

Rex wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 7:26 pm Yeah I hit a bird on a golf course once. Maybe next time it’ll think twice about sitting inside the cup.

I hit a guy in the head on a golf course once. From at least 200 yards away.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri May 31, 2024 7:27 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: Fri May 31, 2024 7:00 am
Rex wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 7:26 pm Yeah I hit a bird on a golf course once. Maybe next time it’ll think twice about sitting inside the cup.
That is a pretty safe spot for most golfers.

Indeed!

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri May 31, 2024 8:43 am

My grandfather was an eye doctor and once while I was staying with them (Highland Park) he had to leave to go perform emergency surgery on a dude that got blasted in the peeper on a golf course.

/random shit

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri May 31, 2024 12:02 pm

govmentchedda wrote: Fri May 31, 2024 7:01 amI hit a guy in the head on a golf course once. From at least 200 yards away.

Was on the other side of this but in the middle of my upper back while walking off the green. It ended up within like 10 feet of the hole but fuck that guy for not yelling anything so I picked it up and threw it off the green. It really hurt.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri May 31, 2024 12:08 pm

It’s a double dick move!

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri May 31, 2024 12:08 pm

D telling in himself for playing like Kevin Na.

Post by **brian** » Wed Jun 19, 2024 3:51 pm

Charlie Woods qualifies for US Junior Amateur.

Post by **brian** » Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:43 pm

The guy’s no Kim Jong-il but back to back aces in a USGA event is impressive.

https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/40 ... enior-open

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Jul 23, 2024 4:10 am

The son of a high school classmate is one shot back and tied for 3rd after the first day of the US Junior Amateur Open. His dad was a really good golfer too, but not that good.