PGA Championship- Bethpage Black

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Regarding tour pro peak a good analogy might be that they develop and age a bit like MLB pitchers. You can see a general aging curve, traditionally peaking late 20s through late 30s, but a notable number of players don't fit the curve for various reasons (e.g., special skill set, finally mitigating a major weakness, finding a way to make a jump in one area of their game, etc.).

And then there's also Jordan Spieth who might have been the best putter on tour 2015-17, and now despite being only 25, is closer to the bottom of the tour than the top.
 

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Pulling hard for Harold Varner to have the round of his life today.
Of course he's already done that the last 2 days, so doing it 3 days in a row would be something unbelievable.

Just watched the intro on CBS, and while they are not calling it over, the whole introduction was basically this is a celebration of Koepka so sit back and enjoy the show of greatness
 

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Just walked a good amount of the course. The elevation from some of these fairways to the green is massive. Tv doesn’t do it justice. 15 green feels like you climbed a mountain to get to.
The 15 green really is a mountain and it looks like it's about 7 feet higher on TV. It doesn't come close to doing it justice. It's amazing.
 

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Brooks playing 1 about as badly as you can. But he still has a 12 footer for par. It's a really easy hole, a bogey would be pretty bad and maybe get this tourney back in action.
 
The 15 green really is a mountain and it looks like it's about 7 feet higher on TV. It doesn't come close to doing it justice. It's amazing.
I played in two Ivy League Championships at Bethpage Black (six rounds in total), and the 15th hole might be the toughest hole I've ever played in competition. Just brutal for mere mortals...and yet these guys make it look ridiculously easy.
 

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I played in two Ivy League Championships at Bethpage Black (six rounds in total), and the 15th hole might be the toughest hole I've ever played in competition. Just brutal for mere mortals...and yet these guys make it look ridiculously easy.
The length off the tee really matters on that hole, because the approach is difficult with a 7 iron but with a 3 hybrid, it's impossible.
 

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Seems like the greens are a good bit quicker than yesterday, or else everyone overcompensating. Seems like everything was 2 feet short yesterday, and today they are blowing 3-4 feet past a lot
 

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Sky Sports is showing a mini-Koepka feature which quoted a Deadspin piece which ranked him as the third-most boring athlete in professional sports and called him "Golfing Chloroform".
If Koepka is #3, DJ has to be top 2.

Rory might just backdoor himself into another top 10
 

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Jeez louise, Koepka hits the worst drive ever and it NAILS a tree and pops right back into the middle of the fairway.

Come on.
 

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Koepka has not given even a sliver. He'll have another birdie here and not that it wasn't over, because it was, but now it's OVER.
 

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Getting a little tighter, after Brooks' 3rd bogey in 3 holes. He's definitely off right now and facing a very tough stretch.
 

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The.Lead.Is.Two.

DJ birdied 15 FOUR times. Ridiculous. He has over 10% of ALL the birdies(4 out of 31) at that hole for the tournament.