Still not sure why playing a tough course under tough conditions is any more of a challenge or disadvantage for the best golfers than it is for golfers who aren't as good.

  a couple of years ago, Mrs rocket and I won our club"s couple's match play.  yesterday we missed the cut.  I am not by any means comparing our stuff to women's us open, but golf- it's the way the cookie crumbles. 

   we had some horrendous holes but were still in contention until the par 3, 16th hole.  we each hit decent shots, but each in a sand trap.  mine, pin high, but fried egg into the embankment.  it almost bounced out of it's lie, and if it does, it rolls to bottom of the trap and I have a fairly routine sand shot.  it stayed and I had one foot in trap and one in sand, with ball at mid thigh level.

   I don't care who you are, the % of getting a decent shots off onto a tough green ain't good.  I fly the shot over the green, into some crazy thick rough getting ready for wsga state amateur in a few weeks, semi-behind a small Adams crab tree, 10 yards off the green.  3rd shot on but rolls down severely banked green and rolls just off leaving me with a 25 foot uphill putt on stimp 13 greens.  3 putt for a 6.  finish out 17 and 18 with net par on 2 of the tougher holes on the course.  yes, the last one, #18 ya'll watch people 4 putt...f'em, we 2 putt,  and miss the cut by 2 strokes. 

I've come closest I've ever come to holes in one multiple times on this hole on #16

being able to write about this, this morning has been very cathartic and therapeutic for me-thank you! 

   da game of golf can be cruel, but ya gotta move on eyn'a

    Too bad for the folks of USA.  It’s time for him to be held accountable for his crimes and his colossal failure this past 50 years.

3 Days Ago Joe Lunardi ESPN has Marquette as a #6 Seed playing #11 seed Missouri/Nebraska in Raleigh. With the winner playing the winner of # 3 Seed North Carolina versus #14 Seed Charleston in the East Newark Region

Sensational goal. Reminded me of a few I saw Lemieux score, which is high praise.

Nice to see a Canadian team have a shot at the Cup.

His speed and control in tight spaces is seriously ridiculous.  I don't think they have enough but maybe their goalie has figured things out.

I didn’t see the play. Other posters said he was out easily, out by a mile. You were the one who put the chances of Pham scoring on that play at 24% which statistically was slightly better than Sheets getting a hit (23.7%). But you didn’t account for other ways the Sox could score in that situation other than a Sheet’s hit - an error, wild pitch, passed ball, a walk or hbp followed by a hit by the next guy or an error, etc., etc. Sheets also could have hit a HR. And multiple runs could have been scored too many other ways to even list them. So your math (based on a 24% chance) is wrong, plain and simple. If his chance to score was 35% you probably have an argument.

1. It was clear to everyone, except you perhaps, that I was suggesting Pham had a 24% or better chance of scoring on that play.
2. You're miles off the mark if you believe there was a better than 10% chance of him scoring on a wild pitch, passed ball or error in that situation.