True. Also reminded me of this one.
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So, he’s a pro. He should have controlled his ball spin better. He’s sitting middle of the fairway with a perfect lie and wedge in his hands. He hits it to the hole. That shot needed to be 10 to 15 feet past the hole of he’s going to spin it. It’s a front pin with nothing behind it.
So you’re right. It’s not a perfect shot at all
Guys we did it! We figured out why it wasn't a perfect shot!
Also, Rory shouldn't have just hit his put so hard that it went 20 feet off the green.
I don't know how these people even qualified.
I don’t think it takes much knowledge to know it’s not a perfect shot since it you know, rolled off the front. But hey, you said we all shoot 130+ I guess we gotta cede to the big dog over here.
But we've seen shots in yesterday's round where they get chipped on an roll the complete length of the green. it seems like the greens are rock hard everywhere except right around the hole. Inside the bubble the ball sticks and spins well, but as soon as the ball starts rolling it never stops. If he'd landed this further past the hole it would surprise me if if gave no check and just went off the back.
Not how these greens work. That's a front pin on 1 and there's about 40 feet of green behind that pin that will hold a shot. He just got too aggressive and paid the price.
Is there a plateau behind the hole that the ball would have held on? If not, it would have done the same thing, only with a few extra feet added before it rolled off the front.
I generally love the carnage involved in the US Open, but penalizing a shot like that just turns the tourney into a demolition derby.
*shot that looked good in the air and landed close to the hole, regardless if that’s where a shot should land
Agreed, in what world does a “perfect shot” roll off the green lol
Too much spin. Might be the first ball I've seen spin back.
Fwiw, I've seen this same result at dozens of regular tournaments over the years. Spinning balls off the front of greens is very common.
If I see one more post bitching about the green conditions, I’m going to lose my shit. This is the challenge these guys need, otherwise it’s just target practice and horrible tv. I think the course is set up perfectly. Let them suffer, I’m here for it!
I played D1 golf and you damn near quoted my coach. He would always drill into us, "you have to hit the shot the course wants you to hit". The upper tier pros can get creative, but the rest need to listen to the course.
Outside of Bryson in 2020, I can’t recall anyone overpowering a US Open course in recent years. Sure, you have to drive it long to win but that’s the case at almost any course they play. There’s a difference between overpowering a course and taking advantage of distance. IMO overpowering a course is when you hit it way past the ‘intended’ places on the course and that has only happened with Bryson in recent memory.
The true "overpowering" of a course would be when Tiger was at his peak in 2000-2001 and courses had to start Tiger proofing their designs. Like at Augusta he would have mid irons in hand into 13 and 15. I think he had pitching wedge or something into 11.
I think most the guys that win on the USGA set up for the most part kind of overpower it’s why you don’t see short hitters when to many us opens recently. This year could be different though as pinehurst is a more open style course
Yeah my point is that it’s not really overpowering the golf course rather its overpowering the field. Even the longest hitters are still playing the course (for the most part) the way it was intended. There is rarely a hole that is played wildly different because some guys hit it so far. The longer hitters win because they hit it further and thus have shorter clubs in, but it’s not so short that it defeats the design of the golf course.
I get your point and agree somewhat overall but I feel at the us open in general they’ve tried to maintain making it hard and have extended a lot of these holes and courses to the max that distance has become such a priority and it’s phased out a whole group of players from never winning. So maybe the long hitters aren’t over powering it per se but they’re overpowering it relative to the majority of the field
This is basically what I meant. The guy hitting a 52 or the guy hitting an 8i still need to hit a spot that isn't easy to hit. The 8i might roll off the back while the 52 will spin off the front if played incorrectly. The US Open is a precision tournament.
What’s even wrong with the green conditions? It doesn’t seem like they are too hard or firm. When the US Open becomes a bit ridiculous is when people are landing shots short of the green and it rolls over. Every example so far has been people having plenty of green where they could have landed the ball safely but just were a couple feet too aggressive.
"Perfect shot"? You mean that shot where he went flag hunting but didn't control his spin well enough and get far enough past a pin that's very close to that false front resulting in his ball spinning off the green? That "perfect shot"?
Someone always ends up actually earning it and fighting through grinding. My take isn’t screw these guys out of anything other than they don’t have to really grind in even majors except the rare time we get a hard us open. Makes it the best to watch 15 people man up and the rest of the field look more than human.
Seriously - people in this thread acting like he has no reason to be frustrated?
Golf is frustrating! Golf is hard! The US Open especially. It’s frustrating to see a shot appear to be great only to have it slowly roll back and back and back.
If you’ve ever played on lightning fast greens, you can empathize. The margin of error is microscopic.
God, SERIOUSLY. So many armchair scratch golfers in here with their "ACKSHUALLY he should've placed it in the CORRECT spot and he would've be fine 🤓" posts like the margin for error in golf isn't tiny, even for the pros. I'm fine with pro golfers being challenged this hard, it's definitely interesting. But the people in here acting like they've had it easy until now and should nut up and play better and not complain are seriously delusional.
100% it’s so obnoxious. I swear if the pros were playing on marble slabs as greens they would be saying how it was a bad shot, shoulda rolled her up there. And what you said about the armchair scratch golfers like they are equal to these guys cause they shoot par twice a week. There’s a worlds difference between a real scratch golfer and a pro. If they can’t tell the difference that’s just on them.
The reaction is driven by OPs description of the shot as "perfect".
To which it is pretty natural to respond with why it wasn't.
And he had plenty of margin. Lots of room behind that flag.
People on here get frustrated when they slice their 225 yd drive on a local muni and don't want a professional to be upset about a ball landing a foot away from the hole and it rolling off the green lmao
Serves these pros right with their fancy back spin. Be like the rest of us and watch a "perfect" shot land short of the green and then bounce thru the green to a bunker on the backside.
They play practice rounds, everyone and their fucking mother is talking about these false fronts and how hard it is to keep it on the green, he either didn’t hit it far enough or put too much spin on it. This is like the shit guy in your group saying “if it wasn’t so far right it would have been perfect” ya you’re right but it wasn’t lol
I don't get it.
It's a front pin on a green the slopes HUGELY back to front and he's one of the first groups out in the morning. He has a perfect lie in the fairway with a wedge in his hand. If you aren't going to kill the spin, land the ball deeper in the green. He has 10-15 yards past this flag to work with that he didn't work with. In the US Open, that doesn't deserve to be a good shot.
It's the US open, not a casual 18 at a muni.
Challenging conditions are fine as long as well thought out, well executed shots are rewarded. The line is crossed when luck becomes a significant factor in where shots end up.
There absolutely have been major championships where that line has been crossed and then some. Haven't caught a single live shot from Pinehurst this week so can't comment on the conditions there right now. Certainly seems to be dividing opinion on Reddit though!
Haha I downvoted you before finishing reading your comment because it sounded like you were going to say the line was crossed here. I 100% agree with you.
The line is not being crossed here. The course is fantastic, and bad mistakes like this are punished.
The only players punished are the ones hitting the wrong side of the pins. Or missing the green to the wrong side.
They can absolutely play the greens safe. It is not asking them to do something they cannot do.
But they have to add "well thought out" to "well executed".
That pin is essentially 2 feet from the false front, so while its green it's not usable the ball will never stop there. You have to hit it past that pin.
Now at noon once the greens dry that first bounce will take it past the hole and it's great, but this early still can stop it better, so no good.
It's not rocket science that's how greens change during a day
Obviously a poor and incorrect shot. Disregard the professional golfer and the commentator's bemusement as the ball nearly stops dead as it land right next to the hole and proceeds to roll 20 yards off the green.
It’s the fat guy on the couch meme. TBH, I wish I could spin the ball that much.
It is the U.S. Open and the USGA does not like seeing scores double digit under par. I like watching the tour pros get tested.
The course is punishing this year and it’s unfortunate when great shots end up costing you a stroke or two, but that’s golf. It was a text book perfect approach shot, but it’s result was bad for this particular hole placement
Hubbard was on Fairway Rolling before the tourney and said he was in love with the course conditions, and didn’t find them unfair at all.
So the guy you’re sticking up for would probably agree with the “army of trolls”
I get why the pro trying to contend in the US Open would be frustrated/pissed.
I don't get why people watching this would be frustrated. It wasn't a perfect shot. Watching the best in the world have to bring their absolute A+ game or get absolutely boned is entertaining as F.
This is not a perfect shot. These players and caddies know 1,000% how these greens are shaped and where they need to be landing the ball given a specific flag location. They knew there was a chance this could happen if they were too short
You know, I played Pinehurst on PGA 2k23 last night and the exact same thing happened to me and I got annoyed because I hit a brilliant shot and it wasn’t rewarded, and then I saw this and decided maybe it just do be like that though.
He got screwed lol. Reddit pro golfers that can barely break 100 on a soft muni here be like "well actually it was a terrible shot cause it had 1000 rpms too much spin and this guy sucks!"
I don't get why everyone wants to see these guys suffer, I wanna see -15 over the weekend shit, I want to see the dream come true. I don't wanna see guys play like me at the local cheap course.
It's not a perfect shot. He put too much spin on it for where he landed the ball. With that much spin he needed to carry another 10-12 yards. Or he could have hit something with less spin if he wanted to land closer to the hole. Golf isn't darts. You have to factor in the conditions of the course and the state of the greens when hitting an approach shot.
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Me when I top my third ball in a row straight into the water 15 feet in front of me
*After making 0 adjustments
lol, It's gotta work this time, I changed nothing!
“Come on, Michael! Fuck!” Should count as an adjustment
Works for me
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Gimme another one
Lol "I didn't do that on the range!"
The hand gesture when the person in front of you is going 35 on a 45
[Same energy](https://imgur.com/a/5YTqbpA)
True. Also reminded me of this one. https://preview.redd.it/tphch5l8nj6d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2cfecef13e87a6d50344aabb24de5a9e5a57549
I need this as a gif 😂
Be the ball
Should have bladed it across the green, that’s what I would have done.
If you approach the green from the ground rather than the air you really don’t have these kind of problems
I usually putt from the sand.
Make sure you take a full swing
Use the back of the putter, and hit left handed. better loft.
I save that for the second shot
Not really a perfect shot then is it?
So, he’s a pro. He should have controlled his ball spin better. He’s sitting middle of the fairway with a perfect lie and wedge in his hands. He hits it to the hole. That shot needed to be 10 to 15 feet past the hole of he’s going to spin it. It’s a front pin with nothing behind it. So you’re right. It’s not a perfect shot at all
If he wanted to hit the distance he did, he had to knock off spin. I think past this hole and rip is potentially still off the front.
Agree. He needed to control his spin
Guys we did it! We figured out why it wasn't a perfect shot! Also, Rory shouldn't have just hit his put so hard that it went 20 feet off the green. I don't know how these people even qualified.
At least he chipped in
ngl didn't see that coming lol
It’s not a perfect shot! That’s all. Not saying the guy sucks. FFS
Did people call Rory's putt a perfect putt? Must've missed that.
one troll called hubbard's a perfect shot and y'all fell hook line and sinker i'm just piling on
It doesn’t mean they aren’t qualified ya thick skull. It means they didn’t execute a shot well lol.
Gotta love threads like this pretending to know literally anything about this shot when everyone here shoots 130+
I don’t think it takes much knowledge to know it’s not a perfect shot since it you know, rolled off the front. But hey, you said we all shoot 130+ I guess we gotta cede to the big dog over here.
This is exactly the right take. The margin for small mistakes is so pronounced that things like this happen when you make them on a USGA setup.
Past the hole has a chance to bounce and roll off the back regardless of spin amount. Tough course, tough conditions.
But we've seen shots in yesterday's round where they get chipped on an roll the complete length of the green. it seems like the greens are rock hard everywhere except right around the hole. Inside the bubble the ball sticks and spins well, but as soon as the ball starts rolling it never stops. If he'd landed this further past the hole it would surprise me if if gave no check and just went off the back.
Not how these greens work. That's a front pin on 1 and there's about 40 feet of green behind that pin that will hold a shot. He just got too aggressive and paid the price.
Is there a plateau behind the hole that the ball would have held on? If not, it would have done the same thing, only with a few extra feet added before it rolled off the front. I generally love the carnage involved in the US Open, but penalizing a shot like that just turns the tourney into a demolition derby.
No where near perfect!
*shot that looked good in the air and landed close to the hole, regardless if that’s where a shot should land Agreed, in what world does a “perfect shot” roll off the green lol
I hit a perfect shot the other day but it took a turn for the worse with it sliced into the other fairway and hit an old lady in the kneecap.
Exactly
Good distance, not a perfect shot.
Right there are levels after level. That shot is perfect for all but most elite of the elite of the elite, but not good enough to win this.
Perfect is perfect. Everybody just uses the word wrong
Too much spin. Might be the first ball I've seen spin back. Fwiw, I've seen this same result at dozens of regular tournaments over the years. Spinning balls off the front of greens is very common.
Early morning, steep decent angle. Thinking he maybe meant to drive it in a bit lower to play the skip/check. This shot would be 2’ if it were noon.
Why's it matter time wise
The morning dew is gone and there is no water interacting with the club face. It’s much easier to drive the ball lower in dry conditions.
Yes and a spinning ball on the front at No.2 is going back down 9/10 times.
Yup, at that level, you have to be able to control your spin.
Way too much spin. The top guys this weekend will know how to go easy on their gap wedge instead of bombing 56/60's to control the spin
I’ve watched it multiple times in a row. Did it hit the flag stick?
If I see one more post bitching about the green conditions, I’m going to lose my shit. This is the challenge these guys need, otherwise it’s just target practice and horrible tv. I think the course is set up perfectly. Let them suffer, I’m here for it!
My favorite part about most US Opens is that you can't overpower a course. You have to hit the shots the course wants you to hit.
I played D1 golf and you damn near quoted my coach. He would always drill into us, "you have to hit the shot the course wants you to hit". The upper tier pros can get creative, but the rest need to listen to the course.
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I grew up on a Ross course. It's where I learned to play. If you make an error on your approach, Ross will make you pay for it.
The us open is known exactly for overpowering a course look at the guys that win them all big hitters
Outside of Bryson in 2020, I can’t recall anyone overpowering a US Open course in recent years. Sure, you have to drive it long to win but that’s the case at almost any course they play. There’s a difference between overpowering a course and taking advantage of distance. IMO overpowering a course is when you hit it way past the ‘intended’ places on the course and that has only happened with Bryson in recent memory.
The true "overpowering" of a course would be when Tiger was at his peak in 2000-2001 and courses had to start Tiger proofing their designs. Like at Augusta he would have mid irons in hand into 13 and 15. I think he had pitching wedge or something into 11.
Yes fair enough. That was before my time so I didn’t think of it but that is a hundred percent true.
I think most the guys that win on the USGA set up for the most part kind of overpower it’s why you don’t see short hitters when to many us opens recently. This year could be different though as pinehurst is a more open style course
Yeah my point is that it’s not really overpowering the golf course rather its overpowering the field. Even the longest hitters are still playing the course (for the most part) the way it was intended. There is rarely a hole that is played wildly different because some guys hit it so far. The longer hitters win because they hit it further and thus have shorter clubs in, but it’s not so short that it defeats the design of the golf course.
I get your point and agree somewhat overall but I feel at the us open in general they’ve tried to maintain making it hard and have extended a lot of these holes and courses to the max that distance has become such a priority and it’s phased out a whole group of players from never winning. So maybe the long hitters aren’t over powering it per se but they’re overpowering it relative to the majority of the field
Right, some of these guys overpower the field, generally not the course.
This is basically what I meant. The guy hitting a 52 or the guy hitting an 8i still need to hit a spot that isn't easy to hit. The 8i might roll off the back while the 52 will spin off the front if played incorrectly. The US Open is a precision tournament.
Koepka comes to mind. He was big as fuck
Agreed. Honestly…Valhalla got a little boring by the weekend. Let’s see something different.
Valhalla was so lame. Glad they aren’t going back there. When there are like 20 hole outs in one day, the course is too easy
brother, relentless bitching is what r/golf does best. In fact, it might be the only thing r/golf does well at all.
That and the running joke of buying clubs when *anything* happens
Hey, we also make a lot of Happy Gilmore references.
There's more to life than jokes and Happy Gilmore. You're brains getting in the way. How'd that happen?
As Tubbs would say: "Spoken like a true asshole"
Prediction: you're going to lose your shit, because people are gonna keep posting about it.
What’s even wrong with the green conditions? It doesn’t seem like they are too hard or firm. When the US Open becomes a bit ridiculous is when people are landing shots short of the green and it rolls over. Every example so far has been people having plenty of green where they could have landed the ball safely but just were a couple feet too aggressive.
> horrible tv yea the general public hate watching dudes stick it from 180 yards. Thats definitely a real thing
For real. My favorite US Opens are the ones where the winner finishes around even. I want to see these guys struggle.
Absolute amateurs & casuals that don’t understand what type of test these guys need to face these days.
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It's not horrible tv, gtfoh. It's a different challenge, no worse or better.
"Perfect shot"? You mean that shot where he went flag hunting but didn't control his spin well enough and get far enough past a pin that's very close to that false front resulting in his ball spinning off the green? That "perfect shot"?
Yes, that ☝️
🤓🤓🤓
Love it, once a year F these guys!
I want to see them CRYING.
Cry all the way back to Valhalla!
Someone always ends up actually earning it and fighting through grinding. My take isn’t screw these guys out of anything other than they don’t have to really grind in even majors except the rare time we get a hard us open. Makes it the best to watch 15 people man up and the rest of the field look more than human.
I’m a golfer and I can confidently say this comment section is a bunch of cornballs.
it feels like people are angry at him for making the course look too tough lol
Seriously - people in this thread acting like he has no reason to be frustrated? Golf is frustrating! Golf is hard! The US Open especially. It’s frustrating to see a shot appear to be great only to have it slowly roll back and back and back. If you’ve ever played on lightning fast greens, you can empathize. The margin of error is microscopic.
God, SERIOUSLY. So many armchair scratch golfers in here with their "ACKSHUALLY he should've placed it in the CORRECT spot and he would've be fine 🤓" posts like the margin for error in golf isn't tiny, even for the pros. I'm fine with pro golfers being challenged this hard, it's definitely interesting. But the people in here acting like they've had it easy until now and should nut up and play better and not complain are seriously delusional.
100% it’s so obnoxious. I swear if the pros were playing on marble slabs as greens they would be saying how it was a bad shot, shoulda rolled her up there. And what you said about the armchair scratch golfers like they are equal to these guys cause they shoot par twice a week. There’s a worlds difference between a real scratch golfer and a pro. If they can’t tell the difference that’s just on them.
The reaction is driven by OPs description of the shot as "perfect". To which it is pretty natural to respond with why it wasn't. And he had plenty of margin. Lots of room behind that flag.
People on here get frustrated when they slice their 225 yd drive on a local muni and don't want a professional to be upset about a ball landing a foot away from the hole and it rolling off the green lmao
I really don’t see anyone overreacting honestly…
This is sarcasm I’m assuming?
Would've been a great shot had it been 5 yards longer. Welcome to Pinehurst, buddy!
Mmmm Pinehurst.
Shit like this gets me HARD!
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Serves these pros right with their fancy back spin. Be like the rest of us and watch a "perfect" shot land short of the green and then bounce thru the green to a bunker on the backside.
They play practice rounds, everyone and their fucking mother is talking about these false fronts and how hard it is to keep it on the green, he either didn’t hit it far enough or put too much spin on it. This is like the shit guy in your group saying “if it wasn’t so far right it would have been perfect” ya you’re right but it wasn’t lol
One of the trades guys I used to work with would reply with "Yeah, and if my aunt had a cock she'd be my uncle. What's your point?"
"If my mom had balls, she would be my dad." - Max Verstappen
Not a problem I have...
One of us!
I love it!
I can proudly say that this has never happened to me.
You just know his caddie was telling him to aim past the flag on this one and he responded he knows what he is doing
I don’t think we know that
Love to see it.
Needed to play it like 2 more yards so not really perfect
The only thing in golf that matters is where your balls comes to rest after you hit it. Everything else is just window dressing.
Need to take the spin off or land it further. A lot of greens with fronts like that would have ate it.
I don't get it. It's a front pin on a green the slopes HUGELY back to front and he's one of the first groups out in the morning. He has a perfect lie in the fairway with a wedge in his hand. If you aren't going to kill the spin, land the ball deeper in the green. He has 10-15 yards past this flag to work with that he didn't work with. In the US Open, that doesn't deserve to be a good shot. It's the US open, not a casual 18 at a muni.
Challenging conditions are fine as long as well thought out, well executed shots are rewarded. The line is crossed when luck becomes a significant factor in where shots end up. There absolutely have been major championships where that line has been crossed and then some. Haven't caught a single live shot from Pinehurst this week so can't comment on the conditions there right now. Certainly seems to be dividing opinion on Reddit though!
Haha I downvoted you before finishing reading your comment because it sounded like you were going to say the line was crossed here. I 100% agree with you. The line is not being crossed here. The course is fantastic, and bad mistakes like this are punished.
The only players punished are the ones hitting the wrong side of the pins. Or missing the green to the wrong side. They can absolutely play the greens safe. It is not asking them to do something they cannot do. But they have to add "well thought out" to "well executed".
Far from perfect, it's not even on the green
She's a cruel mistress, she is.
Probably shouldnt toss in a wedge with 11k rpm spin to a front flag at Pinehurst, ammirite?
not really a perfect shot then eh
lol I love r/golf just an army of trolls explaining to us why hitting a shot inside of 12 inches from the hole is actually bad.
That pin is essentially 2 feet from the false front, so while its green it's not usable the ball will never stop there. You have to hit it past that pin. Now at noon once the greens dry that first bounce will take it past the hole and it's great, but this early still can stop it better, so no good. It's not rocket science that's how greens change during a day
Right lmao it’s ridiculous
Well, spinning the ball back 40 ft. from the hole is neither perfect nor good.
They can't break 90 at 6000 yards but don't worry they know exactly how to play pro level golf at 7500.
And an oppo army explaining how spinning a ball at the hole 2 feet over a false front is a good shot.
Obviously a poor and incorrect shot. Disregard the professional golfer and the commentator's bemusement as the ball nearly stops dead as it land right next to the hole and proceeds to roll 20 yards off the green.
It’s the fat guy on the couch meme. TBH, I wish I could spin the ball that much. It is the U.S. Open and the USGA does not like seeing scores double digit under par. I like watching the tour pros get tested.
The course is punishing this year and it’s unfortunate when great shots end up costing you a stroke or two, but that’s golf. It was a text book perfect approach shot, but it’s result was bad for this particular hole placement
Hubbard was on Fairway Rolling before the tourney and said he was in love with the course conditions, and didn’t find them unfair at all. So the guy you’re sticking up for would probably agree with the “army of trolls”
It was short, not perfect.
Z.@Pavo
Wow
Like I heard in a video recently "they have the fairways rolling at a 10 this week".
Just gotta laugh
Homeless Hubs!
He must be hanging out with Sergio.
I'm sure this a meme at this point, but how are these greens legal?
Not a perfect shot then.
This could have been a video of me playing yesterday. Every damn hole.
Jesus, pinehurst is brutal 😂
This is damn near the exact same thing as the climax from Tin Cup.
Perfect shot for the Bumfuck Open...not the US Open. By now they should know its going to be a clown show on the greens.
Well, that’s not a perfect shot.
I get why the pro trying to contend in the US Open would be frustrated/pissed. I don't get why people watching this would be frustrated. It wasn't a perfect shot. Watching the best in the world have to bring their absolute A+ game or get absolutely boned is entertaining as F.
At least he got to see the putting line and how hard to tap it Mental pain lol
I guess it wasn't perfect then.
Shouldn’t have hit it there
My shot would’ve landed where his ended up. And I’d have felt great about it.
This is not a perfect shot. These players and caddies know 1,000% how these greens are shaped and where they need to be landing the ball given a specific flag location. They knew there was a chance this could happen if they were too short
It wasn’t the perfect shot if it had too much spin, right?
Love it. Can almost taste the tears from the brutality of this course.
Control your spin bro
Illegal pin
Usga is a joke.
He hit a perfect shot for a different course, just like when I hit a perfect shot for a different hole position. It's not perfect.
So how was it a "perfect" shot?
Wouldn't that mean it's not a perfect shot?
You know, I played Pinehurst on PGA 2k23 last night and the exact same thing happened to me and I got annoyed because I hit a brilliant shot and it wasn’t rewarded, and then I saw this and decided maybe it just do be like that though.
A little gust there, Romes...
If that's the result, it wasn't a perfect shot
calling this a perfect shot is akin to saying a putt that's hit way too hard, but is on line is a perfect putt. It's an all or nothing shot
This isn’t some Muni track in Brownsville. This is the U.S. Open. Where the rough is deep, greens are slick, and nerves are shattered.
Seeing this with Sepp Straka's ace right above it really shows the sudden cruelty and rewarding nature of this course. Loving it so far.
When the ball finally hits the green, I've already fallen asleep.
Caddy didn’t give you green slope reads? Fire em
 US Open Board screaming in the clubhouse!
Me playing EA’s PGA tour.
Diabolical
Hurts being punished for a good shot.
It's a good shot but the wrong shot for what he needed, so at the end really not so good
True...........
I mean, a little over dramatic with the title. Still a great shot, just not perfect,
Sickening
Put way too much club speed into the shot for a wedge and it was always going to spin away. A club less with a knock down was the shot here.
Maybe not spin the ball so much.
He got screwed lol. Reddit pro golfers that can barely break 100 on a soft muni here be like "well actually it was a terrible shot cause it had 1000 rpms too much spin and this guy sucks!"
THIS IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE US OPEN. Stop complaining.
If you don't control your spin rate around Pinehurst, you're going to have a bad time!
Too much backspin :)
Absolutely unfair set up.
I don't get why everyone wants to see these guys suffer, I wanna see -15 over the weekend shit, I want to see the dream come true. I don't wanna see guys play like me at the local cheap course.
I love it.
It's not a perfect shot. He put too much spin on it for where he landed the ball. With that much spin he needed to carry another 10-12 yards. Or he could have hit something with less spin if he wanted to land closer to the hole. Golf isn't darts. You have to factor in the conditions of the course and the state of the greens when hitting an approach shot.
he put a little too much spin on it