2020/21 PGA Tour Thread

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by transplant99

This crowd "control" is insane.

Yikes.

Oh and....COVID? what's that?

Mickelson is in the middle of this...





Just bonkers

Lol. They claim all spectators are supposed to social distance at all times and that no grandstands were put up out of safety concerns.

They also claimed masks must be worn at all times while indoors, except they also said all indoor venues on site were considered “outdoors” for the purpose of the rules. So no masks required in all those pavilions in the background of the 2nd pic.

Why even pretend to care if they’re not going to follow thru at all?

[Dion]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1396613977883484166

[GirlySports]

Sometimes when something this spontaneous happens you just can't control thousands of people. Who is going to tell fans to social distance when Phil Mickelson is winning the tournament?

If the Flames won the Stanley Cup tonight, we'd be out in the streets right now. Or check out the city of Lille as their team just won the French League.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1396622195506429952

[Dion]

Brooks Koepka wasn't happy with the mob of fans surrounding Phil Mickelson at the PGA Championship

“It would have been cool if I didn’t have a knee injury and got dinged a few times in the knee in that crowd because no one really gave a s**t, personally,” Koepka said. “But if I was fine, yeah it would’ve been cool.

“Yeah, it’s cool for Phil. But getting dinged a few times isn’t exactly my idea of fun.”

“[I was] trying to protect my knee,” he said. “I don’t think anybody really understands until you’re coming out of surgery how — I mean, even when I was doing rehab there’s five people kind of standing by your knee, you get a little skittish.

“Like, I don’t mind waiting or being in a crowd but getting my — I don’t know, it felt like somebody tried to, I don’t know what the deal was, but it is what it is. [I’ll] be putting it in ice today. It feels like s**t right now.”

His caddie, Rickie, was bothered by the scene, too.

As for whether someone tried to intentionally hit him in the commotion or not, Koepka wasn’t willing to make a definitive accusation.

“I don't know, it got bumped a few times,” he said. “Somebody jammed Rickie, Rickie stopped unintentionally because he got drilled in the face, and then I got drilled in the bag because he got stopped so quickly. But I don't know what someone tried to or what, I don't know what the deal was. There were so many people around.”

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/bro...000802049.html

[jayswin]

I was so worried about a boring Koepka win today after all the Mickelson excitement. For a variety of reasons I just really don't like Brooks, so seeing those comments make even happier that it went down that way.

There's times in sports when you hit a moment where you realize you're watching something special in sporting history. The crowd becoming uncontrolled was that moment for me. Like it finally sank in. I can't believe how cool that mob scene was, mixed with the gravity of a the oldest major winner walking up to take his win.

[jayswin]

TLDR - Brooks Koepka can go cry a river by himself and stop trying to say things that take away from a historic win. Although, I fully understand his personality doesn't allow him to even understand the whininess and attention grabbing nature of his comments during Phil's big moment.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by jayswin

TLDR - Brooks Koepka can go cry a river by himself and stop trying to say things that take away from a historic win. Although, I fully understand his personality doesn't allow him to even understand the whininess and attention grabbing nature of his comments during Phil's big moment.

I've been to a few PGA tournaments Stateside where fans were roped off from the players. And for good reason. Yet somehow you think it's okay for a mob of people to descend on players where security should be a concern?

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Dion

I've been to a few PGA tournaments Stateside where fans were roped off from the players. And for good reason. Yet somehow you think it's okay for a mob of people to descend on players where security should be a concern?

Haha, yes Dion. Yes, I do think it's okay for special, historic sporting days to end the way this one did. It was pent up, over the top excitement for a very special moment, and was so amazing to witness.

It was fine. People saying it was out of control were just so used to boring, calm orderly golf that they don't even realize how excellent it was as a moment. Much like Tiger winning the Tour Championship a couple years ago.

What was your feelings on that amazing moment with the fans? Out of control?

[Dion]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Haha, yes Dion. Yes, I do think it's okay for special, historic sporting days to end the way this one did. It was pent up, over the top excitement for a very special moment, and was so amazing to witness.

It was fine. People saying it was out of control were just so used to boring, calm orderly golf that they don't even realize how excellent it was as a moment. Much like Tiger winning the Tour Championship a couple years ago.

What was your feelings on that amazing moment with the fans? Out of control?

Haha, yes jayswin. Allow the mob to descend is fine but give the players some space to walk without being bumped and jostled.

[flamingred89]

I had such a laugh at the reaction on the 18th fairway when Phil hit his ball into the crowd. The dude bro's it landed by were going bananas. Kind of a fun moment.

There was a little part of me hoping for a classic Phil collapse. But can't help being happy for him. I also like how the Tiger vs Phil rivalry has turned into comradery over the years. And Tiger with a nice shoutout to Phil on twitter after the win.

And little Weirsy with a win on the champions tour a few weeks ago, its been a nice little throw back to 15 years in the past.

[jayswin]

I think it's so cool to have this happen after Phil had joined the Champions tour a year earlier. Really puts it in perspective how amazing this was.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Dion

Haha, yes jayswin. Allow the mob to descend is fine but give the players some space to walk without being bumped and jostled.

It was an organic moment that turned out amazing. There was not much they could have done to mitigate what happened, and in the end it was a cap on a really cool sporting moment that we'll being seeing for years.

[Dion]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1396609518210064384

[Dion]

Originally Posted by jayswin

It was an organic moment that turned out amazing. There was not much they could have done to mitigate what happened, and in the end it was a cap on a really cool sporting moment that we'll being seeing for years.

Sorry to be a downer in your eyes but the PGA had to have expected something like this would happen. Even Mickleson said it was it was unnerving.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Dion

Sorry to be a downer in your eyes but the PGA had to have expected something like this would happen. Even Mickleson said it was it was unnerving.

Oh geez, he was just making light of it in the interview. He was really happy with what happened and loved every minute of it.

Think of how you and others will view it five years from now to get a better perspective on it. Will you remember that a 50 year old became the oldest player to ever win a major with an enthralled crowd that went crazy or will you remember that excited fans ran along the fairway with Phil and how dangerous it was?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

That was an embarrassing display by the course security. Drunken idiots in large groups are always going to act like morons. A fan actually mobbed Phil on the fairway, that’s a major security concern. Bizarre to think that kind of security breakdown is cool. I can’t imagine the PGA is happy with those incompetent troopers who provided zero security on the fairway.

I’m also able to have two simultaneous opinions. Cool to see Phil become the oldest ever major winner. Uncool to see a bunch of jackass fans and incompetent course security let it almost get out of control.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Oh geez, he was just making light of it in the interview. He was really happy with what happened and loved every minute of it.

Think of how you and others will view it five years from now to get a better perspective on it. Will you remember that a 50 year old became the oldest player to ever win a major with an enthralled crowd that went crazy or will you remember that excited fans ran along the fairway with Phil and how dangerous it was?

I take it you've never been trapped in a crowd of people. Koepka had a right to voice his concerns. He also thought what Mickelson did was cool.

The fact that he won at his age is something that will go down in golf hstory. I thought it would be Tiger who did this but i'm quite happy to see Mickelson win it.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

That was an embarrassing display by the course security. Drunken idiots in large groups are always going to act like morons. A fan actually mobbed Phil on the fairway, that’s a major security concern. Bizarre to think that kind of security breakdown is cool. I can’t imagine the PGA is happy with those incompetent troopers who provided zero security on the fairway.

I’m also able to have two simultaneous opinions. Cool to see Phil become the oldest ever major winner. Uncool to see a bunch of jackass fans and incompetent course security let it almost get out of control.

John Rahm had an interesting take....

“We’ve missed them,” Jon Rahm, the world’s second-ranked player, said Tuesday. “But at the same time, I want everybody to be safe. I’ve known of too many people personally that have been affected by the virus, and I wouldn’t want anybody to go through that and lose loved ones because of it.”

For his brethren trying to protect themselves from possible exposure to the coronavirus during a tournament, Rahm had a suggestion based on the fact that players do not usually come into close contact with fans unless they hit a wayward shot.

“Keep it in the fairway,” he said

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/s...ur-crowds.html

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

That was an embarrassing display by the course security. Drunken idiots in large groups are always going to act like morons. A fan actually mobbed Phil on the fairway, that’s a major security concern. Bizarre to think that kind of security breakdown is cool. I can’t imagine the PGA is happy with those incompetent troopers who provided zero security on the fairway.

I’m also able to have two simultaneous opinions. Cool to see Phil become the oldest ever major winner. Uncool to see a bunch of jackass fans and incompetent course security let it almost get out of control.

It does all seem very strange. It's always a little confusing who is accountable at majors like this that aren't run by the PGA tour. They've had a lot of practice with much bigger crowds around Tiger and I'm sure he wouldn't be happy with people getting that close to him. It seemed a particularly drunk crowd all week too.

As far as COVID, everyone there now has had months to get fully vaccinated. If they choose to be there and not vaccinated, that is on them.

[Ducay]

There is no one in golf I dislike more than Phil Mickleson. Praise be that the Oilers lost tonight in epic fashion otherwise would have been a rough sports day.