Any Egrizzers going to Chambers Bay?

[Grizbeer]

Ha! Can you imagine anyone ever inviting Growler to spend time with him? I'd rather rip a beer with Oprah.

The love fest continues between Certified-dumb-Ass-Griz and Neverette. They're such close "friends", don't you know! :thumb:

Growler what do you say after the open we play chambers bay? You, me, CDA, AZGriz, Evereret, Ursa and 2 others? Maybe we get greenie or some of the cat fans to join us. Sure it will take 9 hours and 70 golf balls to get through it, but think of the world peace we could make? Or world piece we could get?

 

[Ursa Major]

I was in T-town Saturday, ran down to the course for the pre-event merch tent, surprisingly didn't hear a single Go Griz. It is pretty dry there, but the course is beautiful next to the Sound. you should have a great time. Wish I could catch a round or 2 but have other commitments. Hav, I saw a fleet of Beachliners headed over Sunday when I drove back to Missoula, so you might get a few Griz comments if they happen to be your shuttle.

Thanks for the call, f***[*]!!!

I think your generator was down when i was calling. I'll try to give you more notice next time.

Oh, that's cool!! Thanks for the call! Ever since the fire, this happens frequ

 

[Ursa Major]

My sister and brother in law live in University Place literally two blocks for Chambers Bay. A few of their recommendations for nearby food and brew are as follows. For lots of beers on tap, both micro and domestic and imported brews, plus great pub food try the Ale House at 2122 Mildred St, W. Very near that is a fantastic little tap room called Pint Defiance. They no food but there is a great Thai restaurant next door and they will serve you in the tap room. The address is 2049 Mildred St W.

For pizza Im told Cloverleaf Pizza at 6430 6th Ave. Its basically just a bar but my sis and bro in law love the place. Sounds like it's similar to Moose Saloon in Kalispell. Been famous locally for awesome pizza for 30 yrs. Further east on 6th is Dirty Oscars. Famous because Guy Fieri featured it on one of his shows.

If anybody is going to make it to Pint Defiance let me know my sis and bro in law would love to have a beer with you!

Good post, Hammer! Downtown Tacoma is a lot of fun too and your risk of getting shot is almost minimal now. Ruston Way and Dock Street are cool places to hang out and some very decent seafood. Pacific Grill is probably the best seafood in the area.

Have fun, guys!

 

[MrTitleist]

What an interesting course this is.. definitely a British Open looking course just not as pretty. However, the PGA guy having to slum it with the train roaring by on the tee box.. TERRIFIC! Welcome to muni courses, guys!

 

[Grizbeer]

What an interesting course this is.. definitely a British Open looking course just not as pretty. However, the PGA guy having to slum it with the train roaring by on the tee box.. TERRIFIC! Welcome to muni courses, guys!

Seriously ? Fu Wyoming free tuition boy. Where did you think that carbon was going? Wow, worst observant got ever. :shock: :lol:

 

[CDAGRIZ]

If anybody is going to make it to Pint Defiance let me know my sis and bro in law would love to have a beer with you!

This is the kind of thing that makes being a Griz fan special. :clap: :thumb:

 

[CDAGRIZ]

What an interesting course this is.. definitely a British Open looking course just not as pretty. However, the PGA guy having to slum it with the train roaring by on the tee box.. TERRIFIC! Welcome to muni courses, guys!

Good lord, I know it's what they are going for, but that place looks awful. My best friend is a club pro (I think you met him at a tailgate a few years back). He's played there a few times and says the greens look way better in person than on TV. Goes to show you what the the pros usually get to play on.

I just wonder about the degree to which the USGA tricking out golf courses really crowns the best player. It seems a bit like changing the height of the rim for the NBA finals. "Yeah, you guys play a certain game for the rest of the year, but we're going to make it completely different now when it matters most." I'm on the fence re: how much I like it.

 

[MrTitleist]

What an interesting course this is.. definitely a British Open looking course just not as pretty. However, the PGA guy having to slum it with the train roaring by on the tee box.. TERRIFIC! Welcome to muni courses, guys!

Seriously ? Fu Wyoming free tuition boy. Where did you think that carbon was going? Wow, worst observant got ever. :shock: :lol:

None of these words make any sense together.

 

[MrTitleist]

What an interesting course this is.. definitely a British Open looking course just not as pretty. However, the PGA guy having to slum it with the train roaring by on the tee box.. TERRIFIC! Welcome to muni courses, guys!

Good lord, I know it's what they are going for, but that place looks awful. My best friend is a club pro (I think you met him at a tailgate a few years back). He's played there a few times and says the greens look way better in person than on TV. Goes to show you what the the pros usually get to play on.

I just wonder about the degree to which the USGA tricking out golf courses really crowns the best player. It seems a bit like changing the height of the rim for the NBA finals. "Yeah, you guys play a certain game for the rest of the year, but we're going to make it completely different now when it matters most." I'm on the fence re: how much I like it.

I couldn't tell if the greens looked weird on TV or if my HD cable was on the fritz. No obvious fringe around the greens.. just an odd looking course from a TV viewing perspective. Hopefully your friend is right in that it looks better in person.

I don't see Chambers Bay as tricking out courses necessarily.. plenty of guys played well on a course that was supposed to be the hardest ever for a US Open. And it's really no different from when in the early-mid 2000's when courses would "Tiger proof" them to make them longer to try to neutralize Tiger's driver (at the time he was the longest drive on tour). Needless to say, this course would eat people like us alive.. the average golfer can't control his driver well enough to stay out of the long grass.

 

[bgbigdog]

What an interesting course this is.. definitely a British Open looking course just not as pretty. However, the PGA guy having to slum it with the train roaring by on the tee box.. TERRIFIC! Welcome to muni courses, guys!

Good lord, I know it's what they are going for, but that place looks awful. My best friend is a club pro (I think you met him at a tailgate a few years back). He's played there a few times and says the greens look way better in person than on TV. Goes to show you what the the pros usually get to play on.

I just wonder about the degree to which the USGA tricking out golf courses really crowns the best player. It seems a bit like changing the height of the rim for the NBA finals. "Yeah, you guys play a certain game for the rest of the year, but we're going to make it completely different now when it matters most." I'm on the fence re: how much I like it.

I couldn't tell if the greens looked weird on TV or if my HD cable was on the fritz. No obvious fringe around the greens.. just an odd looking course from a TV viewing perspective. Hopefully your friend is right in that it looks better in person.

I don't see Chambers Bay as tricking out courses necessarily.. plenty of guys played well on a course that was supposed to be the hardest ever for a US Open. And it's really no different from when in the early-mid 2000's when courses would "Tiger proof" them to make them longer to try to neutralize Tiger's driver (at the time he was the longest drive on tour). Needless to say, this course would eat people like us alive.. the average golfer can't control his driver well enough to stay out of the long grass.

Having had the good fortune to have played in both my ancestral home, and @ C'sB in year two of operation, I can tell you it may look like a "Open" course on TV, but plays little like one. Got to hit it where you're told, and have solid short iron game. Could do neither, so all I could do was enjoy the day. In Scotland, you can normally see where you're trying to hit it, here - not so much. The elevation changes are radical. If I could actually play golf, and lived anywhere nearby, it would be a favorite.

 

[loyalgriz]

Played Chambers Bay about five years ago, it was a fascinating course to play. Would recommend it to everyone who calls themselves a golfer. But it is a trek in terms of the walk.

 

[Grizbeer]

What an interesting course this is.. definitely a British Open looking course just not as pretty. However, the PGA guy having to slum it with the train roaring by on the tee box.. TERRIFIC! Welcome to muni courses, guys!

Seriously ? Fu Wyoming free tuition boy. Where did you think that carbon was going? Wow, worst observant got ever. :shock: :lol:

None of these words make any sense together.

Ha no kidding, I had to read it about 5 times this morning to figure out what I was talking about. The point is, to a UW grad, trains in general, and that line in particular, is pretty important. My thought is the train rumbling by (I don't remember any crossings there so no whistles) is less irritating than the noise from helicopters and drones to give overhead camera shots. Plus some graffiti "artist" somewhere just got his work on national tv.

 

[MrTitleist]

Having had the good fortune to have played in both my ancestral home, and @ C'sB in year two of operation, I can tell you it may look like a "Open" course on TV, but plays little like one. Got to hit it where you're told, and have solid short iron game. Could do neither, so all I could do was enjoy the day. In Scotland, you can normally see where you're trying to hit it, here - not so much. The elevation changes are radical. If I could actually play golf, and lived anywhere nearby, it would be a favorite.

I noticed there were quite a few blind shots yesterday, and some nice elevation changes. A few of those fairways looked like they could help a bad golfer in that they kind of run downhill from the sides and funnel your ball back closer to center.

 

[bgbigdog]

Having had the good fortune to have played in both my ancestral home, and @ C'sB in year two of operation, I can tell you it may look like a "Open" course on TV, but plays little like one. Got to hit it where you're told, and have solid short iron game. Could do neither, so all I could do was enjoy the day. In Scotland, you can normally see where you're trying to hit it, here - not so much. The elevation changes are radical. If I could actually play golf, and lived anywhere nearby, it would be a favorite.

I noticed there were quite a few blind shots yesterday, and some nice elevation changes. A few of those fairways looked like they could help a bad golfer in that they kind of run downhill from the sides and funnel your ball back closer to center.

That's all true. But I'd have to improve considerably to be bad. A true links course usually plays best if you can hit a lower trajectory shot, given wind conditions. The day I was there, that always seemed to be a non-issue given the varying lies, lots of side hills for me, and remarkably calm wind conditions given where the course is located. Well worth playing if you're going to be in the area.

 

[MrTitleist]

Pricey?

 

[bgbigdog]

Company-paid customer event for me. I think it was around $275, plus you'll be walking, and would find the experience better W/Caddy. $100 caddy, plus tip, tax, title, dealer prep, options and a libation @ the clubhouse, today - $400+ non-resident. Cheaper than pebble, and though I haven't been there in a long while, 12 trips to Larchmont.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

What an interesting course this is.. definitely a British Open looking course just not as pretty. However, the PGA guy having to slum it with the train roaring by on the tee box.. TERRIFIC! Welcome to muni courses, guys!

Good lord, I know it's what they are going for, but that place looks awful. My best friend is a club pro (I think you met him at a tailgate a few years back). He's played there a few times and says the greens look way better in person than on TV. Goes to show you what the the pros usually get to play on.

I just wonder about the degree to which the USGA tricking out golf courses really crowns the best player. It seems a bit like changing the height of the rim for the NBA finals. "Yeah, you guys play a certain game for the rest of the year, but we're going to make it completely different now when it matters most." I'm on the fence re: how much I like it.

I couldn't tell if the greens looked weird on TV or if my HD cable was on the fritz. No obvious fringe around the greens.. just an odd looking course from a TV viewing perspective. Hopefully your friend is right in that it looks better in person.

I don't see Chambers Bay as tricking out courses necessarily.. plenty of guys played well on a course that was supposed to be the hardest ever for a US Open. And it's really no different from when in the early-mid 2000's when courses would "Tiger proof" them to make them longer to try to neutralize Tiger's driver (at the time he was the longest drive on tour). Needless to say, this course would eat people like us alive.. the average golfer can't control his driver well enough to stay out of the long grass.

I don't disagree. I much prefer this to what they did at Merion in 2013. Merion is built to be tough for guys who hit it 260. So the USGA had to make the fairways so narrow, and the rough so penal, that it was comical. I don't think hitting a drive 10 yards off center should mean bogey.

 

[snap]

Mr.T. If, one of these years, you happen to qualify for the US Open would you consider letting argh! work your bag?

 

[Ursa Major]

Mr.T. If, one of these years, you happen to qualify for the US Open would you consider letting argh! work your bag?

If I'm not mistaken, I believe there has been a public open invitation for that for the past half-dozen years.

 

[snap]

Mr.T. If, one of these years, you happen to qualify for the US Open would you consider letting argh! work your bag?

If I'm not mistaken, I believe there has been a public open invitation for that for the past half-dozen years.

If push came to shove and Mr T could have only one e-griz poster work his bag at the US Open, I wonder who he'd choose?