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Maybe Doc will get some pointers...
Jun 30, 2019, 8:26 PM
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from one or even both and play a practice round with Rory McIlroy and or Graeme McDowell at this years Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush,Northern Ireland(Rory and Graeme's home country)....https://twitter.com/ClemsonMGolf/status/1145476732696350720
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Re: Maybe Doc will get some pointers...
Jun 30, 2019, 8:57 PM
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I've played Royal Port Rush and I think it is a beautiful course ....... never really saw it! On the way to the course we stopped on top of the mountain looking down on it. Absolutely gorgeous day with hardly a cloud in the sky. 20 minutes later on the first tee, we could only see far enough to hit our tee shot. A fog had rolled in off the ocean and all day we could never see further ahead than one shot. When we got to our tee shots you could barely see the flagstick on the green.
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Re: Maybe Doc will get some pointers...
Jun 30, 2019, 9:02 PM
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I wish I could play it again now that they have eliminated 17 and 18, which were the only mediocre holes on the course. We got lucky and had better weather than you did.
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Re: Maybe Doc will get some pointers...
Jun 30, 2019, 9:25 PM
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What did they do with 17 & 18? I don't really remember what they were like ...... Guess seeing them would have helped.
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Re: Maybe Doc will get some pointers...
Jul 1, 2019, 5:35 AM
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In preparation for the Open, they eliminated those two holes and added two from the adjacent course. Those two holes didn't fit with the rest of the course anyway. They were unchallenging and totally featureless other than the huge fairway bunker on the right side of 17.
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Re: Maybe Doc will get some pointers...
Jun 30, 2019, 9:26 PM
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Did you play Royal County Down ...... Maybe my favorite over there except for that dinky little pond on one of the last couple of holes!
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Re: Maybe Doc will get some pointers...
Jul 1, 2019, 5:29 AM
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We played it twice, and were fortunate to have good weather there also. That fescue rough was brutal, however.
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Sort of the same thing happened to me at La Hinch.
Jun 30, 2019, 9:37 PM
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Except it was foggy and rainy. We played four courses while there and La Hinch was the one I really wanted to play.
I played it, but honestly never saw a tee to green view all day.
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You can see what you missed this week
Jul 1, 2019, 5:47 AM
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The Irish Open is being played there, and you can watch it on tv.
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Isn't the Scottish Open
Jun 30, 2019, 8:46 PM
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typically played the weekend prior to The Open?
Guessing this win wouldn't also allow Doc the pleasure of playing in it . . . Many of our guys go and play the week befor to get acclimate . . .
Wish Doc had that opportunity too!!!
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Yes, it's the week before the Open.***
Jun 30, 2019, 8:58 PM
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Re: Isn't the Scottish Open
Jun 30, 2019, 9:02 PM
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It’d be better for him to stay here and play the Deere. That’s what I’d advise him to do.
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Re: Isn't the Scottish Open
Jun 30, 2019, 9:10 PM
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Agree about him playing in the John Deere Classic.I was thinking about the practice rounds on the Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday during the Open Championship week.
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Re: Isn't the Scottish Open
Jun 30, 2019, 9:21 PM
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Definitely agree about practice rounds with Graeme and Rory.... good experience too.
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Re: Isn't the Scottish Open
Jun 30, 2019, 9:14 PM
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The Deere charters a plane to give the players who have qualified for the Open a free ride over there at the conclusion of the Deere. Doc faces some interesting decisions about his schedule. He's young, but he could be one very tired young man by the end of the Open.
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Or Michael Hoey, if he qualified this year
Jun 30, 2019, 8:56 PM
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Hoey played at Clemson. I can give Doc one pointer. Don't pay any attention to those white rocks that sit on top of the dunes on the dogleg holes. I thought they were directional markers. If you're looking for the narrowest part of the fairway where your ball will run through into the rough they do a great job of that. It took me about three times to realize that, which shows how dumb I am. Somehow, I think Doc will figure it out sooner than I did.
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Re: Or Michael Hoey, if he qualified this year
Jun 30, 2019, 9:35 PM
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At Lahinch the white rocks on the "mountain" are where you ar supposed to hit your ball over the mountain. Best just to listen to your caddie, unless they are about 14 years old like ours were (at Ballybunion), and we're skipping school to earn some $. My caddie was named Declan Williams, and after the round he sat at a table having a coke and talking with Robert Trent Jones, the designer of the new course at Ballybunion. Funny conversation .... To say the least.
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Re: Or Michael Hoey, if he qualified this year
Jul 1, 2019, 5:44 AM
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You guys hit all the high spots over there. We didn't get to the southwest, but we also played Portmarnock (big disappointment) and The European Club which is magnificent.
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Re: Maybe Doc will get some pointers...
Jun 30, 2019, 11:37 PM
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Yes - that would be good for Doc - HORRY !! -
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