Aug 12th, 2015 Article
USPGA - Mosquitos add to the challenge
An added challenge to the players this week at Whistling Straits at the US PGA Championship, are the mosquitos, Tiger Woods told reporters on Tuesday.
An added challenge to the players this week at Whistling Straits at the US PGA Championship, are the mosquitos, Tiger Woods told reporters on Tuesday.
There are over 1,000 bunkers (did someone count them all) at the breathtaking Whistling Straits Golf course in Wisconsin, Arizona. Sand everywhere. So, it’s important we have an understanding of the rules this week.
Whistling Straits, Wisconsin 18th hole Par 4 520 yards 95 bunkers
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Just to make sure there is no repeat of Dustin Johnson’s infamous club grounding back in 2010, the USPGA have been leaving nothing to chance, and have placed a notice in what they think will be an unavoidable place.
Stefano Mazzoli wins the European Amateur Championship and with that a place in next year’s Open at Royal Troon.
One of the great things about the US PGA is that club pros can qualify for the event, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia. One such player who has qualified to play at Whistling Straits this week, who you might not have heard of, has already played, and beaten, Sergio Garcia before.
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Here comes a budding GolfPunk!! Manchester United star Wayne Rooney’s five-year-old son Kai is following in his fathers’ footsteps, but not on the football field. Instead young Kai is, just like his father, mad keen on golf.
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Dust yourself down, and get back in the mix, and in the words of Michael Barrymore, I’ve got a bit of top, middle and bottom for you this week. Otherwise translated as shorty, middle of the pack, and a ‘buy a house’ outsider. So enough of the waffle and off to Whistling Straits, where Dustin knows how expensive those ‘bunkers’ can be!
So designing golf clubs is a job for rocket scientists and engineers, rather than good golfers. However there is a exception to the rule. Marty Jertson, Ping's Senior Design Engineer is also really good at golf. Like silly good.