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You had me extremely worried. Waking up on Sundays at 11, going to AM Mart for some sandwiches, then watching football all day was about as good as a Sunday got in college.

re: Brooks Koepka leaving LIV

Posted by DestrehanTiger on 1/6/26 at 12:31 pm to
The biggest advantage of the suspension is the deterrent for current players to leave. If they allow Koepka back immediately, the next step will be for a player to take a check to play in one LIV event then come back.

The last few years have proven to us that the PGA tour is bigger than 1 or 2 players. I don't think the benefit of getting a declining Koepka (who has never really cared about tour events anyway) this season is outweighed by the benefits of keeping the path they have been on.

Now, if Rahm or Dechambeau were looking to come back, maybe you change the rules to potentially kill LIV altogether.


Just noticed the 4 stars. I hope this isn't a situation where the men have a different jersey than the women.
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Inflammable and Flammable


I actually just read about this one. The word was originally inflammable, but it got confused with other words that start with im and imply the opposite. So, factories just stared dropping the im in the beginning to avoid confusion and potentially harmful accidents.
That was a good explanation of the league, but now that you mentioned you play a different course every month, how do you keep the same pull no matter where you play? You mentioned that yours is 25. It wouldn't change based on the course rating?
Now that I think about it, I think Squabbit can update your handicap in the system based on rounds played. I would just look into ditching the 3 month window to establish caps and let it run the whole year. It makes sense that guys may blow away their quota when they could have just played poorly the first 3 months of the season. Let the system do the handicapping for you and if a guy somehow beats his quota by 181%, then his future rounds will reflect it. I've only ever played quota with ghin handicaps, so it was hard to blow away your quota.
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Anyone ever try Squabbit?


Squabbit is awesome and will make tracking so much easier for you, but I am not sure it will create a different handicapping set up for you.

I am also a bit confused by your post. Are you mixing up Stableford and Quota? Stableford applies handicaps to each hole. Typically, getting over 36 points is a good day. Quota applies all the strokes at the beginning (like you mentioned). If I read your example right, the guy had a course handicap of 20, "has to pull 16" (meaning 36-20), and he somehow managed to earn 29 points. I've seen guys get close to double digits in quota, but never +13.

Also, when you say you are a 25, do you mean your course handicap is 9? 36-9 = 25. I would assume that is the case if you are averaging 80.

I just wanted to make sure I was understanding because some of the lexicon is jumbled in there. ETA: Just reread and realized you mentioned points to pull in your first paragraph. So, my mistake. You explained it correctly.
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3.5 hours is okay, 4 is miserable, anything over 4 is just intolerable


I would love to be able to play in less than 4 hours, but if I am playing a public course where I'm not the first group off, I consider anything around 4 hours to be a win.

I'm a broken record on here with promoting walking, but walking would certainly reduce the perception of slow pace of play. Instead of driving and waiting to hit, you walk and the green is typically clear when you get to your ball.
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is Professional Football now. What is the big deal? Why is it so bad for you because it is now professional football?


The problem is it's a much worse version. Compare LSU and the Saints this year. Even though the Saints had no shot at the playoffs, it has been fun watching the young guys play well. It's enjoyable because we know they will be there next year. There is incentive to stay connected to a bad team.

With LSU, as soon as they are out of the playoff, I have no incentive to keep watching. Most of the team won't be there next year.
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And appeared to be 100% AI generated as well. Terrible commercial.


Yeah, it was definitely giving uncanny valley vibes. Something felt off.
Are you friends with Bob Sacamano?
It's kind of weird seeing a thread where a bunch of Big 10 fans are making fun of the IQ of SEC fans while voluntarily frequenting an SEC message board. You are the company you keep.

I think it's an impressive win for Iowa.

re: LIV going.to 72 holes...

Posted by DestrehanTiger on 12/22/25 at 12:39 pm to
He'll always have the first 17 holes Sunday at Southern Hills.
Yeah, Kevin was sent to bed at dinner time. They may have mentioned the time, but let's assume 7. That's still a lot of time to get the kitchen cleaned before going to bed.
So, in this scenario, there is a person so successful in their life that they can simply "stroke" a 20 million dollar check, but this person needs to be so insecure that they need Kenny Dillingham to make them famous?
Is the image in the OP not showing for anyone else? If it's good, I'd love to see it as a guy that married into an Aggie family.

ETA: Oh, looks like it's the cup about fans per point.
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And recently they've had fishing gear but, rarely if ever used it to catch fish.



It always bugs me when they celebrate this reward challenge win. Everybody knows this is going to do nothing for the tribe.

re: LIV going.to 72 holes...

Posted by DestrehanTiger on 12/21/25 at 6:04 pm to
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“I think there’s a chance,” Immelman said when asked if a decision could be forthcoming before LIV’s first event in Riyadh.


Just in case that tweet made it sound like Immelman said there's a chance they get OWGR points. I'm not saying they will be denied, but his quote was about the likelihood of making a decision.
I might get downvoted to hell, but I think the 2018 Cumberbatch version is the best one for the family. The animation is beautiful, it's funny, the Grinch has a great character arc, and it just feels a lot more wholesome than the Carey one. I am looking at this from a dad of 3 young children, though.
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Looks like they are jumping the shark again with celebrities randomly showing up and an unemployed kid with a cell phone Mr beast.


Yeah, that promo got me less excited for season 50 than I was before. I felt like they knocked season 40 out of the park with only winners. That may be tough to replicate only 5 years later. However, promoting the celebrities seems like a weird plan for a season that should be a tribute to the fans. I was hoping they would lean more into incorporating aspects from different seasons. Using celebrities, having fans vote on challenges, etc. seem line unnecessary gimmicks.