19 Comments

1. 

   Barbara Barrett

   Sep 22, 2020 at 1:20 pm

   Congratulations to Bryson from a fan since your beginning on the tour. I admire your intellectual approach and your work habits. I wish you continued success!!! Don’t let the jealous comments get you! You are always a gentleman and I’m proud to cheer for you!!!

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   Maximillian

   Sep 21, 2020 at 1:27 pm

   Good for Bryson. It’s not easy to be nicknamed “The Scientist” in a country that stands anti-science. It’s not easy to be considered intellectual in a country that pushes against education and critical thinking. He balances the science with great feel – see his variety of iron shots, short game and putting.

   One place he did “dominate” – I thought he was the only player in the field who didn’t let Winged Foot get under his skin.

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   Joe

   Sep 21, 2020 at 12:33 pm

   Can’t watch him play. Totally forced and unnatural. Doesn’t look like he enjoys the game at all.

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     Rich

     Sep 21, 2020 at 1:00 pm

     Yeah, all that winning can be a distraction.

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   Mark

   Sep 21, 2020 at 11:50 am

   Easy to bag a win when you cheat!
   Putter anchors against the left forearm – perhaps not strictly illegal but against the spirit of the rules! R&A / USGA – please fix that one in the next Rules update! – eg: No part of any club may extend 6” beyond the wrist.
   Also Rules Officials – Why don’t you penalise a guy that regularity takes more than 2 minutes over a putt?
   One good thing to come out of the 2020 US OPEN – Now they’ll definitely roll back the ball (at long last!)

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   Jim Taylor

   Sep 21, 2020 at 8:41 am

   As a television spectator, I do not at all miss the galleries, the hospitality tents, the concession stands and the attendant Porta Potties. Wingedfoot is such an amazing course and facility and it presented itself so much better without Bobba Booey and Mashed Potatoes there to muck things up.

   I have often been highly critical of the USGA for how they have, at times, set up and managed course conditions throughout their premier tournament, but this time they demonstrated that they capable of doing things right.

   Much will be made of Bryson’s bomb and gouge victory only because he physically personifies the bomb and gouge golfer to a greater extent than say a Dustin Johnson or a Roy McIlroy, but the USGA absolutely must restrain itself from interfering through some senseless technological “rollback”. If they don’t, they will render themselves obsolete. “Making Golf Great Again” in this fashion, is a really bad idea.

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   William Davis

   Sep 21, 2020 at 6:29 am

   I found it very uncomfortable viewing – the slowness, the mannerisms, the violence. But that’s just me. It is his life and good luck to him.

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   MhtLion

   Sep 21, 2020 at 12:40 am

   Kudos to BDC for the hard-work, innovative thinking, and the courage to try new ideas! Bryson is definitely not a run of cookie-cutter golfer. I have no doubt BDC will inspire many next-generation golfers.

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   Bob

   Sep 20, 2020 at 9:02 pm

   Terrible writing. Not dominant! Are you smoking tar? He was 6 strokes clear of the field and The ONLY professional golfer on planet earth under par for the tournament. If I heard correctly on radio he picked up 8 strokes on the field today. Basically every other hole Bryson gained a stroke over the next guy. That is not only dominant that is incredible! Amazing! Historic! This was the toughest us open maybe ever with technology and analytics having maxed human performance and Bryson said nah! Hold my protein shake while I take this trophy. If this was tiger in his prime you would have wet the bed and claimed it was the single greatest moment in golf. Get a grip and get better writers. Maybe you should join Faldo In wine and cheese lounge and you can regale each other with the length of brysons wedges. Which are are longer than yours.

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     Ronald Montesano

     Sep 20, 2020 at 10:37 pm

     Hello, Bob. Thank you for checking in. You’re calling the writing “terrible” because of one split hair? That’s quite ephemeral of you.

     Did you notice that Bryson was one clear of Matthew when they sawed off the skin on nine with eagles? Also, fawns and faroles aside, Wolff’s performance has no impact on Bryson’s dominance. Dominant is a word reserved for someone who plows a field under from start to finish. Bryson didn’t do that. He chipped away, little by little, and stuck to his plan.

     Don’t you agree with me now?

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       MhtLion

       Sep 21, 2020 at 12:44 am

       I agree that BDC was impressive. Dominant? A bit tricky. I think he was dominant in the last 9 holes.

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   Hyperbolic Anabolics

   Sep 20, 2020 at 8:51 pm

   BAD isn’t natty though. Look at the Hawaiian Islands around that man’s pie hole.

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     Ronald Montesano

     Sep 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm

     Thank you for the geography lesson. Natty Golf on Instagram?

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10. 

    jeff

    Sep 20, 2020 at 8:10 pm

    I smile thinking about all the haters out there having an aneurism today. The bulging eyeballs and spittle coming from their lips as they mutter to themselves and whoever will listen; “It’s just not the way the game was meant to play”

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      Ronald Montesano

      Sep 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm

      I’m confident that Allan Robertson, Babe Didrickson, Joanne Carner, Ted Ray, Laura Davies, Frank Stranahan, Ben Hogan, and many more, made the genteel heeled ones quiver in their cups, as Bryson did today. Golf evolves, humans evolve. I’m with you, bruh.

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    Miamistomp

    Sep 20, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    how was that not dominant- Wolff looked like a deer caught in the headlightswhen the chips were down and Bryson never deviated from his plan

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      Ronald Montesano

      Sep 20, 2020 at 10:42 pm

      See what I wrote to Bob above. I blended your comment with his in my mind, so your answer is up their, labeled fawns and faroles. Tournament not decided until final nine holes. You can’t call that dominant. Tiger in 2000 was dominant. US Opens are rarely “dominated.”

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    Rich

    Sep 20, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    Well, the Genius did it again, this time at a major. Not only that, his success can be directly attributed to his modern, innovative thinking. The only player under par for the day, the only player under par for tournament, and 6 shots clear of the field. He absolutely crushed the idea that you can’t bomb-and-gouge your way to a US Open win. And if he can do that to Winged Foot, imagine what’s in store for Augusta in November.

    BDC was my inspiration to try single-length irons 4 years ago (Wishon Sterling). I’ve never gone back, and iron play has gone from my weakest area to being as strong as every other part of my game. Thanks, Bryson! (And Tom Wishon, too!)

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      Ronald Montesano

      Sep 20, 2020 at 10:45 pm

      I don’t think that he will have the same advantage at Augusta. His advantage was strength out of the rough. Augusta doesn’t have rough like WF.

      Also, Augusta’s greens don’t feed like Winged Foot’s did. I bet the members ask Hanse to change the greens to non-feeder. Or, they will ask for hole locations that don’t allow true feeding, as the green jackets do each spring.

      He was brilliant, wasn’t he? He bided his time. He didn’t rush. Reminded me of Koepka in his prime.

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