Question for Alf/Dude or anyone with Golf Betting Experience

Question for Alf/Dude or anyone with Golf Betting Experience So I had a bet that the winner of the PGA championship would be from "Mainland Europe". Kaymer won (Germany) and it was graded as a loss. For the life of me I can't see how it is not a winner. Germany is on mainland Europe and I don't recall seeing a Germany only grouping in this wager. There was USA, Ireland, and U.K......but how would Germany not be considered mainland Europe? Thanks in Advance

Nevermind....I called and complained and they changed it. Quite coincidental how these sites always seem to grade the long odd "questionable" calls in their favor. Thanks

Wonderful. Glad for your bet, but Dustin Johnson was robbed. The PGA and Whistling Straits gets a major black eye on this one and by 2015 they need to fill in at leas 1000 of those useless bunkers.

[QUOTE=Alf M;25263]Wonderful. Glad for your bet, but Dustin Johnson was robbed. The PGA and Whistling Straits gets a major black eye on this one and by 2015 they need to fill in at leas 1000 of those useless bunkers.[/QUOTE] No doubt. Thank goodness the kid didn't make the par putt on 18 thinking he just won it. That would have been even worse... Of course in the playoff it wasn't automatic that D. Johnson would have beaten Kaymer. After what he thought was an easy missed putt to win the damn thing in regulation it would have been pretty hard for him to regroup and perform well IMO.

[QUOTE=Alf M;25263]Wonderful. Glad for your bet, but Dustin Johnson was robbed. The PGA and Whistling Straits gets a major black eye on this one and by 2015 they need to fill in at leas 1000 of those useless bunkers.[/QUOTE] Big embarrassment for the guys in Wisky that run this tourney. Either keep the public out of the "sandtraps", or mark all "1200" of them, so that touring Pros like DJ and Watney (neither thought it was a bunker) will know if they are in a sandtrap or sunbathing on the beach or walking on a trampled footpath. I am still pissed. F**K

That was not a bunker. No way. It wasn't even raked and had people sitting on the lip as the kid was hitting his shot! Brutal

I am a PGA member, and have played the Straits course a couple times, and one of the other pros at my club was an official at the tournament. I haven't spoken to him yet, but I think that the error came in the crowd control. They certainly shouldn't have allowed people in the bunker when DJ was hitting the shot. If the area was cleared, perhaps he plays it differently. As for all the bunkers, although most of them are not in play, my take on the situation is that they were put there to give the feeling of playing amongst the "natural" sand dunes. The whole place is artificial, it was a flat piece of land, but I think they did a great job of creating an Irish seaside links, right down to the sheep that roam around.

The offical should have jumped in and told Johnson it was a bunker and his caddy should have mentioned it as well, nobody was thinking! I do not wantto see another major at Whistling Straits ever again. A links course where you cannot bump and run it makes no sense.

almost as clueless was watson dropping in the six inch rouph after hitting in the water at 18, there was NO way he was going to hold that shot NONE, why he didn;t drop where Kaymer had just hit it 12 feet away I'll never know, it was a full shot from the fairway you just watched someone knock it close so what does he do, walks down by the creek choose's a half flop shot out of ankle high rouph and hits a shot that rolled right threw the green and down in the bunker, he did hit a great bunker shot that hit the pin dead on and they usually stay it but it was not meant to be. DJ would have won that playoff had he read line one on the rules sheet that clearly said ALL BUNKERS ARE IN PLAY, I think the crowd clearly cunfused him, but in that situation, that time of the tournament WHY didn't the rules official explain to him not to ground his club, they have had it happen before why wasn't they looking for it again, plenty of blame to go around

I happened to catch Ian Baker Finch on ESPN radio last week, and he was saying the course set up for a guy like Zach Johnson. The guy missed by one stroke. He had also mentioned Jim Furyk and Rory McIlroy, each of whom did well also, i think. Does anyone know if Finch has a weekly spot on the radio? If he does, you golf guys should be all over that. He really knew what he was talking about.