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OT: The GOLF Thread (The Majors, etc.)

OT: Ken Venturi dies at age 82

Anyone who watches golf or golfs will probably know who this was.

Less than two weeks after being inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, former major champion and noted broadcaster Ken Venturi has died.
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The highlight of Venturi's playing career came in 1964, when he conquered challenging conditions, oppressive heat and severe dehydration to claim the U.S. Open title in a 36-hole finish at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. After the final putt dropped, he said "My God, I've won the U.S. Open."

It was his lone career major, and served as the 11th of 14 career PGA Tour titles. His Open victory led Sports Illustrated to name him its Sportsman of the Year for 1964.

After his playing days were over, Venturi went on to spend 35 years in the broadcast booth for CBS Sports, retiring in 2002.
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Re: OT: Ken Venturi dies at age 82

I guess in today's golf parlance it's time for Venturi to "get in the hole".
 
In case anyone still doesn't think that Tiger is a very strange dude, he is renting a seven bedroom house for the U.S. Open, and has removed all of the furniture in the home and brought in his own.
 
Be honest, if all of you had the money, wouldn't you also prefer not to sit or sleep in someone else's furniture ?


When I'm in a hotel room, I cringe at the idea of sitting on the sofa in the living room, or walking barefoot on the hotel carpet...
 
Rolex said:
Be honest, if all of you had the money, wouldn't you also prefer not to sit or sleep in someone else's furniture ?


When I'm in a hotel room, I cringe at the idea of sitting on the sofa in the living room, or walking barefoot on the hotel carpet...
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I know - I too will actually not walk barefoot on a hotel carpet if I can avoid it- but he replaced all of the furniture in a seven bedroom house. That's just obsessive.
 
Rich people are genuinely weird. I was watching "Mighty Planes" last night on Discovery and the show was on Donald Trump's 757 plane. It is one thing to own your own 757 with top of the line Rolls Royce engines but the amount of money he must spend on personnel to maintain the plane is incredible let alone the furnishings he requests and the meticulous approach he expects in keeping everything smudge-free.

Sure he is super rich and can afford it and it is part of his brand but he could wipeout starvation in Africa with the amount he spends a year on that plane.
 
worm said:
US Open expected to lose $10m because the course is too small.
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It was built in 1912 and was not small back then. It's probably the 3rd most famous golf course in the U.S. and has hosted more U.S. Opens than any other course so it's doing something right.
 
Krustchev said:
It was built in 1912 and was not small back then. It's probably the 3rd most famous golf course in the U.S. and has hosted more U.S. Opens than any other course so it's doing something right.
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I would think Augusta National, Pebble Beach, Pine Valley, Oakmont (sp?) are more famous, no ?
 
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