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Also the pin at 16 is ridiculous. Rickie's ball hit 15 feet pin hit right of the hole and he ended up 25 yards down the hill in front of the green.

So -5 is currently T10 and the PGA TOUR Live announcers are saying that the cutline could end up there by the end of the day. Data Golf is only giving it an 8% chance of happening. I know it's still early on Friday but that seems like a bigger jump than normal. There are a lot of guys at -5 (15) and -4 (17). And there are 25 guys at -3. So I guess I get the prognostication. I do think guys in the morning wave will want to get to -5 to feel completely safe but it would be pretty surprising if -4 doesn't make the weekend.

General advice: Yoga for flexibility and strength. Body weight exercises for flexibility and strength. Get a pushcart and walk the course as often as possible. Always warm up before playing. Specific advice for the issues that OP has: find a Physical Therapist and work with them to develop a plan.

The elevated events and the fewer number of cards available has made these "lesser" events even better. And like...2 years exemption and points and all the money from playoff events - likely into the elevated events. Huge huge deal for these events. Like - yeah you aren't guaranteed anything other than in the no-cut events - but between winning the tournament itself and then just the average player earnings/sponsorships for the next two years - like a 2 year exemption is worth $4-6 million...?

Rickie with a second straight 65 after the great finish at Portrush. I hope he can keep it up. He hasn’t played terribly this year: only 2 missed cuts and 7 top 25s - but only one top ten - he’s 63rd in the FedEx right now. Right now a T4 only gets him to 55th. He’s gonna have to play really well the next 2-3 weeks to get inside that top 50 which seems to be his goal.

Scottie pretty much always plays this way. His distance control is impeccable and he almost never gets himself into a tough spot because he chooses "safer" targets. And yeah he hits a lot of "darts" - but he also hits an incredible number of boring shots 25 ft pin high right of a tucked left pin. And he shot 68-64-67-68 for the week so it wasn't like round 4 was some tame scoring round - that final round 68 also had a double. You can go to the Open Championship website and they have all the rounds charted out. He birdied the 1st hole 2 out of 4 days. Let's look at them real quick. Round 1: Tee shot went to "native area" with a back pin; his approach was 60 feet short into the front of the green, 2 putt. Round 2: Fairway, 169 to a back left pin - he hit it 7 feet right and made birdie. Round 3: Semi rough off the tee with a tight front left pin: he hit it 34 feet right pin high, 2 putt. Round 4: Semi rough to a dead middle pin - only 143 yards in. He hit it to 18 inches. That pretty much says it all. First day he didn't get too aggressive and just took his medicine, second day he utilized his amazing distance control from the fairway but still kept it on the "fat" side. Third round he again took his medicine on the "fat" side, 4th round with a middle pin he just went right at it, he probably had a good lie in the semi-rough. He's the best golfer in the world because he has amazing distance control AND he almost always makes the "correct" play. Tiger did the same damn thing and just wore everyone out.