Golf Anchor Should Get the Ultimate Penalty

[sagegrouse]

Couldn't find the "Sports cliches to be retired" thread, but the NBC dude serving as anchor for the Players' Championship just said, "... Jordan Spieth's bogey-free scrambling has been metronomic..."

He did have 13+ up-and-downs in the tournament, but WTF does this dufus mean?

[weezie]

Hahaha, wish I'd been not dozing on the couch during that....

[duketaylor]

Who said it? Certainly not our buddy from NCSU, Terry Gannon? Sounds more like a Johnny Miller comment.

[Indoor66]

Who said it? Certainly not our buddy from NCSU, Terry Gannon? Sounds more like a Johnny Miller comment.

Sounds more like Tirico to me.

[Reilly]

... metronomic..." W ... does this dufus mean?

"Mechanically regular."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metronomic

Why so bothered? Seems pretty descriptive to me (i've been in the presence of a metronome recently, however, so maybe it resonates more for me). And I'm one with a bunch of pet peeves when it comes to language usage -- but this one doesn't bug me.

[DU82]

Sounds more like Tirico to me.

No, he's ESPN. Perhaps Dan Hicks, the usual NBC golf anchor?

[sagegrouse]

Who said it? Certainly not our buddy from NCSU, Terry Gannon? Sounds more like a Johnny Miller comment.

I believe it was Todd Lewis, who has a North Carolina background: UNCG for college, TV sports in W-S, Wilmington and WRAL (weekend), before moving to Orlando. He's been on the Golf Channel for 5-6 years.

[killerleft]

"Mechanically regular."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metronomic

Why so bothered? Seems pretty descriptive to me (i've been in the presence of a metronome recently, however, so maybe it resonates more for me). And I'm one with a bunch of pet peeves when it comes to language usage -- but this one doesn't bug me.

I have to agree. I knew what he meant and thought the comment was an apt description.

[sagegrouse]

"Mechanically regular."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metronomic

Why so bothered? Seems pretty descriptive to me (i've been in the presence of a metronome recently, however, so maybe it resonates more for me). And I'm one with a bunch of pet peeves when it comes to language usage -- but this one doesn't bug me.

I have to agree. I knew what he meant and thought the comment was an apt description.

Tick, tock, tick, tock?? Nah, he still deserves to be horse-whipped. "Scrambling" is hardly "metronomic," is it? Ben Hogan might have been metronomic: fairway, green, putt, putt; fairway, green, putt, putt; fairway, etc... Jordan Spieth was merely "artful," or perhaps "perfect," in that he played three-plus rounds without a bogey.

But, whatever floats your boat or beats your drum...

Kindly, Sage

[Edouble]

The DBR forums have been known to piss me off from time to time, but it's threads like these that actually restore my faith that there are still intellectuals out there on the internet, and therefore, in the real world.

[Reilly]

Intellectuals, or pedants?

Sage, I missed the word scrambling -- focusing on your bolded "metronomic." I agree the two don't go together. Carry on with advocating violence ...

[hurleyfor3]

The DBR forums have been known to piss me off from time to time, but it's threads like these that actually restore my faith that there are still intellectuals out there on the internet, and therefore, in the real world.

Nah, it's the internets, they're all morons who are catfishing as smart people.

I thought the thread topic referred to giving a stroke-and-distance penalty to anyone who makes a stroke with a belly putter. It would be pretty funny, making guys like Bernhard Langer re-putt from five feet.

[rasputin]

Nah, it's the internets, they're all morons who are catfishing as smart people.

I thought the thread topic referred to giving a stroke-and-distance penalty to anyone who makes a stroke with a belly putter. It would be pretty funny, making guys like Bernhard Langer re-putt from five feet.

That would increase his time to finish a round from five hours to six.

[killerleft]

That would increase his time to finish a round from five hours to six.

Stroke and distance would surely cause a change in putters, since all putts would require a re-do. Or he could putt forever just to be obstinate. Putting forever caused him to use the belly putter in the first place. Bernhard and Sam Snead tried everything. Bernhard will lose the belly putter option soon (2016), just like Snead lost the croquet-style putter option (late-1960s). Question: does the Sam Snead Rule make a lot of quickie tap-ins technically illegal? A lot of younger players may even be unaware of the rule.

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports...your_legs.html

[hurleyfor3]

Question: does the Sam Snead Rule make a lot of quickie tap-ins technically illegal?

I think there's a ruling allowing tap-ins. Many of them are still technically playing out of turn however. (Playing out of turn has no penalty in stroke play, but in a match your opponent can make you re-hit.)