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  1. 11 minutes ago, bullzak said:

    Saw that Scottie needs to win 56 of his next 110 tournaments to match Tiger win rate at first 250 tournaments. Good God. 

    Scottie doesn't "need" to do shit; except keep playing in events like he plays right now. The rest takes care of itself, until someone comes along who is better at winning than he has been for the last 2 years....and that someone will come along but we don't know if it is 2026 or 2035.

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  2. Dallas (Bent Tree CC)  highlights - 7 for 1 playoff for shooting -7 today, Johnny Keefer (San Antonio) wins the spot. 2 ams got in the field, the only name (pro) that I recognize is Adam Schenk who shot -10 to T2. Bunch of names that miss out, the one is the strangest scorecard is Carson Young who shot 69-67 to miss the playoff by 1 shot, the back nine on his second round was birdie, birdie, double, birdie, birdie, double, birdie, birdie, birdie for a sweet 33 (must be water or OB - because the 2 doubles are on the par 5's) 

     

  3. June 12-15, Oakmont PA, Oakmont CC

    Oakmont flyover - 2025 U.S. Open: Flyovers of Every Hole at Oakmont

    Yeah, I know the PGA Championship just ended yesterday, but in the new tour schedule the US open is 4 weeks away and today is the first day of qualifying. 

    Japan qualifying was today with 43 players for 3 spots 2025 U.S. Open Final Qualifying: Japan

    Dallas is underway, with 7 spots 2025 U.S. Open Final Qualifying: Dallas

    England is underway, with 8 spots Leaderboard - U.S. Open Final Qualifying 2025 - DP World Tour

    June 2nd is the longest day in golf with 10 more sites around the US, and Canada - 2025 U.S. Open Local and Final Qualiyfing (this is the day after the Memorial, which is still the traditional day for most of the sites)

     

    The last time the US Open was played here was 2016, Dustin Johnson won; trivia note is Rahm played as an amateur. The event was choppy, as the first round was rain delayed on Thursday, with only 3 groups completing their first round of play, Friday was completion of the 1st round and only the first wave starting the 2nd round. Saturday the 2nd round completed at 2pm, and the course was closed, for darkness and then they did complete the event on Sunday.
    DJ came back from 3rd place shooting a 69, from 5 shots behind Shane Lowry who put up a 76. Hopefully the weather is better this year, and we get an entertaining and exciting show. 
    Vegas Insider lists the following as odds 
     

    Spoiler

    ODDS TO WIN 2025 U.S. OPEN

    Listed below are the odds to win the 2025 U.S. Open golf tournament.

    • Scottie Scheffler +470
    • Rory McIlroy +1000
    • Xander Schauffele +1200
    • Jon Rahm +1200
    • Ludvig Aberg +1500
    • Bryson DeChambeau +1700
    • Collin Morikawa +1700
    • Viktor Hovland +2200
    • Brooks Koepka +2200
    • Hideki Matsuyama +2200
    • Patrick Cantlay +3000
    • Justin Thomas +3000
    • Cameron Smith +3500
    • Joaquin Niemann +3500
    • Tony Finau +4500
    • Max Homa +4500
    • Tommy Fleetwood +4500
    • Tyrrell Hatton +4500
    • Sam Burns +4500
    • Will Zalatoris +5000
    • Matt Fitzpatrick +5000
    • Sahith Theegala +5000
    • Wyndham Clark +5500
    • Cameron Young +5500
    • Tom Kim +5500
    • Jordan Spieth +5500
    • Shane Lowry +5500
    • Dustin Johnson +7500
    • Min Woo Lee +7500
    • Jason Day +7500
    • Corey Conners +7500
    • Russell Henley +7500
    • Sung-Jae Im +7500
    • Adam Scott +8000
    • Sepp Straka +9000
    • JT Poston +9000

    All Other Golfers listed at +10000 or Higher

    Odds Provided by bet365 - Subject to Change

     

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  4. I don't see an active LIV thread, so here it is

    If you are excited to see BDC, or Rahmbo, etc you only have to wait 3 weeks before they play a 54 holer as a US Open warm up 

  5. 1 hour ago, mooseoutfront said:

    Nah, not about me. Appreciate the check in though. 
     

    I’ve regressed to full on lurker mode. Life happens and I needed a break. 
     

    My father died (not a big loss, he was an asshole of the highest order).  We bought a house on 15 acres about 3 miles from the cabin and I’ve been immersed in renovating. I think it would have been easier to just build new. Mom is having some health issues back in Texas and we’re prepping for her possibly having to move up here so we can care for her on a daily basis. We promised her she would never be in an institution. 
     

    It’s been nice having a place of our own to do laundry, take showers, and haul water to the cabin. 
     

    Neither of us want to live there, so we are going to Air BnB it until we need it for either Mom or ourselves. 

    That all sounds nice and all, but the real question is inside shitter or still using the shitstick (Surly deranged minds need to know)

  6. 16 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    What the fuck:

    The losing contestants will go home with “iconically American” prizes, including a million American Airlines points, a $10,000 Starbucks gift card, and a lifetime supply of 76 gasoline. They will also have a leg up as they undergo the traditional citizenship process.

    The big winner, meanwhile, will get sworn in as an American citizen on Capitol Hill by “a top American politician or judge.”

    “There won’t be a dry eye within 10 miles,” the pitch reads

    Why not make it real exciting, and all those who don't win get a one way first class plane ticket a max security prison in El Salvador. 
    And name the show "Play Stupid Games/Win Stupid Prizes"

  7. 2 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Here is another story of a group of persecuted individuals that the Trump Administration allowed into the US - this group is family members of the kingpin drug lord, these people aren't white, but I bet they paid a lot to be allowed into the country.

    Were 17 members of El Chapo's family escorted into U.S. from Mexico? - Los Angeles Times

      Reveal hidden contents

    17 members of a cartel kingpin’s family were escorted into California from Mexico. Why?

     

    Mexican newspapers on display at a newsstand, near a passerby looking at his phone

    The capture of reputed cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García made front-page news in Mexico City in July 2024. 
    (Rodrigo Oropeza / AFP/Getty Images)
    By Patrick J. McDonnellForeign Correspondent 
    Published May 13, 2025 Updated May 14, 2025 12:52 PM PT
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    • Mexico’s security chief confirmed reports that relatives of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán were allowed to enter San Diego.
    • Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum complained that U.S. authorities had failed to notify their Mexican counterparts about the operation.

    MEXICO CITY — Key pillars of the Trump administration’s policy toward Mexico involve large-scale deportations and a crackdown on cartels.

    But reports in the Mexican media suggest that U.S. authorities recently orchestrated the secret, cross-border move of at least 17 relatives of Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpin — Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel — to California.

    On Wednesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, clearly frustrated, said U.S. authorities had failed to notify their Mexican counterparts of what appeared to be a highly choreographed operation by Washington to transport the drug lord’s extended family across the border from Tijuana to San Diego.

    “We are doing our work” to fight drug trafficking, Sheinbaum said. “The issue is: What information is out there and how do they [U.S. officials] explain this? They have to give information.”

    Various social media sites have circulated images purporting to show El Chapo’s kin lugging rolling suitcases as they waited to enter the United States last week at the San Ysidro border crossing connecting Tijuana and San Diego.

     

    In a radio interview Tuesday, Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s security chief, confirmed that the move took place.

    He characterized the transfer of El Chapo’s relatives as part of a “negotiation” between the U.S. Justice Department and representatives of one of El Chapo’s sons, Ovidio Guzmán López, who faces drug smuggling and other charges in federal court in Chicago.

     

    FILE - This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained in Culiacan, Mexico, Oct. 17, 2019. Ovidio's brothers, Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, are the lead defendants among 23 associates charged with running a criminal enterprise, fentanyl trafficking, among other things, in a New York indictment unsealed April 14, 2023 in Manhattan, while Ovidio, alias “the Mouse,” is facing similar charges in another indictment in the same district. Another brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, is charged in the Northern District of Illinois. (CEPROPIE via AP File)

    Guzmán López was initially arrested in a 2019 military raid that sparked gun battles paralyzing the city of Culiacán, prompting then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to order him freed in a bid to end the violence. He was rearrested in 2023 in a second bloody operation that left at least 29 dead, including 10 Mexican soldiers. Mexico extradited him to the United States in September 2023 to face drug trafficking charges.

     

    Guzmán López, 35, known as El Ratón (“The mouse”), plans to change his not guilty plea to guilty, according to court papers, but the terms of his potential plea deal remain publicly unknown. A court hearing is set for July 9 in federal court in Chicago.

    “As we saw in the news, Ovidio begins a negotiation with the Department of Justice of the United States and it’s evident that, [with] his family going to the United States, it’s because of that negotiation,” García Harfuch told Mexico’s Radio Formula.

    The current whereabouts of the El Chapo relatives could not be determined. It was unclear whether they were under some form of protective custody.

    In Mexico, security experts say, El Chapo’s relatives could be vulnerable to the violence associated with a civil war raging within the Sinaloa cartel.

    The case against Guzmán López is part of a wide-ranging U.S. effort to take down the Sinaloa gang, which is considered Mexico’s most extensive criminal organization. The Sinaloa cartel is one of six in Mexico that the Trump administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations.

    There has been speculation in Mexico that, in exchange for a reduced prison term and other concessions, Guzmán López could agree to testify for the government in drug cases. Such “cooperation” agreements, experts say, routinely include protection for the relatives of potential witnesses.

     
     

    FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2014 file photo, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, is escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture in the beach resort town of Mazatlan, Mexico. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Wednesday, Jan. 18 2023 that the government will analyze El Chapo's request to be returned to Mexico to carry out his life prison sentence. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

     

    The Justice Department has not explained why Mexico apparently was not notified of the operation to move El Chapo’s extended family across the border. It is unclear whether the decision was an oversight or a deliberate omission out of fear that news of the move would be leaked to criminal elements in Mexico.

    A Justice Department spokeswoman, Nicole Navas, declined to comment. Guzmán Lopez’s New York-based attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, did not return messages.

    El Chapo, who was convicted in 2019 of running a vast drug network, is serving a life sentence at a “supermax” prison in Colorado.

    The accounts about El Chapo’s relatives entering San Diego originated with Luis Chaparro, a Mexican journalist who specializes in stories about Mexico’s drug world.

    On Monday, citing “sources,” Chaparro reported on his YouTube channel that 17 of El Chapo’s relatives — including his ex-wife, various nephews and nieces, a grandson, a daughter and a son-in-law — entered U.S. territory in San Ysidro around midday May 9 and were met by FBI agents. They carried more than $70,000 in cash, reported Chaparro, who said at least one sniper watched over the group as they turned themselves in to U.S. authorities.

    Among the group was Griselda López, El Chapo’s former wife and the mother of Ovidio and his elder brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, who is also in U.S. custody facing drug charges.

    There has been widespread speculation in the Mexican press that the two jailed brothers may seek a plea deal and possibly agree to testify against Ismael Zambada García, a co-founder, with El Chapo, of the notorious Sinaloa cartel.

     

    Un miembro de la Guardia Nacional vigila una carretera cerca de donde yace un cadáver en Culiacán, Sinaloa, en el norte de México, el sábado 21 de septiembre de 2024. (AP Foto/Eduardo Verdugo)

    Zambada has said he was kidnapped by Joaquín Guzmán López in the summer and flown into the custody of U.S. agents outside El Paso. Mexican authorities say they too were blindsided by that sensational operation, which Mexican authorities say was probably orchestrated by U.S. agents. Zambada is reportedly in plea negotiations with U.S. authorities to avoid a potential death penalty.

    His arrest has sparked a bloody turf war splitting the Sinaloa cartel. Backers of Zambada are fighting supporters of El Chapo’s sons, known as Los Chapitos, for control of the notorious organization. Two of El Chapo’s other sons are both fugitives who have remained in Mexico and avoided arrest while assuming their father’s legacy of running the cartel, authorities say.

    Times staff writer Keegan Hamilton in Los Angeles and special correspondents Cecilia Sánchez Vidal and Liliana Nieto del Río in Mexico City contributed to this report.

     

    posted this in the wrong (ICE) thread - so I am quoting it here

  8. 2 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Here is another story of a group of persecuted individuals that the Trump Administration allowed into the US - this group is family members of the kingpin drug lord, these people aren't white, but I bet they paid a lot to be allowed into the country.

    Were 17 members of El Chapo's family escorted into U.S. from Mexico? - Los Angeles Times

    posted that is the wrong thread - should have been in the Trump opens the border thread

     

  9. Here is another story of a group of persecuted individuals that the Trump Administration allowed into the US - this group is family members of the kingpin drug lord, these people aren't white, but I bet they paid a lot to be allowed into the country.

    Were 17 members of El Chapo's family escorted into U.S. from Mexico? - Los Angeles Times

    Spoiler

    17 members of a cartel kingpin’s family were escorted into California from Mexico. Why?

     

    Mexican newspapers on display at a newsstand, near a passerby looking at his phone

    The capture of reputed cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García made front-page news in Mexico City in July 2024. 
    (Rodrigo Oropeza / AFP/Getty Images)
    By Patrick J. McDonnellForeign Correspondent 
    Published May 13, 2025 Updated May 14, 2025 12:52 PM PT
    • Share
    • 20
    • Mexico’s security chief confirmed reports that relatives of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán were allowed to enter San Diego.
    • Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum complained that U.S. authorities had failed to notify their Mexican counterparts about the operation.

    MEXICO CITY — Key pillars of the Trump administration’s policy toward Mexico involve large-scale deportations and a crackdown on cartels.

    But reports in the Mexican media suggest that U.S. authorities recently orchestrated the secret, cross-border move of at least 17 relatives of Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpin — Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel — to California.

    On Wednesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, clearly frustrated, said U.S. authorities had failed to notify their Mexican counterparts of what appeared to be a highly choreographed operation by Washington to transport the drug lord’s extended family across the border from Tijuana to San Diego.

    “We are doing our work” to fight drug trafficking, Sheinbaum said. “The issue is: What information is out there and how do they [U.S. officials] explain this? They have to give information.”

    Various social media sites have circulated images purporting to show El Chapo’s kin lugging rolling suitcases as they waited to enter the United States last week at the San Ysidro border crossing connecting Tijuana and San Diego.

     

    In a radio interview Tuesday, Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s security chief, confirmed that the move took place.

    He characterized the transfer of El Chapo’s relatives as part of a “negotiation” between the U.S. Justice Department and representatives of one of El Chapo’s sons, Ovidio Guzmán López, who faces drug smuggling and other charges in federal court in Chicago.

     

    FILE - This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained in Culiacan, Mexico, Oct. 17, 2019. Ovidio's brothers, Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, are the lead defendants among 23 associates charged with running a criminal enterprise, fentanyl trafficking, among other things, in a New York indictment unsealed April 14, 2023 in Manhattan, while Ovidio, alias “the Mouse,” is facing similar charges in another indictment in the same district. Another brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, is charged in the Northern District of Illinois. (CEPROPIE via AP File)

    Guzmán López was initially arrested in a 2019 military raid that sparked gun battles paralyzing the city of Culiacán, prompting then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to order him freed in a bid to end the violence. He was rearrested in 2023 in a second bloody operation that left at least 29 dead, including 10 Mexican soldiers. Mexico extradited him to the United States in September 2023 to face drug trafficking charges.

     

    Guzmán López, 35, known as El Ratón (“The mouse”), plans to change his not guilty plea to guilty, according to court papers, but the terms of his potential plea deal remain publicly unknown. A court hearing is set for July 9 in federal court in Chicago.

    “As we saw in the news, Ovidio begins a negotiation with the Department of Justice of the United States and it’s evident that, [with] his family going to the United States, it’s because of that negotiation,” García Harfuch told Mexico’s Radio Formula.

    The current whereabouts of the El Chapo relatives could not be determined. It was unclear whether they were under some form of protective custody.

    In Mexico, security experts say, El Chapo’s relatives could be vulnerable to the violence associated with a civil war raging within the Sinaloa cartel.

    The case against Guzmán López is part of a wide-ranging U.S. effort to take down the Sinaloa gang, which is considered Mexico’s most extensive criminal organization. The Sinaloa cartel is one of six in Mexico that the Trump administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations.

    There has been speculation in Mexico that, in exchange for a reduced prison term and other concessions, Guzmán López could agree to testify for the government in drug cases. Such “cooperation” agreements, experts say, routinely include protection for the relatives of potential witnesses.

     
     

    FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2014 file photo, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, is escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture in the beach resort town of Mazatlan, Mexico. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Wednesday, Jan. 18 2023 that the government will analyze El Chapo's request to be returned to Mexico to carry out his life prison sentence. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

     

    The Justice Department has not explained why Mexico apparently was not notified of the operation to move El Chapo’s extended family across the border. It is unclear whether the decision was an oversight or a deliberate omission out of fear that news of the move would be leaked to criminal elements in Mexico.

    A Justice Department spokeswoman, Nicole Navas, declined to comment. Guzmán Lopez’s New York-based attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, did not return messages.

    El Chapo, who was convicted in 2019 of running a vast drug network, is serving a life sentence at a “supermax” prison in Colorado.

    The accounts about El Chapo’s relatives entering San Diego originated with Luis Chaparro, a Mexican journalist who specializes in stories about Mexico’s drug world.

    On Monday, citing “sources,” Chaparro reported on his YouTube channel that 17 of El Chapo’s relatives — including his ex-wife, various nephews and nieces, a grandson, a daughter and a son-in-law — entered U.S. territory in San Ysidro around midday May 9 and were met by FBI agents. They carried more than $70,000 in cash, reported Chaparro, who said at least one sniper watched over the group as they turned themselves in to U.S. authorities.

    Among the group was Griselda López, El Chapo’s former wife and the mother of Ovidio and his elder brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, who is also in U.S. custody facing drug charges.

    There has been widespread speculation in the Mexican press that the two jailed brothers may seek a plea deal and possibly agree to testify against Ismael Zambada García, a co-founder, with El Chapo, of the notorious Sinaloa cartel.

     

    Un miembro de la Guardia Nacional vigila una carretera cerca de donde yace un cadáver en Culiacán, Sinaloa, en el norte de México, el sábado 21 de septiembre de 2024. (AP Foto/Eduardo Verdugo)

    Zambada has said he was kidnapped by Joaquín Guzmán López in the summer and flown into the custody of U.S. agents outside El Paso. Mexican authorities say they too were blindsided by that sensational operation, which Mexican authorities say was probably orchestrated by U.S. agents. Zambada is reportedly in plea negotiations with U.S. authorities to avoid a potential death penalty.

    His arrest has sparked a bloody turf war splitting the Sinaloa cartel. Backers of Zambada are fighting supporters of El Chapo’s sons, known as Los Chapitos, for control of the notorious organization. Two of El Chapo’s other sons are both fugitives who have remained in Mexico and avoided arrest while assuming their father’s legacy of running the cartel, authorities say.

    Times staff writer Keegan Hamilton in Los Angeles and special correspondents Cecilia Sánchez Vidal and Liliana Nieto del Río in Mexico City contributed to this report.

     

  10. 10 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    On the other hand:

     

     

     

    I am guessing that the cartel guys can afford to pay for those $5 million gold cards that Trump has been selling; that kind of money supersedes vetting, interviews, or any other precautionary tests. 
    You didn't think that upstanding citizens would pay that much? did you?

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  11. 4 hours ago, Dewey said:

    Rory says he was expecting the course to feel different being a major, but says it's playing the same as if it were the Wells Fargo, rough is a bit juicer, that's it. 

    Are we going to see some scores? 

    I'm not sure why that is a big surprise, PGA has never been as anal as the USGA about making courses brutally hard. PGA wants a fair test, though the wet fairways and a wet rough will lengthen the course; which favors big hitters....like Scottie, Rory, BDC, you know the guys already favorites. I think they could choose harder pins than they have at the Wells Fargo, especially Thur & Friday when the regular event is trying to make sure they get everyone around the course.

    How to watch:

    Thur/Fri
    ESPN+  7am-1pm
    EPSN+ featured groups - 7:30am - 7pm
    ESPN - 1pm-7pm
    PGA (webcast) - Featured groups - 7:30am-8pm

    Sat/Sun
    ESPN+ - 8am-10am
    ESPN - 10am-1pm
    Paramount+ - 1pm-7pm
    CBS 1pm-7pm
    PGA (webcast - Featured groups - 8am-7pm

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