re: Sam Burns falling on his face today

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Sam rarely puts together 4 complete rounds of golf. It has to be mental b/c he surely has the game. Hell, he’s the #1 putter on tour right now.

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Downvoted but true. Unless you're a neurosurgeon then he likely made more than everyone this weekend. He still has trouble closing out when he finishes the cut or saturday in the #1 position. It's been a reoccuring theme for a while. Good for him still $680k. Likely $400k after taxes.

The analysis on him shouldn't be vs an ordinary poster here. That could be said in every sport. Nuss throws a better football than everyone here. Harold Perkins is faster than every poster here. Jared Jones can hit a baseball further 500 ft. No one here could do 400 ft, why does no one bring that up when he struggles like a poster here saying most couldn't break 100 in defense of Sam? Alex Bregman has made a lot more than Burns, but doesn't stop anyone from calling out his slumps and have 40 posters respond like every Sam Burns post gets "He sure is a lot better baseball player than you are and can hit a baseball 75 ft further than you can, and made more this weekend than you do in 4 years." Why is Sam the only one who gets this response on TD? Nuss 4 yr signing bonus and contract will likely be bigger than Burns career to date earnings, but does anyone respond with "Nuss's signing bonus will be bigger than your life earnings" when TD posters were pissed on his performance vs Bama? No. Why only Burns?

That would make ESPN analysts out of a job because obviously the athletes like Nuss is better than Lee Corso, if only ordinary people who are better than these professional athletes at their respective sports are allow to make a critical comment about their game.

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This dude is in the smallest elite of the elite in golf and you think it's cool to take shots at him. Plenty of other threads you could make your knowledgeable post in but you thought it deserved it's own thread.

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Again, why does Sam get this treatment on TD? That can be said by literally any other athlete. It can be said about Nuss, but I want you to go to the Bama game thread, and let's see if he got the same Treatment as Burns during that game. That can be said about Jared Jones, no one here can hit a ball as far as him. Look at all the threads recently of him.

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Par for this board. A lot of guys that could never play anything above little league hiding behind anonymous screen names takings shots at guys who play at the highest levels of sports.

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And why is this same comment used 50x on any Sam Burns thread, but not ever once used for Nuss, or Jared Jones, or Kaleb Jackson or Jayden Daniels 1st year?

You have to be a moron to think that just because they are better than you at a sport and make more than you, that that leaves you no room to talk about their performance. That would put every sports analysts out of a job, and not allow any fan ever to say anything about any major sports athlete. The only people you could talk crap about are rec league athletes, and kids sports. Such a dumb common position on here solely used for Sam Burns.

Bruh no one needs to read your 50 page novel of stupidity. Geezus.

Burns was +5 before being denied a drop. He should have composed himself and laid up 20-30 yards short of green, setting up a relatively easy up and down. Instead he lost his mind and went for the pin on the hardest hole on the course, made double and threw a hissy fit. Not to mention he caught a break on his tee shot on 15 because if it weren't so wet, it 100% jumps into the 2nd cut

Meanwhile Spaun had 2 of the worst breaks you'll ever see on b2b holes yet managed to keep it together and grind out a win

Given the brutality of Oakmont I don’t think any golf fan would say Burns choked. He got some bad breaks but also hit some bad shots. It is fair to say he didn’t manage the conditions he was in as well as Spaun did. As for bad breaks I think Spaun won that contest early on in the round and kept it together to win.

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It was obvious the USGA had a more preferred winner in mind.

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Dunno about that. What I do know is that the USGA wanted no more delays.

It was also clear to me … that the players that demonstrated the most mental toughness were the players that rose to the top ….and that wasn’t Burns.
Spaun played well all four rounds, and he exhibited intense concentration and focus over the final round … which is what is required to win a US Open at Oakmont

Sam will get his major, or 2 or 4. He's just got to be a little less harsh on himself when things go South, which they always will.

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Spaun had 2 of the worst breaks you'll ever see on b2b holes yet managed to keep it together and grind out a win

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He did have an hour break to get his head back together imploding to start the round.

He made several hundred thousand - that surely cushioned his fall - plus he hade a few bad breaks that were out of his Control