U.S. Open Darkhorse Contest and Bitch Session

What's being tested? 

1.  Can you hit the fairway?

2.  Can you get lucky and hold the green with your approach?

3.  Can you get lucky and hit the hole instead of running off the other side of the green?

There's no test from the rough.  It's simply impossible.  Where's the separating the men from the boys aspect?  Everyone's a boy.

Bunkers on the American tours are never a test.  The sand is perfect, the lies are perfect and the players are really good.  This tournament makes them a test because it's so difficult to keep the bunker shot on the green.  That's about the greens though; not the bunkers.

The greens are stupid.  Maybe 10% of the green gives you a shot at birdie.  Maybe 40% gives you a shot at par.  Those percentages are SWAGs but you get my drift.  Where's the test on some of these positions?  Hit the hole if you're very good or very lucky.  Miss and look at a three putt or higher.  Even the best in world can't put the ball on the right 10% of the green on purpose - at least not often.

I get the arguments going the other way.  I just disagree with them.  The USGA are sadists when it comes to their Open.

A major shouldn't be won at -20.  That's not what I'm saying.  I just prefer the way the 1st best major sets up their Championship.  The course is what it is.  Sometimes the weather defends it and sometimes it doesn't.  Sometimes a good bit under par wins it and sometimes small children are blown into a bunker and drowned.   

Is it?

(I'm trying to post the devil emoticon, but Prolefeed doesn't permit them.)

In that case: NONE of the script buttons work.  I can't get "Bold" or "Italics" to work on highlighted text, either.

And yes, I have NoScripts set to allow you.

Thanks.  Those clues help.

It'll take me a while to get to work, so if a posting emergency comes up and you need to convey emphasis or sarcasm, you can always manually invoke bold or italics using the bracket tags. (you probably already know this, but just in case)

{b}this is bold{/b}
{i}this is italics{/i}
replace the curly braces with square brackets.

Also, I've heard that on some keyboards you can get bold text by typing extra hard on the keys and italics by using upward glancing keystrokes.  You can always give that a shot to see if your keyboard supports it.

  Indeed!  Albeit I figured Clive would default all italics with a, shall we say light touch?

Ah, I see the problem.  The site at dystopia.com was put together in a half-assed manner and has lots of parts still pointing to golfhos (scripts, stylesheets, etc.).  I assume the scripts blocked from golfhos.com are why this is failing.

Give me a sec, and I'll clean this up, so everything should be from dystopia.com when you're on that site soon.