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This guy steps up to putt and the wind blows his ball three feet from him. I've played the game since the age of 10 and never seen that in 45 years.

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It was Oosthuizen, and the ball rolled another 3 or so feet from him before he could mark it. I've played in 40 mph wind in Oklahoma and never had my ball impacted by wind on the green.... in the air, yeah, but on the green, negative.

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It's crazy T! Was over in Maui years ago and they had abnormal trade winds. Blew ball all over the place. Wasn't any fun. Brutal to be exact
 

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I haven't been anywhere exotic like that but I have played on a course in the intercoastals of South Carolina. Cartboys warned me of wind especially on a particular par three that sits in between waterways and your tee shot plays directly into gusts of wind off ocean. It is a 140 yard par three. Usually would play a hard nine. But clubbed down to a SEVEN! Striped it and thought I had a definite birdie attempt if it didn't go over the green. Then I proceeded to watch as it halfway to the hole, it went straight up and I ended up about 20 yards short of green. I couldn't believe it. A perfect 7 irom which would go 165-170 yards under normal conditions went 115 at best!
 

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I'm gonna play Kiawah with cuz in the next couple of weeks. Jwhite, I've played holes in Oklahoma where I hit a 3 iron 115 yards into the wind. And I usually hit a 3 220-225 yards, LOL. That was just some crazy shit, I'd never seen that. Commentators were saying today during the completion of Round 2 that they had the greens cut to a nat's ass. I've never been to Scotland, it'll happen one day, but I've played bent grass greens before, slicker than ice, and the damn ball didn't move with the wind.

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Play it as it lies...right now... no now...okay now... puff_>>

Can't imagine.

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Murph the Philosopher, LOL. You getting back in or not? That was some shit, and I have to hand it to the R&A for not calling the stroke on those guys that addressed the ball and it moved 3 feet, LOL.

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