A few minutes from your house would make it more enjoyable for sure. Both years were bad. It just wasn’t a good location. The pros being out in the open with people treating it like a lunch room was terrible. Just not enough space
I copied those rules from the wpa pdf there now, the "2025-09-15" version, which I thought was the current set of rules. Please let me know if I'm looking in the wrong spot. Would definitely be interested in seeing the current rule.
Likely because they are young and not educated/schooled speakers. You can't compare these announcers with the likes of one you'd find discussion the Masters Golf event last week. Also, many announcers in the past were close friends of the production crew, and got an ''in''. That still occurs.
Commentators will never stop talking and will fill every available second with their yapping, regardless of accuracy, or relevance to the situation or game in general.
Masters chalk is free and still works just fine if you chalk up every shot or two.
I don't waste money on all the new gimmicks.
Years ago, when I played golf, I bought I every product that claimed to lower my score so much that if I stayed home, I still shot par.
Interesting that in your frozen ball/simultaneous hit scenario, whichever ball was hit first raced out of frame first, without exception. And the sibgle hit where you pretty much managed the nearly impossible actual simultaneous hit, the balls left the frame as a tie.
So it’s possible that distance traveled can be another indicator assuming the area after the hit affords room on the table to determine speed and distance.
Below is the result if I use chatGPT to do the BBCode for me. I paste the table into chatgpt and ask it: "give me bbc table formatting with a nice header for this data that I can paste into a forum post:" and I paste the table there from google sheets. It preservers the hyperlinks. Oh, I forgot, that is the other major advantage over a picture. Hyperlinks work. I found this to be very easy, and it looks great.
