It is called the scoring tent, and there can be no space like it in sports. Although it is sometimes room cabin, cottage or trailer instead, the score is still trying for the station and just steps from the 18th green, where golfers all report directly to the championship after a round of golf U.S. Open and others.
Sequestered in the tent, which may not have windows, some players and officials rules are hidden from view as they check their scorecards. It is part shrine, part of a sanatorium. A stressful round of golf history euphoric or may have just concluded. And the drama may continue.
As Paul Casey, 10th in the world rankings of golf, said Wednesday: "I have often thought the tent should be scoring a padded cell."
When the 111th U.S. Open begins Thursday at Congressional Country Club, hundreds of rounds will be digested inside the tent to score. The opponents will sit shoulder to shoulder after a second event, celebrating or feeling sorry for the odd, yet archaic ceremony to ensure that their scores are correct.
"It's a green room after a performance rather than before," said Geoff Ogilvy, the 2006 U.S. Open champion. "And you'll see all sorts of human emotions inside. The guys are throwing their scorecards across the room, kicking the table and then suddenly start laughing. Maybe they will bury their heads in their hands. All in the space of a minute.
"It's very much like golf that way. You're on your own even when you're always there with your partners. "
Padraig Harrington, winner in major championship three times, called for the scoring tent as a shelter.
"There are tears of joy and tears of sorrow," said Harrington. "You have been competing in the spotlight for four or five hours, maybe try to win a big tournament, but in this small room as the reality of nature after the house hits. Sometimes you need to absorb the silence. "
Unfortunately, the scoring tent is not always so calm.
"There may be heated altercations," said Casey. "There are insults and accusations. These rules must have bad officials heard all sorts of curse in several languages by now. It can be loud and crazy.
"Of course, sometimes you go out there and the rules officials are sitting there behind the counter in coats and ties and you feel like maybe you've been dragged before the principal. You wonder if maybe you forgot your homework. "
There is a remarkable work to be done inside the tent. One of the unusual things in golf is that the partners hold each other play the score. After one round, the scorecards are exchanged and verified. Caddies will enter the room, as they often keep another scorecard.
The official scorecards were also a band that can be peeled off, each player keeps his own score on this band to compare the score held by its partners. There is a computer screen in the tent with the score of each player that players can see. Finally, the United States Golf Association has a scorer walking with each group of golfers recording every race.
Nevertheless, errors still occur, although rarely, especially in the majors. He was 43 years of Roberto De Vicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard and was denied a chance at a championship Masters
Bernie Loehr, U.S.G.A. executive who has lived in the tent score U.S. Open since 2008, said some golfers will use every available means to ensure that their score is accurate.
"I saw Padraig Harrington check his scorecard in four different ways and then also let me read scores of the computer screen back to him as he checks his scorecard," said Loehr.
Some of the conversation led to the USGA officials are not civil society.
"Guys will come in the tent and growl, as the placement of pin 14 is just ridiculous," said Ogilvy. "The poor guy rules have nothing to do with it, but the guys waited five holes to complain."
Sequestered in the tent, which may not have windows, some players and officials rules are hidden from view as they check their scorecards. It is part shrine, part of a sanatorium. A stressful round of golf history euphoric or may have just concluded. And the drama may continue.
As Paul Casey, 10th in the world rankings of golf, said Wednesday: "I have often thought the tent should be scoring a padded cell."
When the 111th U.S. Open begins Thursday at Congressional Country Club, hundreds of rounds will be digested inside the tent to score. The opponents will sit shoulder to shoulder after a second event, celebrating or feeling sorry for the odd, yet archaic ceremony to ensure that their scores are correct.
"It's a green room after a performance rather than before," said Geoff Ogilvy, the 2006 U.S. Open champion. "And you'll see all sorts of human emotions inside. The guys are throwing their scorecards across the room, kicking the table and then suddenly start laughing. Maybe they will bury their heads in their hands. All in the space of a minute.
"It's very much like golf that way. You're on your own even when you're always there with your partners. "
Padraig Harrington, winner in major championship three times, called for the scoring tent as a shelter.
"There are tears of joy and tears of sorrow," said Harrington. "You have been competing in the spotlight for four or five hours, maybe try to win a big tournament, but in this small room as the reality of nature after the house hits. Sometimes you need to absorb the silence. "
Unfortunately, the scoring tent is not always so calm.
"There may be heated altercations," said Casey. "There are insults and accusations. These rules must have bad officials heard all sorts of curse in several languages by now. It can be loud and crazy.
"Of course, sometimes you go out there and the rules officials are sitting there behind the counter in coats and ties and you feel like maybe you've been dragged before the principal. You wonder if maybe you forgot your homework. "
There is a remarkable work to be done inside the tent. One of the unusual things in golf is that the partners hold each other play the score. After one round, the scorecards are exchanged and verified. Caddies will enter the room, as they often keep another scorecard.
The official scorecards were also a band that can be peeled off, each player keeps his own score on this band to compare the score held by its partners. There is a computer screen in the tent with the score of each player that players can see. Finally, the United States Golf Association has a scorer walking with each group of golfers recording every race.
Nevertheless, errors still occur, although rarely, especially in the majors. He was 43 years of Roberto De Vicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard and was denied a chance at a championship Masters
Bernie Loehr, U.S.G.A. executive who has lived in the tent score U.S. Open since 2008, said some golfers will use every available means to ensure that their score is accurate.
"I saw Padraig Harrington check his scorecard in four different ways and then also let me read scores of the computer screen back to him as he checks his scorecard," said Loehr.
Some of the conversation led to the USGA officials are not civil society.
"Guys will come in the tent and growl, as the placement of pin 14 is just ridiculous," said Ogilvy. "The poor guy rules have nothing to do with it, but the guys waited five holes to complain."
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