Re: The Golf Thread (III)

by beamer Fri 19 Jul 2019, 19:07

And a Baker-Finch-esque 91 from David Duval, including a nontuple-bogey 14 Shocked

They struggled to count that one, it seems. He’s doing a bit better today, could yet break 80.

Rory storming through the back nine for a chance of making the cut now.

by Big Dog Fri 19 Jul 2019, 23:25

beamer wrote:And a Baker-Finch-esque 91 from David Duval, including a nontuple-bogey 14 They struggled to count that one, it seems. He’s doing a bit better today, could yet break 80.

Rory storming through the back nine for a chance of making the cut now.

I see a number of big names including Tiger missed the cut. Former winner David Duval finished 27 over. Shocked

by tricycle Mon 12 Aug 2019, 05:01

For the next tournament, I'd like a Rory/Koepka pairing followed immediately by a Holmes/deChambeau pairing.

In the name of his so called scientific approach, the latter is just disgracefully slow.

by horace Mon 12 Aug 2019, 23:48

Re slow play, I heard an interview with a journeyman Oz golf pro. It was a couple of weeks ago and I have forgotten the bloke's name.

He was discussing his own history of slow play. His fixed routine set up once averaged 29 seconds.

After plenty of feedback, not all of it subtle, and his own bad form he had a rethink about his set up routine (as part of a broader rethink about his game).

He has more than halved his set-up time, tho he said his form was still shyte. The interviewer noted his form had actually improved.

Slow play is an absolute blight for pros and hackers alike. In pro golf, I would place the proven time wasters together and at the back of the field on days one and two. There would be no provision for halting play for bad light. If they do not complete they don't make the cut.

by tricycle Mon 16 Sep 2019, 01:56

Been lucky up have a few great finishes in recent months. The Solheim cup finale is tight up with them. Sensational finish by the Europeans to muck the win.

by embee Fri 04 Sep 2020, 02:31

same putt as Rahm

by skully Fri 23 Oct 2020, 03:35

So Adam Scott has Covid and has had to pull out of his next tournament.

What a festering diseased place the States is.

by skully Mon 24 May 2021, 04:37

Floppy Milf Ickelson has become the oldest Major winner at 50, after taking out the US PGA by 2 shots.

Well done him. He sure boomed some drives (even besting the Hulk Bryson DeChambeau on occasions) throughout the tournament, and his wedge was as lethal as ever.

by beamer Mon 24 May 2021, 09:37

Was going to happen sooner or later, a few have contended for major titles at 50+ in recent years, and Tom Watson was nearly 60 when he missed a ten-foot putt for the Open...

by JGK Mon 21 Jun 2021, 04:19

Farking Bryson de Chambeau. He only had to finish top 10 and I would have won $400 and so after leading by 2 with 8 to play he ends up finishing 26th.

Qunt.

by skully Mon 21 Jun 2021, 06:32

Jesus, he was fourth last time I look this morning.

Obviously he put some of his steroid induced bombs into the long Torrey Pines rough late in his round. Kafka will be pissing himself.

by embee Mon 21 Jun 2021, 06:39

Prizemoney for 1st $2.25M

Prizemoney for T26th $99,743 -- Hideki Matsuyama, Rikuya Hoshino, Chris Baker, Martin Kaymer, Bryson DeChambeau

by embee Mon 21 Jun 2021, 06:41

Correction ....$91375

26. $99,743 -- Hideki Matsuyama, Rikuya Hoshino, Chris Baker, Martin Kaymer, Bryson DeChambeau
27. $95,209
28. $91,194
29. $87,308
30. $83,422

by skully Mon 21 Jun 2021, 07:02

Tough gig, if you are good enough to get it.

by JGK Sun 18 Jul 2021, 17:05

Morikawa looks home in The Open.

3 up with 7 to play.

by skully Mon 19 Jul 2021, 00:38

Classy display.

LOL @ Spieth's 2 x bogey finish in the 3rd round.

by skully Mon 06 Jun 2022, 09:02

Congrats to Wozzie Minjee Lee on winning the chick US Open.

Picked up a lazy AUD$2.5 mill for the effort. Noice.

by JGK Mon 06 Jun 2022, 13:06

Talk that she might to a Barty and retire to do some other stuff with her life while she's young.

by lardbucket Mon 06 Jun 2022, 20:30

Mingey looked very calm and relaxed on the course .... nothing extravagant about the swing, easy putting style. All near-perfect technique with no foibles.

by beamer Mon 06 Jun 2022, 21:04

So, is Greg Norman’s 35-year grudge against the PGA Tour over apartheid going to tear the sport in two?

Looks like we’re losing what could potentially have been our next four Ryder Cup captains, in Poulter, Westwood, Garcia and McDowell.

by skully Mon 06 Jun 2022, 23:41

Norman thinks he's the Kerry Packer of Golf.

The difference is cricketers were poorly paid, modern golfers are not.

by tricycle Thu 09 Jun 2022, 17:05

Broadcast quality of liv is top class. Puts the rest of golf to shame. With Reed and DeChambeau also joining along with solid players like Talor Gooch... It's going to be a pretty good field

The European tour getting hot under the collar is laughable. They sold out to middle East money in 1989 itself. In fact, they're now called the DP world tour ffs. Wonder how many times they cared about human rights when sharing skyline photos during Dubai desert classic every year... that skyline was obviously built on robot labour with no loss of life. They even had a tournament in Saudi for the past 3 years.

The likes of the BBC and media attacking these players while generally being mum during the Qatar masters and Race to Dubai finale is also beyond pathetic.

by tricycle Thu 09 Jun 2022, 17:11

It's obviously sportwashing. But that's existed as long as sport itself.

by beamer Thu 09 Jun 2022, 19:01

Average age of the “name” players is over 40, it’s virtually a seniors event, very few there with realistic prospects of winning majors in future. A bunch of players sacrificing their legacy (and Ryder Cup captaincy prospects) in the name of sportswashed cash they don’t even need. As shameless as Boris Johnson.

by tricycle Thu 09 Jun 2022, 19:04

^They were already doing that by bring part of the European tour.

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