Re: The Golf Thread (III)

by tricycle Tue 14 Mar 2017, 09:54

http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2017/tournamentid=2017036/news/newsid=322081.html

Looking forward to this event. Keith Pelley has done a fair bit to push the European tour.

by tricycle Thu 30 Mar 2017, 12:08

Strongly competing in the twat of the decade award (behind Muirfield and Augusta, of course)- Grayson Murray. Talking smack to.... Ben An of all people

https://twitter.com/GraysonMurray/status/847160316618297345

And on top of all that, he goes full racist too
https://twitter.com/GraysonMurray/status/847251981307592705

And of course kelly Kraft
https://twitter.com/kkraft11/

Kraft's a male, btw.

by JGK Thu 30 Mar 2017, 14:56

Second tweet has been deleted!

by JGK Thu 30 Mar 2017, 14:59

I reckon you'd be hard pressed to find a demographic more pro-Trump than US pro golfers.

by tricycle Thu 30 Mar 2017, 15:59

Second tweet was in response to Ben An saying he needs to learn two things- play well and win things.

To which he said- three things, I can't pronounce your name either.

Proper redneck.

JGK wrote:I reckon you'd be hard pressed to find a demographic more pro-Trump than US pro golfers.

Definitely.

by Bradman Fri 31 Mar 2017, 02:33

Wonder whether it was his golf talent or his brain that saw him at four colleges in four years?

by tricycle Sun 02 Apr 2017, 03:20

Kraft missed the cut. Sung Kang, an inflated rankings Asian player, leads. He's been playing on the Asian and Japanese tours for nearly a decade but he's ranked 380. A win here would get him to #80. But it's clearly the Asians who ride up the rankings sharpest.

by tricycle Mon 03 Apr 2017, 02:56

Love a good rules farce, especially in a major. Lexi Thompson was penalised four strokes in the middle of the final round for a wrong ball replacement on Saturday (2 strokes for that, and a further two for signing the wrong scorecard). In the end, she lost the playoff to Ryu.

by skully Tue 04 Apr 2017, 06:35

She was picked up by a quntish viewer apparently* placing the ball a millimetre or so to the side of the original spot. The 4 shot penalty clearly cost her big.

by taipan Tue 04 Apr 2017, 07:01

It is common knowledge that certain viewers search for rules infractions. Even more reason to be careful and not make an error.

by WideWally Tue 02 May 2017, 01:58

A big week for Cameron Smith.

by skully Tue 02 May 2017, 02:37

tricycle wrote:Strongly competing in the twat of the decade award (behind Muirfield and Augusta, of course)- Grayson Murray. Talking smack to.... Ben An of all people

https://twitter.com/GraysonMurray/status/847160316618297345

And on top of all that, he goes full racist too
https://twitter.com/GraysonMurray/status/847251981307592705

And of course kelly Kraft
https://twitter.com/kkraft11/

Kraft's a male, btw.

Sorry this is a bit late, but wow, I wonder what Grayson's problem is? Other than the fact that he's obviously a redneck dickhead.

I like the tweet from Doug Nutter - "Grayson, you gonna make a cut anytime soon errrr?"

by tricycle Tue 02 May 2017, 05:59

That was pre-Masters and he did mellow since, what with Pieters and Rahm and the Europeans being so strong in general. Very silly given how good players like Hatton have been this season.

Hugh Morris got it right in his time as ECB chief. Twitter is like giving monkeys machine guns.

by JGK Tue 02 May 2017, 07:40

WideWally wrote:A big week for Cameron Smith.

Does this win count as a career PGA win (given it is a pairs event)?

by tricycle Tue 02 May 2017, 08:01

I don't know how it works for PGA tour qualification, but it's not a world ranking event. But thank f*ck for something different, 45 weeks of strokeplay is shit.

by skully Tue 02 May 2017, 08:19

Oops, wrong thread.

by horace Tue 02 May 2017, 22:25

JGK wrote:
WideWally wrote:A big week for Cameron Smith.

Does this win count as a career PGA win (given it is a pairs event)?

Yes. He has a prized two year exemption and Fedex points. Heard an interview yesterday. A really humble funny lad

by tricycle Thu 04 May 2017, 18:04

Here's a weird surprise- Hunter Mahan is now ranked 697th in the world.

by tricycle Fri 05 May 2017, 04:48

Going to be worth following the European tour this week. Golf sixes. Different format to the Perth 6s. Between 16 countries in 4 groups, 6 holes each, and greensomes format.

http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2017/tournamentid=2017036/news/newsid=322081.html

Unfortunately, India are in a tough group.

by horace Fri 05 May 2017, 05:00

looks to be a really interesting and tough format.

by Bradman Fri 05 May 2017, 05:08

There's not enough matchplay comps. Having a fwew tournaments convert to it would probably do wonders for the ratings and maybe keep the clueless renecks at home.

by tricycle Fri 05 May 2017, 05:11

Yeah, there's too much strokeplay. Need a bit more matchplay/medalplay and even 6s to shorten the events.

Thankful that we'll be getting the world feed. Sky SPorts has jazzed this shit up unnecessarily, and signed up the likes of Pietersen for commentary and some other eye candy male morning show host too.

by Bradman Fri 05 May 2017, 05:13

Actually playing skins with their own money would be a hoot. Everyone else has to do it. Find out who has ticker.

by tricycle Sat 06 May 2017, 12:59

We get Pietersen for commentary pale

by tricycle Sat 06 May 2017, 13:53

This tournament would've been much better viewing with the usual Dougie donnelly, Tony Johnstone, Jay Townsend types.

Pietersen is just not good. Even Howell isn't great.

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