I think this is the same guy who's been writing similar articles about Tiger the past few years, whenever he'd have a good Friday or Saturday round at a major:
http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/rory-mcilroy-surges-pga-championship-lead-second-round-67
McIlroy's got a one-stroke lead! Favourite, yes, but that's ridiculous. Does his short-term memory only extend as far back as whatever the last major was? (I know writers aren't responsible for their headlines, but his very first paragraph makes the same point.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 9 August 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
For a one hour stretch this afternoon this was one of the most exciting things I've ever seen. Anybody can win tomorrow, it could be fireworks
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 10 August 2014 04:09 (nine years ago) link
Mc Ilroy hasn't missed a putt since the Masters. The guy literally doesn't miss putts.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 10 August 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
Rory scrapped away and still ended up in the lead. His bad round, not sure he'll repeat that today.
Should be a cracker.
Can people stop writing about Woods?! He is shit now. k tx bye.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 10 August 2014 08:16 (nine years ago) link
amazing final round going on here. Rory's 280 yard line drive 3-wood was :-0
― shower cretin (brownie), Sunday, 10 August 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
i really hope they can finish today.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 10 August 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
Bizarre finish. I think Mickelson probably has a right to be upset, but he'll have to grin and bear it or look bad.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 August 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
Some great golf though: Rory off the tee, Mickelson's chipping, Fowler's shot at 16 from the other fairway.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 August 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
Unbelievable tournament. Best I've seen in ages.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Monday, 11 August 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
over here we're still just tryin to nail him to a tadhg/prod or Brit/paddy mast, which seems a pity but not untypical
― Come and Heave a Ho (darraghmac), Monday, 11 August 2014 07:35 (nine years ago) link
Listening to the radio till the end at round 1:30am, really exciting finish. Again Rory stayed strong while others faded.
Sentence is awful but I just want to check: I don't think the British Isles have ever come up with a 'world beater' quite like this in almost any sport with a global-like reach? Both in individual sports or national teams.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 August 2014 09:05 (nine years ago) link
I'd offer Roy keane, idk bout global reach of their categories but Sonia o Sullivan, Michelle smith lol and Katie Taylor dominated their fields globally, Brian o Driscoll is an all-timer certainly.
brits'll have their own ideas, but rly idk its hard to define the criteria there.
― Come and Heave a Ho (darraghmac), Monday, 11 August 2014 11:06 (nine years ago) link
rugby, global? pfft lol
^^^hoping to provoke local garda out of posting retirement, here
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Monday, 11 August 2014 11:12 (nine years ago) link
mcilroy is gaining a spritely and supernatural aura nowadays tho, he is the imp of sport, the mythical surpasser
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Monday, 11 August 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
he's the golfer van Morrison should've been
― Come and Heave a Ho (darraghmac), Monday, 11 August 2014 11:16 (nine years ago) link
― Come and Heave a Ho (darraghmac), Monday, August 11, 2014 3:35 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think i heard he's a Catholic, and had an uncle who got murdered when he tried to move into a Protestant neighborhood. He seems to stay away from discussions of that sort of thing
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Monday, 11 August 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
this says tadgh & paddy mast
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jun/18/rory-mcilroy-olympics-ireland-golf
― a curious shade of pale (onimo), Monday, 11 August 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
rather the point is that he said NI first then hinted GB for Olympics but golf is administered on an all island basis also he seems to have a can't I just play golf and be from NI pls approach which IMO is otm
― Come and Heave a Ho (darraghmac), Monday, 11 August 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
The best part of breaking up is getting your golf game together.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2159303-rory-mcilroy-says-breakup-with-caroline-wozniacki-has-helped-his-golf-game?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial&hpt=hp_c3
Seinfeld had an episode about this. George learned to speak Portuguese and understand absolute zero. (Regardless of how true it is, I don't think this claim is necessarily going to go over well.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 12:19 (nine years ago) link
:(http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/greg-norman-badly-injured-after-chainsaw-accident-1.1928505
― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 September 2014 12:21 (nine years ago) link
interested eur sat stenson for the afternoon
that rose/kaymer v the amer rookies match shd be good
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 September 2014 12:54 (nine years ago) link
*interesting
dam fowler + jim walker are getting smoked
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 September 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
lol that this could def be 10-6
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 September 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
"really could not be a worse situation for america here" re: mahans tee shot ~o~
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 September 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
sic shot by spieth
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 September 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
furyk is the worst under pressure
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 September 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
if poss i would NOT play him in singles tmrow
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 September 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
think its time u guys let canada join ur team tbh
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Sunday, 28 September 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
lool henrikus is still deeply fucked here tho tbh
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 28 September 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
lol fuck mahan, euros are gonna be a half from ending dis
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 28 September 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Sunday, September 28, 2014 11:44 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Sunday, 28 September 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
we tried that once, in 1812
― Aimless, Sunday, 28 September 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Saw bits of this - was great, but the comptetition is lacking. Europe are now dominating (even UKIP wouldn't dare support the US).
They could look into an Americas vs Europe. Allow guys like Cabrera to get into the Ryder Cup.
More immediately I am looking forward to Mickelson's captaincy (he was clearly applying for it), that could bring a bit of life back.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 September 2014 09:45 (nine years ago) link
The Open is moving to Sky from 2017.
Only Wimbledon, World Cup and Euros as the summer sporting events I'd watch now left for the BBC.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
lol roryhttp://bleacherreport.com/articles/2387897-rory-mcilroy-slings-iron-into-water-hazard-at-wgc-cadillac-championship?
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 March 2015 01:16 (nine years ago) link
was about to post robert streb to abysmal real names, before realising he was intended as 'bert' and thus a palindrome
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
he has not opted for such glory, alas
has a golden palindromic opportunity alluded robert streb or is he merely adding another layer of mystery?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
thinking up a few different ways to construct that lame sentence was more entertaining than watching golf btw
although playing golf is a lot of fun! haven't done it in years though.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
in the event, you opted for 'alluded' rather than 'eluded' which adds a certain fitting wrongness to the great wrong that is the first two letters of robert streb's name
played par-3 pitch and putt against my gf recently, went 6 up after 2 of 9, ended up losing
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
dammit! event failure.
it's my great hope that at some point in the future i'll be a maniacal evil CEO with an 85th floor office overlooking a miserable industrial city filled with the screams of people suffering from acute acid rain. this room would be equipped with an enormous putting green. when someone visited (to beg for mercy i assume) i would completely ignore them for a minute while concentrating on the putt. as the ball rolled toward the hole, i pick up a glass of scotch and swallow with a satisfying huge gulp just as the ball drains into the hole. also in this world i am very muscular and have fantastic teeth
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
haha, maybe the ball then gets flung out over the city, to perhaps fall through the cranium of one of the deprived
brooks koepka is borderline abysmal real names, you get this a lot with golf
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
came up with some good cockney rhyming slang
'gonna go brush my jordans'
cameron tringale might be legit the worst name at the masters this year
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
that one is bad. i like "byron meth"
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
yes
there is a cricketer called 'keegan meth' but that might be even better
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
spieth is playing unbelievably
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 9 April 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
my jordans are chattering
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
ok, worst name: branden grace
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
monster from sergio there
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link