haha
― Spottie, Monday, 10 August 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
ahaahaha
ahahahHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
downs pint orders another
AHAHAHAHAHA WERE A NATION OF FAT WRECKED DRUNKS AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
cries
― irl lol (darraghmac), Monday, 10 August 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
only messin obv sure we love the craic
love lowry fuckin delighted. he's been pushing and knocking about for a while but didn't think he'd hit a big one so soon.
― irl lol (darraghmac), Monday, 10 August 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
sounds like someone needs a pint xpost
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 August 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
lazy xpost, lazy
on the whiskey tonight anyway the bbc4 show on sellafield has me bad shook
― irl lol (darraghmac), Monday, 10 August 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
i don't drink mon-weds myself
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 August 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
dud
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Monday, 10 August 2015 22:24 (eight years ago) link
ah i just drink too much the rest of the time, plus health
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 August 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
i'm no shane lowry
oh I'm not drinking its just the one yknow yrself
― irl lol (darraghmac), Monday, 10 August 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
@JustinRayGC 2m2 minutes agoBest single-season score to par in majors, last 30 years
2000 Tiger -532015 Spieth -502014 Fowler -322006 Tiger -28
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 15 August 2015 23:54 (eight years ago) link
so many great shots today. phil was a blast to watch, spieth on the back nine. finau nailing every put. jones hitting the ball out of a spectator tent. tomorrow should be awesome.
― Spottie, Sunday, 16 August 2015 04:36 (eight years ago) link
Day wins but Spieth's year - rightly at no 1
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 August 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
Dustin had such a bizarre round.
― Spottie, Monday, 17 August 2015 06:27 (eight years ago) link
how many majors will jason day win?
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 10:28 (eight years ago) link
watched a few holes last night, including jason day hitting maybe the worst shot he's ever hit as a pro (100-yard chip onto the green off the fairway, hit the ground about 3 inches before the ball, sent it 50 yards forward), but he seemed to be playing brilliantly aside from that - he's looked very accomplished every time I've seen him and there was no horror run of bad luck (or vertigo attack) to derail his challenge this time. very pleased for the lad
spieth's consistency is wondrous
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 10:34 (eight years ago) link
the standard in this post-tiger era is crazy - there are guys queuing up...
xpost was really nice to see day's reaction and his wife and kid seemed very normal.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 17 August 2015 10:35 (eight years ago) link
ya reckon lowry will join the post-tigelson frontrunner pantheon (projected: top three at this tournament + mcilroy + maaaaybe reed if we need a bad guy + maaaaaaybe a reprogrammed choke-free dustin johnson)?
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 10:40 (eight years ago) link
nah i'd say lowry has a major in him but i dunno if he's at that level. i also actually think for all the lol he he loves a pint stuff if he's that weight he's at a disadvantage to the others - they're all pretty physically fit now, i don't think you can be a serious contender if you're not.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 17 August 2015 10:43 (eight years ago) link
ah fair enough. you never know, he could win a few. has the look of someone with the ruthlessness to do so, unlike say justin rose, who will probably never win a major despite playing truly exceptional golf in the majority of tournaments he enters. certainly inherited the mantle that was once mickelson's and then garcia's
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 10:48 (eight years ago) link
unlike rory mcilroy! rory's dgaf attitude is kinda sad i think. i mean i guess he enjoys himself and he'll win a couple of majors, but he really isn't that arsed.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 17 August 2015 10:52 (eight years ago) link
oh but rose does gaf! just doesn't quite have the strength of mind. mcilroy sort of does have it, despite his seeming diffidence.
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 10:59 (eight years ago) link
for that reason, if justin rose ever does rouse himself to win a major it'd take a particularly heartless idiot or remarkable circumstances elsewhere to not vote for him in that year's spoty
which makes me wonder if lowry is on for ireland's equivalent award this year
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 11:03 (eight years ago) link
i'm reading shane ryan's slaying the tiger, which is absolutely worth a weekend if you follow golf, and his profile of day had me really pulling for the guy.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 17 August 2015 11:07 (eight years ago) link
Reckon McIlroy will break Faldo's record for most majors by an European golfer. Inconsistent but he'll find the form at enough weekends to do so and has enough years in him.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 August 2015 11:09 (eight years ago) link
yeah i'd agree with that.
xpost must try that book. was weird seeing rich beam working as a pundit last night, my dad had a book about him when i was on holidays with parents a few years back, very funny stuff.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 17 August 2015 11:11 (eight years ago) link
rose won the us open two yrs ago btw
― johnny crunch, Monday, 17 August 2015 11:13 (eight years ago) link
johnny why man..
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 August 2015 11:17 (eight years ago) link
mcilroy will definitely win a few more majors but i bet spieth wins more. and i dunno if that's purely talent, it's hard to say with golf where talent ends and hard work begins. but like most things the latter will probably get you further.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 17 August 2015 11:18 (eight years ago) link
o whoops, 2013 was a bad year ok lol
justin rose for presidetn, sergio still has his crown
concentration and drive fall under both talent and hard work imo - spieth has all in multitudes
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
the classic irish example would be clarke and harrington. clarke was definitely more gifted, harrington worked his ass off to win those three majors.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 17 August 2015 11:30 (eight years ago) link
tho the new svelte scandinavian ski instructor clarke is amusing
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 17 August 2015 11:31 (eight years ago) link
As a resident of Sheboygan it has been real amusing seeing random golfers all over town. Best of all was seeing Dustin Johnson buying like $50 worth of Chex Mix and Gardettos at the Kohler market, while his bikini model wife waited in the car looking really bored. WTF is one man gonna do with all that Chex Mix??
― frogbs, Monday, 17 August 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
not take cocaine
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Monday, 17 August 2015 12:37 (eight years ago) link
i am a big fan of chex mix and even i cannot approve of that much chex mix
― call all destroyer, Monday, 17 August 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
What is Chex Mix? Congrats to Jason Day, deserves it.
― Stupidityness (Tom D.), Monday, 17 August 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
it is a crunchy snack mix with little corn and rice cereal pieces, pretzels, and some other stuff. it comes in several flavors, though classic, which is sort of a soy-umami bomb, is the best.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 17 August 2015 13:23 (eight years ago) link
what chex mix should i make
― johnny crunch, Monday, 17 August 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link
jason day is on fiiiiiiiiiire
― Spottie, Monday, 31 August 2015 03:31 (eight years ago) link
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― Spottie, Saturday, 19 September 2015 06:21 (eight years ago) link
61-63? That's incredible, even if the leaderboard's filled with low scores.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 September 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
for real
― Spottie, Saturday, 19 September 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
think that matched the 36 hold record
eagled the 18th with this monster putt to do ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW3yoqUBKz4
― Spottie, Saturday, 19 September 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
spieth cleaned house w that win. 10 mill and probs player of the year and #1 ranking back. pretty great season, excited for next year.
― Spottie, Monday, 28 September 2015 04:08 (eight years ago) link
Was watching a bit of the broadcast today (hardly ever do anymore), and they were saying some player was learning to bounce back from his bad shots. Which made me think that you could track that--what do different players score on holes following bogeys/doubles/etc.?
Have golf analytics taken hold like in baseball (majorly) or hockey/basketball (seem to be just taking off--football I don't know about)? There would seem to be room for such a thing, although I'm not sure how useful they'd be. Maybe the standard stuff--driving distance/accuracy, putts-per-round, etc.--correlates well enough to the best players.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 March 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
Who is everyone picking for the Masters?
― Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
so stoked for the masters. i think jason day is clearly the best player ie he's excellent at all facets of the game, although most pundits seem to think rory is the guy. winning 3 tournaments in a row seems like a lot however so i'll take mcilroy or koepka.
so many players have credentials and are in form though, scott, bubba, phil (kinda)
btw lydia ko was awesome when she won her 2nd major last week, all those clutch par putts on the back nine culminating at the 18th where she laid up to the par 5 at about 90 yards:
caddy: you want to put this about half a yard to the left of the flaglydia: okay
she puts it about 2 feet above and to the left of the hole, taps in for birdie and the win. ice cold.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link
think dechambeau is playing with spieth, find him v interesting what with having all his irons the same length and lie. i wonder if the other players ask to have a go with his clubs on the range?
― pandemic, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
I'm no aficionado, so I'll be stubbornly backing Rickie Fowler like I do every tournament, though I can definitely see Scott or Day taking this. Or McIlroy of course.
I have a feeling about Danny Willett too. He's on great form and seems to be on the rise in general, perhaps buoyed by being a new father. Also can't shake floating inklings for Oosthuizen and Matsuyama.
Starting in an hour and ten!
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 7 April 2016 11:09 (eight years ago) link
looking forward to this - got a new tv since last time a major was on.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 7 April 2016 11:43 (eight years ago) link