Golf - classic or dud

Playing golf is something I won't do till I'm a good bit older but it is the best activity for people as they get older. Very social, not too strenuous, lots of dinners/drinking sessions. I love golf on BBC, Alex Hay is such a polite and good humoured man. There's no sport left on TV with as little glitz as Golf right down to the commentators.

Ah golf.....I even love the rippling applause and the noise when they hit the ball

Rant over.

am sad i am missing the open (already missed wimbledon and the eng sri lanka test series) but the good thing abt missing the open is not hearing Peter allis' 'commentary'. It's just torture really.

They then started creating artificial coastal scrubland all over the world.

apparently American golf courses are more "artificial" than Irish & Scottish ones, and there is some pressure on courses over here to become less natural so as to appeal to yankee dollar.

but whatever, it's all golf = all boring middle class men off playing their boring game and cosying up to the boss over a few gin and tonics and then drink driving home.

The fact that there is no player interaction only increases the enjoyment of the game for me. Sublime and no jock0's around to spoil your day.

golfing with the boss=dud, which is why almost nobody does it.

My husband streaking across golf courses at sunrise in the early 70's=classic.

Miniture Golf- A good time for druken teenagers on a Saturday Night. Watch where your standing at the ramp over water hole, I was hit with a flying ball and got a bruised collar bone. It was funny till the booze wore off...

Classic Allis - Hay exchange from yesterday;

Allis (lamenting Seve's withdrawal due to being rubbish now): 'I'm afraid there aren't too many things you get better at as you get older'.

Hay: 'Sweeping?'.

today they showed a bunch of CLIPS together [highlights, perhaps] with some krazy 'dance' music over the top.

one commentator: is that the sort of music you like to dance to?

another commentator: no, actually. I'm more of a gavotte-merchant.

I have an inkling that the another one was allis. if so: AllyC is OTM.

and the end of the open yesterday was rather thrilling

Allis: A mention to Mrs [x] who's just about recovered now from the shock of the burglary. I hope they catch the culprits soon.
Hay: Terrible. [Proceeds to say something about appropriate capital punishment to apply when they are caught]
Allis: Ooh no, surely a bit of flogging first. So the punishment lasts longer.
Hay: Oh yes, of course.

i hit golf balls this week. i have more natural ability at it than most other things that involve hitting balls. fun. and v. satisfying when you actually get it up in the air and far away. though i usually don't get quite as much distance as others. dunno if that's a strength thing or a technique thing (or the stella i had?). not too much exercise if you're just driving, though.

(we never heard of Africa in America, btw. TS: chatty, bubbleheaded non-news v. snide content.)

I've started playing again recently too and my handicaps gone down from a 14 to about an 11/10 - played ardeer and carded an 84 (an unecessary 7 [!!!], and three unecessary 6s) but shoulda been a 79. that is playing to handicap I guess (it was 14) but I reckon markers would have given me the 7 and 6s as 5s (taking into account the rest of my card.)

I love golf.

soft hands!

do you like it? do you play? are you watching wentworth? will you play golf with me?

get the wind up ffs

under par rounds? grow up

An amateur is in the lead!

Gunther Lamprecht leading the Open, well I never.

6’8”. disgusting freak can’t countenance such grotesquerie at the open sorry

american in the lead. vile stuff

and he eagles the last. I’m scromiting

spieth looking horny today

Not sure whether Harman will see it through if he has to face gusty conditions.

Though plenty of faceless yanks have helped themselves to an Open title.

In one of the more bizarre major press conference departures of recent times, the 36-year-old explained his penchant for killing animals. He missed the cut at the Masters and immediately slaughtered a pig and a turkey. “I’ve been a hunter my entire life,” he boasted. “I enjoy the strategy of it. We eat a lot of wild meat at my house so I enjoy butchering and I do a lot of hunting.” Champions traditionally drink from the Claret Jug. One is left to ponder what on earth Harman may do with the famous trophy

hang onto your hats time. harman leaking

rory leaving shots all over the place out there

harman has stabilised. playing some nice golf now

GGs

MEGACORP

which sounds like a made up for comics evil corporation to me.

seriously impressive from peewee harmon this weekend. rough starts both days recovered comfortably both days. tommy lad 2 birdies on the weekend not gonna cut it. straka's iron play was sweet.

christ mcilroy

christ mcilroy

i want to say that i don't care about the ryder cup

but more importantly i want the americans to lose

You are getting your wish

5UP McIlroy/Fitzpatrick v Morikawa/Schauffele (6)

Rahm was an animal out there.

he rode his luck but you can do that

5UP Hovland/Aberg v Scheffler/Koepka (6)

go home yankee scum

koepka humiliated 9&7

10&8 is mathematically the biggest thrashing possible isn't it. Almost, Brooks!

mcilroy match nicely poised

some outrageous putting out there

Understand from several sources that the US team room is fractured, a split led predominantly by Patrick Cantlay.
Cantlay believes players should be paid to participate in the Ryder Cup, and is demonstrating his frustration at not being paid by refusing to wear a team cap.

— Jamie Weir (@jamiecweir) September 30, 2023

lmao should put the wee fuc on the next flight home

rahm is a monster

Actively recoiled from the vibes seeping through from this photo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7Q1K5KXYAAXr4V?format=jpg&name=large

He wore a cap at last year's Presidents Cup, for which players ARE paid.
Cantlay also refused to attend the gala dinner earlier in the week and, along with close friend Xander Schauffele, is sitting is a separate area of the team dressing room.

— Jamie Weir (@jamiecweir) September 30, 2023

he's taking a brave stand against this woke golf bullshit

9&7

Cantlay played out of his skin to get the US winning that last session: 3-1.

Five behind

is shane a biffo

Shane Lowry has been outside enough Offaly nightclubs at 2 in the morning to know how to get a lad in a taxi and defuse a situation efficiently. This is experience https://t.co/871O2KS9bJ

— Minister for Spuds at the Dept of Bacon & Cabbage (@FCTwenteBenson) September 30, 2023

Yes

100% yes

Sigh this is too close..

Surely not. Half a fucking point

Straka v Thomas 1UP (17)
Lowry A/S Spieth (16)
1UP Fleetwood v Fowler (15)
MacIntyre A/S Clark (14)

pulling away from the golf to make luke donald forceblub for the cameras was where i switched off. absolutely rank coverage

mmm that's a shame

take that ya wee hat xunt

kind of agree with cantlay, but also he's made $10m this year so fuck off

maybe he should have just turned down the invitation rather than show up and be pissy

As a former Ryder Cup marshal, I endorse this message from Shane Lowry.. 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/0XHHCu2RCR

— lawrencedonegan (@lawrencedonegan) October 1, 2023

One more reason why we love Jon Rahm!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Rahm explained why LIV Golf will never be for him. #jonrahm #jonrahmpga #jonrahmlivgolf pic.twitter.com/LG3NV7JCqT

— Mr Topes Golf (@MrTopesGolf) June 15, 2022

I was with a grade 2 class in Listowel, Ontario, today, and one of the boys was Corey Conners' nephew (brother of his mom). "He's rich, you know"--he laughed. (Also said his uncle had won a million dollars when he won the Masters; I said I didn't think so but let it go--I don't doubt that he won a million somewhere.)

ok so do they pump fake bird noises into these broadcasts or are they like mic'ing up the birds in the trees