Golf - classic or dud

he was never gone!

maybe a little gone

DJ is my big irrational dislike so it has distressed me to learn he's doing well

DJ played in the saudi event this year so that's a reason.

brooks starts birdie, birdie and strolls about with the air of a man who is bulletproof.

kinda glad tiger isnt going to make the cut so we wont have to watch him play mid golf all weekend whilst the actual contenders get no camera time

damn fleetwood 3 boges on the back 9 i was pulling for him to put heat on brooks

this is domination

lowest 36 hole score in majors history

maybe i started that 'how many majors will spieth win' thread for....the wrong person

mind u, spieth is *second* in this. but also nowhere

he went deep into the funk and never really recovered

he's tied second in this tournament!!

i just mean generally. he's looking pretty good this weekend for sure! he just seemed so primed to make a run at quite a few majors a few years back. hard to sustain dominance

Yeah Spieth better watch it or he'll end up like Rory.

i always forget how irritating i find DJ's beard

Koepka choking!!??

4 bogeys on a row!

Lol, still leading by two with not many holes left

DJ screwed the pooch

DJ coulda won this if he just parted out 16-18.

Even as it stands with Brooks errant drive a double bogey is in play for the tie

Parred*

Really limped into this win

Catching up with the first round of the US Women's Open. Course seems p quirky especially the Greens, some ridiculously severe false fronts.

Also completely mind blown by the fact that the player in 2nd place after round one Esther Henseleit last official handicap before she turned pro was +7.1 !!!!! Imagine having to add 7 shots to your score after every round as an amateur!

Also lol at the rumoured USGAing of pebble Beach for the upcoming mens US Open. Apparently they have narrowed the fairways so much that on one of the holes a fairway bunker is now located 35 yards into the rough!

US Open at Pebble Beach is underway. Should be some good scoring in this one.

course is playing p soft today, greens holding, think it'll dry out by the weekend and be really tough.
mcginley with the great stat that rory has never won a tournament with a winning score of worse than -12. which suggests he can't win on really tough tracks. rahm and rickie going well greens look v smooth for pebble

Rickie leading. I wouldn't begrudge either he or tangent if he got a major but his hair really bothers me. I know it some charity mullet thing to do with his foundation but yeesh.

tiger straight up snap hooked that 8 iron. hit a cart path and ended up w double bogey.

This could get spicy

Woodland creature in the rough

The woodland choke may be on

Nice shot from the rough. Koepka slippin too

can't believe Rose is still in the mix

Weird week for rose but all he has to do is string together a couple holes and he could take this

Or not

Lol Rory. Iron off the opening tee out of bounds. 3 off the tee into the left rough, 4th shot pulled into into left rough, unplayable penalty drop. Now playing his sixth shot.

Good pitch. 7 feet left for an opening triple bogey.

Missed. Quad City.

I like Rory but it will never not be hilarious when the media decides to concentrate all its energies on one athlete or team only for them to fall flat on their faces at the first hurdle - sometimes literally.

Lol what a wasteman

Duval matched Rory's eight and followed it with a... THIRTEEN? Though I don't trust my score app as it told me Garcia had eagled for a share of the lead a while ago and that wasn't true.

Rory with the 4 putt at the 16th including 3 from less than 3 feet.
Course seems p volatile, birdies available but doubles and triples aplenty also.

Nice to see Lowry leading and Kiradech with a bogey free 68.
Koepka koepkaing his way round like it's a Monday evening knockabout with friends.
Not convinced Jordan can keep it out of the long stuff from the tee enough for the week but his putting and pitching game is back to his stellar best, going well at the moment.

Rory carves it at 18 and finishes with a triple. 79 . +8. Jesus.

One quad, one triple, one double. Bingo!

Duval shot 90 and Adam Scott 78 (didn't see that coming)

Kinda sad for Rory

lol Westwood at -1

spiethery going on right now. birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie

trying to ignore the fact that jb holmes is leading. couldn't abide either he or matt kuchar winning.

rahm greenside in 2 shots with a lie so good he could putt it, walks off with a 7. no wind good scores.

Westwood on -7 is it

he's going to do this to us again isn't he