Golf - classic or dud

yeah ridiculous really

I hope he wins--twice in a year would be cosmically cruel. I don't think it's quite the gimme Costas just described--a four-stroke swing on a single hole is not all that unusual--but he'd really have to be creative to lose this one. (Imagine how exciting the British Open would have potentially been if he'd hung on at the Masters...)

what's really encouraging (for him) and terrifying (for the others) is that his style doesn't really seem to include defence. like he just attacked the pins all day today and was completely in control. easier to make par when you're inside 8 feet over and over again. that birdie he got from the rough, was it on the 11th, that was incredible. plus the saved pars in the first few holes with the approach shot to about a foot and the bunker shot were both amazing too.

i'm going to the open on the saturday next month, so here's hoping he's still in this kind of form.

yeah he gave himself chance after chance for birdie today, and as you said his putting was a little off. it could have been a massacre by this stage

Over on the Tiger thread, I think I estimated his chance of catching Nicklaus (after this year's Masters, and that one ominous putt he missed) as down to something like 30 or 40%...somewhere in there. If McIlroy goes out and wins big tomorrow, I'd be inclined to cut that in half.

I predict a 70 and a 6-shot margin of victory.

here's the betting lines to win:

Rory McIlroy -2000
Field (Any Other Player) +850

pretty sure the mothers of the other players are rooting for mcilroy at this point

as long as he doesn't get a call from the mafia like he did last time

"Over on the Tiger thread, I think I estimated his chance of catching Nicklaus (after this year's Masters, and that one ominous putt he missed) as down to something like 30 or 40%...somewhere in there. If McIlroy goes out and wins big tomorrow, I'd be inclined to cut that in half."

Don't think its anything to do w/McIlroy tho'. He culd win many majors, not sure (and its not a criticism) he doesn't have the drive that Woods had (and probably still has, even if much of the body and mind are unwilling to accommodate).

All for another day - this is so great. Hope it all happens in a very boring way tonight.

Very quick explanation--I don't want to derail the thread into Tiger talk. If McIlroy wins today, especially if he does so convincingly, obviously that'll sweep away whatever mental garbage was lingering from the Masters (based on the past three days, apparently not much). And at that point, I could easily see him going out and winning four or five majors over the next five years. If that were to happen--a huge, speculative if, I know--then it's just math: five fewer chances for Tiger would cut his odds considerably.

good start

yeah, he looks solid

i shot a 93 yesterday (50-43), had a 5 putt on the front ;_:

hit the same pitch shot into the water four times yesterday, i was looking round for rene russo tbh

Not sure when a golf lead becomes 100% safe, but even with the pressures of an Open, he's getting close. (I look around for Rene Russo whether I'm golfing or not.)

he's gonna kill it based on his first three or four holes

westwood putting in a very good round so far too

yang is playing solid, just needs to make some putts

approaching nonsensical that he made that putt

i've probably played less than 20 rounds of golf in my life, and i still sorta think that knee-jerk "golf is a boring sport for rich ppl" criticisms are as or more irritating than the boring rich ppl that play golf

like i get that 'golf development' is a pernicious thing, but how is the actual game itself more inherently evil than like bocce ball or croquet

anyway i have been thinking about golf lately and kinda want to play a round, badly

yeah golf has a pretty deep working class tradition in the UK at least and is also rad so haters can take a 5 iron to the balls afaic

also in the interest of full disclosure, i am training as a physician, so at some point i will be legally obliged to purchase a set of golf clubs

yesterday was my first round of golf in three years and I realized how great it felt sitting at the 19th hole and drinking a beer. tho it gets expensive when you have other interests (fine wine and women in my case)

what are those white dots on the green, they're not ball markers?

yesterday was my first round of golf in three years and I realized how great it felt sitting at the 19th hole and drinking a beer.
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^otm. the post-golf pint has to be up there with the best pints

ok those "white dots" are just tiny grown in leaves

fuck's sake

...that'll do it

lol

Dont be a dick on a golfcourse

yah stensons a bitch

rory ur shit go home

more like bogleroy

more-y shotilroy

scraping his way to the luckiest of victories

why do sky keep introducing montages with a bit of commentary including the song title. it's fucking weird...

disgrace if he wins tbfh

i know

Every northie with a guitar getting a plug tonight

is mcilroy a man united fan, so many Norn Ironz are...I'm googling with hope.

hope that he isn't obv

he fucking is.

he'll hardly falter at this stage of the season then

oops think he just had an andrew cole

oh shit it begins. In the water at the 15th

is mcilroy fucking up lads im in mexico without a tv

GET OFF ILX

aw jaysus love to be watching this spectacular meltdown and all

ps im langers

holy shit an elephant just stood on his ball on the 12th green

hey michael

Rory is killing it, eight ahead thru 14.

i always thought the dude looked more like a surfer from point break rather than a golfer

ps gwan ya good thing

rory can't buy a putt now

looking like a regular us open the past 8 holes or so