Golf - classic or dud

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.
― brownie, Sunday, June 19, 2011 8:49 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^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

montgomery is so weird

i always thought the dude looked more like a surfer

1. ok, i walked down to the sushi place to watch the back nine- hostess said the exact same thing

2. server comes into the same restaurant, where she works, with a brand new driver. explains to me that it's a birthday present from her father who won the BC Open in 1983.

it's raining golf, also water

BC Open winer is this dude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Lindsey_(golfer)

w/e broken link

congrats to Rory

can we talk about shane mcmahon trailing rory's dad????

how many strokes behind?

BC open used to be held in my home town until a few years ago

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.

he's been a factor in his last four tournaments and absolutely crushed this one. the runner-up, Jason Day, at -8 had a good enough score to win the tournament like 80% of the time and Rory beat that by EIGHT strokes, shattering pretty much every U.S. Open record in the process - and he's only 22, meaning his peak years could be ahead of him. if Tiger really hasn't changed you know he's going to train like mad to beat this kid, sadly I think the unsaid thing in the broadcast is that Tiger will probably never again be favored to win any tournament unless he wins one, like, this year.

I'm old enough to remember those Nicklaus-Watson showdowns in the late '70s--wouldn't it be amazing to have Tiger and McIlroy go at it one Sunday in a major? All during Tiger's era of dominance, no one ever really stepped up to take him on; it was amazing how people fell apart all around him during majors. That's not meant to take anything away from him--obviously, his brilliance is what drove the head game. You get the feeling that McIlroy's more ready than anyone ever has been, especially in view of the fact that he's already had his "character-building" meltdown. Short term at least, this may be good for Tiger--it may spur him on. (Or maybe he's gone for good, or maybe McIlroy's just a blip; I have no idea, but I'm hoping for that showdown.)

if sergio starts putting again there'll be three of them tbh

^ No way.

McIlroy is not a blip (xp)

I'm inclined to agree, but I can think of two or three others who made almost as big a splash and then faded.

I'm inclined to think McIlroy will never do this again. As in, he may win many many majors, but not like this. Just an awesome, but one-off, career performance.

The most impressive things is to have come back from the humiliation at the Masters. Don't think I've ever quite seen it like this in any sport - it usually would take a year, maybe more, to re-group.

I checked Tiger's majors, and three times he blew away the field; three of his first four were by margins of 12, 15, and 8 strokes. Of the next 11, two were by five strokes, six were by 1-3 strokes, and three were playoffs.

yup, and McIlroy is not Tiger Woods.

yeah this is ridiculous, I don't want this to be like the LeBron/Michael Jordan thing where everyone has to collectively say "let's stop comparing kids under 24 to Tiger Woods". but I would definitely bet big on McIlroy winning at least 4 more this decade. this is a once in a lifetime performance but I don't even think McIlroy's peaked yet. in addition, Day is looking pretty sharp too and is only 23. Tiger's got his work cut out for him if he's gonna beat Nicklaus