Golf - classic or dud

...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

I think R.Mc has one big advantage over Tiger -- Earl Woods didn't put a golf club in his hands when he was a baby. He's got the game and talent of Tiger without having the category-5 mental stress hurricane "I Am Tiger Woods" going on in his head 24/7.

Yeah, and I hate to say it but at the moment I feel like it's more likely than not that Tiger is done.

Live fast, die young, leave a nice well-defined divot.

lol

the only thing i'd worry about with rory is that his eerie resemblance to van morrison becomes a weight he can't deal with as he grows older

can't tell you guys how awesome it would be if McIlroy and Tiger both had a 2-3 stroke lead on the rest of the field on Day 4 of some major

can't see how this victory has proven rory's fit to take on tiger 1-on-1 in those circumstances- nobody was near him for the past three days tbf

well if not Rory then Jason Day or someone like that - basically we're seeing an influx of awesome young golfers that I haven't really seen before in my life, the type of golfer that everyone was hoping would come up to challenge him over the past decade and a half. We all know about Tiger's insane dedication and work ethic so I'm wondering if this inspires him to train harder than he ever has. Obviously one major is not an indication of a great career but after watching McIlroy for the past year this seems like it could be the beginning of a ridiculous career, especially since he's probably not as good now as he's going to get.

well yeah i do think mcilroy is exceptional, aside from the point i was making, but in the next four years there'll be at least one more along, and in the four years after that there'll be another.

we're just seeing the results of the tiger boom in golf from 2000 or so onwards

so where does that leave Tiger?

i guess this is the question that everyone has - seeing a McIlroy/Day/Sergio rivalry is going to be nice, but if Tiger becomes a legit threat it'll make every major a must-see event

tiger's a phenomenon but tbh with the coming through of an influx of tiger-inspired kids, allied to his public breakdowns, tbh i'd like to see odds on garcia collecting more majors from now til they both retire

I think R.Mc has one big advantage over Tiger -- Earl Woods didn't put a golf club in his hands when he was a baby. He's got the game and talent of Tiger without having the category-5 mental stress hurricane "I Am Tiger Woods" going on in his head 24/7.

― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Monday, June 20, 2011 1:05 PM (3 hours ago)

i disagree with this - tiger was a machine and never really had any stress/nervousness/anything bascially ever in his career until this recent weird situation