Golf - classic or dud

lol watched north of 30 hours of it this week. spieth looking great again, rahm bad day with the putter. morikawa was sublime ,fantastic iron player.

the gap btwn his strokes gained approach and the number 2 is wider than btwn the number 2 and number 30.

been highlights on bbc every day btw

Don't like watching highlights of golf for some reason.

Highlights for most sport is kinda wack though I'll try and catch it. For me its a nice way to look back on an event you already watched.

Any particular reason you cant watch it

Are ye protesting by not pirating it or something lads

Can't be arsed with pirating. I'm old.

Greybeard

Also I'm staying at my sister's just now.

is it true that golf is on the radio in the uk

Yes! Since the Ryder Cup disappeared from free-to-air TV (late '90s?) it's been the only way to experience several editions live. Though I did watch the climax of 2002 in a pub.

not a huge golf fan but certain things that i've happened to watch are unforgettable

today i was reminded that jean van de velde's incredible collapse at carnoustie was 22 years ago ffs

God, yes, makes my toes curl just thinking about it.

Might have helped his grip tbh

jeongeun lee6 just played one of the greatest rounds i've ever seen. admittedly no wind but 61 at a major championship is remarkable. leads the evian by 7 shots with the morning wave finished round 2. conditions perfect so perhaps someone can eat into her lead.

scheffler is cooking wow

this LIV / PGA thing is getting interesting...

i don't see the upside to joining the saudi-backed league, but then, i'm not raking in the blood money

thats the only upside. and for guys that have fallen out of the top spot contention week to week they can rake it in pretty easily i would think.

when you've made $100m playing golf and can make another $100m by sportswashing murder

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Phil-Mickelson-LIV.jpg

they got bryson and reed now too...

talor gooch and if he's healthy bryson are the only players who looked likely to win on the PGA tour in the next 12 months who the liv have signed up. maybe Kevin Na or Hudson Swofford in a start of the wraparound season weaker field event. DJ has been crap for the last year with the exception of the Ryder Cup. the liv format looks boring and the fields weak. but hey the money is astronomical. all these turds would have merrily played in apartheid era south Africa for sure.

Did you see the clip of Lee Westwood being asked that exact question by a reporter today? Re South Africa

they got bryson and reed now too...

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seems like they’re cleaning up the most venal and detestable figures on tour, cool

but also figures that bring any semblance of tension to the tour..

not sure what the end game is here but it could lead to a strange place, could also improve the pga tour who knows

Having read very entertaining histories of the ABA and the WHA, I'm interested in where this goes.

i tuned into the back nine yesterday just in time to see Rory have one of the worst meltdowns you'll ever see:

Golf. Is. Hard.

Quadruple bogey for Rory McIlroy on 12. pic.twitter.com/n8cwaZXHh9

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 24, 2022

cam smith w 5 straight birdies, now 1-up on rory

Yup, Rory is also choking this.

Disgraceful that you can't relax on a Sunday and watch the last round of the Open anymore on your telly. What a world.

baby faced assassin

killa cam, what a round

unreal final rounds from both cams. that up and down on 17 was god tier. cam young could have legit finished birdie-birdie-eagle. hov was out of position all day and rory 2 putted every green

kinda feel rory is trying to lean into the tiger way of winning majors too much, conservative golf let the others make mistakes etc but the fields are deeper and noone is ever gonna have the same debilitating effect that tiger had on other players games. like today it looked like rory did too much missing in the right place vs attacking. then again a couple of putts drop and I'm probably praising him for his control so whatever.
enjoyed yesterday's play more until cam smith hit the back 9 Sunday.

kinda weird seeing so many guys go double-digits under par at a major

my favourite week of the year, alliss's voice in my head "down magnolia lane each april come the best in the game"

guess one of the 'big 3' scottie/rory/rahm are odds on to win this. sheffler is a low key killer scrambler and legit one of the best iron players from the rough i've ever seen. last year at the masters he one putted half the greens which is amazing. feels boring to predict that one of those 3 will win so i'll go for either finau or cam young.

would also like to see a resurgent jason day in the mix.

anyone except a LIV-er acceptable.

rahm 4 putted the first for double bogey and still shot 65. had it on a string.

amazing moment to cap it all for block

I've never seen that happen before!

finished inside the numbers to get an invite back next year

and at a quick calculation a purse worth about 2000 hours of his time as a club pro giving lessons

not bad

wtf

Disgraceful

yup

I really thought the PGA had more integrity than this

the greed of sports orgs shouldnt depress me anymore but this totally does. as someone who spends many hours a week watching golf this really really pisses me off. wouldnt ever watch liv wouldnt ever want to. throws players who supported the pga/dp world under the bus when some of them turned down 100s of millions of dollars and reintegrates a bunch of shitheads happy to take money from people who murder journalists. fuck off moynahan.

The show must go on (till the world burns)

so lame

Sub-NFL ethics

where does this leave mcilroy one wonders

NFL is bad but I’d say they’re more like FIFA