Wow Scheffler just chips in for birdie on the 3rd. Both he and Smith had just missed the green with their approaches and balls rolled back to within a foot from each other at the bottom of the hill. Scheffler bang in the hole. Smith likely to bogey so two shot swing
Rory in the clubhouse at -7 (3 back) after a sizzling 65 today, Scheffler has a decent chance at birdie on 13.
Wow Scheffler just chips in for birdie on the 3rd. Both he and Smith had just missed the green with their approaches and balls rolled back to within a foot from each other at the bottom of the hill. Scheffler bang in the hole. Smith likely to bogey so two shot swing
That was the tournament right there. Scheffler was wobbling big time, and had his lead cut to one at that point he could have self combusted.
Instead he plays an amazing chip and Smith bogeys. It settles Scheffler and Smith never really recovers.
@barbarian said in Golf:
Wow Scheffler just chips in for birdie on the 3rd. Both he and Smith had just missed the green with their approaches and balls rolled back to within a foot from each other at the bottom of the hill. Scheffler bang in the hole. Smith likely to bogey so two shot swing
That was the tournament right there. Scheffler was wobbling big time, and had his lead cut to one at that point he could have self combusted.
Instead he plays an amazing chip and Smith bogeys. It settles Scheffler and Smith never really recovers.
Yep 100% - C Smith was coming in hot and bang.....all changed from there.
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@taniwharugby said in Golf:
Looking forward to this...
Greg watching his own capitulation!
I recorded it yesterday. Will be hard to watch that back 9 again
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could go in the Awesome stuff thread too...
Not sure why that Youtube clip keeps embedding itself....
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Greg Norman coming in for a bit of flack
Apparently that is not a proper tee box...
"It's not a hole-in-one, because it wasn't really a par 3," Brady said. "We were in the middle of the fairway on a par 4, and I would have had to play the whole round for it to be a real hole-in-one. It was a once-in-a-lifetime shot, that's for sure, but it wasn't a hole-in-one unfortunately. I can't claim that."
Poor old Foxy this morning in the Dutch Open. Was playing brilliantly then double bogey on the last and in to a playoff which he lost on the 4th playoff hole (after some great golf).
And now Steve Alker wins again on the Senior PGA, one of the senior majors too with a final round 63!
Poor old Foxy this morning in the Dutch Open. Was playing brilliantly then double bogey on the last and in to a playoff which he lost on the 4th playoff hole (after some great golf).
And now Steve Alker wins again on the Senior PGA, one of the senior majors too with a final round 63!
Can anyone do an analysis of money earned pre and post Senior tour for Alker?
Poor old Foxy this morning in the Dutch Open. Was playing brilliantly then double bogey on the last and in to a playoff which he lost on the 4th playoff hole (after some great golf).
And now Steve Alker wins again on the Senior PGA, one of the senior majors too with a final round 63!
Can anyone do an analysis of money earned pre and post Senior tour for Alker?
Im sure it will be covered in one of the media articles about to come out. It'll be one hell of a contrast thats for sure
Forgot to mention, Michael Campbell also played in the Senior PGA event and finished +4 in T55.
@JK and the huge putt Periera sunk to force the play off.
Do wonder if Fox could do with improving his fitness, he seems to fade late in his rounds and in the weekend....maybe just a coincidence.
Alker is killing it.
this shows his seasonal earnings, late 2021 onwards is a different player.
Think hes running a 1.9m US for this year and 0.8m US last year vs around 2m US for pre 2019
how good? pick up $175M just to play.
DJ set his grandkids up for life with that money. Travel? Compete? fuck that, i made mine.
Just seen the prize money for the 1st event - over $100K dollars for the person who finishes last. You had to finish top 30 in the Masters to earn that much. Can see why some of the old timers are jumping into it to feather their nests until they can milk the Champions tour
Just seen the prize money for the 1st event - over $100K dollars for the person who finishes last. You had to finish top 30 in the Masters to earn that much. Can see why some of the old timers are jumping into it to feather their nests until they can milk the Champions tour
Dustin Johnson isn't old. Just going for the money
This is the most interesting sports story at the moment by miles. So many interesting threads to it all.
The core truth is the PGA Tour is broken and it's hurting golf. It's a 52 week schedule with only 8 or so tournaments that actually mean anything. But the other 44 have served to slowly suck the oxygen out of the rest of world golf.
The Australian Open is a case in point. It used to attract a great field, good (not great) prize money, played on some beautiful courses. But now it can't compete with the Bumfuck Open, because it offers more money but also it's critical for mid-tier pros to play as often as they can on the PGA Tour.
But it's more than just the impact on the international game. The PGA fields are bloated. The courses are dull. The formats are tired. It's the same shit each week. The PGA Tour is dying for a shake-up.
So in one sense, LIV Golf may well spark the PGA Tour into action because it is a major threat to it's future.
The amount of cash being thrown at has-been or never-was players is staggering and they are just getting started. Reed and Dechambeau are gone. Rickie Fowler gone. Harold Varner, Jason Kokrak, Abe Ancer, some South Americans, maybe Adam Scott will go soon too.
But the format of LIV is ridiculous. Team golf is amazing when the teams actually have a history and a reason for being. I care about Europe vs America, not FC Smash against the Lip-Out Lads. Not to mention the shotgun starts and all the other garbage. And of course the Saudi blood money that underpins it all.
I don't like LIV, I won't watch it, but I do hope it might spark some good outcomes overall.
@antipodean said in Golf:
Just going for the money
Professional sportsmen. I don't begrudge them that as much as I thought I might. It's really up to the administration of these sports to ensure they maintain their relevance.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not judging. And regarding Barbarian's post, I think he has articulated many of the players' concerns about the PGA in a way Phil wished he had
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@1kiwi amusingly...
"I get to have a life outside of the game of golf as well. [It's] a business decision for my family's future."
Bryson has no wife or children...I suspect the LIV folk gave them some standard responses...unless he failed to add, when I have one in the future
Who cares, fuck, let the fluffybunnies play golf.
@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@1kiwi amusingly...
"I get to have a life outside of the game of golf as well. [It's] a business decision for my family's future."
Bryson has no wife or children...I suspect the LIV folk gave them some standard responses...unless he failed to add, when I have one in the future
Who cares, fuck, let the fluffybunnies play golf.
He doesn't strike me as the sharpest tool in the shed
