I see the NZ Open has been cancelled for 2021. That sucks! We sponsor it and it is a good jolly down there!
Not as surprise considering they cancelled the tennis tourneys
and all the Aussie pro golf tournies
Covid19 is the gift that continues to give right on into 2020!!
and 2021 is appears
Oops, that what I meant
3 months later
I've just read a quick article on the rise and fall of Jordan Spieth. I feel like golf is full of these. A guy emerges who looks like the new the guy, and then they slide away. Spieth almost won back to back masters. Won a US open. Won the British Open. And that win was his last tournament win. 2017. He's now 92nd in the world. Dropped off the face of a cliff.
How many other guys have done the same? David Duval is the first one that always springs to mind. Was the main challenger to peak Tiger, won a British Open. And then disappeared. They were 1 and 2 for like a year and a half. Tiger is still #44. Duval is #1847
Even a guy like McIlroy was the anointed one (remember when he moved to Nike and shit?) he's still #6 in the world, but hasn't won a Major since 2015.
Stories like this are why i find Tiger Woods even more remarkable. Think how many next big things have come and gone in the period between his first Major in 97, and his last in frikken 2019!
@mariner4life although I never saw Duvall as a genuine threat, but agree with everything else you said.
DJ is probably one who has maintained his level for a decent period.
Assume you seen this?
@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@mariner4life although I never saw Duvall as a genuine threat, but agree with everything else you said.
DJ is probably one who has maintained his level for a decent period.
Assume you seen this?
That looks a bit suss to me. MJ has super steady earnings despite a 30m salary hit in 1994/5? Tiger looks like he made $70-100m for 20yrs but is somehow only estimated to be worth $800m ? Likewise Floyd, looks like he should be worth 1bn+ on that graphic?
@mariner4life said in Golf:
Tiger looks like he made $70-100m for 20yrs but is somehow only estimated to be worth $800m
when you have to give away half your shit...
Good point
@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@voodoo its on the internet, if you can't trust that shit, what can you trust?
Ali popping up at about 5th in 2007 was interesting. He was about 65 and already chronically ill. Anyone know who paid him so much as an athlete about then?
Is there another Ali that I don't know about?
@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@voodoo its on the internet, if you can't trust that shit, what can you trust?
Ali popping up at about 5th in 2007 was interesting. He was about 65 and already chronically ill. Anyone know who paid him so much as an athlete about then?
Is there another Ali that I don't know about?
Movie rights?
@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@voodoo its on the internet, if you can't trust that shit, what can you trust?
Ali popping up at about 5th in 2007 was interesting. He was about 65 and already chronically ill. Anyone know who paid him so much as an athlete about then?
Is there another Ali that I don't know about?
Movie rights?
Good idea, but none of the Ali movies were at that time. "Ali" itself was 2001 with Will Smith., then nothing until 2009 and after.
@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@voodoo its on the internet, if you can't trust that shit, what can you trust?
Ali popping up at about 5th in 2007 was interesting. He was about 65 and already chronically ill. Anyone know who paid him so much as an athlete about then?
Is there another Ali that I don't know about?
Google says he sold most of his image rights in 2006
The retired heavyweight fighter originally known as Cassius Clay will receive $50m (£28m) from the New York firm CKX, in return for an 80% stake in his licensing company, Goat - an acronym derived from his self-chosen soubriquet, the Greatest Of All Time. He and his fourth wife, Lonnie Ali, will retain control of the remaining 20%.
@mariner4life said in Golf:
I've just read a quick article on the rise and fall of Jordan Spieth. I feel like golf is full of these. A guy emerges who looks like the new the guy, and then they slide away. Spieth almost won back to back masters. Won a US open. Won the British Open. And that win was his last tournament win. 2017. He's now 92nd in the world. Dropped off the face of a cliff.
Looks like Jordan read that same article and it's got him mighty angry!!
Fuck you, Cliff!
@mariner4life I see David Duval in the field getting cut with a +7, but still better than John Daly (and Mickelson).
Two stroke lead for Spieth with a round to play.
@delicatessen Just turned it on to catch Spieth playing the 18th.
I'm a consistent slicer, but a hook into that sea would pretty much be compulsive!!! 
Jordan ends up 3rd equal, which isn't quite the next big thing, but not a car crash.
8 days later
Tiger Woods in surgery after car crash, say LA County Sheriff's Department
Tiger Woods is in surgery after suffering "multiple leg injuries" in a car crash in Los Angeles, California.
The LA County Sheriff's Department said that it "responded to a single-vehicle rollover" accident in which the "vehicle sustained major damage".
American Woods, 45, had to be "extricated from the wreck" by firefighters and paramedics.
Woods' agent Mark Steinberg said: "He is currently in surgery and we thank you for your privacy and support."
10 days later
Patrick Reed courting controversy again...
@kiwipie it did, the last one that people went off on, I wasnt bothered by it.
And in other news (I suspect this is mostly American fans, there are some right nutters on the PGA pages hate for de Chambeau, hate for Koepka, for Reed, for the PGA after they pulled an event from Trumps course)
@mariner4life Did you see Dustin Johnson's shot to the 17th that hit the flag and shot sideways into the water - hilarious but must make a player feel like smashing his clubs.
Westwood is really taking the job seriously of taking the "best player never to win a" title from Montgomery - at aged 47. Yet another runner up and another tournamant where just posting a 70 (which would have been his worst round of the week) would have won him the title.
12 days later
1 month later
I may have missed it but I can't see any mention from you golf tragics of Mickelson becoming the oldest ever major winner - one months shy of his 51st birthday?
I may have missed it but I can't see any mention from you golf tragics of Mickelson becoming the oldest ever major winner - one months shy of his 51st birthday?
Pretty crazy and from 115th in the world rankings so not fancied in any way - his 6th major and almost 8 years since the last one (and over 17 years since his 1st).
I may have missed it but I can't see any mention from you golf tragics of Mickelson becoming the oldest ever major winner - one months shy of his 51st birthday?
Pretty crazy and from 115th in the world rankings so not fancied in any way - his 6th major and almost 8 years since the last one (and over 17 years since his 1st).
Shades of Jack winning the Masters
@taniwharugby said in Golf:
never been a fan of Phil, but anytime dudes older than me win stuff, its great!!
Indeed, I'm quitting my job and going pro now!
It was an odd final round, neither Brooks nor Louis really fired a shot, and Mickelson could afford to play within himself down the stretch.
As such there wasn't really a 'moment'. It was just solid play from Phil while his challengers kept making mistakes.
FFS he’s hardly geriatric at 50.
Barely any physical disadvantage and experience wise he wins.
The only non injury reason other older guys stop winning is because they get comfortable, rich and lazy
@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@kiwipie it did, the last one that people went off on, I wasnt bothered by it.
And in other news (I suspect this is mostly American fans, there are some right nutters on the PGA pages hate for de Chambeau, hate for Koepka, for Reed, for the PGA after they pulled an event from Trumps course)
Is he allowed to move dead foliage, or is courting trouble by fiddling so close to the ball?
FFS he’s hardly geriatric at 50.
Barely any physical disadvantage and experience wise he wins.
The only non injury reason other older guys stop winning is because they get comfortable, rich and lazy
Yeah, it was telling when Phil had the longest drive of the day. Does age mean anything in golf?
@barbarian said in Golf:
It was an odd final round, neither Brooks nor Louis really fired a shot, and Mickelson could afford to play within himself down the stretch.
As such there wasn't really a 'moment'. It was just solid play from Phil while his challengers kept making mistakes.
Yeah, it was rather odd. Koepka made so many mistakes, it's amazing he ended up even close.
@majorrage said in Golf:
Does age mean anything in golf?
Not as much as other sports. Phil might be a little slimmer these days, but he hardly looks like he works out. He is fit and well, unlike Tiger with his bad back (pre-accident Tiger I mean). A lot of it is mental, he seems to really enjoy competing