Golf - 2022

[sir roger]

There's another cunt called Cameron ? 

[Captain Turdseye]

26 minutes ago, sir roger said:

There's another cunt called Cameron ? 

Cam Smith is the biggest name in the tournament in Hawaii this weekend. Massive favourite. Something like 9/1 when I looked earlier. 

 

Looks like all the other big names have gone home. 
 

I think Paddy is paying 8 places…

[Captain Turdseye]

Turdseye = -£15

 

 

[sir roger]

Kevin Na £2.75 win @ 25/1

Branden Grace £1.50 e/w @ 90/1

[Captain Turdseye]

15 hours ago, sir roger said:

Kevin Na £2.75 win @ 25/1

Branden Grace £1.50 e/w @ 90/1

You doing odd money like 75p just to make the maths difficult?

[Gooch]

22 hours ago, Captain Turdseye said:

 

Seeing what these types of shows has done to F1 doesn't feel me with confidence with where this is going. More manufactured WWE lite ''drama" to feel the need to be 'entertained' at every waking possible moment.

[Captain Turdseye]

11 minutes ago, Gooch said:

 

Seeing what these types of shows has done to F1 doesn't feel me with confidence with where this is going. More manufactured WWE lite ''drama" to feel the need to be 'entertained' at every waking possible moment.

They've fucked up by not getting Bryson on board. 

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, Captain Turdseye said:

You doing odd money like 75p just to make the maths difficult?

The balance was 15.75 so I manipulated it to get it to a tenne.

I'm a bit ocd I think , I do transfers on my online banking to get as many balances in round amounts as I can.

[Captain Turdseye]

1 minute ago, sir roger said:

The balance was 15.75 so I manipulated it to get it to a tenne.

I'm a bit ocd I think , I do transfers on my online banking to get as many balances in round amounts as I can.

Nothing odd about that mate. I do it all the time. With bookie balances it’s a must. 

[sir roger]

With the original selections bombing , for an interest I looked at the odds after round 2. Henley was unbackable at 5/4 so it came down to Kuchar or Matsuyama at 9's. You'll never guess who my fiver went on.

[Captain Turdseye]

Cantlay carrying on last year’s form. 
 

-10 through 13 on day one of this tournament. 

[Captain Turdseye]

All the big boys are playing this weekend. Big tourney. 
 

Paddy paying 8. 

[Code]

And the winner is 

 

 

[Code]

 

[Code]

Sorry, but had to post this as well. Haha.

 

 

[Captain Howdy]

 I remember in 2006 I took my lad to the open in Hoylake, we only live down the road, anyway on the final day we  were stood about 6 yards behind Woods on the practice fields which are on the opposite side of the course, strangely enough there were very few people about and in any event there was deathly silence. The point I’m making is one that was mentioned by Carragher on MNF when he was talking about the sound that Alonso made in training when he struck the ball, it’s the sound of genius. Woods was striking the ball and it sounded like a can of coke being quickly opened followed by a circular hiss as the ball cut through the air, it was mesmeric, I also experienced this watching Novak Djokovic practicing on an outside court at Wimbledon in (I think 2011) Same deal, stood close to him not many about, total silence and the clarity of the pop when he struck the ball and the hiss as it speared the air was really something, I’ve played tennis since I was a kid and I’ve never heard anything remotely similar.  Not sure why I’m posting this just thought I’d mention it.

[Captain Turdseye]

Flushing more money down the Cink. 
 

 

1st weekend of February and I’m already down £20 on the golf. 

[Captain Turdseye]

@dave u

 

You still doing your diary and stuff?

[VladimirIlyich]

Big news here

Professional Golf Is About To Be Shaken To Its Core

 

 

 

 

 

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PHIL MICKELSON claims that every member of the top 100 in the world rankings has been approached by LIV Golf Investments to sign up for Saudi Arabia’s breakaway golf league. It seems that professional golf is about to be shaken to the core in a way that no sport has seen since Kerry Packer launched Word Series Cricket in the 1970s.

When the Saudis first mooted their plans, Lee Westwood said that if he was approached to sign on the dotted line it would be a no-brainer for him. And it has emerged that the veteran Englishman has signed a non-disclosure agreement with the Saudis, implying that he has indeed committed his future to the league.

The 48-year-old Englishman was asked for his thoughts on the format of the proposed league before playing in the Saudi International but refused to comment, indicating that he had signed a legal document preventing him from doing so. It has also been reported that Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter and former Open champion Henrik Stenson are weighing up offers to join the Saudi-funded project.

 

Players who sign up face potential bans from the American-based PGA Tour and European-based DP World Tour, as well as the Ryder Cup, which means that Westwood, Poulter and Stenson are putting at risk their chances of being named as future Ryder Cup captains. What all these golfers have in common, of course, is that their best days are behind them. It would be a blow to the DP World Tour and PGA Tour if they were to lose the likes of Mickelson, Stenson, Westwood and Poulter. A blow, but not a disaster. 

It would be a different matter altogether if the Saudis are able to court the likes of Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka et al. It is all about money, of course, and all of this does beg one essential question: when do the rewards available to these young men become too much? 

(Image Credit: Kevin Diss Photography)

Let’s not beat about the bush here. The world’s best golfers are all handsomely rewarded for their efforts. And both the DP World Tour and PGA Tour have announced huge increases to their prize funds for 2022. The winner of the Players Championship will pocket around $2m for four four days work, for goodness sake, with a total prize fund of $20m. Viktor Hovland collected well over $1m for winning the Dubai Desert Classic. The FedEx Cup bonus pool has been increased from $60m to $75m. And that is without taking into account the vast sums they earn in sponsorship - McIlroy has a $100m deal with TaylorMade.

Westwood, who is a former world No1 who has earned a fabulous living as a result of his efforts on both the European and PGA Tours, was asked at the Saudi International: "What do you think of the proposed format of the super league, the team aspect of it? It's a little bit different from the 72-hole strokeplay norm."

Westwood replied: "I don't know whether I want to answer questions on that. I've signed an NDA."

It is expected that any Saudi super league would involve a team format but Westwood would only speak in general terms on that subject.

“Golf has got to move with the times and become more heat-of-the-moment, volatile and impactful right from the word go," he said. “If you do it like the team aspect, there's more action happening in more different places."

The so-called super league is just the tip of the iceberg. The Asian Tour is launching a $300m International Series promoted by Greg Norman's Liv Golf Investments company which will include, among 10 events, a tournament at the Centurion Club near St Albans in June.

Norman insists "this is just the beginning", with rumours sweeping the world game that the Saudis plan to invest millions from their Public Investment Fund into a Formula 1-style golf super league.

The main tours in the United States and Europe have signalled their intent to fight the Saudi plans with threats of bans for golfers who sign up to the project. But McIlroy, who has thus far expressed little interest in signing up, has said that tournament professional are freelancers who are not actually employed by either the DP World Tour or PGA Tour and should be given the choice to decide where they want to play. This overlooks the work done behind the scenes by both tours during what has been an incredibly trying period. 

At a time when the world has been gripped by the Covid-19 pandemic, there were widespread predictions that sponsors would walk away from the game and that many tournaments would bite the dust. Thanks to the work of individuals such as Keith Pelley and Jay Monahan, the opposite has happened. The schedules are full and awash with prize money.

The PGA Tour and DP World Tour reluctantly provided releases to the players competing in Saudi Arabia although PGA Tour members playing in the Middle East have been told they must commit to their Pebble Beach event next season, which takes place on the same weekend. Call me old-fashioned if you like but I believe that both tours deserve - and should expect - some loyalty from their top players. 

Without the PGA Tour, we would never have heard of the likes of Johnson, DeChambeau, Koepka, Rahm, McIlroy etc. I fully understand why players nearing the end of their playing careers would want to take advantage of one last chance to cash in, but I hope that today’s stars remember where their loyalties should lie. However, I am not holding my breath.

[TheHowieLama]

On 04/05/2021 at 16:05, TheHowieLama said:

Hot on the heels of a certain sports failure at a Super League:

 

Many of golf’s biggest names including world No 1 Dustin Johnson and England’s Justin Rose have received contracts worth up to $100m to take part in a breakaway ‘Saudi Super League’ that has forced them to choose between Saudi money and the PGA Tour and perhaps even The Masters and Ryder Cup.

Last year.

 

The hilarious part is when Mickelson talks about the "obnoxious greed" that is the PGA Tour - the one where he has won nearly 100 million in prize money. That one. And he says it while playing in a paid appearance in Saudi Arabia.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Last year.

 

The hilarious part is when Mickelson talks about the "obnoxious greed" that is the PGA Tour - the one where he has won nearly 100 million in prize money. That one. And he says it while playing in a paid appearance in Saudi Arabia.

Yeah Brooks didn't like that. Apparently even Poulter has been offered over 20 million to join. 

[VladimirIlyich]

It sounds like the Saudi proposal is more of a danger to the PGA Seniors and both the European Tours due to the money being way beyond what they can offer. The Europeans will find it difficult to turn down. Sports washing comes to Golf in earnest.

[Code]

Scheffler, it just will not happen for him?

 

Not over yet obviously as him and Cantlay now will play to decide the winner, but that put should be in the hole for the win on the 18th.

[Captain Turdseye]

The Scheff finally won. 
 

 

I went to one of those Top Golf places at the weekend. I’m fucking shite but it was a lot of fun. 

[TheHowieLama]

Been to this tournament a couple of times - madhouse.

 

Carlos Ortiz says he was "nailed pretty hard on the back with a beer can," which had been thrown from the fans in celebration after he hit a hole in one at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona during the Phoenix Open.

Coming on the par-three 16th hole, which is famous for its electric atmosphere due to the stadium-like seating, Ortiz's ace sparked raucous celebrations.

 

Ortiz high-fived his playing partner Kevin Kisner and his caddie as the surrounding crowd showered the players and everyone else in beer and cans.

And while the atmosphere was boisterous, Ortiz says one of those stray cans thrown in celebration happened to strike him.

"It was unbelievable. I didn't know how to react," Ortiz told reporters as he reflected on hitting the 11th all-time hole-in-one on the 16th at the Phoenix Open.

"A lot of people cheering for you and then you start trying to watch out for your head because I got actually nailed pretty hard on the back with a beer can, and then after that I was just trying to just avoid all the cans I could."