The Golf Thread - 2017!
Discussion
dxbtiger said:
I'm on BST + 3 time zone, coffee intravenously this morning!
Glad it came down to a European duel, the 18th of regulation shows why these two have onlyone two majors between them though.
Awful putts both! Glad it came down to a European duel, the 18th of regulation shows why these two have only
So glad Sergio won with a birdie in the end. Great ball strikers tend to suffer on the greens. Spieth shows how important putting is (usually anyway).
Sergio's ball striking is top class, he deserved at least one major
Pieters made an interesting point about how differently the course plays on the Sunday. Fowler and Spieth didn't latch onto that at all, consistently underclubbing.
Shame for Rose. He picked the last hole to play his only loose shot of the round, whereas Sergio made his mistakes at points in the round where he could put things right.
Shame for Rose. He picked the last hole to play his only loose shot of the round, whereas Sergio made his mistakes at points in the round where he could put things right.
SpeckledJim said:
Happy it went the way it did, it made for great TV.
I'd have preferred Rose to win, I think he's a real gentleman in a way that Garcia simply isn't.
Garcia's career and shot-making talent merits a Major, so I'm not resenting the win. But I don't think he's a particularly nice guy.
I don't know, I think he comes across as a decent guy myself.I'd have preferred Rose to win, I think he's a real gentleman in a way that Garcia simply isn't.
Garcia's career and shot-making talent merits a Major, so I'm not resenting the win. But I don't think he's a particularly nice guy.
Hell he was the only person I saw call fore when he spanked it into a crowd of people this weekend
Properly happy for Sergio, he's been so close so many times, usually failing when he had aputt to hole, glad he drained that putt for birdie on the play-off.
We actually met him back in 1998 in North Berwick in a chip shop after winning one of his amateur titles, he was playing off +5 at the time, and you could tell he was going to be special. Would never have guessed it would take him this long to finally win a major. Seemes a properly nice bloke when we met him, although he may have been "slightly" refreshed at the time....
Bit gutted for Rose, as he was an absolute gent all the way through, just a shame they couldn't have shared the jacket!
We actually met him back in 1998 in North Berwick in a chip shop after winning one of his amateur titles, he was playing off +5 at the time, and you could tell he was going to be special. Would never have guessed it would take him this long to finally win a major. Seemes a properly nice bloke when we met him, although he may have been "slightly" refreshed at the time....
Bit gutted for Rose, as he was an absolute gent all the way through, just a shame they couldn't have shared the jacket!
SpeckledJim said:
Happy it went the way it did, it made for great TV.
I'd have preferred Rose to win, I think he's a real gentleman in a way that Garcia simply isn't.
Garcia's career and shot-making talent merits a Major, so I'm not resenting the win. But I don't think he's a particularly nice guy.
Nice guys don't do this.I'd have preferred Rose to win, I think he's a real gentleman in a way that Garcia simply isn't.
Garcia's career and shot-making talent merits a Major, so I'm not resenting the win. But I don't think he's a particularly nice guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS6dA6ngKok
jbudgie said:
Has he done it since? That's over a decade old. Tiger was a geyser in comparison with Sergio. 
Digger said:
jbudgie said:
Has he done it since? That's over a decade old. Tiger was a geyser in comparison with Sergio. jbudgie said:
Sergio did go through a phase where he struggled to contain his anger (remember him chewing a massive hole out of the 9th at St Andrews becuase he missed the green?), but that was over 10 years ago, pretty sure he's got over that now, SpeckledJim said:
Happy it went the way it did, it made for great TV.
I'd have preferred Rose to win, I think he's a real gentleman in a way that Garcia simply isn't.
Garcia's career and shot-making talent merits a Major, so I'm not resenting the win. But I don't think he's a particularly nice guy.
Sergio has changed quite a lot over the years, hasn't he? AFAIK he was a pretty happy guy in his early career, but turned into a fairly miserable, sulky soul later on, after multiple close calls in majors.I'd have preferred Rose to win, I think he's a real gentleman in a way that Garcia simply isn't.
Garcia's career and shot-making talent merits a Major, so I'm not resenting the win. But I don't think he's a particularly nice guy.
He even wrote off his chances of a major in an interview a few years back.
I'm happy for him. I like Rose, and he really does come across as a real gent, but his complete lack of emotion turns me off a bit. I like players with a bit of fire.
Sorry to go off the current topic but I've just got into golf after years of going on and off at different driving ranges and I'm loving it. Any chance I get I'm down the driving range trying to get my swing right and slyly listening to other people's coaching 
Probably not the best clubs at all but I got these for £15 off of Gumtree (and they happened to be down the road from my local range
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and I'm hitting solid straight 200s which is the bottom of my range with both of them and getting 150-175 with rented irons, next step for me is to get on my local course to try a round but I think I'll hit a few hundred more balls first!
Probably not the best clubs at all but I got these for £15 off of Gumtree (and they happened to be down the road from my local range
) and I'm hitting solid straight 200s which is the bottom of my range with both of them and getting 150-175 with rented irons, next step for me is to get on my local course to try a round but I think I'll hit a few hundred more balls first!
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