Golf Thread
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Jul 2022
6:49pm, 17 Jul 2022
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swittle
The Open rarely fails to deliver peaks of excitement, thrills, joy and despair in equal measure. 
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Jul 2022
6:59pm, 17 Jul 2022
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GregP
So Peter Forster is 70 and plays off 18? That’s both impressive and a bit inspiring. |
Jul 2022
7:51pm, 17 Jul 2022
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ElDuderino
Great finish from Smith who I picked on the last page (this may have changed a couple times since)
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Jul 2022
7:40am, 18 Jul 2022
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GregP
He's a hard guy to root for though. Plays beautifully but I find him neither visually appealing nor especially articulate. Sure he's a perfectly decent guy but I can't see sponsors rushing past, say, Bryson DeChambeau to get to him.
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Jul 2022
8:50am, 18 Jul 2022
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ElDuderino
Don't know. I think the sponsors have been cooling down on Bryson in the last 6 months or so due to the fact he is an absolute fanny
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Jul 2022
10:03am, 18 Jul 2022
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lammo
Exciting stuff indeed, nearly as good as the thriller i was involve din yesterday morning where i emerged triumphant with 39 points to beat my mates who scored 38, 37 and 35. It was pretty warm and hard, so the balls seemed to be going a long way and not stopping despite green greens, much fun, i fear my handicap maybe coming down |
Jul 2022
12:40pm, 21 Jul 2022
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paul the builder
Sorry gents, very occasional visitor on Fetch these days. Anyway - very enjoyable Open wasn't it? I feel a little sorry they didn't get a McIlroy win, at The Old Course, in the 150th edition. I was going to say nothing against Smith but in fact - while I have no issue with him aesthetically (;-) GregP) - his answer on LIV (“I don't know, mate,” Smith replied. “My team around me worries about all that stuff. I'm here to win golf tournaments.”) was concerning. Fuck him if he goes, and all the rest too. |
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Jul 2022
12:44pm, 21 Jul 2022
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GregP
Quite.
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Jul 2022
1:08pm, 21 Jul 2022
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paul the builder
Also - I was there the week prior. The R&A have run a 9-hole challenge contest through the last few months, and the final stage for those who make it is a 9-hole comp, on the Open course of the year, the week before. All paid for trip (travel, 2 nights in Rusacks which is the big old hotel that overlooks 18 fairway. Loads of free merchandise. And dinner in the R&A clubhouse the evening after playing. I spent 2 hours sitting next to Martin Slumbers - chief exec of the R&A. Very interesting man, and chat, as you'd probably expect. We played 1-4, then 14-18. I've made 3 pars at The Old Course (3, 15, 18)! (I also managed to miss the 126-yard wide fairway off the 1st tee, and go OB left. You think it's an unmissable fairway, but I proved otherwise ) Then at the end of it all we (it's a combined Stableford pairs) came second, so that's a pile more free Open merch, and a weird silver bowl (?). Brilliant experience. And playing there is like nowhere else (at least, that I've played). So much is left undefined, left to your imagination. There's such space and so many different angles to get to a hole (rather than just standard defined fairway lines). Some of the angles are great and some of them are a total nightmare - and which are which change over depending on the wind of the day, and the pin position of the day. Will definitely be going back. |
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Jul 2022
1:15pm, 21 Jul 2022
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lammo
Fascinating insight, thanks PtB, and well done. I decided i wasn't fussed about playing there as it just looks like a very poorly maintained council course |
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