2021 Professional Golf Thread

Golfnut1957

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Early days but it's not looking good for Rory. 2 down to Poulter who is giving him a professional match play blanking, doing him on the greens and Rory's now just missed his tee shot miles right and OB to allow Poulter to go 3 up after 5.

Robert Damon has just referenced how Rory was looking to emulate BAD's swing speed but wasn't able to sync up his hips and is now struggling to dial it back.
 

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Poults 4 up after 11.

I normally enjoy, sometimes just ignore, the various commentaries and just take in the golf ⛳

Some of the utter drivel they are talking about matchplay though... Well, I hope they just stop.

They're trying to create all these ridiculous hypothetical advantages/disadvantages, eg will X's longer driving be an advantage, or will Y hitting first give him the advantage, blah blah blah...

These are the best of the best players in the world, they just play 18 holes and whoever scores best wins. They can all beat each other, the only person who has any advantage is the one who plays best...
And the Postman - he has always had the advantage in matchplay
 
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Lol.
Mind you, I always think of 7/6 as "dinner money" as that was written on the side of my tobacco tin on my first day at school....
Were you rolling your own at that age, or did the teacher help? ?
 
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As I've already had a whinge, I'm taking today as my one and only day of moaning about the commentary...

Instead of blathering on about "ooh this is a surprise" when one world class golfer is a couple of shots better than another world class player, why not stop sounding like part-time viewers and actually show some stats?

Why not show each player's stroke average to show how close they are? Better still, why not also show each player's range of scoring this season? If player A, 4th in the world, ranges from 64 to 75, and player B ranked 60th ranges from 65 to 77, it might make it a bit more bleedin obvious why any player can beat any other over 1 round.

The commentators should be educating viewers, not sounding like people who are watching for the first time... "ooh he's ranked 7, he should thrash the guy ranked 20"...?

Rant over ?
Bryson is no 1 on scoring average on the PGA tour this year at 69.432,
DJ Trahan in no 100 at 71.188
 

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How annoying was it when they cut the broadcast with them on the 17th?

Great win right enough.

Tell me about it! Particularly as it was one of the best matches of the day already, with Bob's chip in, and both holing from distance for birdie on 15.

Looking forward to seeing him play Johnson tonight. He can play with a bit of freedom knowing he's still got a chance even if he loses. He's been great at matchplay throughout his career though so you never know!
 
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God it’s hard to watch - matchplay is supposed to be exciting but this couldnt be any more dull
 

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Just a couple of observations from this evening's viewing.

Tyrell Hatten better play his way onto the Ryder Cup team as Paddy H is never going to pick him in a million years with that temperament.

Sergio is a great golfer but those trousers, not even for a bet.
 
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