British Masters

[Deleted member 15344]

It's clearly a highly regarded event and I think it should be moved into the summer months to push the pot and sponsorship. The bigger players will play in it with the right backing.

But when in the summer though - during the summer months you have three majors pretty close to each other - plus WGC plus the players

It's a chicken and egg scenario and the ET will go where the courses are willing to stump the cash

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It's clearly a highly regarded event and I think it should be moved into the summer months to push the pot and sponsorship. The bigger players will play in it with the right backing.

I would hope that they could move it forward but with so many big events in the summer, especially around the weeks before and after the Open it's going to be hard. Ideally would surely be the week before or after the BMW at Wentworth when most big names would be looking to be in the UK anyway

 

[snell]

Glad Fitzpatrick won. I was starting to worry he couldn't close a tournament out as he seems to be in contention quite a lot

 

[Tashyboy]

Thought it was a fantastic day on Thursday trying to get into car park one was a ball ache but quickly forgotten

cost Nil for parking and nil for tickets for a belting day.

Sky, Woburn and British masters mega thanks from Tashyboy and five others who had an excellent day out.

 

[Dan2501]

Watching the highlights now and Shane Lowry's wedge play has been exceptional. He's a serious player, going to win plenty. Delighted for Fitzpatrick though, had a tough start to life on Tour at the tail end of last season after turning Pro, but this season he's been exceptional. Great stuff.

 

[richart]

Had a great day at Woburn today. Nice job ensuring the players weren't mobbed by the crowd on their way to the first tee. Once that was done, able to stand on the tee and watch every player drive off. Then free to wander round the course, watching all the leading players.

The volunteers had a group photo taken with Matt Fitzpatrick and the trophy. Might have sneaked next to him for that. Then a quick drinks party, which Fitzpatrick came along to, and thanked us for our help. Few autographs, and then a two hour drive home. Having left at five this morning, and getting home just before nine tonight, I am absolutely knackered.

Cracking day though, and great to see a young Brit win the British Masters.:thup:

 

[snell]

Watching the highlights now and Shane Lowry's wedge play has been exceptional. He's a serious player, going to win plenty. Delighted for Fitzpatrick though, had a tough start to life on Tour at the tail end of last season after turning Pro, but this season he's been exceptional. Great stuff.

Lowrys short game is second to none, but his putting leaves a lot to be desired at times.

 

[chrisd]

Had a great day at Woburn today. Nice job ensuring the players weren't mobbed by the crowd on their way to the first tee. Once that was done, able to stand on the tee and watch every player drive off. Then free to wander round the course, watching all the leading players.

The volunteers had a group photo taken with Matt Fitzpatrick and the trophy. Might have sneaked next to him for that. Then a quick drinks party, which Fitzpatrick came along to, and thanked us for our help. Few autographs, and then a two hour drive home. Having left at five this morning, and getting home just before nine tonight, I am absolutely knackered.

Cracking day though, and great to see a young Brit win the British Masters.:thup:

Sounds like Stefan did a better job than the shambles he did at the World Matchplay at the London Club!

 

[Tashyboy]

Thought the whole day was belting, a deffo 10/10 experience for Tashyboy and friends seeing there heroes.
One of the highlights for me was the 12th? Hole. Not the longest, possibly a risk and reward hole but one that had to be properly course managed. From a viewers point of view a glorious hole. however at said hole a young kid about 10 yr old was "wagging" it from Skool, and as all the players walked off the green to the 13th tee he was smiling at them. Throughout the course of the day he received 15 balls off players. he might have got more if he never wore his Everton FC sweatshirt.
He was in heaven. Now that got me thinking.
If there are not enough young uns playing golf, why not give free tickets to kids for the Saturday and Sunday to get the young uns there. If they were free then apologies.
But events like this seem a fantastic opportunity to get the kids involved.

 

[Jimaroid]

It's been a great event and delighted to see Fitzpatrick get his maiden victory. Although it was a small event in terms of the major worldwide talent, it had the feel of a much bigger one and it was great to see healthy crowds there every day. The atmosphere looked brilliant and I would have loved to have been there too. I hope they can keep the momentum up for future events but totally agree on the point that it's going to be a struggle due to the timing of it in the worldwide calendar.

And just to reiterate an earlier point, I thought Sky did a great job with it, they really added to the spirit of the event rather than get in the way of it. That's a very difficult balance to get right in practice but they did it really well.

The only negative point about the whole thing was hearing an English person shout "Get in the hole!"

What a numpty!

 

[Slab]

It's been a great event and delighted to see Fitzpatrick get his maiden victory. Although it was a small event in terms of the major worldwide talent, it had the feel of a much bigger one and it was great to see healthy crowds there every day. The atmosphere looked brilliant and I would have loved to have been there too. I hope they can keep the momentum up for future events but totally agree on the point that it's going to be a struggle due to the timing of it in the worldwide calendar.

And just to reiterate an earlier point, I thought Sky did a great job with it, they really added to the spirit of the event rather than get in the way of it. That's a very difficult balance to get right in practice but they did it really well.

The only negative point about the whole thing was hearing an English person shout "Get in the hole!"

What a numpty!

It was fun when the commentator suggested we take a commercial break specifically so that viewers "could get their breaths back" (leaders only just turned into back 9 btw)

 

[richart]

Sounds like Stefan did a better job than the shambles he did at the World Matchplay at the London Club!

Who is Stefan ? We had a lady in charge and she did a fantastic job.:thup:

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Thought the whole day was belting, a deffo 10/10 experience for Tashyboy and friends seeing there heroes.
One of the highlights for me was the 12th? Hole. Not the longest, possibly a risk and reward hole but one that had to be properly course managed. From a viewers point of view a glorious hole. however at said hole a young kid about 10 yr old was "wagging" it from Skool, and as all the players walked off the green to the 13th tee he was smiling at them. Throughout the course of the day he received 15 balls off players. he might have got more if he never wore his Everton FC sweatshirt.
He was in heaven. Now that got me thinking.
If there are not enough young uns playing golf, why not give free tickets to kids for the Saturday and Sunday to get the young uns there. If they were free then apologies.
But events like this seem a fantastic opportunity to get the kids involved.

The 12th is a cracker - was lucky enough to witness a FC hit a hole in one on the hole in an invitational last year

 

[Tashyboy]

The 12th is a cracker - was lucky enough to witness a FC hit a hole in one on the hole in an invitational last year

Thing is phil it proves that you don't have to build par fours 480 plus or courses longer because pros can hit it 300 yd plus. The design of the hole is superb from a spectators point of view.
one guy/player dressed in black, beard, portly. Attempted to drive the green and left it short of Lhs bunker. The players on the green looked disgusted.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Thing is phil it proves that you don't have to build par fours 480 plus or courses longer because pros can hit it 300 yd plus. The design of the hole is superb from a spectators point of view.
one guy/player dressed in black, beard, portly. Attempted to drive the green and left it short of Lhs bunker. The players on the green looked disgusted.

Totally agree and more clubs should have a drivable par 4 at realistic yardage but risk and reward. Any time I have a crack at it I mainly always bail out left

 

[Deleted member 1147]

I went to watch on the Thursday & Friday. Two lovely days watching a lot of very good golfers.
We decided to choose a few good holes to watch several groups play through, so we saw most players - rather than sticking with specific groups.
We were back left of the 7th, watching approach shots coming in, lots of close up chipping action and getting close to the players and their caddies waiting and walking off the greens. We also, went right of the green on the 15th and saw just how well they pitch the ball. Also, the 11th next to the fairway bunker some 100 yds short right where we got up close to them hitting 3rd shots.

Two things really struck me:
1 - the players are all much shorter than I thought (Chris Wood & Robert Karllson excepted), may be TV makes people look taller?
2 - how many people followed the marquee groups rather than seeing some of the lesser lights. When sitting by the 7th it was like the Oxford Street down the left fairway once the big guns started playing the hole, but the other groups only had 10-20 people watching them. May be they could spread out the big names more rather than grouping them all together.

 

[Ethan]

Looked like a great event and good to see Fitz win his first event. Looks like a reliable money maker.

They were very lucky with the weather, and other years won't be so fortunate. It can be very wet and cool in early October, as several Ryder Cups have demonstrated. If they could get a better slot in the calendar, might work out well. I doubt they would go the week before or after Wentworth because the two events would then just steal each other's oxygen.

You can't blame Rory from passing. Watching NI play football half an hour away from his parent's home is a rather different commitment to 5 days in Woburn.

 

[User 105]

I went Saturday and had a cracking time. Just the right amount of people there for the atmosphere but not so busy you couldn't get a decent view and getting out the carpark at the end of the day wasn't a nightmare.

I'd played the course a few times so it brought back some good memories of some of the holes.

Stood behind the par 3 14th for a while when the last 4-5 groups came through. That pin position on the back right was just evil, anything on the left half of the green had a damn near impossible putt. How Aphibarnrat holed his I'll never know. It looked impossible to get it within 10ft.

The only bad thing I did see was yet again someone brought a baby to the tournament and it was screaming it's head off whilst Lowrey, Aphibarnrat and Karlsson was teeing off on I think it was the 4th or 5th and they all stuck it right. Looked like it was Dad's turn with the kids and he was determined to go to the golf regardless.