CliveW
Tour Winner
Thankfully, I've noticed a distinct lack of these comments at this years Masters. Have the patrons been warned about the crass supidity of these comments and told they will be asked to leave if they do so?
Get in The Hole!/Mashed Potato!
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North Mimms
Tour Winner
I believe any shout like this gets the offender ejected.
The lack of inane shouting is one reason I really like the Masters
PhilTheFragger
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The Augusta Committee has always pounced on the Herberts who shout these banal statements
In my opinion other tournaments should follow their lead, it demeans the game and is very annoying
Remember at the Ryder Cup in Wales standing next to an American "shouter"
After a particularly loud bellow about a dozen Brits just looked at him, with hard stares ,shook their heads and tutted to themselves,
Didn't hear a peep afterwards
In my opinion other tournaments should follow their lead, it demeans the game and is very annoying
Remember at the Ryder Cup in Wales standing next to an American "shouter"
After a particularly loud bellow about a dozen Brits just looked at him, with hard stares ,shook their heads and tutted to themselves,
Didn't hear a peep afterwards
User20205
Money List Winner
I love it. I think there should be more shouting:thup:
I especially like 'ba ba booey'!!!!
It adds to the atmosphere. I'm thinking about going to wentworth for the BMW, having a few beers, and going through my 'in da hole' repitoire.
Especially if TXL marshalling
I especially like 'ba ba booey'!!!!
It adds to the atmosphere. I'm thinking about going to wentworth for the BMW, having a few beers, and going through my 'in da hole' repitoire.
Especially if TXL marshalling
They breed 'em tough in WalesThe Augusta Committee has always pounced on the Herberts who shout these banal statements
In my opinion other tournaments should follow their lead, it demeans the game and is very annoying
Remember at the Ryder Cup in Wales standing next to an American "shouter"
After a particularly loud bellow about a dozen Brits just looked at him, with hard stares ,shook their heads and tutted to themselves,
Didn't hear a peep afterwards
I think Augusta has the right idea but what chance have you got at events like the Waste Management and that 16th hole where rowdiness is actively encouraged. Simple US Joe Public will think it's the norm and replicate those inane shouts all the time. Wait, they already have
Tongo
Journeyman Pro
Excellent! Delighted to hear that is the case.
unfortunatley those "simple joes" make up the numbers. There have been threads on here querying the twiddling numbers of golf players in the public. Well in all other well supporters sports. Crowd noise is part and parcel of it. How many fans scream shoot when a cb is 40yards out. Or insult the keep as he takes a goal kick?
many on this thread actively chat about footy and I've never seen it comp,aimed about there. Either we want golf to appeal to the masses and grow. Or we stand by and grumble as the numbers twindle. But at least we can feel good up on our high horses.........
JohnnyDee
Tour Winner
Remember at the Ryder Cup in Wales standing next to an American "shouter"
After a particularly loud bellow about a dozen Brits just looked at him, with hard stares ,shook their heads and tutted to themselves,
Didn't hear a peep afterwards
As Brits our tutting and disdainful looks, perhaps augmented with a superior down-our-nose sneer and disbelieving shake of our heads, seem to me to be the perfect reaction to the the ill-mannered and boorish American moronic golf spectator.
"Play up and play the game!"
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Thank God for the lack of rubbish 'me me it's all about me' shouting - truly can't stand it - well done Masters committee for stamping on it
North Mimms
Tour Winner
i don't mind the clapping or cheering for a good shot, or "oooooo" when a putt lips out. That's reacting to the game that you are watching.
Yelling "mashed potato" is just so that you can say to your mates "did you hear me on the 7th tee?"
And I feel sorry for the person standing just in front who had that yelled down his ear, and now can't hear for the next 20 minutes
I'm not saying I love the chants. But in other sports, not every chant is equal to an ooooo. There's far worse in most sports.
Face breaker
Q-School Graduate
I think personally that "golfers" put to much emphasis on having ultimate quiet around them whilst they're playing their shot but having said that shouting out stupid and irrelevant comments for the sake of it is just child'ish and bloody annoying for the rest of us really, just shows how much interest they've really got for the game if you ask me !...:angry:
Simbo
Tour Rookie
What's the meaning or reasons behind the mashed potatoe yell?? What a crock!!
I mind poulter saying something about it in his book but can't remember the reason
I mind poulter saying something about it in his book but can't remember the reason
Tashyboy
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DappaDonDave
Journeyman Pro
Not been on here for a while. But heard a cock shout, LIGHT THE CANDLE, on one of Tigers tee shots, not heard that one before. Pee'd me off though.
I'll go back to the shadows now.
I'll go back to the shadows now.
John Boy Saint
Assistant Pro
I thought it was quite refreshing at last years Ryder cup that Bubba Watson on the 1st Tee on the last day as the gallery fell silent for him turned around and whipped them up to keep on cheering as he sent the ball on its way.
palindromicbob
Tour Winner
Maybe I was just sensitive to it but I thoughts there was more inane shouting than normal this year. Espeacially when the big names were hitting.
MadAdey
Money List Winner
What's the problem? So people have a few beers and get caught up in the moment and start shouting stupid things out. No different than any other sport when the crowd gets into the passion of it all. Years ago watching the Dunhill at St Andrews I was following Ernie Els round and some Englishman screamed "smash that haggis" as he ripped a tee shot away. I believe it probably meant nothing and it was just a dare from one of his mates.
Golf is a game that still needs to shake off it's stuffy image.I'm not saying I want tour events to start looking like the ones from Happy Gilmore, but if people have paid a lot of money to go then why not enjoy them self as long as they are not interfering with the golfers when they are trying to play a shot.
Golf is a game that still needs to shake off it's stuffy image.I'm not saying I want tour events to start looking like the ones from Happy Gilmore, but if people have paid a lot of money to go then why not enjoy them self as long as they are not interfering with the golfers when they are trying to play a shot.
Foxholer
Blackballed
I'm pretty much of the same mind. Inane, but harmless - or at least at the current levels. Gives some guy a bit of a thrill to be heard and 'eyebrow-raisingly annoying' but there's no point getting wound about it. I'm sure there's technology about to 'suppress and merge' some of the phrases if it gets really bad - though obviously not implemented as there's the occasional apology for bad language.
