Honda Classic

Tongo said:
To be fair i think there was only 2 players in the field who were ranked inside of the top 100 of the World Rankings, so they could be forgiven for not producing the sort of quality that we are used to from the top stars.
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Still though the course itself looked boring and that is a frequent thing I've noticed on the European circuit bar a few courses
 
MetalMickie said:
Again only some and probably, of the PGA based players, as many Americans as Europeans.
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The Irish open not as much in recent years, this year at RCD will be a different story thankfully thanks to Rory really. But yeah the Scottish Open is a good field
 
sam19113 said:
Royal County Down, Celtic Manor and the Scottish Open to name a few that most would play each year. My argument here is that the European players will be playing more often, although not that much, on courses where weather is more commonly a factor than the Americans who just come over for the Open, and a few for the Scottish.
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The European players already referred to spend most of their time in USA on the PGA tour. Yes some may play the Scottish Open and one or two the Irish but there is no tournament at Celtic Manor that would ever attract them.
 
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MetalMickie said:
The European players already referred to spend most of their time in USA on the PGA tour. Yes some may play the Scottish OPen and one or two the Irish but there is no tournament at Celtic Manor that would ever attract them.
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The Welh Open got a few over who were trying to get into the Ryder Cup last year, Celtic Manor isn't a particularly hard course, you can grow the rough up on any venue and make it tough but actual good courses are a rare sight in tour golf these days
 
LanDog said:
The Welh Open got a few over who were trying to get into the Ryder Cup last year, Celtic Manor isn't a particularly hard course, you can grow the rough up on any venue and make it tough but actual good courses are a rare sight in tour golf these days
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True, but my point is that of the Europeans playing at the Honda only Bjorn and Dubuisson are what we might recognise as European Tour regulars. The remainder build their schedules around the PGA Tour.

Makes a bit of a farce of the Ryder Cup really.
 
MetalMickie said:
True, but my point is that of the Europeans playing at the Honda only Bjorn and Dubuisson are what we might recognise as European Tour regulars. The remainder build their schedules around the PGA Tour.

Makes a bit of a farce of the Ryder Cup really.
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Well anyone who holds a European tour card can play on the ryder cup but players that hold a full PGA tour card aren't eligable, so Casey isn't eligable anymore, which I think is stupid, of course you wanna play where the best money is, play on a lesser tour for a lot less money only to be eligable to play in an event which you don't get paid for? Makes no sense
 
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