Links golf is just soooooo dull

[garyinderry]

the Irish open last year was a complete wash out. it turned into a birdie fest with guys just shooting at pins. exciting yes, different no !


plus we got soaked silly for four days straight. give me baked all day long !

 

[JustOne]

the Irish open last year was a complete wash out. it turned into a birdie fest with guys just shooting at pins. exciting yes, different no !


plus we got soaked silly for four days straight. give me baked all day long !

I highlighted the important part.

 

[garyinderry]

the weekend starts here! :thup:

 

[Bobmysterkaymer]

What's not exciting! If any one can conquer the back nine then they will be in contention or even win. Anyone from +1/+2 has a chance! This weekend will be interesting. It's a different type of golf, not one we are used to watching or the pros used to playing. Embrace it and enjoy it!

Hoylake next year! Hope that get your juices flowing!

 

[Fader]

Have to admit this year is showing why the Open is my least favourite major. To much is down to luck of the bounce and not the skill of the golfer, sand irons from 190yards and hoping it stops bouncing before it runs through the green!

I actually found I enjoyed watching an hour of the Ashes more than the groups they were following at the Open and I hate cricket!

The one thing about it keeping me watching is seeing how some of them manage their way around and the hope of either Tiger, Jimmy Ness or Henrik winning purely as that where I laid my money this week

Edit: Plus Peter Allis really is more irritating that running my testicles down a cheese grater..

 

[pokerjoke]

Loving the golf.
I think the weather has played a big part.
The great thing about links is it gets the players thinking.
Both Michelson and Zach Johnson have said how much they love it.
I think some of the coverage has made it less exciting,and the sparce
stands havnt helped,however im sure the weekend will be a lot more exciting.
What about BBCs coverage,i think they make it more boring sometimes.
Yesterday they focused on Tiger and Gmac on the tee for over 2 minutes before
they played there shots,and Gmac is so slow its like pulling teeth.

 

[MashieNiblick]

Far more variety of shots required and really enjoying watching and thinking how's he going to get it up and down from there. Some do. Most don't. Par 5's that aren't automatic birdies, not every hole a drive and a 9 iron/wedge and bunkers you can't play forward from. Need a brain as well as a golf swing. Really looking forward to the next 2 days. Bring it on.

Don't worry JO, it's only 1 week a year so there's almost 50 weeks of exciting PGA Tour target golf. The Sanderson Farms Championship is on Sky after the Open coverage. Someone shot a 64 yesterday. Awesome!

 

[User20205]

Links golf is awesome!!! It's a game apart for the normal point and shoot nonsense on the PGA/European tour week in week out. Rather than being lucky, I'd argue that is a different test of golfing skill. The open is my favourite major by far, though I did like merion this year. Probably for the same reasons.

If you prefer parkland golf to links then I'd suggest getting out more!!

 

[sev112]

Blooming fantastic I think
Garryinderry got it right -the majors are different, and need to be so

 

[Deleted member 1418]

Love links golf - tests your abilities with every club in your bag and how you execute the shots you hit with them. No one hole is ever the same, whether it be in design or how you have to play it. Throw in the changeable weather conditions and you have the ultimate test of golf. Much rather that than the same old target golf courses played on the PGA tour week in week out.

 

[drawboy]

Links courses certainly aren't lookers that is for sure, green(ish) boring deserts for the main part with every hole looking the same. I too find them dull to view on the TV. As a spectacle give me Augusta any time.

 

[chris661]

I'm sure you're right but watching The Open tomorrow will be nothing short of sticking pins in my eyes

(and listening to Peter Alliss for another day will be like sticking pins in my ears!)

If it is that crap then you do know you dont have to watch/listen to it right?

On another note how much links golf have you actually played?

 

[Val]

Watching the best golfers in the world have to land 50yds short and rely on a 'lucky bounce'. What a rubbish game. At least they land on the greens at Augusta (even though they too are super fast).

Empty stands, no feature holes and scores that resemble a monthly medal comp at my gaff and I'm finding the whole process rather boring to watch AGAIN.

Sure I want Tiger to win but this 'teeing off with irons' malarky just isn't the golf that we know and love. Hitting irons off tees is making the whole process even MORE boring, there's actually nothing exciting to watch

Don't watch it then

 

[Foxholer]

Watching the best golfers in the world have to land 50yds short and rely on a 'lucky bounce'. What a rubbish game. At least they land on the greens at Augusta (even though they too are super fast).

Empty stands, no feature holes and scores that resemble a monthly medal comp at my gaff and I'm finding the whole process rather boring to watch AGAIN.

Much of this particular 'dullness' - and certainly don't find it so - is down to the 'unusual' weather. Normally, there's a little more breeze to contend with, though it was from the opposite direction yesterday to Thursday an Tiger seemed to be more concerned about that than how much watering the greens would get.

I'm sure the members of the likes of Royal St Georges, Princes, Deal, Rye, Littlehampton and quite a few others will sleep easier knowing you are not going to invade them - and be able to play all year round while your club is closed because it's a bit damp. Having to spend 3 times as much for only 7 months proper golf a year was a bit of a disappointment when I came from a Scottish links that I could play all year round!

I'd happily play links golf all year round, modifying my game as conditions change!

 

[Deleted member 1418]

Links courses certainly aren't lookers that is for sure, green(ish) boring deserts for the main part with every hole looking the same. I too find them dull to view on the TV. As a spectacle give me Augusta any time.

IMO you only get the true beauty of a links if you are actually playing one. Yes Augusta is a spectacle, but that is one of its main selling points, together with the position it holds in the golfing calendar. Some would argue that a top class links course on a beautiful late autumn/early winters day (particularly when the sun is beginning to set) is equally as visually stunning as Augusta in spring.

 

[Bobirdie]

I was going to take the wife up to see it today. But at £75 p.p plus fuel and grub etc id be £200 to go for one day. Buying a weekend ticket is out of the question due to childcare.

I feel they have massiveley over priced it. Shouldnt be anymore that £40/45 p.p imo

 

[CMAC]

Anyone remember the 'Duel in the Sun'?

What kind of weather did they have?

What condition was the course in?


it is a fact that only the real shotmakers have won at Muirfield- no lucky streak johnny no-name who just fires the ball at soft targets day in day out.












P.S congratulation JO, nice fishing trip

P.P.S Ivor Robson is the dullest thing there, announcing with a Worthers Original swirling around.

 

[BROOKIE]

I just don't find it entertaining,shoot 69 ,followed by 80 is just dull,can't help thinking Tiger's gonna win by 4 shots,he's the best out there by a long way,Westwood will be left bereft at his nearly open again.As for muirfield,not my place for a round.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Far more variety of shots required and really enjoying watching and thinking how's he going to get it up and down from there. Some do. Most don't. Par 5's that aren't automatic birdies, not every hole a drive and a 9 iron/wedge and bunkers you can't play forward from. Need a brain as well as a golf swing. Really looking forward to the next 2 days. Bring it on.

Don't worry JO, it's only 1 week a year so there's almost 50 weeks of exciting PGA Tour target golf. The Sanderson Farms Championship is on Sky after the Open coverage. Someone shot a 64 yesterday. Awesome!

^^^This - loving The Open - golfers out of their comfort zone really having to think about what they are doing rather than 'it's 175yds therefore it's an 8i - so how much spin will I put on it' Now THAT is dull. We can all learn by wartching the pros adapt their game to the course and conditions. Not a lot we can learn from a pro hitting the ball 175yds with an 8i and getting x amount of spin - other thatn that's the sort of thing pros can do. Today and tomorrow I shall be watching, enjoying and learning. Brilliant stuff. And more power to Peter Alliss - telling the 'get in the hole' mob to 'shut up' - top stuff.

 

[chrisd]

I'm sure the members of the likes of Royal St Georges, Princes, Deal, Rye, Littlehampton and quite a few others will sleep easier knowing you are not going to invade them - and be able to play all year round while your club is closed because it's a bit damp. Having to spend 3 times as much for only 7 months proper golf a year was a bit of a disappointment when I came from a Scottish links that I could play all year round!

I'd happily play links golf all year round, modifying my game as conditions change!

To be fair, I live about half an hour from all those courses (except Littlehampton) and would rarely ever bother to play them. In the summer, one bounce puts you in rough where you won't find your ball 9 times out of 10 and you need a totally different way of playing with the wind often adding 3 clubs to the distance. Mostly, standing on the tee you can't see the driving lines/ bunkers/ fairway so first time round is a lottery!

Give me parkland courses every time!