SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Not happy indeed
Olympic Golf-Womens Event
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Not happy indeed
Roland
Assistant Pro
Same rake on the first hole just stopped a ball going in the bunker and it's still lying at the front edge.
I've just watched Lexi Thompson mark and line up a 2" tap in putt for a par. No wonder the golf is so slow! 
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I've just watched Lexi Thompson mark and line up a 2" tap in putt for a par. No wonder the golf is so slow!
Did she hole it?
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Didn't waste any time then really, did it?
She could have saved a good 30 seconds by just walking up and tapping it in, without the pre-shot routine! :angry:
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Or cost another 30 seconds by missing it!
dewsweeper
Tour Rookie
Not quite the point.
I am enjoying the womens golf, especially 2 holes in one today.
Very impressed at ther skill levels , less so on the reliance on the caddy.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
another hole in one - Lydia Ko.
And that rake by the bunker on the RHS of the 1st - you see how a ball could be missing the bunker to the right but hit the rake and get deflected into the bunker. You'd think the caddies would know better, mind you I think the caddies (actually the players use of them) are the a big part of the slow play problem with the women's game.
Also some of the yardages being shown on screen are wonky. If Hall's drive on 1st ended up 275yds from centre of green she proceeded to hit an iron something like 300yds...
Suzanne Peterson just done front 9 in 30!!
And that rake by the bunker on the RHS of the 1st - you see how a ball could be missing the bunker to the right but hit the rake and get deflected into the bunker. You'd think the caddies would know better, mind you I think the caddies (actually the players use of them) are the a big part of the slow play problem with the women's game.
Also some of the yardages being shown on screen are wonky. If Hall's drive on 1st ended up 275yds from centre of green she proceeded to hit an iron something like 300yds...
Suzanne Peterson just done front 9 in 30!!
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Is it me or are the commentators dumbing down the commentary for the benefit of non-golfers?
Am actually enjoying the golf. Some cracking stuff being played.
Am actually enjoying the golf. Some cracking stuff being played.
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Gerina Piller tho 😍
Three
Tour Rookie
It's a deliberate policy to hide the true distances they play. They've been doing it forever.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
This was what I was referring to when I said it was a hard watch. Finding the commentary off putting and distracting
Charley Hull almost seems to have blown it!
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
At one point the Canadian girl (I think) was having to putt from off the green over a mound. She ended up good length but m,aybe four feet right of the hole. The commentator said that she must have been expecting a right to left break - when it was obvious (to this viewer anyway) that she had just not got her putt high enough up the mound - and from behind that is exactly what had happened - nothing at all to do with a right to left break
That would have been Brooke Henderson. Maybe she, or the commentator, expected the putt to break back once on the green, but it didn't.
Big D 88
Q-School Graduate
Beautiful isn't she 😍
Plus I've got some pennies on her so would a decent final round along with charley who'll need a low round to grab a medal now
Tongo
Journeyman Pro
I noticed that. There was also an incident where a drive on the 1st hit a rake not in a bunker and the ball ended up in the bunker. The commentators, went on about rakes in bunkers whilst failing to have noticed that of the ball had not hit the bunker it would have rolled over the mound into the waste bunker as it was travelling pretty quickly. (as a drive a couple of groups earlier had done)
Tongo
Journeyman Pro
How many times is this commentator going to mention the NZ-Australia rugby game?
