Robert Garrigus

[Ethan]

What a great performance to win the Children's Miracle event after the disaster at the St Jude earlier this season. Robert is a really nice down to earth guy and has showed some great big hairy ones to come back and end the season with a win.

 

[feary]

Fair play to the man. 8 under for the final round!

 

[percy_layer]

Quality last round

Watched Thatcher struggling and then hole a 5ft putt to keep his tour card. Interesting to watch these guys give it everything with so much on the line.

 

[USER1999]

No guy should putt with a 28 1/2" putter. He looked daft. Didn't even putt that well with it, especially from range.

There is a reason these guys were struggling to hold their card, they are pish, as Dodger would say.

I can't feel sorry for them tbh, as the guy ranked 126, who just misses out, banked 750k last year, without taking any sponsorship into account.

The guys who miss out on the European tour are not so lucky.

 

[Ethan]

No guy should putt with a 28 1/2" putter. He looked daft. Didn't even putt that well with it, especially from range.

There is a reason these guys were struggling to hold their card, they are pish, as Dodger would say.

I can't feel sorry for them tbh, as the guy ranked 126, who just misses out, banked 750k last year, without taking any sponsorship into account.

The guys who miss out on the European tour are not so lucky.

I don't agree that Garrigus is pish. I have played golf with him and, to borrow the Americanism, his ball striking is awesome. F***ing awesome, actually.

Someone is going to finish 126th so long as there are more than 125 players. A few players yesterday showed a lot of guts to pull out a performance on the last day. Thatcher looked a bit leaky at times, admittedly, but Garrigus went after it all day and didn't drop a shot.

Magnolia is a decent enough course, not the toughest but can be tricky enough. The 17th is a tough hole played at 400 yards, so I can't imagine what it is like at 480.

 

[USER1999]

I have played Magnolia, and it is a nice course. Palm too, and LBV.

It was interesting to watch, in the way that car crashes are, as it was the last chance for these guys to secure their cards, but in terms of golf watching, I'd rather watch a comp where the top 50 are playing instead of the no bodies.

Garigus just needs a decent putter. If having it cut stupidly short was a good idea, others would be doing it too. They aren't. The only other one in the World to have done this is JustOne. This is even less popular than S&T.

 

[MashieNiblick]

There is a reason these guys were struggling to hold their card, they are pish, as Dodger would say.

What does that make us then

 

[USER1999]

Club golfers?

 

[richart]

I have played Magnolia, and it is a nice course. Palm too, and LBV.

It was interesting to watch, in the way that car crashes are, as it was the last chance for these guys to secure their cards, but in terms of golf watching, I'd rather watch a comp where the top 50 are playing instead of the no bodies.

Garigus just needs a decent putter. If having it cut stupidly short was a good idea, others would be doing it too. They aren't. The only other one in the World to have done this is JustOne. This is even less popular than S&T.

If he finished 21 under he must have putted resaonably well

 

[JustOne]

If having it cut stupidly short was a good idea, others would be doing it too. They aren't. The only other one in the World to have done this is JustOne. This is even less popular than S&T.

If he finished 21 under he must have putted resaonably well

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I rest my case

Thatcher holding onto his card was amazing, starting 179th, needing a 2nd place finish and getting it! You can't write that stuff... great little putt on the last.

 

[USER1999]

His iron play was pretty tidy, and he drives the ball a mile. Long putts though, were pretty poor. Left it about 15 foot short on one of them, and that isn't what you expect from a pro golfer at this level. Hi short putter might be fine for 10 foot and in, but from 35 foot, it wasn't up to it, and his exagerated stroke looked very clumsy.

 

[Ethan]

Hard to say someone had bad putting day after a 64. I saw him hole some nice putts.

He has changed his putter a few times. At the St Jude, he had a Cameron Kombi. At Disney he had a Cameron Squareback. You need a bit of weight in the head when the putter is only 28.5 inches long.

 

[gregbwfc]

Just watched the re-run.
Thatcher rediscovered his bottle jusssst in time

 

[JustOne]

Just watched the re-run.
Thatcher rediscovered his bottle jusssst in time

Makes you wonder if he had a little word with Spencer Levin and begged him to 3-putt

 

[Ethan]

Just watched the re-run.
Thatcher rediscovered his bottle jusssst in time

Makes you wonder if he had a little word with Spencer Levin and begged him to 3-putt

I thought it looked like Levin chucked it deliberately.

 

[JustOne]

Just watched the re-run.
Thatcher rediscovered his bottle jusssst in time

Makes you wonder if he had a little word with Spencer Levin and begged him to 3-putt

I thought it looked like Levin chucked it deliberately.

Yeh, after making that 50 footer for par on the 17th it's hard to decipher how he could leave his putt on 18 sooooo short....and then under hit the next one too.