Pin-seeker
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I'd hardly call the standard of golf rubbish. & yes some of the players are easy on the eye. Pretty sure the players would take it as a compliment :thup:
Solheim Cup
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I'd hardly call the standard of golf rubbish. & yes some of the players are easy on the eye. Pretty sure the players would take it as a compliment :thup:
Robobum
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I'd give Ciganda my 4up start and still fancy my chances.
FairwayDodger
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Crow
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But it sounds like al these people slagging the event off are glued to their sets and not missing a shot.
Pin-seeker
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Exactly! They can write a post complaining but can't manage to change the channel on their TV
The commentary is appalling. Murray doing a decent enough job but the others are way out of their depth. Assault of the ear drums before you even get to the screeching fans
Pin-seeker
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Robobum
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Lexi Thomson looks a proper player
kev_off_the_tee
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Those blue shorts do nowt for the Euro lasses
In_The_Rough
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Hope it is better coverage than the Womens Open on the BBC the other week from St Andrews now that was painful to watch. Not got Sky thankfully so will not be watching 1 second of it not would I had I got Sky installed. Hope Europe win though.
FairwayDodger
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Some brilliant golf being played now. Particularly by the Americans, unfortunately!
mchivers
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Not sure if it has been mentioned but wie can't put from outside 5 foot.
Hasn't sank one all round
Hasn't sank one all round
Grogger
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Im finding the crowd more annoying here than at the Ryder cup. At one point only one woman was chanting U...S...A!!! So embarrassing!!!
palindromicbob
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Watched a bit of it and found it quiet good overall. I'd happily be accused of swinging like a lady if I was hitting the shots most of them can.
richart
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They are just waiting for a bad shot, so they can come on here and moan, or get a cheap laugh. Amazes me how people on here delight in being negative.
Seem to remember Tiger Woods having problems in getting his opening tee shots at the Ryder Cup within 50 yards of the fairway. Perhaps golf under pressure is not that easy.
Robobum
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They are just waiting for a bad shot, so they can come on here and moan, or get a cheap laugh. Amazes me how people on here delight in being negative.
Seem to remember Tiger Woods having problems in getting his opening tee shots at the Ryder Cup within 50 yards of the fairway. Perhaps golf under pressure is not that easy.
Indeed, and no one mentions TW much at all do they? Yawn
Didn't have to sit there waiting for bad shots as they were all over the coverage. As I said in an earlier post, whether it is nerves or not, it is still golf of the poorest order. I felt genuinely happy for the European girl who finally contributed after 13 holes or so - it also went to show how good a player Petterson is to play on her own and still be level in 4bbb - you can ignore that +ve line as it'll be easier for you to highlight me picking on the rubbish.
I also said that Lexi Thomson looked a proper player - cant win either way.
NWJocko
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Just an observation about the coverage of the women's game......
Looking for the scores this morning on bbc website, nothing on the main page, not even a link to a story in the golf page. In the golf page there isn't even a bbc article, just a link to the official site for the leaderboard.
Not exactly the level of visibility to grow awareness of the women's game.
Watched a little last night and was a bit if a mixed bag. Not sure if its the massive greens but they were struggling to get it close with approach shots (from what I saw).......
Looking for the scores this morning on bbc website, nothing on the main page, not even a link to a story in the golf page. In the golf page there isn't even a bbc article, just a link to the official site for the leaderboard.
Not exactly the level of visibility to grow awareness of the women's game.
Watched a little last night and was a bit if a mixed bag. Not sure if its the massive greens but they were struggling to get it close with approach shots (from what I saw).......
Stub
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Don't care what anyone says, I think the Solheim is well worth watching and the standard of golf is (as with all pro golf) something I can only dream about.
As a high handicapper who took the game up in my 60's after previous sporting careers in rugby and sailing I have an inconsistent game but well remember being on our club driving range spanking what I thought were great straight drives to the 200 yard mark. A lady appeared in the next booth and after warming up proceeded to whack drives way past mine with a very stylish swing. Suitably chastened I slunk away to be told the lady was a former English Ladies (amateur) champion and Curtis Cup player.
I have never been tempted to belittle ladies golf. That lady and some of her colleagues at our club are formidable performers with games I would be pleased to rival :mmm:
As a high handicapper who took the game up in my 60's after previous sporting careers in rugby and sailing I have an inconsistent game but well remember being on our club driving range spanking what I thought were great straight drives to the 200 yard mark. A lady appeared in the next booth and after warming up proceeded to whack drives way past mine with a very stylish swing. Suitably chastened I slunk away to be told the lady was a former English Ladies (amateur) champion and Curtis Cup player.
I have never been tempted to belittle ladies golf. That lady and some of her colleagues at our club are formidable performers with games I would be pleased to rival :mmm:
AmandaJR
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Yep...
FairwayDodger
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There were a lot of bad shots (as there are in every male pro tournament) but there were even more great shots and I know which I prefer to focus on and it's a shame some men are looking for every opportunity to belittle the entire women's game. Greens seemed incredibly hard though - lots of good shots scaring the pin and then running miles away while other shots pitching in a similar area were coming up short.
Ciganda had a bad day, no doubt about it, but that happens to everybody. When Rory has a bad day nobody is on here saying that the standard of the men's game is poor; instead it's "what's happening with Rory". None of the women playing at this level are bad players, my thinking is "what's happened to Carlota?"
Robo - it was good to see your comment on lexi she really was on fire at that point. Shame (for her) she got wound up by the shenanigans of the drop on 15 as it really seemed to disrupt her game. How many 300+ yard drives did she hit? Brilliant.
As for comments about screeching fans? A predominantly female crowd cheers at a higher pitch than a male one, go figure! Sad to hear all the "get in the hole" nonsense though but at least it was only on shots that were actually going into greens and no "mash potato" fortunately!
Ciganda had a bad day, no doubt about it, but that happens to everybody. When Rory has a bad day nobody is on here saying that the standard of the men's game is poor; instead it's "what's happening with Rory". None of the women playing at this level are bad players, my thinking is "what's happened to Carlota?"
Robo - it was good to see your comment on lexi she really was on fire at that point. Shame (for her) she got wound up by the shenanigans of the drop on 15 as it really seemed to disrupt her game. How many 300+ yard drives did she hit? Brilliant.
As for comments about screeching fans? A predominantly female crowd cheers at a higher pitch than a male one, go figure! Sad to hear all the "get in the hole" nonsense though but at least it was only on shots that were actually going into greens and no "mash potato" fortunately!
