The Future of professional golf is in good hands....

[MendieGK]

I'm sure this has been discussed a few times before, but i am watching highlights of Sundays PGA and i just saw something that confirmed - the future of golf is golden.

Jason Day had a 60ft putt on 17, he knocked it up to about 1ft.

Jordan Spieth walked across the line of the camera, and there he was....giving Jason Day a thumbs up. Congratulating his opponent he is desperately trying to beat.

Different class.

Jason Day, Rory and Spieth are the future of golf. Its going to be a fascinating 10-15 years.

 

[guest100718]

Yes, I remember watching Spieth a few years back and you could see then he was going to be a top golfer. days major win was well overdue.

 

[Daveh922]

Agreed.

Watching the Pros act like this is brilliant. Chuffed to bits for Day as well on his win - well deserved

 

[Alex1975]

I'm sure this has been discussed a few times before, but i am watching highlights of Sundays PGA and i just saw something that confirmed - the future of golf is golden.

Jason Day had a 60ft putt on 17, he knocked it up to about 1ft.

Jordan Spieth walked across the line of the camera, and there he was....giving Jason Day a thumbs up. Congratulating his opponent he is desperately trying to beat.

Different class.

Jason Day, Rory and Spieth are the future of golf. Its going to be a fascinating 10-15 years.

Cough cough* Justin Rose!

 

[pokerjoke]

Yes it seems golf has a some great battles ahead.

However giving the thumbs up for a great putt is no different to saying "great putt" as most golfers would do[sorry to pick a hole].

It only takes a bitter golfer to not say anything or acknowledge a great shot.

Could Day,Speith and Rory become another "Big Three"[maybe] it seams to me though golf has a great depth of talent at the moment and you could put 20 names forward at every major,could that have been done in the past?

 

[garyinderry]

Dustin would be right up there if he could stop having brain farts.

His final 17 holes were amazing. He can rip courses apart.

Really think he needs a strong caddy rather than his brother.

 

[MendieGK]

Cough cough* Justin Rose!

I love Rose but he is not of the 'next' generation. He's 10years older than those 3

 

[Ethan]

Cough cough* Justin Rose!

Justin is a great player and seems like a great guy but he is in a different golf generation from the other young guns.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Some great players about and I agree that the next few years will be exciting to watch the young guns going for it

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I agree about exciting times ahead. I however don't believe the buddy-buddy behaviour of our current crop of top young players is anything more than I'd expect from very well paid 'role models' of young men - and not really any different from previous generations. So I won't be going out of my way to congratulate golfers on being courteous and congratulatory to each other - nice to see as it is as it does demonstrate to watchers - especially non-golfers - the core etiquette and camaraderie principles of golf.

 

[hovis]

I agree about exciting times ahead. I however don't believe the buddy-buddy behaviour of our current crop of top young players is anything more than I'd expect from very well paid 'role models' of young men - and not really any different from previous generations. So I won't be going out of my way to congratulate golfers on being courteous and congratulatory to each other - nice to see as it is as it does demonstrate to watchers - especially non-golfers - the core etiquette and camaraderie principles of golf.

My thoughts exactly. these top golfers have all kinds of pr teams "advising " them of how to be marketable. To say someone is a legend because he walks across a geeen to say well done it a bit too much for me.
Many times have i congratulated a golfer on a win and secretly inside i want to punch him in the face.

A golf magazine i was reading in America said they're fed up of Jordan speith riding the " my sisters special " train in order to win favoritism. A big accusation but i wouldn't put it past any paid sportsman and their management team

 

[MendieGK]

My thoughts exactly. these top golfers have all kinds of pr teams "advising " them of how to be marketable. To say someone is a legend because he walks across a geeen to say well done it a bit too much for me.
Many times have i congratulated a golfer on a win and secretly inside i want to punch him in the face.

A golf magazine i was reading in America said they're fed up of Jordan speith riding the " my sisters special " train in order to win favoritism. A big accusation but i wouldn't put it past any paid sportsman and their management team

Wow, you lot are cynical.

 

[JV24601]

Totally agree with the OP.

It's their whole attitude to golf and the way they conduct themselves. They seem like great people and I've thought exactly the same thing a few times of late.

There will be some right battles to look forward to over the next few years.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Wow, you lot are cynical.

I'm not being cynical - just saying that they are acting as I'd expect any golfer to act. I'm not into comparing their behaviour with that of, say, footballers. Just because pro golfers behaviour to each other in competition is that much better than that of most footballers - that just makes them golfers and not special on that front. Any other form of behaviour would be reprehensible - see for example the fuss over Kiawah Island - War on the Shore.

So let's not 'big up' these players for behaving as normal golfers - but by all means let's big them up as a brilliant generation having the potential of giving us great things over the coming years.

 

[thesheriff]

The guys at the top of the game do behave admirably in terms of sportsmanship and class etc. But for the game to be in good hands I'm looking for entertainment value as well.

Jason day seems nice, if a bit robotic. McIlroy has retained a bit of the common touch and seems like he'd be a good laugh. Speith is rapidly growing on me with his mid ball flight commentaries. When, in the heat of battle on Sunday, he couldn't contain his frustration at a pitch and angrily shouted 'I always leave it short, it's just a tendency I have' I thought it was the most brilliant and ironically inoffensive outburst I'd heard.

Looking forward to watching more battles in the future.

 

[alexbrownmp]

I agree about exciting times ahead. I however don't believe the buddy-buddy behaviour of our current crop of top young players is anything more than I'd expect from very well paid 'role models' of young men - and not really any different from previous generations. So I won't be going out of my way to congratulate golfers on being courteous and congratulatory to each other - nice to see as it is as it does demonstrate to watchers - especially non-golfers - the core etiquette and camaraderie principles of golf.

spot on.
Speith and Day are great friends as well. If I played against a great friend I would want them to do exceptionally well, with me doing a small bit better

 

[Mr A]

Speith is rapidly growing on me with his mid ball flight commentaries. When, in the heat of battle on Sunday, he couldn't contain his frustration at a pitch and angrily shouted 'I always leave it short, it's just a tendency I have' I thought it was the most brilliant and ironically inoffensive outburst I'd heard.

That has nothing on him saying, and I quote 'Gosh dang it! Holy snap hooks!' on the first day lol. I like his mid round commentary, provides an interesting insight.