Playing golf is something I won't do till I'm a good bit older but it is the best activity for people as they get older. Very social, not too strenuous, lots of dinners/drinking sessions. I love golf on BBC, Alex Hay is such a polite and good humoured man. There's no sport left on TV with as little glitz as Golf right down to the commentators.
Ah golf.....I even love the rippling applause and the noise when they hit the ball
― Ronan, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― davel, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Rant over.
― Emma, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
am sad i am missing the open (already missed wimbledon and the eng sri lanka test series) but the good thing abt missing the open is not hearing Peter allis' 'commentary'. It's just torture really.
― Julio Desouza, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RickyT, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
They then started creating artificial coastal scrubland all over the world.
apparently American golf courses are more "artificial" than Irish & Scottish ones, and there is some pressure on courses over here to become less natural so as to appeal to yankee dollar.
but whatever, it's all golf = all boring middle class men off playing their boring game and cosying up to the boss over a few gin and tonics and then drink driving home.
― DV, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
The fact that there is no player interaction only increases the enjoyment of the game for me. Sublime and no jock0's around to spoil your day.
― lawrence kansas, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
golfing with the boss=dud, which is why almost nobody does it.
― jel --, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― briania, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
My husband streaking across golf courses at sunrise in the early 70's=classic.
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Miniture Golf- A good time for druken teenagers on a Saturday Night. Watch where your standing at the ramp over water hole, I was hit with a flying ball and got a bruised collar bone. It was funny till the booze wore off...
― brg30, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Classic Allis - Hay exchange from yesterday;
Allis (lamenting Seve's withdrawal due to being rubbish now): 'I'm afraid there aren't too many things you get better at as you get older'.
Hay: 'Sweeping?'.
― Ally C, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
today they showed a bunch of CLIPS together [highlights, perhaps] with some krazy 'dance' music over the top.
one commentator: is that the sort of music you like to dance to?
another commentator: no, actually. I'm more of a gavotte-merchant.
I have an inkling that the another one was allis. if so: AllyC is OTM.
― RJG, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
and the end of the open yesterday was rather thrilling
― chris, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Allis: A mention to Mrs [x] who's just about recovered now from the shock of the burglary. I hope they catch the culprits soon. Hay: Terrible. [Proceeds to say something about appropriate capital punishment to apply when they are caught] Allis: Ooh no, surely a bit of flogging first. So the punishment lasts longer. Hay: Oh yes, of course.
― Jeff W, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:29 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 July 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
i hit golf balls this week. i have more natural ability at it than most other things that involve hitting balls. fun. and v. satisfying when you actually get it up in the air and far away. though i usually don't get quite as much distance as others. dunno if that's a strength thing or a technique thing (or the stella i had?). not too much exercise if you're just driving, though.
(we never heard of Africa in America, btw. TS: chatty, bubbleheaded non-news v. snide content.)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 19 July 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 19 July 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Saturday, 19 July 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 19 July 2003 16:20 (twenty years ago) link
I've started playing again recently too and my handicaps gone down from a 14 to about an 11/10 - played ardeer and carded an 84 (an unecessary 7 [!!!], and three unecessary 6s) but shoulda been a 79. that is playing to handicap I guess (it was 14) but I reckon markers would have given me the 7 and 6s as 5s (taking into account the rest of my card.)
I love golf.
soft hands!
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
do you like it? do you play? are you watching wentworth? will you play golf with me?
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
christ mcilroy
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:38 (eight months ago) link
i want to say that i don't care about the ryder cup
but more importantly i want the americans to lose
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 September 2023 04:23 (eight months ago) link
You are getting your wish
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 September 2023 10:17 (eight months ago) link
5UP McIlroy/Fitzpatrick v Morikawa/Schauffele (6)
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:10 (eight months ago) link
Rahm was an animal out there.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 September 2023 22:01 (eight months ago) link
he rode his luck but you can do that
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 September 2023 22:06 (eight months ago) link
5UP Hovland/Aberg v Scheffler/Koepka (6)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 07:06 (eight months ago) link
go home yankee scum
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 30 September 2023 08:15 (eight months ago) link
koepka humiliated 9&7
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 30 September 2023 08:16 (eight months ago) link
10&8 is mathematically the biggest thrashing possible isn't it. Almost, Brooks!
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 08:20 (eight months ago) link
mcilroy match nicely poised
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 30 September 2023 08:47 (eight months ago) link
some outrageous putting out there
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 30 September 2023 08:53 (eight months ago) link
Understand from several sources that the US team room is fractured, a split led predominantly by Patrick Cantlay.Cantlay believes players should be paid to participate in the Ryder Cup, and is demonstrating his frustration at not being paid by refusing to wear a team cap.— Jamie Weir (@jamiecweir) September 30, 2023
― Iโm going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:00 (eight months ago) link
lmao should put the wee fuc on the next flight home
rahm is a monster
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:05 (eight months ago) link
Actively recoiled from the vibes seeping through from this photohttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7Q1K5KXYAAXr4V?format=jpg&name=large
― Iโm going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:05 (eight months ago) link
He wore a cap at last year's Presidents Cup, for which players ARE paid.Cantlay also refused to attend the gala dinner earlier in the week and, along with close friend Xander Schauffele, is sitting is a separate area of the team dressing room.— Jamie Weir (@jamiecweir) September 30, 2023
― Iโm going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:08 (eight months ago) link
he's taking a brave stand against this woke golf bullshit
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:10 (eight months ago) link
9&7
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:41 (eight months ago) link
Cantlay played out of his skin to get the US winning that last session: 3-1.
Five behind
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 16:56 (eight months ago) link
is shane a biffo
Shane Lowry has been outside enough Offaly nightclubs at 2 in the morning to know how to get a lad in a taxi and defuse a situation efficiently. This is experience https://t.co/871O2KS9bJ— Minister for Spuds at the Dept of Bacon & Cabbage (@FCTwenteBenson) September 30, 2023
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 30 September 2023 19:59 (eight months ago) link
Yes
― Iโm going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:13 (eight months ago) link
100% yes
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 21:55 (eight months ago) link
Sigh this is too close..
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 1 October 2023 14:54 (eight months ago) link
Surely not. Half a fucking point
Straka v Thomas 1UP (17)Lowry A/S Spieth (16)1UP Fleetwood v Fowler (15)MacIntyre A/S Clark (14)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 1 October 2023 14:59 (eight months ago) link
pulling away from the golf to make luke donald forceblub for the cameras was where i switched off. absolutely rank coverage
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 October 2023 15:50 (eight months ago) link
mmm that's a shame
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:30 (eight months ago) link
take that ya wee hat xunt
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:36 (eight months ago) link
kind of agree with cantlay, but also he's made $10m this year so fuck off
maybe he should have just turned down the invitation rather than show up and be pissy
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 October 2023 19:10 (eight months ago) link
As a former Ryder Cup marshal, I endorse this message from Shane Lowry.. ๐๐ pic.twitter.com/0XHHCu2RCR— lawrencedonegan (@lawrencedonegan) October 1, 2023
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Sunday, 1 October 2023 20:24 (eight months ago) link
One more reason why we love Jon Rahm!๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ Rahm explained why LIV Golf will never be for him. #jonrahm #jonrahmpga #jonrahmlivgolf pic.twitter.com/LG3NV7JCqT— Mr Topes Golf (@MrTopesGolf) June 15, 2022
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Thursday, 7 December 2023 18:23 (five months ago) link
I was with a grade 2 class in Listowel, Ontario, today, and one of the boys was Corey Conners' nephew (brother of his mom). "He's rich, you know"--he laughed. (Also said his uncle had won a million dollars when he won the Masters; I said I didn't think so but let it go--I don't doubt that he won a million somewhere.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 23:18 (four months ago) link
ok so do they pump fake bird noises into these broadcasts or are they like mic'ing up the birds in the trees
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 02:50 (one month ago) link
if 65 guys are under par, your 'major' isn't hard enough
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 May 2024 22:21 (two weeks ago) link
Birdoes birdies birdies
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 May 2024 22:28 (two weeks ago) link
What the hell
― frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 12:04 (two weeks ago) link
God has a plan
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 May 2024 12:08 (two weeks ago) link
Awesome.
Here is video that I took of Scheffler being arrested: https://t.co/8UPZKvPCCf pic.twitter.com/9Tbp2tyrJh— Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) May 17, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 May 2024 12:17 (two weeks ago) link
Scottie Scheffler's mugshot from Louisville Metropolitan Department of Corrections. pic.twitter.com/bcJn54Nu5x— Golf Digest (@GolfDigest) May 17, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 May 2024 12:42 (two weeks ago) link
I went to Valhalla for the PGA Championship in 2000, when Tiger outdueled Bob May to win it. (I was not there on the final day.)
Anyway, it was a very difficult place to get into and out of even then. Amazing that in the 24 years since, they haven't prioritized creating new (private, when necessary) access for, at the very least, the golfers and other key people involved with large events.
Not mentioned in this thread is that a guy going to work at the course today was hit and killed by a bus while he was walking from his car to the entrance.
― alpine static, Friday, 17 May 2024 17:22 (two weeks ago) link
The police write-up of Scottie Scheffler's arrest is a work of genius: "Detective Gillisโ uniform pants, valued at approximately $80, were damaged beyond repair."
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Friday, 17 May 2024 19:13 (two weeks ago) link
lowry putting for the record low round in major history
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 May 2024 21:05 (two weeks ago) link
lil nervous on that stroke maybe.. still not too shabby
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 May 2024 21:07 (two weeks ago) link
Good to see Scheffler is human
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 May 2024 10:16 (one week ago) link
But two 62 scores is not great
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 May 2024 10:17 (one week ago) link
After winning the 2020 U.S. Open, DeChambeau celebrated his victory at Trump National Golf Club Westchester with Eric Trump.[65] Following the 2021 United States Capitol attack and the PGA of America's decision to remove the 2022 PGA Championship from Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, DeChambeau had the Trump logo removed from his bag. He said, "It's unfortunate and it is what it is and I understand it. At the end of the day, whatever [the PGA of Americaโs] moves are, they are. I really don't have a comment".[66] DeChambeau played a round of golf with Donald Trump two months later.[67] He also played with Donald Trump, alongside Eric Trump and Dustin Johnson, in a pro-am round at the 2022 LIV Golf Bedminster event. He said afterwards, "It was an honor. I mean, anytime you get to play with a president, whether past or sitting, it's just an honor, no matter who it is."
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:34 (one week ago) link
That was a fun final round. Xander had to earn it and that final putt was about as close as you can get to missing. Insanely clutch approach with the ball at knee level and standing in the sand. Brysons 17th hole is just about the craziest thing youll ever see
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Monday, 20 May 2024 06:14 (one week ago) link
Great finish.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 08:06 (one week ago) link
narrative wrote itself as schauffele started to wobble
the up and down finish to win was superb
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 20 May 2024 08:09 (one week ago) link