― 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
― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link
let's play golf
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Yay!
― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.- Try different keywords.- Try more general keywords.- Try fewer keywords.
― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
ahem:http://sports.yahoo.golfserv.com/apps/courses/profile.asp?Crs=14815
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link
9-hole courses: dud.18-hole courses where one of the hole designs is repeated a half-dozen times: dud.Lots of changes in elevation: classic.
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Golf is classic so long as you're playing well...
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I think "links" golf has something to do with those weird golf course where the 18th green is also the 1st green, the 2nd also the 17th &c. (like uh st andrew's?) hence the name "links", but I'm not entirely sure.
where does the name "links" come from?
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Felix Leiter (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Thursday, 14 July 2005 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
No punches are spared for the PGA's awful racist history, and yet, I still want to play at Augusta. And I don't even golf!
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
the "culture" surrounding it can seem quite exclusive and overdefined in a boring and elitist way but I don't assume all golfers/people who play golf fall into that trap but, since it is the way, they probably always have to compromise to it, a little, which is offputting
I don't mind watching it on the telly but wouldn't choose to, really. I have been to a tournament or so and the day was OK but not for the golf, so much. like any sport I don't really like to watch (a lot of which I (would probably) quite enjoy playing, for fun), I might watch the final day or so, if there's nothing else to do/friends are watching it
my problem is talking about golf
I cannot stand people talking about golf
not talking about a tournament, if it's on, but, I'm sure, I wouldn't be interested in that either
people talking about their own games, especially to people who haven't invited it or expressed any interest
and loudly
one of the most boring things
(he (the person that prompted this) also talks about money and, probably, cars (another two of the most boring things))
(I used to play golf, btw, and was a member at my local club (years ago))
(crazy golf and pitch & putt are, of course, classic)
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 July 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 July 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 July 2006 09:57 (seventeen years 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 (three weeks ago) link
Birdoes birdies birdies
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 May 2024 22:28 (three 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 Gillis’ 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 (two weeks ago) link
But two 62 scores is not great
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 May 2024 10:17 (two weeks 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 America’s] 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link
Great finish.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 08:06 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link