Golf - Classic or Dud?

Yeah--not necessarily the best choice if you're trying to deflect controversy.

Who did Zirin expect them to invite, Jane Fonda and Angela Davis???

So close to a final round McIlroy/Tiger pairing--would have been great. (Damn other-guy making all those birdies.)

When is the ryder cup?

fed ex cup championship is next wkend so prob the following wk

25th-30th

ok thanks!

wow, six inches shorter and he has a tap-in for a playoff

yea that was an insane shot

can't figure out if tiger is the challenger to mcilroy or vice versa these days.

this is going to ruffle some feathers

"What makes it such an awful position to be in is I have grown up my whole life playing for Ireland under the Golfing Union of Ireland umbrella, But the fact is, I’ve always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don’t know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the UK than with Ireland. And so I have to weigh that up against the fact that I’ve always played for Ireland and so it is tough. Whatever I do, I know my decision is going to upset some people but I just hope the vast majority will understand."

Do you reckon? I think people will have been ready for it. He is a big Ulster rugby fan etc.

"big Ulster rugby fan etc" a polite way of saying it

it might ruffle some feathers but surely the majority of ppl are far enough along now to realise that UK citizens living in NI might identify with that side of the heritage as easily and legitimately as eg Irvine insisting on the tricolour in F1. Can't imagine it'll be a big deal.

Forget it jake, it's Portadown

what is annoying is it will slightly affect our ability to cheer him on as one of our own, and that's going to be important when he starts winning 3/4 majors a year.

if you accept that, you lose at least some of the ability to cheer any of the NI athletes. I don't think he has a problem with being claimed by both sides, it's got to be something that all NI celebrities are aware of. Can't imagine that he's asking the irish to stop cheering for him, he's just clarifying his own position, which he's obv got the right to do.

I don't find it gratifying when someone who identifies as Irish feels the need to use their celebrity to have a go at the UK heritage of NI either.

it's not really that I'd stop from the POV of disowning him or something, more that I'd feel less entitled to do so after he's had to sort of declare himself as UK. but yeah of course will always root for him. what's weird is that both him and g-mac seem Irish to me.

na no fuckin way gmac has such a unionist chin it's untrue, they both do tbh. it's in the walk, too, a kinda straightback duckwaddle that gmac has, i'm tellin ya we'd spot in in the communion line in an instant.

pure van morrison head on the two boys, surely

I guess I mean more the way they speak. Rory looks Irish for sure tho.

hmmm idk, van morrison head like

clown head, a bloke in my class in school was the image of him. surname walsh.

irl cackle @ unionist chin. and the walk thing is so true!

https://twitter.com/McIlroyRory/status/245216699652132864/photo/1/large

everything about McIlroy suggests he's the product of a mixed marriage. as you say, it's going to be an issue with NI celebs. I think he could become someone for both communities, sort of like Best (who was Protestant iirc).

I'm p sure Gmac leans Irish but I understand why neither of them want to come down firmly on one side. They wave the NI flag after tournaments.

couldn't understand any of the last ten posts

really looking forward to tiger and rory duking it out over the next few years, though part of me feels sad for tiger - it almost seems beneath him to have to chase some young gun like this - ten years ago we all thought he'd be dominating into his forties

idk, a year ago if you offered tiger the chance to be duking it out with *anyone* for top spots again he'd have taken it i'm sure. And mcilroy isn't beneath anyone as an opponent, dude is setting about dominating the sport in his own right

phil shot a 29 on the back-9 just now (still has the front to play)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10jORLiU7Ak

amazing circus shot from sergio - somehow his drive found rest 10 feet up in a tree, so he climbs the tree & hits a backwards, one-handed shot into the fairway

reminds me of ernie's par out of a bush in the british open years back, which for some reason is impossible to find on youtube

lol @ 'tree iron'

anyone betting on the masters… ?

was just thinking about this.

can't access odds in work but i might try and get involved when i get home. tho after adam scott burned me for the open i am not sure i can stomach another failure.

I know nothing about golf but i've got money on Kuchar and Watney. Yeah!

^ privilege

am only in a pool but i like stricker a bit. also kj choi always plays well in augusta iirc

im v curious 2 see snedeker too. if hes healthy, dude was killing it back in february

I'll root for Tiger, as always. I'm still on the fence as to whether he'll ever win another major. I feel like it's like an all-or-nothing question: if he's able to win one, he'll then breeze past Nicklaus within the next few years.

ok, leishman birdies 13, 14, 15, 16

saw him win in hfd last year, his only win on tour

now that i think abt it, bubbas 1st tour win was here too. cromwell, ct catapults u 2 the green jacket, i shouldve realized

Good shout on kj so far Mr crunch

This 14 yr old kid's game is ridiculous.

wtf 1 stroke penalty for slow play on guan? never heard that shit called ever

racists

yeah total bummer it had to happen to him

freddieeee

fukkin freddie & angel cabrera both play so well here

last time someone got a slow play stroke penalty in a major was 2004

"bababooie" heard after Tiger drive

yeah she was days

― call all destroyer, Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:38 PM (2 years ago)

i still think about this post

::lights joint::