What a complete bunch of no nothing ****wits.
Printable View
What a complete bunch of no nothing ****wits.
Can't wait for the Ryder Cup - apparently coming over in record numbers :( Thank God it is in ParisQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Also appears Mickelson can play to his own set of rulesQuote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
He's been watching too much Happy Gilmore imoQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Lucky boy from what I have read but then again the rules are ****ed up. It seems he couldn't be disqualified under one rule he broke because he had broken another one which didn't carry a dqQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
No, they applied the rules correctly, although you could argue the rules need changing.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
American golf fans are muppets at the best of times (YOU DA MAN!!!!!) but drunken NY golf fans are apparently a special kind of awful.
The criticism of the course made me laugh, though. Had that been Carnoustie the British golf media would have been going on about how this is proper golf and not the sanitized American version. :nod:
Simply not true - plenty of criticism when there are been high-scoring Opens if the course has been to blame as opposed to ridiculous conditions. Personally I thought it was great entertainment for the most part. Disappointed Fleetwood didn't win thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by WES
That's not really what I meant. Links golf often relies on the weather to make the course challenging and often that can make it unplayable. It snowed in the British Open (yes, the British Open) a few years back. Some time before that Tiger Woods played in a gale and shot over par, can't remember the course. The British media were saying things like 'you won't find the perfect conditions of Augusta over here Mr Woods' in their typical establishment snobbish way. The next day the winds died down and Woods broke the course record. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Anyway, the point is that putting a course next to the sea in northern Scotland probably isn't the brightest idea if you want to remove as much of the luck element as possible yet somehow that is sensible while the pin positions and speed of the greens at Shinnecock was an outrage.
But like you, I really enjoyed it. The best shots still win and watching the pros look more like the amateurs was refreshingly nice.
*******s... the USPGA have made cock ups like this on setting US open course up before, including this golf course... please show me where we have had high scoring opens where the set up is to blame rather than the conditions? You will NEVER get an Open course where the greens are unplayable due to pin positions when the weather is forecast to be bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Is this yet another sport you are showing your total lack of knowledge?
The Open, WES, TheQuote:
Originally Posted by WES
Nah, not having any of that pretentious *******s. Golf in the UK has far too much of that attitude for my taste. Which may be why young people are abandoning it in record numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
The British Open. Nowt wrong with that. It's my second favourite of the four. Masters, British Open, US Open and then the PGA nonsense which shouldn't really qualify imo.
No, it's The Open, nothing snobby about it. Ridicules that the US have 3 majorsQuote:
Originally Posted by WES
It's not pretentious bóllocks to refer to The FA as The FA is it? Or do you call it the English FA?*Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Neither is it to refer to The Open as The Open.
* The others seem to include their country in their title
www.fff.fr/
www.cbf.com
www.knvb.nl/
www.rfef.es/
www.figc.it
and of course www.scottishfa.co.uk/
www.thefa.com/
Not forgetting of course the FAI.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
You lot are very pretentious and arrogant all the same though I do agree with you, it's just The Open.
'Us lot' were just very good at inventing sports back in the day, then becoming shít at them.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Yeah there is. There are many Open Championships in many countries and every country prefaces theirs with the country name to distinguish them. Calling the British Open as The Open makes it sound like it is somehow better. People like to deny it but we all know it's true.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Mind you, I would actually agree that it is the best of the Open Championships, but that's just my opinion. The pretense I refer to is rife in golf in the UK however. Gentlemen must wear a jacket in the clubhouse after 4pm blah, blah, blah...
Can't stand that nonsense.
The Jockanese invented Golf, you can't disown them one second and then claim them as yours next.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Football I will give you though I do believe the Chinese are now trying to claim it as theirs.
See: Murray, AQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Trusay, sw. It is them that want to disown the UK.*Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
* I'd happily let that happen just to shut up thon wee Jimmy Krankie lookalike, Nicola Sturgeon
Strangely enough when you are the first country to have an Open championship you won't prefix it with the the country... so ours is The Open, why should we change the name afterwardsQuote:
Originally Posted by WES
Also, why Wimbledon isn't The British OpenQuote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
As Dara Ó Briain points out in his excellent book on the English (Tickling the English) we didn't really invent sports merely unified certain ones under a set of Laws - games similar to rugby, football etc existed all over the worldQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Well strictly speaking Wimbledon isn't Wimbledon.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
It is just held there.