American golf fans

[IUFG]

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.

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.

The Open, WES, The

[WES]

The Open, WES, The

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.

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.

[PSRB]

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.

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 majors

[IUFG]

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.

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.

It's not pretentious bóllocks to refer to The FA as The FA is it? Or do you call it the English FA?*

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/

[SWv2]

It's not pretentious bóllocks to refer to The FA as The FA is it? Or do you call it the English FA?*

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.

You lot are very pretentious and arrogant all the same though I do agree with you, it's just The Open.

[IUFG]

Not forgetting of course the FAI.

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.

[SWv2]

'Us lot' were just very good at inventing sports back in the day, then becoming shít at them.

The Jockanese invented Golf, you can't disown them one second and then claim them as yours next.

Football I will give you though I do believe the Chinese are now trying to claim it as theirs.

[PSRB]

The Jockanese invented Golf, you can't disown them one second and then claim them as yours next.

Football I will give you though I do believe the Chinese are now trying to claim it as theirs.

See: Murray, A

[IUFG]

The Jockanese invented Golf, you can't disown them one second and then claim them as yours next.

Trusay, sw. It is them that want to disown the UK.*

* I'd happily let that happen just to shut up thon wee Jimmy Krankie lookalike, Nicola Sturgeon

[Luis Anaconda]

The Jockanese invented Golf, you can't disown them one second and then claim them as yours next.

Football I will give you though I do believe the Chinese are now trying to claim it as theirs.

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 world