'Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing
But different than the day before'
'Met a dwarf that was no good, dressed like Little Red Riding Hood'
'Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd'
No, they applied the rules correctly, although you could argue the rules need changing.
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.
Last edited by Luis Anaconda; 06-18-2018 at 12:16 PM.
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.
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/
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