2017 French Open

https://www.europeantour.com/en/europeantour/tournaments/2017/hna-open-de-france/

Le Golf National, Paris

Round 2 of the Rolex Series

Purse: US$ 7.0 million

Notable players:

• British & Irish: Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Danny Willett, Russell Knox, Ross Fisher, Lee Westwood, Chris Wood, Shane Lowry, Andy Sullivan, Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell, Andrew Johnston, Jamie Donaldson, Darren Clarke.
  
• Continental Europeans: Alex Noren, Jon Rahm, Francesco Molinari, Thomas Pieters, Bernd Wiesberger, Martin Kaymer, Soren Kjeldsen, Joost Luiten, Alexander Levy, Thorbjorn Olesen, Pablo Larrazábal, Nicolas Colsaerts, Renato Paratore, Victor Dubuisson, Jorge Campillo, Edoardo Molinari, Thomas Bjorn, Jose María Olazábal.
  
• Aus / NZ: Scott Hend, Sam Brazel, Brett Rumford, Ryan Fox, Marcus Fraser, Andrew Dodt, Jason Scrivener.
  
• South Africans: Dylan Frittelli, Brandon Stone, Dean Burmester, Richard Sterne, Jaco Van Zyl, George Coetzee, Thomas Aiken, Jbe' Kruger, Darren Fichardt, Trevor Immelman
  
• Asians: Hideto Tanihara, Jeunghun Wang, Soomin Lee, Thongchai Jaidee, Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Phachara Khongwatmai, Li Haotong, Wu Ashun, Chan Shih-chang.
  
• Other notable players: Fabrizio Zanotti, Andrés Romero, Felipe Aguilar, David Lipsky, Peter Uihlein, Paul Peterson, Daniel Im.
  

Francesco Molinari to win.

Looking forward to the coverage this week, the closing stretch of holes from 15-18 are really quite something, it seems like anything can happen from double bogeys to Andy Sullivan holing out for eagle just last year I think.

Should make interesting viewing for American fans as well ahead of next years Ryder Cup.

Is the French Open being played at the same course next year with the Ryder Cup being on it as well?

Francesco Molinari to win.

I was going to say the same thing. He has played well on some of the PGA events but didn't seem to be able to finish them off.

Amazing course. Will be great fun to watch

Francesco Molinari to win.

 

I was going to say the same thing. He has played well on some of the PGA events but didn't seem to be able to finish them off.

And he seems to play well at Le Golf National!

Thomas Pieters over Thomas Detry in a playoff.

Thomas Pieters over Thomas Detry in a playoff.

Go Belgium! :lol:

Another pro uses the "I can feel the bunker lining!" to escape from a bad lie in a bunker.

Francesco Molinari to win.

No way :D

funny https//twitter.com/IanJamesPoulter/status/880429027516874752

Another pro uses the "I can feel the bunker lining!" to escape from a bad lie in a bunker.

New Tour Sauce move!

Saw some of it this morning and was surprised at the strong field, especially opposite Tiger's event in D.C. Isn't this the same course that Crossfield is playing on one of his vlogs too? Interesting seeing the course from two different points of view. Really like to see McDowell or Poulter win and get back to better playing.

funny https//twitter.com/IanJamesPoulter/status/880429027516874752

A Bradford City fan in Bavaria. What a strange world!

I see Danny Willett is in the notable players catagory. This isn't late April in 2016 is it? He's done more while golfing than I ever will but I don't think I've ever seen a more complete and utter collapse in that short of a time. Funny game, this.

Thomas Pieters over Thomas Detry in a playoff.

 

Go Belgium! :lol:

Just the two that attended the University of Illinois.

No offense Nico.

Li Haotong's mum retrieving his putter for him after he snapped it in a fit of pique and chucked it in a lake. After reaching it, she subsequently realised that it was only the top half of the putter.

The thing mums do for their sons eh?

Preacher's son knows ugly words...

IJP = bad form. Foot meet mouth.

I am usually pretty even keel on this guy, but this screams of poor taste and being a bully.

IJP = bad form. Foot meet mouth.

I am usually pretty even keel on this guy, but this screams of poor taste and being a bully.

What's he done now?

Incidentally IJP has taken inspiration from Koepka and has changed his putting grip in the last few weeks.

Nice opening 84 by Darren Clarke - ouch.

He was making fun of a player's mother going after the putter her son broke and threw in the water. Only he didn't know it was another players mother.

IJP = bad form. Foot meet mouth.

I am usually pretty even keel on this guy, but this screams of poor taste and being a bully.

IJP is in the Spieth club. "Inverse Furyks club". Or maybe rather "inverse Westwoods club". Unstable swings, a lot of righties. But a great touch. The golf swing is not a slap shot. They also rise when things gets nervous, down stretches. But they will get righties on 12th's on Augusta and so on just from not having clockwork swings. And nothing stings worse in golf than a crap swing, unless you encounter a rattlesnake or a wasp nest(or whatever they are called in American).

Btw I wonder if Preacher's Son knows some Scandinavian ones too. He should.

He was making fun of a player's mother going after the putter her son broke and threw in the water. Only he didn't know it was another players mother.

Who did?

IJP = bad form. Foot meet mouth.

I am usually pretty even keel on this guy, but this screams of poor taste and being a bully.

Maybe read the tweets? Have a sense of humor?

It was completely harmless and he shared the Euro Tour's video.

Nothing "bully" about it or even poor taste.

LOL, back to things people actually said - this about Fleetwood on the first - "and his ankles are going to get cold today." Enough said, no yak, yak,yak about it. Love the announcers, can't imagine watching our network guys at 6:30 a.m.

Oops. There's a lesson on how not to slam your club in your bag. That could be costly.

It looks like Colsaerts wanted to show Captain what he was capable of on this layout :superman:

Looking like Fleetwood may get another win. He missed a hole in one by mm.

Oleson is on fire but running out of holes.

I would not want to play that course. I don't carry enough balls.

Does anyone complain about missed putts more than Jon Rahm? He acts as though the cosmic forces of the universe unfairly crushed his soul.