2014 The Open Championship....July 14th - 20th (Merged)

[PGArox]

[quote name='CMBaviator_FR' timestamp='1405431682' post='9703919']
Holly c***, he's getting ripped !!
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Yes, he sure is. Darren is a perfect example of what is possible with just a little will. He looks fantastic. Shame it hasn't translated into better results on the golf course ... yet.

[imakaveli]

Fowler at Trumpberry lodge

 

 

No. It's McLeod House at Trump International, Aberdeen.

 

You're right, I am sorry

[imakaveli]

[tbowles411]

[url="http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/user/131351-imakaveli/"][color="#353535"]imakaveli[/color][/url], quit stalking the World's Most Amazing Golfer...

[Frankie Lob Wedge]

 

LOL! What a character. He really enjoys life. You watch him on the course and it looks like he is just playing a normal round for pleasure. No pressure/

 

Life is good if you are Jimenez.

[Golf Monkey]

 

LOL! What a character. He really enjoys life. You watch him on the course and it looks like he is just playing a normal round for pleasure. No pressure/

 

Life is good if you are Jimenez.

 

...and he can play. Makes us old fellas feel good about ourselves. As a tee marshal yesterday, I can assure you that his accuracy, flight and distance were second to none throughout the day...

[imakaveli]

[quote name='tbowles411' timestamp='1405439641' post='9704837']
[url="http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/user/131351-imakaveli/"][color=#353535]imakaveli[/color][/url], quit stalking the World's Most Amazing Golfer...
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It's not my fault that he is involved in the most amazing pics

[imakaveli]

Tiger with the usual one handed putting... or bad back problems

 

[imakaveli]

Beautiful 14!

 

[tbowles411]

[quote name='imakaveli' timestamp='1405440062' post='9704883']
[quote name='tbowles411' timestamp='1405439641' post='9704837']
[url="http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/user/131351-imakaveli/"][color=#353535]imakaveli[/color][/url], quit stalking the World's Most Amazing Golfer...
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It's not my fault that he is involved in the most amazing pics
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Well said!

[QMany]

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[url="https://twitter.com/GeoffShac"][b]Geoff Shackelford[/b] ‏[size=3][color=#B1BBC3]@[/color]GeoffShac[/size] [/url] [url="https://twitter.com/GeoffShac/status/489078300472795136"]4m[/url][/background][/color]
Tiger has dropped to 25-1 at most of the big betting houses. Martin Kaymer at 25-1 too. I think I know who I’m taking! @TheOpen

[redfirebird08]

[quote name='QMany' timestamp='1405440615' post='9704931']

[color=#292F33][background=rgb(245, 248, 250)][url="https://twitter.com/GeoffShac"][b]Geoff Shackelford[/b] ‏[size=3][color=#B1BBC3]@[/color]GeoffShac[/size][/url] [url="https://twitter.com/GeoffShac/status/489078300472795136"]4m[/url][/background][/color]
Tiger has dropped to 25-1 at most of the big betting houses. Martin Kaymer at 25-1 too. I think I know who I’m taking! @TheOpen
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I wouldn't take either of them.

[tekin112000]

That is some good flexibility/mobility. It is much harder than it appears.

 

This could be the new version of Dufnering

 

MAJing. For Miguel Angel Himenez

 

Now everybody go get in this pose at a famous location and post a picture.

 

BTW it's not an easy position to hold. It took me weeks of stretching to be able to do it

[tbowles411]

[quote name='redfirebird08' timestamp='1405440960' post='9704961']
[quote name='QMany' timestamp='1405440615' post='9704931']
[color=#292F33][background=rgb(245, 248, 250)][url="https://twitter.com/GeoffShac"][b]Geoff Shackelford[/b] ‏[size=3][color=#B1BBC3]@[/color]GeoffShac[/size][/url] [url="https://twitter.com/GeoffShac/status/489078300472795136"]4m[/url][/background][/color]
Tiger has dropped to 25-1 at most of the big betting houses. Martin Kaymer at 25-1 too. I think I know who I’m taking! @TheOpen
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I wouldn't take either of them.
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I'm not allowed to have money.

[ethanlculver]

[quote name='bscinstnct' timestamp='1405435227' post='9704315']
What's he doing here? Practicing extension through the shot, flying wedge? Mashed potato.

Doesn't look bad, just never thought I'd see TW swing like this. Looks kinda snt push draw stuff.

[media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGKpAIGhT5E[/media]
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Yeah, looks like a low bullet draw shot. Probably will be hitting lots of those off the tee. The course may be a little softer than 2006 but I still doubt we'll see Tiger hit many drivers. I'd guess no more than 2 during any given round. Tiger likes to play these stinger irons, and when he gets it out there around 250, 260, why not?

[Frankie Lob Wedge]

 

LOL! What a character. He really enjoys life. You watch him on the course and it looks like he is just playing a normal round for pleasure. No pressure/

 

Life is good if you are Jimenez.

 

...and he can play. Makes us old fellas feel good about ourselves. As a tee marshal yesterday, I can assure you that his accuracy, flight and distance were second to none throughout the day...

 

It is crazy because he makes it look so effortless. This is particularly incredible because of his age.

[imakaveli]

Billy Foster signing autographs

 

[imakaveli]

[redfirebird08]

I would love to see Miguel win. He is the most entertaining guy in golf and he has been a really good player for a long, long time. Would be great to see him finally win a major.

[PZero]

[quote name='23under' timestamp='1405403341' post='9702787']
Yes it was Ross Fisher. Just rolled up and got his clubs out of the back.

Darren Clarke drove is SLS (private plated read "60 DC").

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I thought Darren had financial issues?

[imakaveli]

This day in 1973 Jack won his 3rd and last Open

 

[kemau]

 

stats often overlooked....however, reading and listening to everything else outside of that the sky is falling

[kemau]

[quote name='PZero' timestamp='1405442164' post='9705097']
[quote name='23under' timestamp='1405403341' post='9702787']
Yes it was Ross Fisher. Just rolled up and got his clubs out of the back.

Darren Clarke drove is SLS (private plated read "60 DC").

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I thought Darren had financial issues?
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doubt it currently but chubby did have quite a bit to say about it 3 years ago.....initial story is first and darren's reply is after. dc has always had a clean ride!

[url="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018152/Champ-Darren-Clarke-broke-Championship-winning-pay-day.html#ixzz1T8hKEetg"]** [/url][url="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018152/Champ-Darren-Clarke-broke-Championship-winning-pay-day.html#ixzz1T8hKEetg"][b]Champ Darren Clarke was 'almost broke' before Championship-winning pay day[/b][/url] **

[color=#ff0000]23 July 2011[/color]

Open winner Darren Clarke's big payday came just in time to avert a major cash crisis, his manager Chubby Chandler has revealed.

'The timing could not have been better,' he said. 'Darren has had a big cash flow problem.'

Apart from collecting the Open's €999,000 prizemoney, Clarke also picked up a longawaited €2.2million bonus from his clothing sponsors Sports Direct and Dunlop, along with other undisclosed bonuses expected from his endorsement of Taylor Made clubs and other equipment.

The 42-year-old, who has several properties dotted around the globe, was hit hard by the worldwide recession and was strapped for cash when he arrived in Kent for the year's third Major.

Chandler explained that the purchase of a private plane contributed to the Dungannon golfer, who has won more than €20m in prizemoney, finding himself in the red. 'He lost a lot of money on the jet he bought with Lee Westwood. They bought it when the prices were sky high and sold it with the price at rock bottom.'

The extent to which Clarke suffered in the current falling market for executive jets can be gauged by the drop in prices for the Challenger 601, last made in the 1990s. When bought new, the jets cost around €25m each, but around 24 per cent of the plane's entire production run is currently on the second-hand market priced between €4m and €7m.

Chandler would not reveal the exact sum involved which saw Clarke and his English Ryder Cup teammate purchase a 10-seater Challenger 601 Lear jet in early 2006. But he did say, 'It was an awful lot'.

Clarke's cashflow troubles were compounded last year when he decided to sell his five-bedroom mansion in the Surrey stockbroker village of Chobham to move back to his family roots in Portrush.

'He has been unable to sell the house and that's created big problems as well,' said Chandler. Records show that when first put on the market, Clarke was asking for close to €5.5m for the property. The golfer is also believed to have property interests in USA , the UK, the Middle East and Ireland.

With his bank manager now off his back and a worldwide army of fans crashing his website with congratulations messages, Clarke's victory at Royal St George's has been greeted with universal acclaim.


[url="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/me-broke-thats-rich-says-darren-clarke-28639943.html"]** [/url][url="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/me-broke-thats-rich-says-darren-clarke-28639943.html"][b]Me broke? That's rich, says Darren Clarke[/b][/url] **

[color=#ff0000]26 July 2011[/color]

Irony is asking a guy who has just stepped out of his shiny, black Ferrari if he'd been feeling the pinch recently.

Darren Clarke's agent, Chubby Chandler, has been quoted as saying his Open victory at Sandwich solved "a big cash flow problem" for the Ulsterman.

As Clarke's £175,000 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, resplendent with its personalised '60 DC' number plate, growled into the car park at Killarney Golf and Fishing Club, it was clear the term 'cash-strapped' is relative.

Revealing he'd had the super car for 18 months, Clarke described it as "comfortable", a term which one newspaper report last weekend suggested did not apply to his finances before he hit the jackpot at St Georges.

In it Chandler said Clarke had been hit hard by the worldwide recession and that he lost "an awful lot of money" on the private jet he bought with Lee Westwood at the top of the market in early 2006 and offloaded last year.

The agent also suggested that since moving back to Portrush with his two sons last autumn, Clarke had been unable to sell his former £4.85m hole in the Surrey stockbroker belt, alleging: "that created big problems as well".

Yet, when asked yesterday if he'd been cash-strapped before winning at St Georges, Clarke said bluntly: "Not particularly. No."

Clarke had not been quoted in the article and politely declined to make any further, comment, saying: "I prefer to keep my mouth shut on those sort of things."

Frankly, it's all academic after his heroics at Sandwich.

Of inestimable value is the cargo Clarke carried with him to Killarney in a packing case on the passenger seat of his Ferrari - the Claret Jug, a gleaming symbol not only of a renaissance for the 42-year-old but also The Irish Open itself.

Killarney general manager Maurice O'Meara reports "the phones were hopping" after Rory McIlroy's landslide at Congressional but Irish Open ticket sales went through the roof last Monday in the wake of Clarke's stunning success at Royal St Georges.

So much so, European Tour officials expect up to 100,000 people to pass through the gates this week, exceeding by far the 82,000 who turned up last year - Killarney can accommodate with comfort up to 30,000 spectators any given day, according to O'Meara.

[t.moore1521]

[quote name='redfirebird08' timestamp='1405349515' post='9696923']
[quote name='G N R' timestamp='1405342519' post='9696283']
Best major of the year. Going to be a blast!
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Best thing about it is the timing. I love the fact that the rounds are done early enough that I can go play golf in the afternoon or do whatever.
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I was thinking the same thing. I'm looking to get in two rounds on Saturday and another round on Sunday after the trophy presentation or after Tiger's post interview.

[Frankie Lob Wedge]

[quote name='QMany' timestamp='1405440615' post='9704931']

[color=#292F33][background=rgb(245, 248, 250)][url="https://twitter.com/GeoffShac"][b]Geoff Shackelford[/b] ‏[size=3][color=#B1BBC3]@[/color]GeoffShac[/size][/url] [url="https://twitter.com/GeoffShac/status/489078300472795136"]4m[/url][/background][/color]
Tiger has dropped to 25-1 at most of the big betting houses. Martin Kaymer at 25-1 too. I think I know who I’m taking! @TheOpen
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These bookies usually know everything. Do they send scouts out there to watch them practice? I am sure they do.

[imakaveli]

imakaveli, quit stalking the World's Most Amazing Golfer... ;)

 

It's not my fault that he is involved in the most amazing pics :D

Well said! :clapping:

PING GOLF ‏@PingTour 1m

PING Chairman & CEO John Solheim presented Miguel a gold-plated replica of the putter he used to win @GwinnettGolf.

 

[imakaveli]

The end of a great day

 

[imakaveli]

Got balls?

 

[Frankie Lob Wedge]

The end of a great day

 

 

The weather looks perfect. We need more Manny and Phil pictures.

[billyhandsomeface]

I really, really want Miguel to win this one.