The Open @ Carnoustie (NO POLITICS)

[imakaveli]

R&A please get your OB's straight this time...

[babyfade]

The course will be to firm for Rory. JR gonna win.

[Lagavulin62]

Dufner and Fleetwood hit it pretty straight and Carnoustie may suit them .

 

 

I know it’s just for fun predicting, but these guys don’t seem to feel it right now, as golf is so much about having it together to play well. You know it probably will be someone we never guessed. Might be easier predicting the final score?

[OldTomMorris]

Woods, Matsuyama and Knox @ 15:21 on Thursday

 

All the times:

 

https://www.theopen.com/TeeTimes#!/R1

[buckeyefl]

Any course atm you can take the driver out of TWs hands as much as this one should give him a good shot for a top 8 to make it to firestone for the last wgc there

 

Fingers crossed, hoping this happens.

[Lancj1]

It’s nearly a year and somewhere deep down I still can’t get past this photo....

[deadsolid...shank]

I’m sure the gambling places are happily taking numerous bets on Tiger.

 

I still can’t believe people are making him a favorite. While he’s played well, he still has t finished a tournament yet, and people expect that to happen at a major?

[rukahs]

I'm sure the gambling places are happily taking numerous bets on Tiger.

 

I still can't believe people are making him a favorite. While he's played well, he still has t finished a tournament yet, and people expect that to happen at a major?

 

I wouldn't have bet on Stuart Cink either. Or Curtis, or Hamilton. Tiger has a much better chance than most so there's a few very good reasons to bet on him.

[deadsolid...shank]

I'm sure the gambling places are happily taking numerous bets on Tiger.

 

I still can't believe people are making him a favorite. While he's played well, he still has t finished a tournament yet, and people expect that to happen at a major?

 

I wouldn't have bet on Stuart Cink either. Or Curtis, or Hamilton. Tiger has a much better chance than most so there's a few very good reasons to bet on him.

 

Why does he have a much better chance than most? How do you justify that opinion?

 

I’m not trying to be an a** either. But other than fandom, what makes people think this is the week it all of a sudden comes together on Sunday?

 

And show me anyone who actually thought Cink or Hamilton or Curtis had a good enough chance to win that they put more than a small amount (at large odds) on that happening. And they were far from being favorites going in.

[Ferguson]

I think the course will play easier this year, if that's a word we can associate with a such a storied venue.

 

I would be surprised to see anyone dominate all 4 days.

[imakaveli]

It’s nearly a year and somewhere deep down I still can’t get past this photo....

 

I still feel bad for Kuch...

[wmblake2000]

The last three opens have been a total blast, great tournaments. Here’s hoping this will be 4 in a row

 

I'd agree with all except for last years. I know I'm gonna take flack for this, but the whole ordeal with Jordan slicing it and then taking an unplayable, then getting to drop the ball on the range onto a perfect lie, felt similar to how it feels when football teams win by kneeling the ball to run out the clock.

 

A win is a win, not arguing against that. But that whole ordeal took such a long time Kuchar would have needed a trip to the range to get warmed up.

 

Were you not entertained?

[wmblake2000]

The last three opens have been a total blast, great tournaments. Heres hoping this will be 4 in a row

 

I'd agree with all except for last years. I know I'm gonna take flack for this, but the whole ordeal with Jordan slicing it and then taking an unplayable, then getting to drop the ball on the range onto a perfect lie, felt similar to how it feels when football teams win by kneeling the ball to run out the clock.

 

A win is a win, not arguing against that. But that whole ordeal took such a long time Kuchar would have needed a trip to the range to get warmed up.

 

On a links course you can often get a drop in the fairway/perfect lie when taking an unplayable. Its using the rules to your advantage. And he won because of what he did after taking the drop. He definitely didnt drop to a knee, he did the opposite and played aggressively and got rewarded coming down the stretch

 

I bet it’s fun for you this week!

[jerebear21]

Tiger is going to win it this week. Done deal.

[WidespreadPanic]

The last three opens have been a total blast, great tournaments. Here’s hoping this will be 4 in a row

 

I'd agree with all except for last years. I know I'm gonna take flack for this, but the whole ordeal with Jordan slicing it and then taking an unplayable, then getting to drop the ball on the range onto a perfect lie, felt similar to how it feels when football teams win by kneeling the ball to run out the clock.

 

A win is a win, not arguing against that. But that whole ordeal took such a long time Kuchar would have needed a trip to the range to get warmed up.

You do know that he took a penalty stroke right? Oh, and saving that bogey, then going birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie isn't quite the same as taking a knee.

[Ferguson]

Has Ken Schofield commented yet?

 

 

 

 

 

I would be wiling to go out on a limb and state that he favors a European to win.

[jdl]

@ToddLewisGC

 

.@b_dechambeau will compete in @TheOpen. DeChambeau arrived at Carnoustie Monday afternoon. He was diagnosed with a slight right shoulder dislocation but says he feels good after treatment and rest. Has not hit a ball since his WD at @JDCLASSIC last Thursday. #TheOpen

[cardoustie]

the player that gets ballsy and gets driver way down there could do great this week (saw some fine examples of that at Gullane)

[bscinstnct]

@ToddLewisGC

 

.@b_dechambeau will compete in @TheOpen. DeChambeau arrived at Carnoustie Monday afternoon. He was diagnosed with a slight right shoulder dislocation but says he feels good after treatment and rest. Has not hit a ball since his WD at @JDCLASSIC last Thursday. #TheOpen

 

Nice, BD. Some times you gotta Tiger up!

 

 

[jonsnow]

https://www.irishgol...is-trigger.html

 

Outlining the biggest changes, Harrington explained:

• “I changed the actual grips on my golf club. Most people would think ‘well, what’s that’. I have a reminder in my grip – I’ve taken it out. I’ve gone to round grips. That’s a big, big change.
  
• “I’ve knocked all the clubs a degree flat – that’s a little change.
  
• “I have weakened my grip, lowered my hands a bit and pushed them a bit further forward … small things.
  
• “Probably the biggest one (and this is partly why I’ve changed these other things), I’ve changed my trigger to take the club away in my routine. I used take the club away from a moving position. I now take the club away from a static position.
  
• “Part of that, I used to have a big squat to take the club away, so that’s gone. There’s a little one. I’d love to get it all gone but it’s hard to change your trigger, full stop.
  
• “I’m taking the club away without my hips so there’s a much smaller hip turn – a much bigger coil but a smaller hip turn.
  
• “Obviously, that changes my plane in the back swing.
  
• “I’ve changed my chin position at the top of my backswing. I used to try and swing my shoulder under my chin, so I’d poke my head out to do it, which we think has contributed to my neck issues. So now I’m tucking my head in at the top of my backswing.
  
• “The trigger probably is the biggest thing. Through impact I’m going back to squatting quite a bit at the start of my downswing, as I used to. So I’m going back to that.
  
• “I’m going back to trying to get my chest more down through impact to get my hands lower through impact and reduce the lateral through impact.
  
• “From seven feet out I probably was 150th in every putting stat so I’ve changed my putting routine as well.
  
• “I’m not standing off the ball when I’m taking my practice putts. I’m practice putting over the ball … when you see a raw beginner, they often do that. When they take a practice putt, they lift it up and do it over the top of the ball. I’m doing that so when I put the putter back down, I’m not adjusting anything. I used to line up and get a feel for the putt, which you see a lot of guys do, then I’d take the putter inside an try a practice putt. But when I take the putter inside, I move my eye line, so the practice putts I’m getting a feel for are not the same as the putts I actually have. So I’m not changing my eye line.
  

 

 

Dang, what did he not change?

[gatorpedsMD]

man pumped who is TW playing with

[WidespreadPanic]

I think it's Rickie's time. I never pick him in my major pools, but I've got a feeling about this one.

[Ralphyboy84]

Watched tiger again today play all 18 holes. He was very poor and missed numerous fairways with irons. My feeling from yesterday has disappeared!

[bscinstnct]

Watched tiger again today play all 18 holes. He was very poor and missed numerous fairways with irons. My feeling from yesterday has disappeared!

 

[deadsolid...shank]

Watched tiger again today play all 18 holes. He was very poor and missed numerous fairways with irons. My feeling from yesterday has disappeared!

 

 

That is WAY too funny!!

[MilkyButterCuts]

I think it's Rickie's time. I never pick him in my major pools, but I've got a feeling about this one.

 

If I had a dollar...

[imakaveli]

Molinari for the win just to see Italian newspapers giving zero space to the news on their frontpage on Monday! :D

[Lancj1]

The last three opens have been a total blast, great tournaments. Here's hoping this will be 4 in a row

 

I'd agree with all except for last years. I know I'm gonna take flack for this, but the whole ordeal with Jordan slicing it and then taking an unplayable, then getting to drop the ball on the range onto a perfect lie, felt similar to how it feels when football teams win by kneeling the ball to run out the clock.

 

A win is a win, not arguing against that. But that whole ordeal took such a long time Kuchar would have needed a trip to the range to get warmed up.

You do know that he took a penalty stroke right? Oh, and saving that bogey, then going birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie isn't quite the same as taking a knee.

 

he did conveniently leave a three wood pointing down the line, photo in this thread, conveniently overlooked by many.

[MilkyButterCuts]

Anyone know which putter tigers got?

[sekrah]

Anyone know which putter tigers got?

 

He's practiced with the TM mallet.