European Tour/DP World Tour Thread (**** NO POLITICS ***)

[iBanesto]

[iBanesto]

Bjorn played 72 holes with Tiger and beat him at the 2001 Dubai Desert Classic.

 

[Ferguson]

Counting the days. 

 

[KennyP]

Just looking at the leaderboard at the American Express and the likes of Bob MacIntyre, Valimaki, Bjork, Detry, Lowry, Wallace, Schmid and Min Woo Lee have chosen to play in a Pro-Am over a Flagship Rolex event.

 

Must be a concern to the incoming chief executive.

[iBanesto]

[woahnelly]

6 hours ago, KennyP said:

Just looking at the leaderboard at the American Express and the likes of Bob MacIntyre, Valimaki, Bjork, Detry, Lowry, Wallace, Schmid and Min Woo Lee have chosen to play in a Pro-Am over a Flagship Rolex event.

 

Must be a concern to the incoming chief executive.

 

You aren't excited by Kevin Chappell, Dylan Frittelli, and Kevin Tway playing on the DP this week? Yea me neither 😂

[JungleJimbo]

 

 

Edited January 20 by JungleJimbo

[WorkItBothWays]

Rory in full flow is great to watch.

[jimecherry]

looks like the twins will be playing together thatll be odd off the first tee

[Hankshank]

1 hour ago, WorkItBothWays said:

Rory in full flow is great to watch.

One of his on-days seemingly. He’s so much a golfer. Like Tiger. The way he plays, the way he talks about his game. Like Tiger did, even in his prime.

 

Edited January 20 by Hankshank

[JungleJimbo]

 

 

[JungleJimbo]

 

 

 

 

Edited January 20 by JungleJimbo

[iBanesto]

[elwhippy]

Firmer greens and a breeze making scoring more difficult. Excellent viewing. 

[Dave230]

What a round by Rory! Thought it would finally be a week where he was middle of the pack but back on top again.

[JungleJimbo]

2 hours ago, iBanesto said:

 

Edited January 20 by JungleJimbo

[KennyP]

Which Rory will we see tomorrow? The 63 or the 73 version?

[Rapidcat]

3 hours ago, Hankshank said:

One of his on-days seemingly. He’s so much a golfer. Like Tiger. The way he plays, the way he talks about his game. Like Tiger did, even in his prime.

 

 

He's not fit to lick Tiger's bootlace (as a golfer, not as a human).

 

Great swing, fun to watch but hasn't won majors for 10 years, and his prime years at that.

 

Flat track bully.

 

Great for a an interview and quote, though.

 

[Hankshank]

35 minutes ago, Rapidcat said:

 

He's not fit to lick Tiger's bootlace (as a golfer, not as a human).

 

Great swing, fun to watch but hasn't won majors for 10 years, and his prime years at that.

 

Flat track bully.

 

Great for a an interview and quote, though.

 

When I say golfer I don’t mean the ability to make scores, I mean a person that have an aura of love for the game and behaves and plays like one who does. Too many of the top golfers just gives the impression of being like top athletes in their behavior. Rory and Tiger seem to live their game, plays the game, talks about the game as someone who loves it. I remember Tiger, when in the ”close” period in the Vijay years describing a crispy little iron nine that got things together, And Rory says things like  ”some days you feel that you feel like how can I ever hit it and other days how can I ever miss”. Stuff like that is relatable. They’re not like we in the team have decided to stay patient and be in the moment. They seem to have golfers souls.

 

 

Edited January 20 by Hankshank

[Dave230]

17 hours ago, KennyP said:

Just looking at the leaderboard at the American Express and the likes of Bob MacIntyre, Valimaki, Bjork, Detry, Lowry, Wallace, Schmid and Min Woo Lee have chosen to play in a Pro-Am over a Flagship Rolex event.

 

Must be a concern to the incoming chief executive.

Yeah, a ho-hum PGA Tour event as well. Unfortunately Fed-Ex Cup points are pretty important for ranking and getting into designated events now, so if you are on the borderline for status, it makes sense to try to get good points on the board early in the season.

 

1 hour ago, Rapidcat said:

 

He's not fit to lick Tiger's bootlace (as a golfer, not as a human).

 

Great swing, fun to watch but hasn't won majors for 10 years, and his prime years at that.

 

Flat track bully.

 

Great for a an interview and quote, though.

 

But he's won 21 PGA Tour and DP World Tour events, including the Players Championship, Tour Championship multiple times, WGCs, FedEx Cup events... how can you be a flat track bully if you're beating the best players in the world regularly over a long time? Flat track bully would be if he stayed 100% on the European Tour and won the Indian Open, Dutch Open, Scandinavian Masters etc and only played against the rest in majors. That moniker doesn't work when you're beating the best players in the world.

[Rapidcat]

5 minutes ago, Dave230 said:

Yeah, a ho-hum PGA Tour event as well. Unfortunately Fed-Ex Cup points are pretty important for ranking and getting into designated events now, so if you are on the borderline for status, it makes sense to try to get good points on the board early in the season.

 

But he's won 21 PGA Tour and DP World Tour events, including the Players Championship, Tour Championship multiple times, WGCs, FedEx Cup events... how can you be a flat track bully if you're beating the best players in the world regularly over a long time? Flat track bully would be if he stayed 100% on the European Tour and won the Indian Open, Dutch Open, Scandinavian Masters etc and only played against the rest in majors. That moniker doesn't work when you're beating the best players in the world.

 

But he's not beating the best players in majors over the last 10 years = 40 times.

[Dave230]

1 hour ago, Rapidcat said:

 

But he's not beating the best players in majors over the last 10 years = 40 times.

Flat track bully definition though is a sportsperson who "dominates inferior opposition, but who cannot beat top-level opponents". Which isn't true, he can beat the best players.

[Rapidcat]

Just now, Dave230 said:

Flat track bully definition though is a sportsperson who "dominates inferior opposition, but who cannot beat top-level opponents". Which isn't true, he can beat the best players.

 

Not in the majors over the last decade.

 

Doesn't have an elite short game when it counts.

[mat562]

I'm minded of Seve's line 'If everyone in the world was playing their best, Sandy would win and I would come second.'

 

McIlroy's like that. If he played the way he can, everyone else is vying for the runner up spot. He doesn't though. He short-sides himself with 9-irons, makes perplexing double bogeys out of nowhere, three-putts from a yard and shoots inexplicable 73s on Fridays, before doing a Greg Norman and snatching a top five with a 64 from nowhere on Sunday when the pressure's off.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 20 by mat562

[cdnglf]

4 hours ago, Rapidcat said:

 

He's not fit to lick Tiger's bootlace (as a golfer, not as a human).

 

Great swing, fun to watch but hasn't won majors for 10 years, and his prime years at that.

 

Flat track bully.

 

Great for a an interview and quote, though.

 

 

Rory isn't as good at golf as Tiger was.

Amazing next level insights.

Edited January 20 by cdnglf

[Maine Golfer]

Some people love Rory others don't, yawn. Anyway a more exciting course than the PGA event this week. 

[iBanesto]

[GregNormans1Iron]

Loving this Middle East swing as it means golf is on tv early on a Sunday morning in Europe. 

Hopefully another exciting finish is on the cards this morning. 

[iBanesto]

The pause at the top of the swing feels like an eternity.

 

[rukahs]

Rory’s 330 yard carry on to the par 4 was just filthy.