The Golf Thread

[Shaggy]

So Spieth, Rahm and Varner took 6 hours 17 to get round. Tiger's group the same.

Absolutely diabolical stuff.

[Shaggy]

I suspect I'll be on my own here but this is ****ing wank imo. I'm all for history and tradition but St Andrews has had its day for me. It's taking 5 to 6 hours per round, down to the layout of the course and the weird back-to-back/shared greens, with 20 minute waits on the tees or in the fairways. No round of golf should ever take that long, it's excruciating.

Also it's just too easy. Majors should be the ultimate test - you want your winner on -10 or thereabouts - and some random dude has gone -8 in R1

Watched nearly all day and just haven't enjoyed it. St Andrews used to be a great course but with the length these guys hit it, and fairways as wide as Lancashire, it's just not enough of a challenge any more.

[Liverpool]

Rory finishes 2nd, sickening

I'm sure whoever authorised that special at bet365 will be sleeping easier tonight.

[Pablo]

Plays well at this course and usually starts well, plus overall fav to win. 66/1 was a massive price. Looks like one other player having a belting open round has killed it though

Betting on golf is so hard. Cameron Young is a great player but he's missed the last 2 cuts (including the US Open), and then boom a 64. There are so many players capable of going low on any given day. It really is needle in a haystack stuff.

I think where it become a bit more predictable is down the stretch when the pressure is on. That is normally when the better, more experienced player comes through (like Schauaffele did last week and JT did in the the USPGA).

[Harv]

140 foot putt for Lowry

[Harv]

Is that big Ernie up around the top???

[Liverpool]

Plays well at this course and usually starts well, plus overall fav to win. 66/1 was a massive price. Looks like one other player having a belting open round has killed it though

[wiw]

Does he normally collapse at the start or at the end? Or does he have both in his locker

[Shaggy]

Got Rory leading round 1 and to win @ 66/1. Good price but dead on day 1.

Rory -3 thru 6

[Pablo]

Bryson now -2. What the **** do I know

[Pablo]

They've got this "Strike Meter" thing on Sky and it is absolutely ****e Like something they've nicked from the LIV tour.

[Pablo]

Bryson hacking it around again. He has been all over the place since coming back from injury. Hard to see how he was ever world number 1 on this form. Seems a long time ago.

[Pablo]

Watching it now. Someone could definitely shoot low 60s today in these conditions. Almost everyone in the field is capable of that on their day so it's almost impossible to predict.

The pin positions are tough today, loads are hard to get close to, which I think is aimed at stopping someone breaking 60

Tringale who is -2 right now did brilliantly last week (until he faded at the end), is definitely one to watch this week IMO.

[Irishnev]

Got Rory leading round 1 and to win @ 66/1. Good price but dead on day 1.

It’s not a bad one tbh

[Liverpool]

Got Rory leading round 1 and to win @ 66/1. Good price but dead on day 1.