PGA Tour Thread

rooney30

Find it hard to warm to Justin Rose . Nothing massively dislikable about him so it’s hard to put my finger on it . Maybe it’s those frequent little fist pumps he does that seem a bit forced .

CalamariFritti

Same here, you can't actually dislike him, there is nothing wrong with him, seems a pretty nice guy and a fantastic golfer. But somehow I couldn't become a Rose fan. Maybe its because he is such a square, I can't put my finger on it either. But another big win and deservedly consolidated his number one status, congratulations.

Very solid tournament from Tiger. Too little too late to get himself into the mix, but decent enough first outing. No real mess-ups, just didn't really get going over the first three days. Arguably his biggest setback was the double on his ninth on day 2 and that was just really bad luck being plugged under the lip in that bunker, broke his momentum.
Swung much more within himself and when he tried to go at it was the only time when he made a biggish error off the tee. And I only saw that once, maybe he's actually learning.
He's playing next week again and obviously Riviera is confirmed too, thats a good sign for how he approaches this season. Wondering if he was favourite for the Masters, like Roe did, is nonsense of course, but that's Mark Roe for you. But he's obviously;y decided he wants to be well back into a tour schedule come early April. Looking forward to this.

slave1

This is why I like him....

https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1089720587449176064

eagle eye

Remind me wrote:

It was red

It looked pink.

CalamariFritti

eagle eye wrote: »

It looked pink.

It looked like very thinly horizontally striped, red and white, definitely a change from his traditional Sunday outfit. Maybe he was disappointed with himself to be out so far with no chance that he decided he's not going to bother putting the Sunday game shirt on.

https://twitter.com/15thClub/status/1090988226473533440

eagle eye

Watched a lot of golf today. Seen Thomas and Fowler early and then Varner III all hit 64's. Matsuyama couldv have had a lot lower score than he did but missed a lot of makeable putts. Ra impressed, he stayed patient all day and finished well.

Rikand

The swing of Matthew wollfe the amateur

https://www.pgatour.com/news/2019/01/31/matthew-wolff-oklahoma-state-amateur-67-first-round-waste-management-phoenix-open.html

Very jimmy Bruen though not quite as severe

GreeBo

Rikand wrote: »

The swing of Matthew wollfe the amateur

https://www.pgatour.com/news/2019/01/31/matthew-wolff-oklahoma-state-amateur-67-first-round-waste-management-phoenix-open.html

Very jimmy Bruen though not quite as severe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZT5EdWVCns

The Black Oil

Great attitude.

https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1090631156737941506

GreeBo

^ Excellent, in tears here!

Kevin Finnerty

Is there a more unlikeable player than John Rahm on tour at the minute? If he carried on like that in most clubs up and down the country he'd have trouble getting his card signed.

HighLine

Kevin Finnerty wrote: »

Is there a more unlikeable player than John Rahm on tour at the minute? If he carried on like that in most clubs up and down the country he'd have trouble getting his card signed.

I'm not even watching but I'm guessing he is throwing his usual tantrums and slamming clubs? Hate it also when commentators trying to justify the likes with "he's just passionate".

Remind me

Kevin Finnerty wrote: »

Is there a more unlikeable player than John Rahm on tour at the minute? If he carried on like that in most clubs up and down the country he'd have trouble getting his card signed.

Hatton

abff

The back page of the Irish Times sports section has a photograph of "Justin Rose" at the 16th hole yesterday looking amazingly like Bryson DeChambeau. :rolleyes:

LuckyGent88

Some hilarious bant on the pga tour. Roe an beemer are hilarious.

I really want to play that golf hole

Kevin Finnerty

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Some hilarious bant on the pga tour. Roe an beemer are hilarious.

I really want to play that golf hole

The 16th? par 3 ? Same here, when they put the stadia either side a few years ago and gave them a trading licence it got very interesting tbf. Love watching it.

Roe and hilarious in one sentence does not compute.

eagle eye

Cameron Smith just hit a wonderful shot from the bushes. He went at it full tilt right into the bush and it bounces left and down on to the green to about 8 feet.

eagle eye

Cameron Smith just hit a wonderful shot from the bushes. He went at it full tilt right into the bush and it bounces left and down on to the green to about 8 feet.

HighLine

Golf fans.. a reserved and well mannered bunch!

https://twitter.com/GOLF_com/status/1092101931408023554

Mushy

Rickie with a terrible chip. Easy enough chip up, take the par. Instead it doesn't check up, goes through green and into water. Blame the rain maybe, but terrible

bren2001

What's the ruling going to be here? Free drop?

Mushy

This is mad

FixdePitchmark

bren2001 wrote: »

What's the ruling going to be here? Free drop?

Ref trying to give him a free drop

But Rick too honest

FixdePitchmark

This is interesting

Because new rules change old drop

FixdePitchmark

That's the way golf should be played, no giving out or banging clubs.

Fair play to him.

zep

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

That's the way golf should be played, no giving out or banging clubs.

Fair play to him.

Indeed, very professional attitude, however this type of thing is partly responsible for the decline in golf. He already took a penalty, that's just ridiculous rules negatively impacting on the game.
Yes he should have taken more time waiting in case the ball moved etc.. but everyone already complains the game takes too long.

Remind me

So he dropped his 4th and would have been playing his 5th but that rolled into water so why wasn’t he dropping for 6? The call rolling into water isn’t considered a shot but he’s penalised for it?

Potential Underachiever

Pretty sick for Rickie, wheels have completely come off now.

LuckyGent88

Just getting to see this. Madness. Fowler’s head must be all over the place. Will take real determination to try come back and win this.

LuckyGent88

Looking likely he will get the win now. The drive on the par 5 15th was the key to it.

me89

One of the most dramatic final rounds I have seen.

HighLine

Delighted that he won it after the terrible luck earlier in the round and handling it so well without any tantrums. And an added bonus.. love how he plays so quickly.

FixdePitchmark

Classy win.

Watching Sergio. Clown.

FixdePitchmark

Classy win.

Watching Sergio. Clown.

This could be good for Rickie going forward managed to survive a bad round and win. Fair play to him

Potential Underachiever

Delighted, well done Rickie!

bren2001

"That's probably the best 74 Rickie has shot" - would Sky Sports ever cop on. Rickie was unfortunate over one incident that cost him one shot. That was a diabolical final round, he was all over the place through the first 12 holes or so. Delighted he didn't fall apart after it the incident however, it still wouldn't give me any confidence for him going into the final round of a major.

bigtimecharlie

Ricky, say thanks to Branden.

You lucky git.

HighLine

bigtimecharlie wrote: »

Ricky, say thanks to Branden.

You lucky git.

Lucky...? Having a ball at rest take off after being still for 20 seconds. Not so sure he got all the luck.

eagle eye

I don't think I've ever seen so many players looking to throw away a regular PGA event. Fowler, Thomas and Kuchar were awful, Grace had it and blew it.

slave1

I was trying to follow Ricky last night and that ball that he dropped then it rolled back into the water...

"it was determined that Fowler would be penalized one more shot for the ball going in the water. He hadn’t hit it there, but it had been in play"

wow, can't say I've ever seen that before, from what I saw they all played muck, was convinced Branden would be better in the conditions but glad to see Ricky do it in the end as he just sucked up the ruling and got on with it and snaked that long putt

benny79

I have to say I am a big fan of Rickie having followed him when I was at The Open 2 years ago his speed is very quick, probably one of the fastest on tour. Yes he was unlucky with the chip could of been down to the conditions or nerves etc but imo he should great grit to keep going his par putt on the next hole was super. and lets be honest it is hard to win these events and they are only human after all!

He is a class act and showed great sportsmanship! My heart was in my mouth have to say! Just like watching Liverpool .. Go Rickie my son..

HighLine

This birdie from Brandt was something special. Potential to go very wrong from the beach.

https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1093642899613462529

spacecoyote

Apparently the slow play talk has reared its head again over Pebble Beach.

Last group started their round with 5 hours of sunlight left & only got as far as the 16th hole.

Is it too much to expect a 3-ball (2 pros and an amateur playing in a better ball, so unlikely to finish every hole) to get through a round in under 5 hours?

paulos53

Most of the groups ahead of them were 4balls. Still no excuse for a 4ball not finishing within 5 hours

It was about 15 - 20 minutes before they got to tee off from their proper tee time and you can't really legislate for what the amateurs might get up to in the round

slave1

Good man Phil, choked again Casey

Remind me

Hardly a choke, Mickleson was just too good for everyone.

eagle eye

Remind me wrote:

Hardly a choke, Mickleson was just too good for everyone.

Shooting -1 at Pebble Beach is poor. If he was even -3 for his round and lost by a shot you'd say fair enough but he blew it imo.