PGA Tour Thread

fred funk }{

Here comes Trump to compound this rubbish.

LuckyGent88

It’s like NBC are trolling the audience now on who the most annoying and controversial people they can get on.

A little disappointed Trump didn’t slag off McIlroy after his comments

Roger_007

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

It’s like NBC are trolling the audience now on who the most annoying and controversial people they can get on.

A little disappointed Trump didn’t slag off McIlroy after his comments

This sounds like one of Trumps rants at his election rallies.

Disgraceful.

LuckyGent88

Surely Patrick Reed or Kim Jong Un are up next.

CalamariFritti

Whats wrong with Bill Murray? Did I miss something?

Mantis Toboggan

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Whats wrong with Bill Murray? Did I miss something?

Think people expect 69 year old Bill Murray to be funny and when he isn't the hate comes.

GreeBo

AdamD wrote: »

How the **** are they going to catch it mid round?

Bit of common sense here..

Any of the people they are encountering?
Or the people they are interacting with between rounds?

Seve OB

I’m bored now. How they are as slow here as playing in the final group at the masters.

Loafing Oaf

meath4sam wrote: »

I was looking forward to watching this but to be honest I’m tempted to turn off its ****.

It's the ad breaks every ten minutes that are driving me up the wall

GreeBo

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

It's the ad breaks every ten minutes that are driving me up the wall

I'd rather just watch them walk the fairways and listen to them chat.
Oh and cutaway when Wolff swings

Seve OB

I thought they had to be off the course by now!

Roger_007

That was absolutely underwhelming, but I suppose when you’ve been starved for two months, any crust is welcome!

eagle eye

One four-ball is always going to be boring.

CalamariFritti

I think what really made it boring was as far as they were concerned they just played with monopoly money.

They should have been in it with 10 grand per skin of their own money or more even. Would have been a different game then.

Mantis Toboggan

Yeah but it's a charity thing and 10k a hole won't raise much. Coverage from Americans is never good and just following a 4 ball on a bland enough course with not much at stake was always going to be fairly boring.

HighLine

I know it's another gimmick match but does anyone know how we can watch the Tiger v Phil & co. on this side of the pond? It is not listed on Sky.

golfer79

HighLine wrote: »

I know it's another gimmick match but does anyone know how we can watch the Tiger v Phil & co. on this side of the pond? It is not listed on Sky.

On CNN (news channel) unusually.

kennyb3

golfer79 wrote: »

On CNN (news channel) unusually.

This channel seems to be on sky but not sky go, wonder why?

Mushy

kennyb3 wrote: »

This channel seems to be on sky but not sky go, wonder why?

Wonder would it be cos of distribution rights of the channel? Sky go can be watched across the eu, so maybe different carriers in other countries. So find sky go tends to mainly be the sky channels and box sets.

Players may need a canoe on the course today

Inquitus

HighLine wrote: »

I know it's another gimmick match but does anyone know how we can watch the Tiger v Phil & co. on this side of the pond? It is not listed on Sky.

Weather looks miserable, the green in shot looks flooded.

sligeach

golfer79 wrote: »

On CNN (news channel) unusually.

Just came here to say this. The weather is manky. All square after 1. Came across it completely by accident.

Mantis Toboggan

Chicken legs on tiger vs the monster calves on Phil. Nice to see them slogging it out in the wet while we get the heat wave here for once. Massive wide fairways, god I'd love them in my place.

Loafing Oaf

Those golf buggies can fairly move:eek:

abff

The tour is back this week. Lowry, McDowell and McIlroy all playing. Be interesting to see how it all pans out without spectators.

Banner fights back

Really excited of the PGA Tour's return in Texas this week for the Charles Schwab Challenge. All of the top 5 players in the world golf rankings are playing in the famed Colonial Country Club in the Fort Worth and Dallas area.

Personally I feel really excited to see Tiger again and while he isn't playing this week, from the evidence that I saw in the Phil v Tiger plus Manning and Brady match, he is swinging it beautifully. I feel he could be the most to gain from this near 3 month break of competitive golf due to covid 19. Can't wait until Thursday now!

Dr. Bre

This weeks field is not far off a major field . All desperate to play!

ionadnapokot

Really looking forward to this.
Particularly interested to see how Brooks is swinging it. & who looks sharp.

Cant imagine we will be seeing any spectators for a long time.

Remind me

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Really looking forward to this.
Particularly interested to see how Brooks is swinging it. & who looks sharp.

Cant imagine we will be seeing any spectators for a long time.

Memorial in July

GreeBo

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Cant imagine we will be seeing any spectators for a long time.

But who will shout "Get in the hole!" and "Mashed Potatoes!" at inopportune times now?!

I'll have to train Alexa to do it...

Dr. Bre

GreeBo wrote: »

But who will shout "Get in the hole!" and "Mashed Potatoes!" at inopportune times now?!

I'll have to train Alexa to do it...

Some supporters won’t be missed

eagle eye

Very interested to see all those guys when were working their way back from injury and those working with new swings.
I believe Brooks went to Butch Harmon to sort a couple of things out. Ricki has had a lot of time to get in sync with his new swing. Jordan Spieth too and he likes this course a lot.

Deeper Blue

Shame Tiger isn't playing. Cracking field all the same. Looking forward to this, been missing the golf big time

HighLine

NDWC wrote: »

Shame Tiger isn't playing. Cracking field all the same. Looking forward to this, been missing the golf big time

It's a great field otherwise though. Also Tiger's boat is currently heading north towards the Carolinas... where next week's tournament is being held.

Deeper Blue

HighLine wrote: »

It's a great field otherwise though. Also Tiger's boat is currently heading north towards the Carolinas... where next week's tournament is being held.

16 of the top 20 I believe, it must be the best field for a non major/Players/WGC in years

Mantis Toboggan

Interesting to see what the coverage will be like. Not a huge fan of CBS. Apparently Faldo won't even be at the course but available through Skype. Will be strange without the fans and the grandstands. Great to have it back though, something to watch.

ionadnapokot

Remind me wrote: »

Memorial in July

Bonkers
Spectators should only be let in when vaccine/cure has been found.

And i was actually looking forward to seeing Agusta without any spectators.
https://youtu.be/oEfljmjVY6o

AdamD

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Bonkers
Spectators should only be let in when vaccine/cure has been found.

And i was actually looking forward to seeing Agusta without any spectators.
https://youtu.be/oEfljmjVY6o

That could be never

First Up

AdamD wrote:

That could be never

New Zealand resumes rugby this weekend with over 30,000 tickets sold for Sunday's game in Auckland.

They don't have a vaccine either but no new cases for three weeks.

ionadnapokot

First Up wrote: »

New Zealand resumes rugby this weekend with over 30,000 tickets sold for Sunday's game in Auckland.

They don't have a vaccine either but no new cases for three weeks.

I'm astonished that NZ were able to get to "virus free".
Wont happen in America.

Just thinking about it again Golf is probably best positioned to allow some spectators back.
The "get in hole" gob****es will of course be the ones who will not respect social distancing.

Mantis Toboggan

ionadnapokot wrote: »

I'm astonished that NZ were able to get to "virus free".
Wont happen in America.
.

NZ had very few cases to begin with, they went on lockdown around the same time as us but had far fewer cases. It helps that there country is in the middle of nowhere.

ionadnapokot

AdamD wrote: »

That could be never

I'm betting that Pharma companies will find a cure and or vaccine. Billions in it for them.
Too much money at stake for everybody.

PARlance

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

NZ had very few cases to begin with, they went on lockdown around the same time as us but had far fewer cases. It helps that there country is in the middle of nowhere.

It helps when they closed their borders.

Seve OB

PARlance wrote: »

It helps when they closed their borders.

Exactly

Mantis Toboggan

PARlance wrote: »

It helps when they closed their borders.

True but did you expect anything different from FG?

When they did close their borders they had far fewer cases.

I've a buddy mine over there remember him telling me all about their lockdown which was similar to over here. It was a few weeks in, think we had 400 odd dead at the time which was being heralded, I asked him what the death toll at the time was (border had just closed) his response was 1. Easy to "defeat" it when there's so few cases.

Mushy

12.45 for coverage to start of the featured groups. Good pairings too, as has been said it's like a major field

ionadnapokot

Just on some of the Irish lads during Lockdown.
Floridans
I think Lowry's has been playing allot over in Florida the last 4 weeks.
https://twitter.com/ShaneLowryGolf/status/1256297138486743044?s=20
Probably was having a few cold beers with McDowell during the lockdown

Olympians
Heard Seamus Power on GolfWeekly pod. Hes based in North/South Carolina and he was saying his game is in good shape.
Worth a listen.
https://youtu.be/8HXZgquaL7E?t=868

Harrington has been out in the garden. Legend.
Must watch
https://twitter.com/ConorSketches/status/1241483419084828673?s=20

willabur

ionadnapokot wrote: »

I'm betting that Pharma companies will find a cure and or vaccine. Billions in it for them.
Too much money at stake for everybody.

Speaking of Pharma companies check out Bryson!!!

Mantis Toboggan

willabur wrote: »

Speaking of Pharma companies check out Bryson!!!

He's packed on some mass in the last 12 months, impressive!

tayto lover

Just watching the golf on t.v.
No atmosphere without a crowd there.
Not holding my interest much.

First Up

tayto lover wrote:

Just watching the golf on t.v. No atmosphere without a crowd there. Not holding my interest much.

Total opposite for me. Loving it.