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BumperD

Any fancies for the open golf?

tomaussie

BumperD wrote: »

Any fancies for the open golf?

I wouldn't put you off Kuchar or Dustin Johnson. In fact I couldn't.

Bangor Billy

Bubba Watson for me @ 40-1 and Jiminez to lead at the end of the first round @80-1.

The open takes place on my doorstep this year. Off there on Thursday. Sweet!

Bateman

Big Phil seems to be the one a lot of lads like, I might have a twist on him

andyman

Angel Cabrera to lead after 1st round is my only bet at the moment.

BumperD

I stuck on these (less than 50 staked).
Lowery ew 100\1 - carries 15ew and the rest split between this shower of hackers
Jimenez ew 90\1.
Tiger win 22\1
Mickleson win 25\1 I think
Stadler ew 175\1
Paddy Harrington 125\1
Chris wood 140\1

sdoc13

Have done charles swartzel @ 50s. Lowery at 100 and ryan palmer at 150s. All ew pp 7 places. All good stats this year for driving gir and putting.

jimjamcos

Bubba's my human Fugue. Must have backed him 4 (losing) times and watched him hack up in 2 Masters. Stenson @ 16/1 is the one I like. Not the greatest price in the world but he's ultra consistent, has the game for it and with Paddy Power going 7 places I'm happy to play each way.

droidman123

I havnt a clue about golf and never had a bet on it...so, this year I am going to have a small ew for an interest. can someone give me a decent ew punt please? I,m looking for at least 80/1 or thereabouts.

jimjamcos

droidman123 wrote: »

I havnt a clue about golf and never had a bet on it...so, this year I am going to have a small ew for an interest. can someone give me a decent ew punt please? I,m looking for at least 80/1 or thereabouts.

Nick Faldo @ 2500/1. Can't for the life of me understand the price. Serious record for a young lad, he has.

droidman123

jimjamcos wrote: »

Nick Faldo @ 2500/1. Can't for the life of me understand the price. Serious record for a young lad, he has.

haha well I,m not that naïve about the game jim:D

Bateman

Mannassero probably a decent long shot for an e/w bet

BumperD

droidman123 wrote: »

I havnt a clue about golf and never had a bet on it...so, this year I am going to have a small ew for an interest. can someone give me a decent ew punt please? I,m looking for at least 80/1 or thereabouts.

Don't know much about golf either but its links and some players are suited, others not so. Irish do well Harrington, McDowell? Clarke winning it, as they play a lot of links golf as amateurs. Links are near the coast so if the wind gets up, it might not suit the yanks who are used to playing in 80 degrees with perfect weather. Add in rain and sometimes they just dislike it and chuck in the towel. Links drain quicker so the ball runs further on the fairway and on the green. It was sunny and dry so one would expect lightning fast conditions but I see rain now in the forecast for Liverpool if my mobile app is correct. If its chucking it down and windy, expect players who are used to playing in those conditions to rise to the top. Which brings me back to the Irish . they were conceived in these conditions. They are used to crap weather and might handle the conditions if it chucks it down. So Lowery 100\1 7 places might be a worth a euro ew of your precious weissbier loot. But I don't know as much as the other lads here so take my advice with a bit of caution

BumperD

Also, if your having a bet. Wait until the tee times are out wednesday and check the weather, ie if its fine Thursday morning, and your player has an early tee time, you may post a good round whereas if the wind is due to pick up pm and your guy tees off at 1pm, then the afternoon scores may be poor compared to the advantage the guys had Thurs am etc. Hope this makes sense

Bangor Billy

The tee times have been available on the Open website since Monday.

tomaussie

droidman123 wrote: »

I havnt a clue about golf and never had a bet on it...so, this year I am going to have a small ew for an interest. can someone give me a decent ew punt please? I,m looking for at least 80/1 or thereabouts.

Not sure what price Angel Cabrera is but he is Argie so that should be good enough ?

droidman123

tomaussie wrote: »

Not sure what price Angel Cabrera is but he is Argie so that should be good enough ?

Haha good point Tom.I actually might have a small e/w on him

byronbay2

Bateman wrote: »

Big Phil seems to be the one a lot of lads like, I might have a twist on him

Wow - he's some man for 1 man!! No sooner does he leave the Brazil job then he's off to Hoylake for the golf. Will he have overcome his WC exertions in time for the first round though?

jimjamcos wrote: »

Bubba's my human Fugue. Must have backed him 4 (losing) times and watched him hack up in 2 Masters. Stenson @ 16/1 is the one I like. Not the greatest price in the world but he's ultra consistent, has the game for it and with Paddy Power going 7 places I'm happy to play each way.

Don't think Bubba has any chance at all. Hoylake not a long drivers course - remember Tiger only played driver once in 72 holes when winning in 2006. Can see Bubba missing the cut, in all honesty.

Stenson has a good chance though!

convert

Sitting out in the garden enjoying a nice glass of vino, summoning up the energy to go inside and cook a steak for dinner. It's my reward for weeding some of the garden and getting sun burnt on my back.

bellybuster12

You learn something new every day, people are weird.

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

Nulty

convert wrote: »

Sitting out in the garden enjoying a nice glass of vino, summoning up the energy to go inside and cook a steak for dinner. It's my reward for weeding some of the garden and getting sun burnt on my back.

Your always eating steak. What recession?

:cool:

Peintre Celebre

Does anyone know how to make it so that I don't get an e mail every time someone posts in a thread I have followed? I could unfollow them but it persists when I post in a new thread. Basically I want to prevent it from following any threads automatically

Beasty

Peintre Celebre wrote: »

Does anyone know how to make it so that I don't get an e mail every time someone posts in a thread I have followed? I could unfollow them but it persists when I post in a new thread. Basically I want to prevent it from following any threads automatically

Within your user Control Panel, click on "Edit options"

Within "Messaging and notification" there is a "Default thread subscription mode"

Change this to "No e-mail notification"

hucklebuck

convert wrote: »

Sitting out in the garden enjoying a nice glass of vino, summoning up the energy to go inside and cook a steak for dinner. It's my reward for weeding some of the garden and getting sun burnt on my back.

Any jobs Convert.

Your life isnt far off the last days of Rome ....

hucklebuck

bellybuster12 wrote: »

You learn something new every day, people are weird.

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

I would be interested to hear what you googled to find that

bellybuster12

hucklebuck wrote: »

I would be interested to hear what you googled to find that

While trying to find new documentaries, i youtube the trailers to see what there about. This one blew my mind(not in a good way).:)

hucklebuck

bellybuster12 wrote: »

This one blew my mind(not in a good way).:)

So that is where bellybuster came from.....

byronbay2

byronbay2 wrote: »

Don't think Bubba has any chance at all. Hoylake not a long drivers course - remember Tiger only played driver once in 72 holes when winning in 2006. Can see Bubba missing the cut, in all honesty.

As anticipated ......

ste2010

Waiting a long time for Beau Michael to get his head in front since last year...I was pretty adamant the trigger was going to be pulled this Sunday in a race he won last year...HOWEVER I noticed the head gear he wears when he won the last 2 is not on. I noticed E Lalor
Is on board last win was over a year a ago. I wonder if Richie is any relation (PM me if you are) I'd be interested if the handbrake is kept on Sunday with a view to galway

convert

ste2010 wrote: »

I noticed E Lalor
Is on board last win was over a year a ago. I wonder if Richie is any relation (PM me if you are) I'd be interested if the handbrake is kept on Sunday with a view to galway

Are their surnames not spelled differently? Also, I'm pretty sure Liz has won a point to point in the last season, so less than a year ago (i.e. at least since September).

ste2010

convert wrote: »

Are their surnames not spelled differently? Also, I'm pretty sure Liz has won a point to point in the last season, so less than a year ago (i.e. at least since September).

I didn't realize she was in the points business. Something I omitted to check. I would be launching into beau michael if he had the tongue strap on. It wouldn't surprise me if he was being saved for a tilt at a price in galway

convert

ste2010 wrote: »

I didn't realize she was in the points business. Something I omitted to check. I would be launching into beau michael if he had the tongue strap on. It wouldn't surprise me if he was being saved for a tilt at a price in galway

Yep, she's had over 450 point-to-point rides since she took out her licence.

Interesting re: the tongue strap. Will be interesting to see how he runs in his next few races, and whether or not he'll have accessories.

BumperD

BumperD wrote: »

Don't know much about golf either but its links and some players are suited, others not so. Irish do well Harrington, McDowell? Clarke winning it, as they play a lot of links golf as amateurs. Links are near the coast so if the wind gets up, it might not suit the yanks who are used to playing in 80 degrees with perfect weather. Add in rain and sometimes they just dislike it and chuck in the towel. Links drain quicker so the ball runs further on the fairway and on the green. It was sunny and dry so one would expect lightning fast conditions but I see rain now in the forecast for Liverpool if my mobile app is correct. If its chucking it down and windy, expect players who are used to playing in those conditions to rise to the top. Which brings me back to the Irish . they were conceived in these conditions. They are used to crap weather and might handle the conditions if it chucks it down. So Lowery 100\1 7 places might be a worth a euro ew of your precious weissbier loot. But I don't know as much as the other lads here so take my advice with a bit of caution

Lowery oh so close to placing

razorhead

....Lowery brings Mcllroy down to Clara for a few beers but first they visit his Granny. Shane goes outside to take a call and whilst outside his gran says to Rory cos he's a professional golfer I don't ask him to do chores around the house..would you mind getting a bucket of turf from the shed for me....

convert

Whosthis wrote: »

The run continued yesterday with my only bet of the day 8.35 Clonmel 3 Old Supporter 20/1 .

Just saw Old Supporter was second last week. Were you on him? I see he's entered for 25th July, too, so may be worth an e/w punt, depending on going.

NewApproach

Her Majesty's horse Estimate found to have tested positive for morphine. One won't be best pleased!

the groutch

It'll be interesting to see does she pull her horses from Stoute's yard.

hucklebuck

the groutch wrote: »

It'll be interesting to see does she pull her horses from Stoute's yard.

You mean Micky Stoute, that said no matter how scumbaggy her "knights" behave she lets them keep sir.

Peintre Celebre

Contaminated feed, why would they move the horse?

hucklebuck

Peintre Celebre wrote: »

Contaminated feed, why would they move the horse?

It's all very odd, I wonder who the other trainers are. be funny if it was Henderson too.

Peintre Celebre

No idea I think there was an article the other day though where the manufacturer acknowledged a contamination in the manufacturing. Seems quite innocent, not sure why a trainer would administer morphine on race day anyway it may be banned but it isn't performance enhancing it would be the opposite surely

tomaussie

Seniors Open golf this week. Jimenez is 5/1. Grab it while you can.

hucklebuck

Peintre Celebre wrote: »

No idea I think there was an article the other day though where the manufacturer acknowledged a contamination in the manufacturing. Seems quite innocent, not sure why a trainer would administer morphine on race day anyway it may be banned but it isn't performance enhancing it would be the opposite surely

I hadnt heard it was the food until you said it, I was wondering about morphine, its mainly pain relief but it makes you way groggy. They would hardly use it to keep a high strung horse calm when travelling

hucklebuck

This isnt what I thought it was:

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057253742/1/#post91375642

The Mig

Charlie Hills said one of his horses tested positive for morphine too!

byronbay2

hucklebuck wrote: »

You mean Micky Stoute, that said no matter how scumbaggy her "knights" behave she lets them keep sir.

Wasn't Lester Piggott stripped of his knighthood for tax evasion??

FrKurtFahrt

byronbay2 wrote: »

Wasn't Lester Piggott stripped of his knighthood for tax evasion??

And Phil Taylor? I heard he lost his OBE (or whatever it was) for some unsavory incident or other.

tomaussie

FrKurtFahrt wrote: »

And Phil Taylor? I heard he lost his OBE (or whatever it was) for some unsavory incident or other.

Adding sugar icing to a cheese scone ?

ste2010

That tips thread is comical..a friend of friend who owns a sugar farm who lives next door to his neighbor who had a horse once

Bateman

You're obviously new to the tips thread.