The Open 2015 - St Andrews - July 16th-19th *mod warning #201*

vienne86

Ah Shane - awful start. +2 after 4. Come on Paul Dunne though - BBC just showed him.

Barnaboy

Terrible start from Lowry alright. Over half the field are under par. Birdies flying in everywhere. He needs to get going quickly or he will be having the weekend off. :mad:

Lingmerth, the leader, has had 7 birdies on the front 9. Unreal shooting.

Barnaboy

Lingmerth out in 29, 8 threes and 1 5!!! Is that a major record?

LuckyGent88

7 under thru 9!!!!!! 62 is on but back 9 is usually tougher

ionadnapokot

Lingmerth :eek: 29 after 9. 7 Birds 2 Pars

vienne86

Lovely stuff from Dunne - just got a bogey there, but great to be -3 after 11.

Shane has a nightmare start, but in fairness, he has managed some good recoveries in the past.

Speak Now

Barnaboy wrote: »

Lingmerth out in 29, 8 threes and 1 5!!! Is that a major record?

Denis Durnian had 28 a Birkdale, 10th time there's been a 29. McGinley did it a Lytham.

Panrich

Shane has got one back at 7. Hopefully can build a bit of momentum now.

HighLine

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Lowry got greedy on the first, went for the front pin and ended up in The Swilcan Burn. Tom Watson in it also.

Not sure if it was greedy or just a crap shot... watching the coverage now, most people just firing it straight at the pin without any issues.

vienne86

These guys are just pouring the putts in. Need to make hay while the conditions are like this.

HighLine

HighLine wrote: »

I think YR are definitely off on the winds and to a lesser extent rain. From looking at the charts on Netweather, it looks like

Thursday am: Light winds sub 10mph, no rain
Thursday pm: Winds strengthening to 20+mph with light rain

Friday am: Strong winds up to 30mph at times with heavy rain
Friday pm: Very strong winds with gusts near 40mph towards evening but less rain post lunch

Winds now not looking as severe for Friday- will probably stay in the 30's mph max.

HighLine

Tiger mis-hits his tee shot.... leaves about a wedge into the 1st green then proceeds to come up woefully short into the drink. Ouch.

LuckyGent88

Speith looking ominous already

HighLine

Looks like another birdie opportunity coming up for Spieth... he is gonna tear this place up in these conditions. Will be different tomorrow though.

Felexicon

Anyone else think Tiger has chunk ed the 4 iron shots he's played?

HighLine

Felexicon wrote: »

Anyone else think Tiger has chunk ed the 4 iron shots he's played?

Basically every full shot he has hit has been a chunk. And from this turf too. Very weird to watch.

allybhoy

Lowry has steadied the ship, 3 birdies in 4 holes, Dunne is going along nicely aswell, 3 under for the day through 15.

HighLine

Tis a strange feeling watching a major and being able to go check one of the competitor's handicaps on Howdidido. +5 for anyone wondering.

DellyBelly

Wonder what the true par of the course is today. I know it is a par 72 but looking at the scoring 70 or even 69 seems more like the true par.

LuckyGent88

Great comeback from Shane after his poor start. Hopefully can keep the upward curve going till the finish of the round.

Tom Watson going along nicely as usual.

RikkFlair

Checked leaderboard, Tiger second last....deary me. Really hoped he'd show some form this week.

GCW

Jordan Speith through 8 holes: :eek:

Fairways Hit: 100%

Greens in Regulation: 100%

Avg. Drive (yards): 301

No. of putts: 12

33444333

Felexicon

That pin on 15 is impossible to get near

Speak Now

Good post round interview with Paul Dunne on Open Radio.

Speak Now

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Lingmerth :eek: 29 after 9. 7 Birds 2 Pars

Birdied the last to come home in 40

Not many players break 70 without having 9 holes in the 30's

rocky911

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Good post round interview with Paul Dunne on Open Radio.

I love this app/coverage, the descriptions given by those on course commentators are spot on..really don't feel like I am missing too much at work.

moycullen14

GCW wrote: »

Jordan Speith through 8 holes: :eek:

Fairways Hit: 100%

Greens in Regulation: 100%

Avg. Drive (yards): 301

No. of putts: 12

33444333

But aside from that, how is he actually playing?:P

rocky911

moycullen14 wrote: »

But aside from that, how is he actually playing?:P

- 5 atm//

ItsChecoTime

Lowry just had a dreaded snowman on the 17th to undo all his good work to get to 3 under. Back to 1 over now..

moycullen14

rocky911 wrote: »

I love this app/coverage, the descriptions given by those on course commentators are spot on..really don't feel like I am missing too much at work.

Is that the Radio 5 Live coverage? Can't seem to get it to work. Keeps saying 'stream is unavailable' Is it Geo blocked?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_five_live

REBELSAFC

I presume there is no shottracker available for The Open

heebusjeebus

moycullen14 wrote: »

Is that the Radio 5 Live coverage? Can't seem to get it to work. Keeps saying 'stream is unavailable' Is it Geo blocked?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_five_live

There is audio from the official site:

http://www.theopen.com/AudioPopout?mediaid=0_dogcu75x&type=audio&mediaui=30007507

rocky911

moycullen14 wrote: »

Is that the Radio 5 Live coverage? Can't seem to get it to work. Keeps saying 'stream is unavailable' Is it Geo blocked?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_five_live

No its the Open app, download it on to the oul 3310 and away you go

Tom.D.BJJ

An 8 for Shane at the 17th :mad:

Adamocovic

Went for lunch with Lowry doing well..then checked leaderboard! What happened on the 17th!?

rocky911

Adamocovic wrote: »

Went for lunch with Lowry doing well..then checked leaderboard! What happened on the 17th!?

He went house shopping..

LuckyGent88

What a disaster of a finish from Lowry to undone the superb work he did to get back from +2.

Now all aboard the paddy train

byronbay2

18 players on -3 or better already, including 5 on -6. If the wind was to pick up this afternoon, the late starters could find themselves with a mountain to climb after round 1.

vienne86

byronbay2 wrote: »

18 players on -3 or better already, including 5 on -6. If the wind was to pick up this afternoon, the late starters could find themselves with a mountain to climb after round 1.

Brilliant to see Dunne's name up there with the 3 unders.

Mantis Toboggan

Any want to imput the leaderboard for us stuck at work??

syngindub

Another disaster for Tiger +5.

syngindub

Leaderboard as of 13:10

dball

moycullen14 wrote: »

Is that the Radio 5 Live coverage? Can't seem to get it to work. Keeps saying 'stream is unavailable' Is it Geo blocked?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_five_live

If you own a analogue radio you will pick up live coverage on 909 or 693 MW
:rolleyes:

vienne86

Conditions seem to be bit less easy now, but scoring still good.

redarmy

good man langer -4 after 6, never lost it

Seve OB

PARlance wrote: »

There wont be a Merc washed in Greystones this weekend at this rate

Dream start

after putting about a thousand miles on mine over the last week, it's manky and can stay that way till next Monday when........

Mushy wrote: »

Hope he keeps up the form. Forgot to put a bet for him as top amateur

...... I didn't, so when he wins..........

I'm going to get my Merc Valeted


C'mon Dunners

for anyone interested

https://twitter.com/dunners11

https://www.facebook.com/paul.dunne.186

http://www.greystonesgc.com/2015/07/best-of-luck-paul/

byronbay2

Interesting to see how the course is playing:

http://www.theopen.com/HoleStatistics#!/overall

You need to make your score on the first 10 holes - it gets a lot harder after that. The road hole playing very difficult today , although the stats have probably been skewed by Lowry! In fairness, nobody has birdied 17 today.

Mushy

Seve OB wrote: »

after putting about a thousand miles on mine over the last week, it's manky and can stay that way till next Monday when........



...... I didn't, so when he wins..........

I'm going to get my Merc Valeted


C'mon Dunners

for anyone interested

https://twitter.com/dunners11

https://www.facebook.com/paul.dunne.186

http://www.greystonesgc.com/2015/07/best-of-luck-paul/

I can't see top amateur on paddy power app. Pfft! What are his odds?

Seve OB

Mushy wrote: »

I can't see top amateur on paddy power app. Pfft! What are his odds?

I backed him last night. Don't see the market there now though for some reason

he can still be backed to win outright though at ridiculous odds!