Golf at the Olympics

Seve OB

Nice little Brazilian booty shake there by JR he must have been out dancing over in Rio....

The Rape of Lucretia

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Is there not a team medal for the combined score of the two best from each country ? I saw that somewhere.

You must have been talking to Matt Kuchar

Nope no team event

PARlance

Seamus tearing it up. 5 under today thru 8. -6 overall.

PARlance

Up to 7 under now. Putting a bit of pressure on for a bronze.

ronnie3585

Any legal live streams of this?

First Up

ronnie3585 wrote:

Any legal live streams of this?

It has been on RTE News Now all day. They have gone to horses now but BBC4 showing it live.

ronnie3585

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Any legal live streams of this?

On the rte website also no sound...

https://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/

Rikand

Seamie in the bronze medal position right now.

Rikand

Bbc red button too. That's how I'm watching

Howjoe1

Where's Paddy? no mention of his scoring today?

First Up

Howjoe1 wrote:

Where's Paddy? no mention of his scoring today?

Even today. Still at -5

Howjoe1

Great PAr save by Seamus. Currently 4th though.

Howjoe1

First Up wrote: »

Even today. Still at -5

Thanks, not without a chance then.

Buttros

Harrington's level thru five for today.i follow McGinley on Twitter. He's good for the updates. Reckons power needs to post 10 under to have a chance at a medal

Howjoe1

Buttros wrote: »

Harrington's level thru five for today.i follow McGinley on Twitter. He's good for the updates. Reckons power needs to post 10 under to have a chance at a medal

Half the field seem to be -7...that could be a long playoff

-9 needed at least I reckon

First Up

Howjoe1 wrote:

-9 needed at least I reckon

Yeah, he's a long shot for a medal but the WR points will be very handy if he can keep it going.

abff

Watching the 17th. Pretty exciting stuff, even though I'm bitterly disappointed that things didn't go well for Padraig today. Looks like they are about to go down the 18th all square.

The Rape of Lucretia

abff wrote: »

Pretty exciting stuff, even though I'm bitterly disappointed that things didn't go well for Padraig today.

McGinley has to carry the can for this failure. Between not getting a top flight team out there, and being unable to make anything of what he did have, he has questions to answer to Irish golf fans, and dont think there can be any way he be let near the job next time.

sligeach

What the **** is wrong with those spectators picking up the golf balls? Another one just picked up Fraser's ball on the last hole.

The Rape of Lucretia

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

McGinley has to carry the can for this failure. Between not getting a top flight team out there, and being unable to make anything of what he did have, he has questions to answer to Irish golf fans, and dont think there can be any way he be let near the job next time.

Was there some controversy over selection?

Given his role in both winning a Ryder Cup in '02 and subsequently captaining a Ryder Cup winning team, he must have been one of the most qualified team leaders in Rio. That's not to say he did a good job...just can't really think of anyone who would have obviously done better...

Tom.D.BJJ

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

McGinley has to carry the can for this failure. Between not getting a top flight team out there, and being unable to make anything of what he did have, he has questions to answer to Irish golf fans, and dont think there can be any way he be let near the job next time.

You're clutching st straws to get a reaction. It won't work, but I'm sure you'll try again during the Ryde cup

Dirty Dingus McGee

Was it just me or was the pace of play excruciatingly slow for the last few holes?

Tom.D.BJJ

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Was it just me or was the pace of play excruciatingly slow for the last few holes?

Stenton paced out a couple of wedges which didn't help

Very dramatic though, pretty happy for Rose

slave1

Great last day, the lads lost a bit of ground but the course was great to look at, well done to Matt as well, unexpected medal

Seve OB

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

McGinley has to carry the can for this failure. Between not getting a top flight team out there, and being unable to make anything of what he did have, he has questions to answer to Irish golf fans, and dont think there can be any way he be let near the job next time.

Will you cop on and stop trolling

Steve

We got the reports, mods will deal with it, no need to argue on-thread. Thanks.

Keano

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

McGinley has to carry the can for this failure. Between not getting a top flight team out there, and being unable to make anything of what he did have, he has questions to answer to Irish golf fans, and dont think there can be any way he be let near the job next time.

Don't post again in this thread again as you're not adding anything. Thanks

FixdePitchmark

Have to say - for all the problems.

The lack of imagination with format.
The drop outs.
The strange expensive decision to build a course for it, for the event only - with ugly skyscrapers in the background - Ok it was in Rio , I sort of get it. Maybe a legacy concept ?
The sometimes terrible coverage.

The event was a remarkable success.

The finish at 16/17/18 was genuinely nervous for the two lads - just playing for a bit of national pride and a piece of an element for the top two.

Fantastic performance by Power and I think Paddy didn't have a great week but was still in the mix.

I'd love if it could stay in the Olympics with a new format.

But sadly it looks like golf at the Olympics in the future could be a failure because of the people inside golf who didn't and don't support it.

I'm watching the games - and with a bit of imagination with filling venues more - it is every bit as good as the great game like London - Sydney - Barcelona.

I think the failure of the golfing community to grab this opportunity - sums up the problems golf has going forward.

So fair play the golfers that got it and the idea. You need people with a bit of vision, not overly worried about money / excuses and self interest.

I congratulate the lads that did it.

Golfgorfield

It was certainly an enjoyable finish, th elast 3 holes of driveable par 4, short par 3 and par 5 finish was great and left it in a way that anything could happen!
I suspect the guys that didnt play are a little sorry, the only bad thing was the hilariously bad commentary, so maybe were a bit hard on Sky at times, when you hear that garbage from the olympics it makes you realise how good Sky really are!

Jawgap

I honestly thought that the gold was going to be a dull affair - even after the scoring on day 1 I thought it was going to be birdy-fest with some ridiculous score of 20 under winning.

I'm happy to admit I was wrong - I thought it built very nicely to an enjoyable and dramatic conclusion, as good as you'd see anywhere. And for all the withdrawals, the three medal winners certainly seem to have enjoyed it and valued the win!

I agree that the commentary was lacklustre - maybe they'd should've sub-contracted the gig to the Golf Channel or even Sky!

Also, how many times do people have to be told to put the phones away!!! Honestly, there should be a point where a caddy can take a 7-iron pick someone as an example and smash their phone into one of the lakes!

Finally, the spectator picking up Rose's ball was pretty funny......