The Open 2016 - Official Thread - Read OP before you go on!

FixdePitchmark

Armchair Andy wrote: »

Who paced off his 3rd to that last par 5 again?

In fairness the pace of play is ok.

Is it looking 2 hours for 9.

Should be 1.5 - but we will let it go.

Decent enough - short course easy conditions.

LuckyGent88

Second time has got lucky not going into the gorse.

FixdePitchmark

Jawgap wrote: »

It'll be a turnip for the books if he wins :D

Turnips - Steak for dinner - getting hungry watching this.

Almost Well done there beef

FixdePitchmark

we all know Phil has a real bad shot in him here - his bad holes can be a 7 - 8.

Henrik looks very cool at present.

The Rape of Lucretia

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

In fairness the pace of play is ok.

Is it looking 2 hours for 9.

Should be 1.5 - but we will let it go.

I'm sure you would beat the 1.5 hours yourself though if you were tied for the lead in the last round of the open. Wouldn't you ?

Mushy

This will be a fun afternoon. Bbq simmering away too

FixdePitchmark

Big moment coming up.

Jawgap

"Stick inside that, Henrik"

Jawgap

Jawgap wrote: »

"Stick inside that, Henrik"

"Fûck you Phil, and your sticky out hair"

Armchair Andy

Game on. Back 9.

Chivito550

Butch Harmon must be the worst commentator in all of sport. The man can't say anything other than overly positive stuff. "This is some kind of golf". "These guys are phenomenal", "This is just golf of the highest level" etc etc etc. After every bleedin shot. When everything is described as sensational, it actually takes away from the shots and performances that ARE sensational!

He's very tough to listen to! That's the problem with Sky. Because they are pay TV they tend to overhype everything in order to keep people subscribing, whether it's Premier League, Golf Majors or whatever! They'll never say anything negative about anyone. It's boring. That's why I miss BBC's coverage.

Keano

This is just ridiculous!!! Brilliant golf

Keano

Chivito550 wrote: »

Butch Harmon must be the worst commentator in all of sport. The man can't say anything other than overly positive stuff. "This is some kind of golf". "These guys are phenomenal", "This is just golf of the highest level" etc etc etc. After every bleedin shot. When everything is described as sensational, it actually takes away from the shots and performances that ARE sensational!

He's very tough to listen to! That's the problem with Sky. Because they are pay TV they tend to overhype everything in order to keep people subscribing, whether it's Premier League, Golf Majors or whatever! They'll never say anything negative about anyone. It's boring. That's why I miss BBC's coverage.

This morning he slated Na for being a snail and then slagged Clarke for having a lot of dinners!

HighLine

Chivito550 wrote: »

Butch Harmon must be the worst commentator in all of sport. The man can't say anything other than overly positive stuff. "This is some kind of golf". "These guys are phenomenal", "This is just golf of the highest level" etc etc etc. After every bleedin shot. When everything is described as sensational, it actually takes away from the shots and performances that ARE sensational!

He's very tough to listen to! That's the problem with Sky. Because they are pay TV they tend to overhype everything in order to keep people subscribing, whether it's Premier League, Golf Majors or whatever! They'll never say anything negative about anyone. It's boring. That's why I miss BBC's coverage.

Again.. completely disagree with you. Butch is great commentator, has great insight and comes out with some cracking one liners.

Elsewhere.. this is just fantastic golf being played by the top 2.

stockdam

Brilliant stuff. Hope Henrick gets his first major. Beef Johnston having a great tournament.

HighLine

Keano wrote: »

This morning he slated Na for being a snail and then slagged Clarke for having a lot of dinners!

Both of which were true and funny! I laughed out loud at the Clarke comment

stockdam

Mickelson 5 under after 10 and one behind........amazing scoring from him and Henrick.

Joe_ Public

I fear for Stenson if he can't get his head in front over next couple of holes. He's played the steadier golf, as he has all week, but just can't shake the great man off. It's incredible stuff, though, not even Sky can overplay this one.

Edit: i mean unless he can put a bit more daylight as he's already in front doh!!!

FixdePitchmark

Chivito550 wrote: »

Butch Harmon must be the worst commentator in all of sport. The man can't say anything other than overly positive stuff. "This is some kind of golf". "These guys are phenomenal", "This is just golf of the highest level" etc etc etc. After every bleedin shot. When everything is described as sensational, it actually takes away from the shots and performances that ARE sensational!

He's very tough to listen to! That's the problem with Sky. Because they are pay TV they tend to overhype everything in order to keep people subscribing, whether it's Premier League, Golf Majors or whatever! They'll never say anything negative about anyone. It's boring. That's why I miss BBC's coverage.

Your probably right - but your timing is wrong.

There isn't even enough Butch superlatives for this.

Armchair Andy

How many does Sergio leave short?

FixdePitchmark

This has been good for Beef's stock in the game.


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CloudCumulus

HighLine wrote: »

Both of which were true and funny! I laughed out loud at the Clarke comment

Agreed! "It's some kind of condition" "it's eating too much" LOL
Also his coaching of the guy taking a shot was good. Everything is always inneresting.
I miss Ken on the Course and Peter Alliss but he harped on about the painter decorator pants too much in fairness

Rooting for Phil here cos I like him more, Henrick's a choker so it'll be inneresting to see what happens.

Butch just called those 2 putts sloppy so it aint fair to say he is bigging up everything just calling it as it is.

LuckyGent88

First putt was the problem for stenson. Was very poor effort

Chivito550

HighLine wrote: »

Again.. completely disagree with you. Butch is great commentator, has great insight and comes out with some cracking one liners.

Elsewhere.. this is just fantastic golf being played by the top 2.

It is incredible golf by the top 2 right now. No arguments there.

But I've watched a lot of the Open this weekend and I can't recall even once anybody on Sky saying somebody hit a dreadful shot, or that somebody was playing badly. All you get is "things just aren't going his way today". Earlier today Phil (I think) missed a 3 footer, and one of the commentators said something along the lines of "He didn't play a bad shot, he just got the line wrong". That sounds like a bad shot to me!

I guess I'm just a traditionalist and I do miss the BBC commentators.

FixdePitchmark

Phil was clever there.

Armchair Andy

Butch says he was entitled to finish out there? Howso that?

Poor shot there from Phil

PropJoe10

Butch Harmon is very fair and impartial, I reckon - the best commentator on Sky by a mile.

Bad miss from Henrik there. Phil looking very solid.

Joe_ Public

Think that's the first shot Stenson has dropped on back 9 all week, wonder how costly it's going to prove.

Joe_ Public

PropJoe10 wrote: »

Butch Harmon is very fair and impartial, I reckon - the best commentator on Sky by a mile.

Bad miss from Henrik there. Phil looking very solid.

Yeah I think Butch overall is probably the best. Ewan Murray I just barely tolerate and Rob Lee is very listenable when he's on. The rest are all meh. I'd pay a fortune to take Faldo home if I was in charge there.