Irish open 2024

boardise

Fair play -did well to follow Manassero in for birdie. If birdie at 12 -it's set up for him again…for a victory cruise to the finish .😁

Trampas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617546#Comment_122617546

Heard on radio that 15000 there today. If true there is one reason it wouldn’t be held there I guess

techdiver

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617546#Comment_122617546

I was there yesterday. Once in the course it's a great place for watching golf but the issue is access. We were queueing for 40 minutes to get into the course. It just wouldn't be able to handle the crowds for an Open Championship.

Numbers for this year were 16,000 per day (reduced from the last time due to congestion). Compare that to 40,000+ for Portrush each day at The Open in 2019.

FixdePitchmark

Been a great event - would have been nervous for weather this time of the year up there. But they got a great week.

Have been lucky enough to play the course about 5 times. Love the place - real unusual look and feel to the place.

Portrush has stolen the show up there for a few years. But this was a reminder that RCD is equally revered .

Hopefully Rory pulls this off - would be nice icing on the cake.

sligeach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618415#Comment_122618415

Rory has bogeyed the 15th. He's now on -7, tied for the lead with Hojgaard. He hasn't done anything spectacular today, and missed several relatively easy putts. It's still in his hands to win, but it's not been very impressive, especially on a course he loves and knows so well.

paulie21

What a bunker shot by Hojgaard. Going to be hard for McIlroy now

sligeach

And now Hojgaard has the outright lead at -8, after chipping in from the bunker on 17.

Rory should make birdie on 16, to rejoin him at the top. He has a gimme birdie putt.

Mushy

Rory should get the birdie on 16 at least

Xander10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618518#Comment_122618518

the course looks fantastic on TV.

Xander10

Rory putting himself under pressure

FixdePitchmark

Sorry to say - but this is actually odd from Rory - just doesn't seem right that he is nervous at an Irish Open.

sligeach

That must be a rush of adrenaline from Rory with the putt on 17. Could struggle to make par here now. But he should have the read going back the way.

Edit: Of course he missed it though. What a disaster. Now he needs eagle on 18 to make a play-off. SMH. ####### hell!

mjsc1970

Oops

DJIMI TRARORE

That's a horrendous putt on 17,and misses his par return, Rasmus finished birdie,birdie, birdie, Rory needs an eagle for playoff,only 1 all day

DellyBelly

He's bottled it big time...so poor Rory

FixdePitchmark

Basically the iron was wrong.

Mantis Toboggan

Needs eagle to level, Mcilroy always seems to come up against someone red hot on Sunday.

DJIMI TRARORE

Some drive on 18,he's given himself hope

touts

There will be many academic psychology books written about Rory and not in a good way.

FixdePitchmark

I get it is his home Open - mad to win it. But he is going around with the weight of the world on him.

sligeach

Hojgaard, Brown, Forrest and Walker at the top of the leaderboard have all shot either 65 or 66. While McIlroy and Manassero are both level par going up the 18th. They've just threaded water, made no ground whatsoever. You can't say Rory hasn't missed numerous very sinkable putts. And Hojgaard has had some good luck as well, while Rory has had some bad luck.

FixdePitchmark

Some shot under pressure.

sligeach

Excellent 2nd shot from Rory, but it's still a big ask for him to make eagle, especially given how he's putting.

Look at the sea of people swarming around 18. It'll be a pity if he doesn't make it.

Xander10

two fantastic shots on 18. the putt was a bit tame. damage done on 17

slave1

Following on the App, says the missed putt on 17 was from 2'1"😔

kyleman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618659#Comment_122618659

Definitely not true

CH3OH

A few fingers burnt backing Rory @ nearly 1/5

Ouch!

Xander10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618659#Comment_122618659

looked a bit longer. he bombed the birdie putt past the hole, should have left a tap in at least

kippy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618667#Comment_122618667

People should know better at this stage.

FixdePitchmark

Jaysus - that was like a micro view of Rory's career over the last 10 years.

Xander10

RTE cutting off the coverage before the trophy presentation. The winner didn't suit.

hold my beer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618693#Comment_122618693

Their coverage was woeful

Itssoeasy

Mcilroy lost ? last I saw he had a three shot lead.

hold my beer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618715#Comment_122618715

Hojgaard birdied 4 of his last 5. Rory only played those holes in even par (2 birds, a par and 2 bogeys).

tayto lover

That will hurt Rory after the US Open clearly hurt him. He needs to get the mental side of his game sorted.

GolfPar

You have to feel for Rory again yesterday. He was doing everything right in managing his lead and then Rasmus got an outrageously lucky bounce on 14 to set up a birdie and held the bunker shot on 17 obviously.

Spoke with a friend of mine who was at the back of the 17th for 3 hours yesterday and he said the pin position was ridiculous. Anyone that went at the pin finished out the back of the green and quite a few putts couldn't stop when they got past the hole.

Clearly seeing how much it meant to him will mean it hurt a lot as well. The scenes walking up to the 18th green will long live in the memory, given that not so long ago there was a danger of there being no Irish Open. A great week for the tournament and Irish golf in general.

BrianD3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618415#Comment_122618415

Thanks for that - 24000 fewer per day than the Portrush Open is a huge difference. On TV, RCD looked packed, it reminded me of an old style sporting venue with spectators perched up on dunes and peering out from behind gorse bushes. As opposed to a more "organised" setup with plenty of flat areas and big grandstands which are probably way easier to get large numbers of people into quickly, securely and safely.

slave1

Just watched Rors final 3 holes on YT, he didn't really do much wrong apart from racing the putt on 17, he was soooo close on 18

hold my beer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621610#Comment_122621610

He missed 3 relatively easy birdy putts on 7, 8, 9 I think it was.

PokeHerKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621610#Comment_122621610

Not to be facetious but did you see the other 15?

joficeduns1

His miss to the right of 15 was a pretty bad error, I don't know if he was pin hunting or if he pushed it but left of the green was the miss all day. I was across the green from him and the elevation change was insane, he got no grip from the spin on his chip and had too much to do for par.

Compare that to McIntyre the group before him, hit it long and left of the green into the crowd and gets a nice drop and has a relatively simply uphill chip to the hole and taps in for par. Small margins.

17 pin position was definitely cruel, the tension was building there from the crowd after Højgaard holes out from the bunker. That three putt was destructive.

slave1

Nope, on a boat so missed it all