PGA Championship

Sky with loads of excuses for Woods. I assume Woods won't be using them. Probably say it was tough but I don't think he'll say his leg worse the cause of it.

easier to say who calls

Most of the pros struggling around the course (apart from Webb Simpson earlier and Pereira currently). What score do you think an average 18 handicapper would shoot from same tees, same conditions, greens etc…

A par on the last for Seamie and I think he'll only be a shot behind the leaders tonight.

There's a lot of meltdowns in full flow and more acoming

The lack of experience with leaders makes it very hard to call. I could see a few of them dropping away.

IF Seamus's putter is hot early on, I might dare to dream.

He seems very relaxed now in this company. I could see him being the next Irishman to grab a win on tour.

Has he played The Open before and is he scheduled to play St Andrews?

Think Fitzpatrick has a great chance given the relatively weak leaderboard . He’s been hanging around the top 20 in big events for a few years now without ever really making a breakthrough . He may be less fazed with the occasion than others !!

This has got to be the worst major leaderboard in a long long time.

Just sitting down to watch now, these are all good young pros, not big names yet.

Zalatoris is a serious golfer and with a better putting stroke he'd be one of the best out there, arguable that he is already. Only 25 and so is Young. Mito and Fitzpatrick are 27.

Fitzpatrick has been one of the best young players for quite a while and as he's not long off the tee, always a little more interesting in how he goes about it.

Yes grand - but just JT is a major winner - maybe he will push up. Rory doing a Rory.

I want my majors to be heavy hitting - Spieth - DJ - Rahm - Keopka - Bryson - Cam - then when Shane is around gives a different dynamic,

Feel bad for Pereira, think he deserves a playoff

well done JT

Good to see JT win.

Nice story from the Skyzone on Friday about his dad just put an alignment rod in front of him and got him to hit draws and fades and get back to feeling the shots instead of thinking them. His dad felt he was getting way too technical and over-thinking everything which was leading to the issues. Reset and focus on his massive skill set and it seems to have paid off. A lesson there for a lot of golfers I would say. Cantlay was out with his Trackman and his coach Friday morning as well. Too late at that stage to make changes. Proved it as well over the course of the competition.

Don't have the calculator, but because of ties, there were 12 players in the top ten, so that dilutes the odds . So you probably got paid 1/3 of your stake at full odds

You did a €2.50 each way bet, total stake €5.

€2.50 was in the event of him winning, he didn't, so that's lost, gone forever.

I'm not 100% on the exact rules as it's a long time since I was a betting man but the €2.50 "place" part of your bet is now only €1.25 due to the number of tied people for top 10.

I think the logic is the 4 people shared T9 so (covering spots 9,10,11,12). 2 spots inside T10 and two outside. 2/4 =0.5... so your stake is halved from €2.50 to €1.25

1.25 * 10 = 12.50 plus your 1.25 = 13.75

Apologies mods, maybe you could move to the betting thread if possible.

I think it's the stake that gets diluted.

Otherwise you would have received

€2.50 * 5/1 = 12.50 + 2.50 = €15 back.

Whoops, you're both right. Thanks.

Yeah. Someone said to me the other day that he'll have a chance in the Irish Open on a local course. Sure I said he'll be one of the top ranked players at it, of course he'll have a chance!

Rory sharing the lead with Finua and Thomas 2 shots back going into Sunday. Nice leaderboard.

I'd say the PGA will be willing a win this week from a high profile player like Rory.