Rossy Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 1 minute ago, Auld_Reekie said: In fairness his brother had a point. Its just that he should have wrote it next week. Aye. The problem was he brought attention on to his brother, who hasn't hit a ball straight since he somehow managed to win the Masters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debian Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Mickelson and Garcia was a classic. For Phil to shoot that score and not win, is some credit to Sergio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 Mickleson and Garcia both round in nine under. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 2 minutes ago, Debian said: Mickelson and Garcia was a classic. For Phil to shoot that score and not win, is some credit to Sergio. Amazing golf all round but overall wasn't to be for Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larky Masher Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 5 minutes ago, Auld_Reekie said: In fairness his brother had a point. Its just that he should have wrote it next week. For the Ryder Cup next week would have been fine but for his brother's ability to play in the US without being heckled for the rest of career never would have been better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld_Reekie Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Christ. Muted celebrations. They should quite rightly be going absolutely nuts. Well deserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larky Masher Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 On 22 August 2016 at 0:00 PM, Larky Masher said: Can't help thinking that Willets will get humped. Just noticed I'd posted this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brassrubber Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Bubble Watson ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larky Masher Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Just now, Brassrubber said: Bubble Watson ffs Exactly, man up ya fud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 Just now, Brassrubber said: Bubble Watson ffs Ah come on, you've got to love Bubba. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 (edited) Can also imagine there's a lot of emotions that are to do with Palmer dieing this week as well, which might mute celebrations a wee bit. Edited October 2, 2016 by biffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Just now, biffer said: Ah come on, you've got to love Bubba. Aptly named Bubba. Or Bubbler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld_Reekie Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 You can't be serious. They won it fair and square and they should rightly celebrate. First that then Bubba... WTF?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Giant Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 The 7 Brits lose, and the 5 non Brits gain a point or a half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 19 minutes ago, Auld_Reekie said: You can't be serious. They won it fair and square and they should rightly celebrate. First that then Bubba... WTF?! Not sure whom you were referring to but yes best team won. Amazing golf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 7 minutes ago, The Giant said: The 7 Brits lose, and the 5 non Brits gain a point or a half. Hadn't noticed that. UK letting Europe down again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 Rose two points, Wood one point, other five English players no points in three days. Cabrera Bello 2.5 points from 3 games, Pieters 4 points from 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 16 minutes ago, biffer said: Rose two points, Wood one point, other five English players no points in three days. Cabrera Bello 2.5 points from 3 games, Pieters 4 points from 5. They were both excellent. Many points to come from them in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 2 hours ago, biffer said: Hadn't noticed that. UK letting Europe down again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 2 hours ago, Auld_Reekie said: Christ. Muted celebrations. They should quite rightly be going absolutely nuts. Well deserved. Aye quite surprised with the low key celebrations at the winning hole, compared to what went before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 It's hard to tell from the TV but I think the pins must have been in some of the easiest positions possible. They probably do that deliberately so that there is more chance of birdies to add to the excitement. It kinda turns it into a putting competition which the US won quite convincingly. The amount of putts sunk from outside 10 feet was ridiculous. As for Westwood. WTF? He was even worse than I thought he would be, and I'm not his biggest fan. I think this week could just about end his career? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld_Reekie Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 In defence of Westwood he was put in that position by his captain. Should not have been picked. Fair play to Kaymer though he took a lot of stick but lifted game on Sunday. Should be healthy criticism of Clarke I feel. We lost fair and square but his selections and pairings on Saturday especially were very suspect. This Ryder Cup puts to bed the need to bring in experience to counter balance rookies. Form should be all that matters. Experience comes from vice captains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 29 minutes ago, Auld_Reekie said: In defence of Westwood he was put in that position by his captain. Should not have been picked. Fair play to Kaymer though he took a lot of stick but lifted game on Sunday. Should be healthy criticism of Clarke I feel. We lost fair and square but his selections and pairings on Saturday especially were very suspect. This Ryder Cup puts to bed the need to bring in experience to counter balance rookies. Form should be all that matters. Experience comes from vice captains. Exactly. Clarke was a poor captain who made some bad choices. A decent bloke, but one who shouldn't have been made captain. Saying that, he was badly let down by several players who simply weren't up for the task.....Willett, Sullivan, Wood, and Fitzpatrick were all a waste of a beige cardigan, and there was nothing Clarke could do about that. Westwood was a horrendous 'mates' choice, but Clarke did get it right by bringing in the brilliant Pieters. Bottom line is that in general the European players were just overwhelmed by the occasion, and the superb play of the Americans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld_Reekie Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Ill be honest though, the margin of victory doesnt reflect how close it was or could have been. If the Americans had missed even a fraction of those putts and we made a fraction of ours (Rose especially was woeful on greens all week, and Westwood missed two shockers on Saturday), we wouldn't have been far away. Fine margins. But yeah, no denying Americans were better. Just hope something is done about the fans - you could see some players were mentally exhausted from having to take so much sh*t. Some anecdotal stuff that in many ways it was worse than Brookline and not reflected in TV coverage. Vast majority of fans were fantastic but it was a significant minority spoiling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 27 minutes ago, Rossy said: Exactly. Clarke was a poor captain who made some bad choices. A decent bloke, but one who shouldn't have been made captain. Saying that, he was badly let down by several players who simply weren't up for the task.....Willett, Sullivan, Wood, and Fitzpatrick were all a waste of a beige cardigan, and there was nothing Clarke could do about that. Westwood was a horrendous 'mates' choice, but Clarke did get it right by bringing in the brilliant Pieters. Bottom line is that in general the European players were just overwhelmed by the occasion, and the superb play of the Americans. Bit rough to criticise Wood, Fitzpatrick and Sullivan IMO. Barely got a shout, and I think they would have done better than Westwood if they'd played every day. I always think it's bad captaincy to not play all players every day, you give the impression you don't trust someone to deliver which has a knock on effect on them and knackered some of the other players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts