The Open at Royal Bikdale

Halebopp · Jul 20, 2017

Poor O'Meara, he looked like just another mortal off the first tee. His tee shot leaked into the junk on the right and then he pulled the provisional left of the fairway into a bunker. A situation I can easily relate to.

dave_giz · Jul 20, 2017

I'm enjoying this start to the Open, it's good to see the players putting so much thought into every shot and trying to play shots that you don't often see these days. Nice start from Poulter, but I've a feeling he won't finish on the first page of the leaderboard today, never mind at the end.

Halebopp · Jul 20, 2017

Koepka is picking up right where left off and Casey is one shot off.

Chris is still in it also. I didn't see much of today but I'll be glued to the telly on Saturday and Sunday.

DennisMiller · Jul 20, 2017

I woke up around 4 am and just stayed up to watch it, on and off, most of today. My next door neighbor's son has recently taken up golf and to say he's avid is a big understatement. He watched it from 1 am and eventually conked out on the couch. Young people just haven't got what it takes... ;-)

BTW - He plays a set of MP-H4 irons... Good kid...

The American broadcast seems to highlight good chances for way too many players for them to focus on just a few. They almost seemed confused about who to talk about.

dave_giz · Jul 21, 2017

DennisMiller said:

It's great, and sadly quite rare these days, to see such enthusiastic youngsters.

DennisMiller · Jul 21, 2017

dave_giz said:

Both teaching pros I've known well for the past 5-6 years specialize in teaching children. It's thrilling to see little kids come into the game when Derrick Payne or Sean Kicker have their summer camps or lesson groups.

I heard something interesting the other day. The fastest growing group entering golf right now in America is teenage girls... !!!

Celtic_Bil · Jul 21, 2017

DennisMiller said:

My coach teaches a large amount of children. I believe he turned down a decent job offer at a top course to continue what he is doing. He believes greatly in teaching them how to shape the ball left and right and how to hit it high and low. Learning this at an early age works wonders apparently. He's been trying to teach me this for years..........with little success

hursty · Jul 21, 2017

Wayne, you know fine well you can shape it right/left and hit it high/low.

Doing it when you want to is a different matter......

DennisMiller · Jul 21, 2017

hursty said:

Oh Lord, sometimes I wonder if I can make it go FORWARD...

Celtic_Bil · Jul 21, 2017

hursty said:

I have been known to do all four in the same shot!

DennisMiller · Jul 21, 2017

Hey! Poulter seems to be feeling an old spark... It would be really cool to see him win it.

dave_giz · Jul 21, 2017

dave_giz said:

I'm going end up eating my words aren't I?

DCB · Jul 22, 2017

Watched the first pair set off this morning. One of the club professionals out as a marker for Shaun Norris. The club pro spanked a beautiful tee shot down the first on what must have been a very stressful situation. His caddy was however carrying a mizuno staff bag, so, maybe no surprise that he hit a good one off the tee

hursty · Jul 22, 2017

DCB said:

Birkdale is a Mizuno Performance Fitting Centre so it's great advertising for them

TheJoshuaTree · Jul 23, 2017

Birkdale looks a fantastic course but i think they set the course up too soft for an Open championship, we've seen a lot of players playing from the rough and still hitting the greens without too much of a problem. Quite a few players have played for the rough on purpose to avoid bunkers or to give them a better line in knowing that it won't cause them any problems with it being thin and whispy. On a links course the protection should be the weather/wind, the bunkers, the rough along with the firm, fast greens.

The course has looked fantastic but for me it's not been as punishing to bad shots as it should be for an Open championship, i'm sure people will have different views, those are just my own.

Halebopp · Jul 23, 2017

Sunday back 9 finish, can't go wrong with that! Go Kuuuuuuuch!

DennisMiller · Jul 23, 2017

Halebopp said:

We were talking about whether Kooooooooch could win today. If he does, I feel it sets up his career for a very good chance at the hall of fame.

Bonobobananas · Jul 23, 2017

TheJoshuaTree said:

Birkdale looks a fantastic course but i think they set the course up too soft for an Open championship, we've seen a lot of players playing from the rough and still hitting the greens without too much of a problem. Quite a few players have played for the rough on purpose to avoid bunkers or to give them a better line in knowing that it won't cause them any problems with it being thin and whispy. On a links course the protection should be the weather/wind, the bunkers, the rough along with the firm, fast greens.

The course has looked fantastic but for me it's not been as punishing to bad shots as it should be for an Open championship, i'm sure people will have different views, those are just my own.

Totally agree with this. Spieth has played some garbage and gotten away with it due to easy lies.

DennisMiller · Jul 23, 2017

It takes a bit of luck to win any tournament, but when you play 5 under on the last 5 holes, to win by 3 shots, it means nobody played as well as you anyway.

Bonobobananas · Jul 23, 2017

DennisMiller said:

He wouldn't have been -5 on the course I played. And he'd have about three less balls in his bag

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