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2016 Golf thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Jan 19, 2016.

  1. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    The video of El Tigre being shuffled out of the team photo was ... difficult, though amusing.

    The $10 million off to the side is WSOP cliche.

    I like the stands at Hazeltine being in red. Nice touch.

    FIFA is missing out. The World Cup every two years like the RC would be epic ... and above all else, profitable.
     
  2. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    The UEFA Euro tournament is in the other even numbered years. It is indeed profitable, and that organization, still the dominant one in soccer, will never give it up.
     
  3. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Plus qualification would be nearly constant and maybe impossible between league games and tournaments.
     
  4. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I do not hate Johnny Miller as an announcer as some here do, but... Miller said the Euro team was the weakest he'd seen because it has six rookies. My memory may be playing tricks on me, but wasn't he also one of the commentators this summer who said he'd like to see some new blood out there for the US?
     
  5. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    The weirdest thing for me so far is Bubba as an asst. captain. If I was in the prime of my career yet didn't make the team on points or as a pick, I'd be in my living room, not on the course as the fifth asst. captain or whatever he is. If Ryan Moore goes out and stinks it up (hopefully not, I think he'll be terrific), won't that be supremely awkward? You know some scribes would latch onto that.
     
  6. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I think it's just this simple. Watson wanted to participate in any way he could. Same reason as Tiger doing it.
     
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  7. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Yeah, but Tiger was on board several months ago and never a threat to be on the team. Bubba could have been, some would say SHOULD have been. I suppose Love couldn't really say no when Bubba asked to be involved, but I still think it could be strange if the U.S. gets waxed again.

    Or maybe I'm also dreaming of a team golf competition where there's one captain and that's it. No assistants, no Michael Jordan, no fleet of golf carts. Maybe that could be the next step for the Task Force.
     
  8. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I think we passed that fork in the road some time back, like 1973 or so.
     
  9. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    This weekend, if you take a drink every time NBC shows a U.S. vice captain, you'll be dead by Saturday morning.
     
  10. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Danny Willett's brother adds a big, fat FU to American fans. He should probably wear a disguise on the course after this:
    Pete Willett: I ain't partisan, he's my brother.. - National Club Golfer
    Example:
    "Team USA have only won five of the last 16 Ryder Cups. Four of those five victories have come on home soil. For the Americans to stand a chance of winning, they need their baying mob of imbeciles to caress their egos every step of the way. Like one of those brainless bastards from your childhood, the one that pulled down your shorts during the school’s Christmas assembly (f**k you, Paul Jennings), they only have the courage to keg you if they’re backed up by a giggling group of reprobates. Team Europe needs to shut those groupies up.

    They need to silence the pudgy, basement-dwelling, irritants, stuffed on cookie dough and pissy beer, pausing between mouthfuls of hotdog so they can scream ‘Baba booey’ until their jelly faces turn red.

    They need to stun the angry, unwashed, Make America Great Again swarm, desperately gripping their concealed-carry compensators and belting out a mini-erection inducing ‘mashed potato,’ hoping to impress their cousin.

    They need to smash the obnoxious dads, with their shiny teeth, Lego man hair, medicated ex-wives, and resentful children. Squeezed into their cargo shorts and boating shoes, they’ll bellow ‘get in the hole’ whilst high-fiving all the other members of the Dentists’ Big Game Hunt Society."

    Hoo, boy.
     
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