2016 Golf thread

"Everything he said about American golf fans is dead nuts on."

Probably. But those same American golf fans and the rich American TV market have made lots of Euro golfers - many of whom also decide to live in the US - rich beyond their wildest dreams.

 

So people get to be slovenly asses as long as they're enriching others. Cool. Got it. And they better get at it while the gettings good. Every stat points to golf dying in this country.

 

It's not dying, just stopped growing AFTER bunches of courses and golf course-related housing developments were built based on projections of continued growth at the rate of the Tiger Woods' dominance era. Golf takes money, and worse, takes time. Young adults and teens don't have the former and have many different options to spend the latter.

 

Not justifying assholish behavior at all. Just saying that the US fans, and the TV ratings they fuel that result in high rights fees and astronomical purses, have helped make a lot of Euro golfers very rich.

 

Rory McIlroy Misses Ryder Cup Putt, Heckler Makes Same Putt For $100

RC Practice ...
Heckler gets pulled out of stands by Stenson and McIlroy after Rory misses a putt. Stenson throws a $100 on the green if the Heckler makes it. He drains it.
Crowd goes NUTS.

It's going to be a hell of a weekend.

 

Pairings for foursomes announced. Spieth-Reed vs. Stenson-Rose, Mickelson-Fowler vs. McIlroy-Sullivan, Walker-Z. Johnson vs. Garcia-Kaymer, D. Johnson-Kuchar vs. Westwood-Pieters. No Willett. Guess Clarke wanted to give other guys a shot at shutting up the crowd before he puts Willett out there. Also of note, Reed, the crowd taunter at Gleneagles, went out of his way to urge crowd to give Willett a break in his presser.

 

If you hate the Ryder Cup, you might as well say you hate the United States of America.

 

very very hard for a rookie to play in foursomes on first morning. Europe about had to do it with Pieters.DL3 sitting rookies Koepka and Moore in morning.

 

US about to sweep the foursomes. This could indeed be a rout. Every one of the eight US guys played well, and some (Reed, DJ) played lights out.

 

They ought to throw out (and invalidate his tickets for the rest of the weekend, if he has any) that fucker who yelled at McIlroy while he was lining up that last putt.

 

Why do you hate America??