Golf: 148th Open Championship

[GKJ]

Has to be tough for Rory since the R&A brought the tournament to Northern Ireland for him.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

Koepka is now one shot off the lead.

I thought maybe we could enjoy a major without him in contention, but it looks like he'll take the lead after one.

Majors bot at work

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Koepka is now one shot off the lead.

I thought maybe we could enjoy a major without him in contention, but it looks like he'll take the lead after one.

Maybe once he gets the career grand slam he’ll lay off a bit.

 

[Elvis P]

looks like a course where u can have a great round going and then make a triple on one hole and its all for nuffin

Agreed. ESPN.com can focus on Tiger's bogey at the 5th, but Rory hit a quadruple bogey and a triple bogey!

 

[Cody Webster]

It's becoming a joke at this point

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

Tiger blowing it, Brooksie tied for the lead.

Tiger really needed Brooksie to pick up the phone lol.

 

[Cody Webster]

Has to be tough for Rory since the R&A brought the tournament to Northern Ireland for him.

Not the R&As fault he's a mental midget

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

It's becoming a joke at this point

It really is, but it's kind of riveting.

The guy plain does not care for golf, he only plays to win majors lol, it's both amazing and infuriating.

 

[Cody Webster]

Tiger is imploding

The layoff is showing its head

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

It really is, but it's kind of riveting.

The guy plain does not care for golf, he only plays to win majors lol, it's both amazing and infuriating.

I'm hoping he'll go away. I can't imagine he would be so good that he could not practice all year, practice for a week before each major, and be the best player in the field. Is he that talented? That would be a TW-level talent.

I honestly don't know, but I'm thinking that he's hit a great patch of form, and he'll eventually back up. Just my opinion, but the only area of his talent that looks extremely good is the driving. He's an elite driver during the majors. Long and straight. The rest looks good, but susceptible to not holding up, especially without regular practice.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Tiger is imploding

The layoff is showing its head

I don't know if this is being too pessimistic, but I think I'm less optimistic about his long-term future in the game after this year than when the year started. And he won a major, so that sounds crazy, but the extremely limited schedule, having a crazy prep routine to ready his back for tournaments, and showing up at some tournaments moving gingerly because of the back.

How many years does he want to play with the back injury and can he contend as often as he did?

 

[joe89]

Here comes Brookzzz Koepka again

 

[Elvis P]

Glad I get the Golf Channel. I like the name British Open better. It's the setting that makes it special. This and the US Open are my 2 favorite majors.

 

[Cody Webster]

It really is, but it's kind of riveting.

The guy plain does not care for golf, he only plays to win majors lol, it's both amazing and infuriating.

He's a real life golf troll

 

[Cody Webster]

I don't know if this is being too pessimistic, but I think I'm less optimistic about his long-term future in the game after this year than when the year started. And he won a major, so that sounds crazy, but the extremely limited schedule, having a crazy prep routine to ready his back for tournaments, and showing up at some tournaments moving gingerly because of the back.

How many years does he want to play with the back injury and can he contend as often as he did?

He's definitely hurt, there's no denying it. I doubt he plays the rest of this year after he misses the cut here this weekend

Just your standard 39-29 for Fox

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

I don't know if this is being too pessimistic, but I think I'm less optimistic about his long-term future in the game after this year than when the year started. And he won a major, so that sounds crazy, but the extremely limited schedule, having a crazy prep routine to ready his back for tournaments, and showing up at some tournaments moving gingerly because of the back.

How many years does he want to play with the back injury and can he contend as often as he did?

This. The guy is playing on borrowed time. His body is shot. He can't even play when it is cold and uncomfortable. Needs every event to be warm and sunny. I just hope he doesn't have another injury and his QOL after he fully retires gets harmed.

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Rahm with an opening 9 of 31. Tiger struggling big time. +6 after 10

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Koepka is now one shot off the lead.

I thought maybe we could enjoy a major without him in contention, but it looks like he'll take the lead after one.

I’d love to see him in the final group Sunday. Great story in my book

 

[Elvis P]

Duval shot a 91!

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Duval shot a 91!

That’s to bad

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

Duval shot a 91!

Was -2 thru 2 aswell

 

[Elvis P]

Tiger finally gets his first birdie on 15.

 

[Elvis P]

I wanna see Brooks and Rahm playing together on Sunday.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

After watching a round of this course, I think this course is one of the better ones in the Open rota. The way that the holes are set up to be difficult by naturally using the land is outstanding.

I don’t like St. Andrews. It’s historic and all, but sucks aside from that. If it wasn’t historic and didn’t produce great winners, it would be the worst course in the rota.

Lytham, Troon, Hoylake are all perpetually very low rated.

St. George’s is the controversial course. It gets a really bad reputation hosting the Open, but all the reviews say it’s actually a much better course than how it’s perceived. Maybe they’ve just had some bad luck. I’ll watch closely next year. Birkdale is unspectacular, but gets marks as the fairest links in the rota and a good test of who the best is on any given week.

Turnberry has the most dramatic views, and has produced some of golf’s greatest moments. We haven’t seen it in 10 years, so I may be underrating it.

I like Carnoustie because it’s usually difficult, and if you get wind off the left, some of the tee shots are borderline impossible. The rest of the course is pretty average, but I don’t mind that.

Muirfield is the clear best course in the rota, in my opinion. It’s very well routed, the weather can be a mess, the holes are almost all very strong and it produces great champions.

1. Muirfield
2. Portrush
3. Carnoustie
4. Turnberry
5. Birkdale
6. St. George’s
7. St. Andrews
8. Troon
9. Hoylake
10. Lytham

The ones I’m not sure about in these rankings are Portrush, St. George’s and Turnberry.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

My Rahm pick isn’t looking too bad. I didn’t watch the morning wave, but I thought he played the best golf of the afternoon wave. He was striping it off the tee, but leaked a few coming in due to some really bad irons and wedges.