Happy to be watching some golf just now but the BBC coverage is absolutely brutal.
No idea who these commentators are but take them out to the "Bay of January" and bloody drown them.
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Thread: Olympics - Golf
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11-08-2016 11:00 AM #1
Olympics - Golf
Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
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11-08-2016 04:21 PM #2
I've not caught any of the golf yet and I'm a bit ignorant as to how it's being played. Is it matchplay? Or a 4 round stroke play competition?
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11-08-2016 05:50 PM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As a massive golf fan, I find myself unable to get into this much. I don't know quite what it is, but I just haven't enjoyed it thus far.Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
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11-08-2016 06:46 PM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-08-2016 04:49 PM #5
What were the qualifying rules? USA have four men and three women, we have two men and two women for example. You would have thought that each competing country would have the same number of competitors.
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12-08-2016 10:13 PM #6
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12-08-2016 10:43 PM #7
I would have preferred to see no Pros there at all. Sure, very few people would recognise any of the golfers but the pros already have their big competitions - they don't need more.
When I was a lad I was always under the impression that competitors could not be Pro but obviously that is not true or never was true. I recall something about Torvil and Dean not being able to compete in the Winter Olympics after they turned pro.
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13-08-2016 12:29 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
United we stand here....
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13-08-2016 05:30 AM #9
I'm sure George McNeil was the fasted man on the planet at one time and never competed at the olympics because he was a pro.
The idea about golf being back at the olympics is trying to grow the game.. The top pros really couldn't care less about that as McIlroy has more or less said.
It is refreshing to see some of them without their corporate gear on but this is just a run of the mill competition for them.
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14-08-2016 06:28 PM #10
This tournament has all of a sudden become very interesting. Rose and Stenson tied going up the last hole so its all to play for. Huge crowds as well which is encouraging for the game of golf featuring in future Olympics.
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14-08-2016 06:34 PM #11
Good finish this.
Both seem genuinely keen to win it as well.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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14-08-2016 06:47 PM #12
Well played Justin Rose, a great winning birdie up the last and another gold medal for team GB.
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14-08-2016 06:59 PM #13
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That was excellent!
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, vodka in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!"
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17-08-2016 10:05 AM #14
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No way it should be at the olympics it's not even a sport!
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17-08-2016 11:53 AM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-08-2016 03:04 PM #16
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Maybe a bit harsh but I consider it a hobby or a pastime, there's other events I would add to the list but it shouldn't be in the olympics which is about strength fitness endurance etc walking around a park hitting a ball isn't ;-)
They don't even carry their own bags!Last edited by patch1875; 17-08-2016 at 03:12 PM.
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17-08-2016 03:27 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
And archers don't even need to walk anywhere....
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17-08-2016 08:18 PM #19
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17-08-2016 09:11 PM #21
You only have to look at the top guys in golf now to see how the game has gone. McIlroy, Spieth, Day, Fowler, Rose, Scott etc all look like athletes now, in fact scrap that, they are athletes. Look at the change in Phil Mickelsons physique in the last few years, he had to make those changes to stay competitive.
Golf is most definitely a sport and, at the top level especially, a physically demanding one. Look at the body rotation required and the major muscles groups in both the upper and lower body engaged.
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