Re: The Open Championship : Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:57 pm  

Up the Dons wrote: Worth 1min 30 secs of anybody's time if they have not seen it, Tom Watson on the last hole http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/8830686.stm Thanks for that I missed it last night because of our game Absolute legend and what a shot to finish with Is it just me or does Tiger always get the best view of the greats finishing out their last majors?, he was walking down the 1st hole when Nicklaus played his last open at St Andrews and his last US Open IIRC!! lucky sod

Up the Dons wrote: Worth 1min 30 secs of anybody's time if they have not seen it, Tom Watson on the last hole http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/8830686.stm Thanks for that I missed it last night because of our game Absolute legend and what a shot to finish with Is it just me or does Tiger always get the best view of the greats finishing out their last majors?, he was walking down the 1st hole when Nicklaus played his last open at St Andrews and his last US Open IIRC!! lucky sod

Re: The Open Championship : Sun Jul 18, 2010 2:02 pm  

LFCRhino wrote:

Thanks for that I missed it last night because of our game

Absolute legend and what a shot to finish with

Is it just me or does Tiger always get the best view of the greats finishing out their last majors?, he was walking down the 1st hole when Nicklaus played his last open at St Andrews and his last US Open IIRC!! lucky sod

If anyone deserves to be walking down the first during these moments it's Tiger. Shame to see him playing the way he is lately, hopefully it won't be long before he gets back to somewhere near his best.

All fancy Oosthuiven to win the Open then? Paddy Power are generous on their live odds, 1/5 about the fav. 22/1 Westwood, 28/1 Kaymer and 33/1 Stenson.

Re: The Open Championship : Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:41 pm  

Half way through their final round and its now between Oosthuizen and Casey. Oosty's to lose now after that eagle

Re: The Open Championship : Sun Jul 18, 2010 4:19 pm  

8 shot lead now for Oosthuizen

Was hoping it was going to go right down to the last hole!!

Re: The Open Championship : Sun Jul 18, 2010 5:17 pm  

LFCRhino wrote:

8 shot lead now for Oosthuizen

Was hoping it was going to go right down to the last hole!!

If Casey hadn't blown it at the earlier hole (9th/10th?) it might have. Casey's back nine has been dreadful

Re: The Open Championship : Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:03 pm  

Well played to Luis Oosthuizen. An amazing display of near perfect golf.

I'd also like to commend the BBC for the best coverage in the world of a golf major. Thoroughly enjoyed the last 4 days. Early morning till late night coverage. No adverts. Interesting snippets. Great commentary. Golf fans paradise.

The footage montage and poetry just now at the end was genius and summed up the history and spirit of golf for me.

Chapeau to the BBC.

Re: The Open Championship : Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:14 pm  

Captain Jack Sparrow wrote:

Well played to Luis Oosthuizen. An amazing display of near perfect golf.

I'd also like to commend the BBC for the best coverage in the world of a golf major. Thoroughly enjoyed the last 4 days. Early morning till late night coverage. No adverts. Interesting snippets. Great commentary. Golf fans paradise.

The footage montage and poetry just now at the end was genius and summed up the history and spirit of golf for me.

Chapeau to the BBC.

Couldn't have put it better, superb coverage everyday. Couldn't fault the Beeb for this one.

Full of knowledge on the commentary team as well. They aired a nice little feature on Tom Watson on the bridge on the 18th from yesterday this morning too. I love the no advert interuption, just pure golf all day everyday. Superb.

Re: The Open Championship : Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:48 pm  

Dan_FC wrote:

:CLAP:

Couldn't have put it better, superb coverage everyday. Couldn't fault the Beeb for this one.

Full of knowledge on the commentary team as well. They aired a nice little feature on Tom Watson on the bridge on the 18th from yesterday this morning too. I love the no advert interuption, just pure golf all day everyday. Superb.

Thats the problem with Sky having the Ryder Cup....although I like to think, being an Evertonian, that we're bloody lucky its not ITV, we'd miss the winning putt....

Re: The Open Championship : Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:40 pm  

MSH wrote:

Thats the problem with Sky having the Ryder Cup....although I like to think, being an Evertonian, that we're bloody lucky its not ITV, we'd miss the winning putt....

They'll never live that tic-tac moment down them cnuts.

Although SKY have brought sport to life you can't beat the likes of BBC for non-advert screening. Still think Racing, Golf, Snooker etc are all so much better advert free.

Re: The Open Championship : Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:51 am  

Sthelens RLFC wrote:

I hope to be proven wrong but Casey seems to bottle it as soon as he gets in contention.

If you look at the probability that Oosthuizen will fall away (and if hdoesn't then fair play to the lad) and you put the 'lead' at -6 then there are some brilliant players in with chances. Casey, Westwood, McDowell, Woods, Goosen all have big chances if they can handle the wind. I really fancy a british player (probably McDowell) to come through with their course knowledge.

If the wind blows, I'd expect -6 or -7 to be leading going into Sunday. It's Oosthuziens to throw away though but we saw what happened to Rory yesterday.

I know loads about golf.

Great performance from Oosthuizen. Never headed from Friday onwards in the biggest major there is. Takes a big set of balls that does.