[Other Sport] The 151st Open Championship - Royal Liverpool, Hoylake

[KZNSeagull]

I had forgotten just how awful a commentator Ewen Murray is. Plus with all the silly shouting going on, this is best viewed with the sound muted.

 

[Questions]

Golfers with their white foreheads make me laugh.

 

[crodonilson]

I had forgotten just how awful a commentator Ewen Murray is. Plus with all the silly shouting going on, this is best viewed with the sound muted.

He's no Paul McGinley.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Harman gets a steadier birdie to extend his lead to 4 shots.

What promised to be a thrilling day's gold and cricket looks like petering out on both fronts.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Harman gets a steadier birdie to extend his lead to 4 shots.

What promised to be a thrilling day's gold and cricket looks like petering out on both fronts.

Yup. Someone needs to get to -9 and hope that Harman has a major wobble. Not looking likely at the moment.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Boring. I'm baling out.

 

[crodonilson]

The lack of Tiger and a pretty average course has meant this has been possibly the worst British Open in recent memory. Rory was the only hope for golf.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Pleased to see Jason Day doing well.

Probably the only active Australian sportsman that I don't want to see fail abysmally.


Edit ... apart from Matt Ryan

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Magnificent front running performance by Harman. Strategic golf at its very best.

 

[Weststander]

Just 30 posts in this thread, has golf lost its lure? I recall far more interest in British Open’s past.

BBC’s Mark Chapman got it spectacularly wrong, yesterday. Going on and on about Tommy Fleetwood being involved in a final 36 hole shootout, he was so confident of that.

If there’s one sport that’s incredibly hard to predict, it’s stroke play golf on a majors course.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Just 30 posts in this thread, has golf lost its lure? I recall far more interest in British Open’s past.

BBC’s Mark Chapman got it spectacularly wrong, yesterday. Going on and on about Tommy Fleetwood being involved in a final 36 hole shootout, he was so confident of that.

If there’s one sport that’s incredibly hard to predict, it’s stroke play golf on a majors course.

It only being available live on Sky doesn't help.

Plus, in Crodo style, it's not been the same since Harry Vardon retired.

 

[Silverhatch]

Cashed out on Harman at the cut. Still £100 to the good. Master class from the lefty.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Just 30 posts in this thread, has golf lost its lure? I recall far more interest in British Open’s past.

BBC’s Mark Chapman got it spectacularly wrong, yesterday. Going on and on about Tommy Fleetwood being involved in a final 36 hole shootout, he was so confident of that.

If there’s one sport that’s incredibly hard to predict, it’s stroke play golf on a majors course.

Did it have a lure?

I love hacking round a par 3 now and again with my mates and am a fairly regular footgolf player but I can’t think of anything duller than watching it. Almost the only time is late at night with a whisky if I have an urgent need to sleep.

 

[Weststander]

Did it have a lure?

I love hacking round a par 3 now and again with my mates and am a fairly regular footgolf player but I can’t think of anything duller than watching it. Almost the only time is late at night with a whisky if I have an urgent need to sleep.

I only tried golf as a kid at hellish Seaford Head, I was rubbish.

But TV golf …. I used to love the majors …. Watson/Nicklaus, Ballesteros, Faldo, Harrington, the wonderfully emotional Darren Clarke win. Peter Alliss was a god.

It went downhill partly when the BBC (radio coverage and highlights) dumbed down allowing Chris Evans to stick his look at me nose into their work, WTF.

The skill level is amazing, imho it was a great watch.