[Other Sport] The Open Championship 2024

[crodonilson]

One of the highlights of this and any other summer, should be a fantastic week of action. As Sarah Stirk would say 'Wowzers'.

Great to see Tiger back, he IS The Open in many ways and the crowds following him in the practice rounds this week have by all accounts been huge.

A couple of outside flutters for me:

Monkey e/w Aaron Rai 80/1
Pony e/w Louis Oosthuizen 75/1
Score e/w Sam Burns 175/1

 

[KZNSeagull]

The Open.

 

[Bob!]

Can we change the thread title to 'The Open' please.
OP is on another of his wind-ups..

 

[Originunknown]

Can we change the thread title to 'The Open' please.
OP is on another of his wind-ups..

The Open Championship 2024 Royal Troon even better

 

[Pavilionaire]

A couple of outside flutters for me:

Monkey e/w Aaron Rai 80/1
Pony e/w Louis Oosthuizen 75/1
Score e/w Sam Burns 175/1

A bag of hooves e/w Billy Horschel 250/1

 

[Titanic]

Can we change the thread title to 'The Open' please.
OP is on another of his wind-ups..

And you are all playing straight into his hands.

 

[Albion my Albion]

What's a Royal Troon?

Is it a cape formerly owned by the Habsburgs? Windsors?

Modeled after the noses of the Royals?

 

[theboybilly]

John Rahm or Viktor Hovland for me.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Sky’s pre tournament ‘open zone’ was fascinating today particular master classes from Bryson driving and ‘new hip’ Faldo in the bunker.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Sahith Theegala e/w 200-1. Bet placed last week.

The greatest annual sporting event IMHO.

TNBA

TTF

 

[Pevenseagull]

Shaping up to be a decent tournament

 

[Brownstuff]

Even though always want a British player to win Brooks Koepka is set nicely after day 1 and available at around 16/1 currently

 

[Questions]

….

 

[tigertim68]

Used to love watching it on BBC , remember watching it after school all those years ago , but not watched since coverage switched to Sky

 

[KZNSeagull]

Used to love watching it on BBC , remember watching it after school all those years ago , but not watched since coverage switched to Sky

Am giving Sky a whirl this morning but I am not expecting much. There is, as usual, far too much coverage of Tiger hacking it around and far too many adverts.
The BBC highlights last night were ok.

 

[Dave the hatosaurus]

Am giving Sky a whirl this morning but I am not expecting much. There is, as usual, far too much coverage of Tiger hacking it around and far too many adverts.
The BBC highlights last night were ok.

Have to say i agree wholeheartedly with you about Woods. It is almost bordering on cruelty to show a once great player dropping shot after shot. Unfortunate as it may be he is yesterday's man, just show him hitting off the first and putting on the last for goodness sake.
Edit: just watched him miss another tiddler now +13 !

 

[KZNSeagull]

Finally something worthwhile from the Sky coverage:

Is this the best bunker masterclass out there? Sir Nick Faldo stuns at Royal Troon!

Sir Nick Faldos bunker masterclass leaves everyone stunned as the three time Open major champion hits all sorts of shots!

www.skysports.com

I have not seen the last one before, will give that a go whenever I get around to start playing golf again.

 

[Is it PotG?]

'If you can't see Arran, it's raining......if you can see Arran it's about to rain'.

Love it.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Thriston Lawrence goes out in 30......what a name, what a score.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Used to love watching it on BBC , remember watching it after school all those years ago , but not watched since coverage switched to Sky

The action is great, the footage is great but the commentary is functional, there is no connection between the viewer and the player, or the viewer and the commentator. All very technical, but not much warmth or personality.