US Open 2009 thread

A.Partridge

2 over after 4 holes.

I know it's early days and it's a brutally difficult course, but it looks like it could be another disappointment for Padraig if he can't get back into some sort of form.

Pity.

death1234567

He hasn't been on form since he tinkered with his swing over Xmas. His own fault really, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Dolph Starbeam

death1234567 wrote: »

He hasn't been on form since he tinkered with his swing over Xmas. His own fault really, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

It wasn't exactly broke but it wasn't great, Tiger has backed him up as he did the same a few years ago, hopefully it will work out for him in the long run.

Dolph Starbeam

A slow start for Harrington today. I'll finish work at 6 so will be home in time to see McIlroy start, Sky should show a bit of him as he's playing with Kim too. I've backed McDowell to win at 80/1 and McIlroy to win at 45/1, long shots i know but they are both showing decent form.

madds

death1234567 wrote: »

He hasn't been on form since he tinkered with his swing over Xmas. His own fault really, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Read an interesting article with Harrington earlier this week in which he said this process of "tinkering" with his swing is something that he has always done. When he reaches a certain level he takes a step back and identifies what needs to be done to get himself to the next level. In other words he came on tour in 95/96 and missed a rake of cuts. A year or so later he realized that in order to become more consistent on tour he needed to change his swing so off to Bob Torrance he went and worked with him for 2-3 years.

By the early 2000's he was inside the World 50 and improving fast. He continued to tinker based on the changes he felt needed to be implemented in order to continue to improve.

More improvements seen as he he became one of the dominant forces in European golf and made the Ryder Cup sides of '02, '04, and '06. The "tinkering" continued.

Then he won The Open in 2007. He continued to work on swing changes, that when implemented were oftentimes not visible to ordinary fan on the sofa. In 2008 he won a further two Majors and he continues to tinker.

Anyone see the moral of the story here?

Leave him be. He'll be back to his very best sometime soon.

fullstop

Harrington +4 after 6, another missed cut then

madds

Don't think anyone else has started one of these so perhaps we can use this.

Here are the latest scores:

Player Score Hole
J Brehaut -1 10
A Parr -1 3
R Imada Par 8
J Leonard Par 7
I Poulter Par 7
A Cabrera Par 6
S Stricker Par 5

Selected Others
Player Score Hole
T Woods 1 6
P Casey 1 5
J Furyk 1 5
G Ogilvy 1 5
Z Johnson 1 4
P Harrington 4 6

staker

Looks very wet over there.
How's that Thomas Bjorn is on the commentary on the Sky??
Di Stewart makes up for the rain:D:D

madds

"It's still bucketing down in New York. The constant rain means grounds staff are using squeegees on the greens to clear surface water in between groups and also, at players' requests, between putts."

Play has just been stopped. They are not using preferred lies and it looks like there are going to be long delays.

meljo

Any score for mc dowell.

madds wrote: »

Don't think anyone else has started one of these so perhaps we can use this.

Here are the latest scores:

Player Score Hole
J Brehaut -1 10
A Parr -1 3
R Imada Par 8
J Leonard Par 7
I Poulter Par 7
A Cabrera Par 6
S Stricker Par 5

Selected Others
Player Score Hole
T Woods 1 6
P Casey 1 5
J Furyk 1 5
G Ogilvy 1 5
Z Johnson 1 4
P Harrington 4 6

PhilipMarlowe

+1 thru 7 (started on 10th)

Dolph Starbeam

fullstop wrote: »

Harrington +4 after 6, another missed cut then

Maybe not the way the scoring is going so far. Still not looking good for him very early on.

ozymandias10

he is four over now and looks like he will be going to five over... This is a pity as these conditions suit him...pity his game is all over the place since the swing changes

PhilipMarlowe

Merged and moved (and messed up) a few posts and threads so this might read all mixed up but we'll keep all the US Open stuff in here now.

f22

Jesus, just looking at some snaps of Bethpage Black from yesterday. I've seen wider fairways after the bikini waxers have been let loose (not on me of course )

sneem-man

I'm gutted,just home from work to find play is suspended.I was all set for an evening on the couch watching the coverage on sky...:(

Dolph Starbeam

sneem-man wrote: »

I'm gutted,just home from work to find play is suspended.I was all set for an evening on the couch watching the coverage on sky...:(

Me too, had ordered Sky in and all and was going to be home just in time for McIlroys start, damn rain And they say its gonna be much the same over the weekend.

soundsham

sounds like weather is going to spoil this 1 all weekend........balls:mad:

soundsham

any news on when it might re-start

Niall09

12:30 pm GMT, tomorrow

Morrisseeee

I'm gonna back Harry this evening, for the laugh, maybe (hopefully) this weather break will re-focus him, ie. get the finger out :eek: ! :pac:

soundsham

balls told the mate no to pints tonight as i was stayin in for golf :mad:

jukebox2310

http://usga.usopen.com/2009/virtualopen/

For anyone who wants to play in the vitual US Open and get a feel for the course

Dolph Starbeam

McDowell back to level par Harrington gone to +6 for 9 :eek:

f22

Class game, there goes any work getting done this afternoon

Mountjoy Mugger

f22 wrote: »

Class game, there goes any work getting done this afternoon

Well, I'm at work. That's about it.

/looks over shoulder.

Mister Sifter

Harrington having a nightmare... embarassing the Irish nation. At least McDowell is keeping the British hopes flying at the top of the leaderboard!

Dolph Starbeam

Mcdowell now 2 clear at -2, my 10 quid bet at 80/1 is looking good

BombSquad

Brehaut, Leonard, Poulter and Gmac on top of the leaderboard. They've only played ~9 holes but strange that they're all short & straight guys as opposed to bombers... Hoch, Faldo, Mayfair and Maggert were in the top 10 last time at Bethpage also.

Obviously Tiger will still to win though!

whatawaster

Are the afternoon starters going to go out first in the second round still. It would make more sense for them to play the same order so they'd get more golf today, but that might be deemed unfair i suppose.
McDowell going great. He's done this before at majors though. He featured prominently at Winged Foot, and Birkdale last year before falling away. Let's hope he can keep it up.

Adiaga 2

Graeme1982 wrote: »

Harrington having a nightmare... embarassing the Irish nation. At least McDowell is keeping the British hopes flying at the top of the leaderboard!

Pad's just gone birdie, birdie! C'mon!!

jane says

Anyone got a leaderboard that is actually updating cos the one at http://www.majorschampionships.com/usopen/2009/scoring/ seems to be very static...

Mountjoy Mugger

I'm using this one. Slow enough, but not half as good as the PGAtour one that has all the bells and whistles.

It's a shame they aren't doing this one as well.

PhilipMarlowe

http://www.usopen.com/en_US/realtime/flash_np_.html?syn=none&ref=www.usopen.com/en_US/index.html&mode=po&db=false

Dolph Starbeam

Licksy wrote: »

http://www.usopen.com/en_US/realtime/flash_np_.html?syn=none&ref=www.usopen.com/en_US/index.html&mode=po&db=false

Bookmarked, a lot clearer than the other one i was using

PhilipMarlowe

Also, where it says "select view", go into custom players and put in your 4 picks for the boards us open...

jimbling

jesus... just had a look through the holes on the course. Ridiculously hard.
Cant believe there is a 525y par 4. That's just crazy.

jimbling

Adiaga 2 wrote: »

Pad's just gone birdie, birdie! C'mon!!

and just got a double bogey on the 15th... as did tiger

Mister Sifter

That game is class. Shot level par...

















... on the 8th hole. Quadruple bogied the ninth to go out in 23 over par. I did a Sandy Lyle after that and jacked it in! Class graphics though. Will have another bash later...

fullstop

Graeme1982 wrote: »

Harrington having a nightmare... embarassing the Irish nation. At least McDowell is keeping the British hopes flying at the top of the leaderboard!

Less of the trolling please. You complained about conno16 trolling just last week.

Mister Sifter

fullstop wrote: »

Less of the trolling please. You complained about conno16 trolling just last week.

fullstop

Graeme1982 wrote: »

Artfu1Dodger

Great birdie on the 18th by Harrington after he was in the bunker.

jukebox2310

Bethpage playing extremely hard......... Was 1 over after 5 and finished 28 over.
So much for my driving.....only carring about 200 yds :mad:

Dolph Starbeam

Is the rain holding off today or whats the story?


I don't get home from work until 6 so hoping to catch some of it today.

PhilipMarlowe

Aidric

McIlroy plus one through nine.

PhilipMarlowe

A former world number 1 who I'm not going to mention on here is E thru 11

Blunder

I was just coming on to say to you licksy to not mention his progress for his sake and also for the spectators at the tournament!

Adiaga 2

Licksy wrote: »

A former world number 1 who I'm not going to mention on here is E thru 11

I had a dream during the week that he won. Honestly.

gnolan

Adiaga 2 wrote: »

I had a dream during the week that he won. Honestly.

I had a dream that there were eggs in my fridge........there wasn't. Dreams mean nothing