Chris Evans banned...

Kevinmarkham

Some light reading on why Chris Evans - the DJ - has, allegedly, been banned from the Dunhill Links Championship. We all know people like this!

http://www.golfmagic.com/news/evans-barred-for-life-from-dunhill-links/12272.html

BoardsMember

I wonder if JP and the like are looking at the AT&T and getting a little concerned that their own "modest" handicaps might come under some scrutiny.

Seves Three Iron

They'd want to be curamach about suggesting he was engaging in banditry. Could be hit with a 10m law suit!

Dtoffee

Evans is a classic attention seeker, this was probably 'leaked' by one of his media buddies and 'allegedly' speaks volumns.

Therse no such thing as bad publicity and he's cafeful not to name names when he says ... “Suffice to say, if we were kids in the playground, the boy who owns the ball just took it home in a huff because his team didn’t win.”

What he has done is remind everyone that he won it last year and promote this years event for free ..... the sponsors are saying nothing and everyones a winner.

and yeah I'm a cynic :rolleyes:

TheDoc

Who gives a **** about celebrity golf?

Seves Three Iron

I'm with the Doc. Find the celebrity stuff hugely annoying when it comes to the Dunhill and Pebble Beach tournaments. The PB one is particularly bad. The US TV guys seem more interested in the amateurs than the pros. Baseball coaches and actors having their swings analysed by Faldo and Kostis, waste of time really.

The worst thing about the pro/am thing, by a country mile, however, is Bill Murray. I abhor that man. Nothing worse than an attention seeker being given his own platform.

bigtimecharlie

Seves Three Iron wrote: »

The worst thing about the pro/am thing, by a country mile, however, is Bill Murray. I abhor that man. Nothing worse than an attention seeker being given his own platform.

At this years PB event, Simon Holmes on Sky used Bill Murray's swing to show how us "amateurs" swing a club. He showed the club in 3 places and this was much more informative than seeing a pro's swing being analyzed. That was the only good thing about the event.

newport2

bigtimecharlie wrote: »

At this years PB event, Simon Holmes on Sky used Bill Murray's swing to show how us "amateurs" swing a club. He showed the club in 3 places and this was much more informative than seeing a pro's swing being analyzed. That was the only good thing about the event.

When I used to buy golf magazines (the good old days), I remember wishing that they would use really good amateurs for swing sequences, instruction etc, as oppose to the likes of Tiger Woods doing something I (and 90% of readers probably) wasn't physically capable of. I still think analysis of someone with average flexibility but a really good consistant swing with sound fundamentals would be more benificial to most golfers to aspire to than an athlete who spends countless hours in the gym before even picking up a club.

The_Architect

Seves Three Iron wrote: »

I'm with the Doc. Find the celebrity stuff hugely annoying when it comes to the Dunhill and Pebble Beach tournaments. The PB one is particularly bad. The US TV guys seem more interested in the amateurs than the pros.

A nice change in my opinion.

In golf terms the pro's have become celebrities and I find that even more annoying.