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The DP World Tour Thread

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    #1592
    Diego Tristan
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Diego Tristan


    Kevin Phelan in a great position at the moment in Round 3.

    Just birdied the 10th to go -3 for the day and -7 overall, 1 behind the 2 joint leaders from Scotland Richie Ramsay & Andrew McArthur.

    Seems to be in really good form lately.


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    #1593
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,852 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Very few high profile players at the top of the European tour. Seems the top Europeans don't bother with it anymore. Shame. Wonder if they can do anything to win them back.

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    #1594
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,119 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Johnny kills wrote: »
    Very few high profile players at the top of the European tour. Seems the top Europeans don't bother with it anymore. Shame. Wonder if they can do anything to win them back.

    Add between 4-5 million $'s to the prize money for most events.


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    #1595
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,394 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Johnny kills wrote: »
    Very few high profile players at the top of the European tour. Seems the top Europeans don't bother with it anymore. Shame. Wonder if they can do anything to win them back.

    Lack of sponsors is the problem. What with co-sanctioning and all that, the European Tour 2015 season notionally starts in December but the first tournament in mainland Europe this year is not until the Open de Espana which starts on May 14th. Up to then the players are hopping all over the place and the farce last week in Madeira doesn't help the tour's reputation either.

    You really can't blame Westwood, Casey et. al. for moving to the PGA Tour. I know money was probably the main motivator and I'm sure the wives like the Florida sunshine but the lack of decent sponsorship has reduced the number of tournaments being played on European soil and is why a lot of players have upped sticks.


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    #1596
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,852 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Not much of a European tour when it takes 6 months to have an event in Europe. You would think with Europe having so many high profile players these days that sponsorship should be easy.

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    #1597
    vienne86
    Registered Users Posts: 17,075 ✭✭✭✭vienne86


    Johnny kills wrote: »
    Not much of a European tour when it takes 6 months to have an event in Europe. You would think with Europe having so many high profile players these days that sponsorship should be easy.

    The bloody weather must have a lot to do with the current hopping and trotting.-


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    #1598
    Diego Tristan
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Diego Tristan


    How valuable a birdie would be on 18 for Phelan. Would probably be enough to secure him a card for next season.


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    #1599
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,842 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Diego Tristan wrote: »
    How valuable a birdie would be on 18 for Phelan. Would probably be enough to secure him a card for next season.

    Unless a par will do for playoff.


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    #1600
    Diego Tristan
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Diego Tristan


    Unlucky! Birdie putt rammed the back of the hole and came out again. Great week though. Top 10 will get him in to next event as well.


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    #1601
    Diego Tristan
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Diego Tristan


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    Unless a par will do for playoff.

    Ramsay in trouble now, so you never know!


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    #1602
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,119 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Ramsey had to play a provisional off the 17th tee. Could get interesting


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    #1603
    Diego Tristan
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Diego Tristan


    OMG Wattel. Hilarious duffed chip followed by hole out for par.


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    #1604
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,842 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Diego Tristan wrote: »
    Ramsay in trouble now, so you never know!

    If there is.

    How on earth would a playoff that size work.


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    #1605
    LuckyGent88
    Registered Users Posts: 14,150 ✭✭✭✭LuckyGent88


    Thank god there is no pictures on the scorecard for wattell. Some par after the complete duff.


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    #1606
    Diego Tristan
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Diego Tristan


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    If there is.

    How on earth would a playoff that size work.

    Would have gone as 2 fourballs I suppose? Looks like it's going to be Ramsay or Wattel now though.


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    #1607
    Diego Tristan
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Diego Tristan


    €61,250 for Phelan if Wattel makes 3 or 4 at the last.

    €76,308 if Wattel makes bogey.


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    #1608
    Speak Now
    Registered Users Posts: 8,556 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Good week for Phelan, gets him a trip to China for the Shenzhen International the week after The Masters.


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    #1609
    vienne86
    Registered Users Posts: 17,075 ✭✭✭✭vienne86


    Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »
    Good week for Phelan, gets him a trip to China for the Shenzhen International the week after The Masters.

    Excellent. Hopefully he is well on the way to his tour card for next season.


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    #1610
    sydneybound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭sydneybound


    All looking very quiet on the European tour till after the Masters. Given last weeks non event and now a mini break it can't be good for the players to twiddling their thumbs for weeks on end.


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    #1611
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,842 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Lads never give up hope of playing on Euro tour.

    HUANG, Yong-le - had a 97 today.

    Now unless he had a shot penalty applied to every hole ?

    http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/showthread.php?76045-HUANG-yong-le-on-European-tour


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    #1612
    abff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,732 ✭✭✭abff


    All the Irish players are hovering around the cut mark after day one. Hopefully they'll all make it through tomorrow. Cut looks likely to fall somewhere around 1 over based on today's scores.


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    #1613
    Speak Now
    Registered Users Posts: 8,556 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Disappointing day only Hoey made the cut.


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    #1614
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,119 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    So much for starting young, the Chinese lad that's leading didn't take up golf until 22. 35 now.


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    #1615
    Thepoet85
    Registered Users Posts: 2,751 ✭✭✭Thepoet85


    PARlance wrote: »
    So much for starting young, the Chinese lad that's leading didn't take up golf until 22. 35 now.

    Who?


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    #1616
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,119 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Thepoet85 wrote: »
    Who?

    An old link, he was leading yesterday.
    http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/huang-wenyi-former-laborer-takes-one-shot-lead-shenzen-international


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    #1617
    charlieIRL
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,193 Mod ✭✭✭✭charlieIRL


    I've watched Ulhein and Mannassero over the years thinking they were goung to be the next big thing. They haven't played to what i thought was their potential at all.


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    #1618
    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 18,875 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    Italy's Edoardo Molinari was disqualified from the European Tour's Shenzhen International on Friday after failing to include a strange penalty on his round of 75 Thursday; his caddie hopped a golf cart between the ninth and 10th tees, but Molinari didn't see it.

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    #1619
    HighLine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭HighLine


    slave1 wrote: »
    Italy's Edoardo Molinari was disqualified from the European Tour's Shenzhen International on Friday after failing to include a strange penalty on his round of 75 Thursday; his caddie hopped a golf cart between the ninth and 10th tees, but Molinari didn't see it.

    That's very strange indeed! Never heard of such a scenario before. Judging by his twitter account, Molinari wasn't best pleased.


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    #1620
    Pierce_1991
    Registered Users Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭Pierce_1991


    slave1 wrote: »
    Italy's Edoardo Molinari was disqualified from the European Tour's Shenzhen International on Friday after failing to include a strange penalty on his round of 75 Thursday; his caddie hopped a golf cart between the ninth and 10th tees, but Molinari didn't see it.

    Sometimes golf is stupid.


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    #1621
    LinksLad
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭LinksLad


    charlieIRL wrote: »
    I've watched Ulhein and Mannassero over the years thinking they were goung to be the next big thing. They haven't played to what i thought was their potential at all.
    Still think Uihlein can do it. Not sure about Mannassero, not long enough off the tee maybe. They don't be washed up not having won a big one yet. Uihlein is just 25.


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