BMW PGA Championship

Aidric

The flagship event of the European Tour deserves it's own thread. Plenty of Irish interest in this with 11 players in all, North & South.

Harrington is taking a week off as he stated a 4th tournament in a row would have been too much given the state of his game.

Plenty of off course chatter with Sergio's fried chicken remarks and Rory's split from his management company. My selection is Branden Grace.

ssbob

Shaping up to be a great tournament, its nice to see a "home" event on the Euro Tour with such a good participation rate.

Fair play to the ageless Miguel for reaching his 600th ET event!

realgolfgeek

ssbob wrote: »

Shaping up to be a great tournament, its nice to see a "home" event on the Euro Tour with such a good participation rate.

Fair play to the ageless Miguel for reaching his 600th ET event!

That man is a freakin legend ... love the way he's so chilled out..
and he can still play some damn good golf.

redzerdrog

its great having full tv coverage of the event but the down side is I have an exam tomorrow and I cant get a tap done while watching this golf!

charlieIRL

did they just say McIlroy found his ball at the 18th and chipped it out? Thought that was OOB on the left?

RikkFlair

ssbob wrote: »

Fair play to the ageless Miguel for reaching his 600th ET event!

He turns 50 next year but apparently has no intention of playing the seniors tour yet. Still competitive on the regular tour and wouldn't put it past him to win again in his 50s.

Nice round today by Lowry -2. Clarke and McIlroy gone backwards.

Speak Now

5 bogeys in the last 6 holes for McIlroy

ssbob

Bad finish for G-Mac, Darren Clarke and Rory although I reckon par today is +1 or so!

Must be said that Paul McGinley had a great round, 1 birdie, 17 pars!!

PARlance

realgolfgeek wrote: »

That man is a freakin legend ... love the way he's so chilled out..
and he can still play some damn good golf.

Watching Miguel whilst having John E Morgan commentating would get you almost horizontal.
Really hope Sky give him a bit more work

Surely we can have some claim on tournament leader Mikko Ilonen, he's been playing some solid stuff this year.

WHIP IT!

ssbob wrote: »

Bad finish for G-Mac, Darren Clarke and Rory although I reckon par today is +1 or so!

Must be said that Paul McGinley had a great round, 1 birdie, 17 pars!!

Some round of golf there today - everytime they show a player's scorecard there's a helluva lot of blue for bogey on it so for McGinley to get around without a dropped shot is something else...

Howjoe1

Favourite Luke Donald +5:eek:

are conditions tough? no TV access:mad:

Aidric

Howjoe1 wrote: »

Favourite Luke Donald +5:eek:

are conditions tough? no TV access:mad:

1.5 hour delay due to threat of lightning according to the European tour website. Donald now +6 with one left to play.

Rikand

Garcia finishes level par with a whole scatter of bogeys, birdies, an eagle and a doublebogey

Felexicon

Rickylovesuall wrote: »

Garcia finishes level par with a whole scatter of bogeys, birdies, an eagle and a doublebogey

That's why I like Sergio. He goes from the sublime to the ridiculous in the blink of an eye.

realgolfgeek

Felexicon wrote: »

That's why I like Sergio. He goes from the sublime to the ridiculous in the blink of an eye.

very similar to harringtons game.

Felexicon

realgolfgeek wrote: »

very similar to harringtons game.

Yeah but I hate it about Harrington because I'd actually like him to win tournaments

Rikand

realgolfgeek wrote: »

very similar to harringtons game.

similar

but harrington throws in a lot more double bogeys than he throws in eagles.

realgolfgeek

Rickylovesuall wrote: »

similar

but harrington throws in a lot more double bogeys than he throws in eagles.

throws in more 7's than eagles also :eek: *for 2013.

Aidric

Interesting sort of leaderboard, hope to see some of the bigger names make a move today. Els, Kaymar, Westwood, Colsaerts, Rose are all bunched up a couple of shots off the lead.

Poulter & Donald will both miss the cut.

Felexicon

Paul Casey +6 today. +4 for the tournament

Ilik Urgee

Off babysitting today, so one eye on this. The commentary leaves the US coverage for dead imo. A pity Monty doesn't take up the US Tour.
Two norn irish lads on +3 outside the cut but a long way togo. McDowell looking dapper as per usual

realgolfgeek

Ilik Urgee wrote: »

Off babysitting today, so one eye on this. The commentary leaves the US coverage for dead imo. A pity Monty doesn't take up the US Tour.
Two norn irish lads on +3 outside the cut but a long way togo. McDowell looking dapper as per usual

you like Montys commentary ?

Creasy_bear

His cardigans make me cringe. He's such a fat turd.

They'll do we'll to make the cut today.

Ilik Urgee

realgolfgeek wrote: »

you like Montys commentary ?

sarcasm filter on-

Yeah, he's the best in the business

I meant play on the Tour,put him in some deep bunker in a far off corner of the ****tiest course there and bulldoze it in while he's talking to himself about his captaincy 3 years ago.

ssbob

Creasy_bear wrote: »

His cardigans make me cringe. He's such a fat turd.

They'll do we'll to make the cut today.

There's no need for this silly schoolboy name-calling!

realgolfgeek

Ilik Urgee wrote: »

sarcasm filter on-

Yeah, he's the best in the business

I meant play on the Tour,put him in some deep bunker in a far off corner of the ****tiest course there and bulldoze it in while he's talking to himself about his captaincy 3 years ago.

I don't like his commentary one bit I have to say.

I was really impressed with Paul McGinley's commentary there a couple of weeks ago, thought he was brilliant.

Ilik Urgee

realgolfgeek wrote: »

I don't like his commentary one bit I have to say.

I was really impressed with Paul McGinley's commentary there a couple of weeks ago, thought he was brilliant.

I was impressed with his driver off the deck there on the par 4 9th:D As one commentator put it- "a seaside shot".

realgolfgeek

Ilik Urgee wrote: »

I was impressed with his driver off the deck there on the par 4 9th:D As one commentator put it- "a seaside shot".

Would love to see him back for one more ryder cup, how cool would that be !!

Russman

I love that the Boxall just said its hard to hit a snap hook with a modern fairway metal, I'll f--king show him how its done !! :D

Speak Now

Cut looks like it will drift to +3.

fullstop

Russman wrote: »

I love that the Boxall just said its hard to hit a snap hook with a modern fairway metal, I'll f--king show him how its done !! :D

And Rory just showed how it's done with a driver! That was an absolute stinker, couldn't have been more than 200 yards.

SnowDrifts

Loving the helicam/multicopter shots. They give a real insight as to lines and gradients that fixed cameras just don't pick pick up.

Ilik Urgee

Were BBC showing this today?

Speak Now

Ilik Urgee wrote: »

Were BBC showing this today?

No just highlights at the weekend.

Speak Now

Lowry has really nailed the par 5's so far. 7 birdies and a par.

With 3 of the worlds top 10 missing the cut there's plenty of ranking points (And cash ) on offer.

big_drive

Something very interesting so far is how much Westwood's short game seems to have come on. I'd written him off start of year but perhaps that major might still be a possibility!

Ilik Urgee

big_drive wrote: »

Something very interesting so far is how much Westwood's short game seems to have come on. I'd written him off start of year but perhaps that major might still be a possibility!

I know they were raving about that flop shot he pulled off on the 13th? 14th? but it was a great shot tbh.I smirked when I saw him line it up. He pulled it off to a tee.Kudos, that move stateside might be the trick.

Aidric

Unfortunately for Lee, he seems to clam up when the pressure comes on, especially on his putting which is his achilles heel.

Tasty looking leaderboard going in to the weekend. I think Coetzee could be one to look out for. Don't discount past winner Simon Khan either, playing solid golf and a past winner. Sergio looks to be on the good chicken also. :pac:

RikkFlair

The Mechanic is on fire! Jimenez -5 thru 12.

Rikand

Winner going to be either shane or sergio - mark my words!

SSK

Scrambletastic from Lowry on the first 2 holes. Hopefully that chip in will settle him down.

Westwood is the man to beat today, he's due a win here after last year.

Aidric

Very tasty final round shaping up here, going to be a cracking final day I reckon.

Speak Now

Shane missing out on the birdie fest so far. Only going one way on todays leaderboard with par golf.

Aidric

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Shane missing out on the birdie fest so far. Only going one way on todays leaderboard with par golf.

Ya disappointing so far, just dropped a shot on 6 to slip back to -5. Needs to turn it around pretty quickly. 6 shots off Westwood as it stands.

Felexicon

Lovely chip in from the bunker by Mannasero there.
Hopefully he wins it.
I find Westwood very hard to root for

Aidric

Aidric wrote: »

Don't discount past winner Simon Khan either, playing solid golf and a past winner.

Look out :eek:

RikkFlair

Big collapse here from Westwood.

Ilik Urgee

RikkFlair wrote: »

Big collapse here from Westwood.

More hooks than a butcher's fridge.

Speak Now

RikkFlair wrote: »

Big collapse here from Westwood.

Not even unexpected.

PhilMcGee

Just back from a lovely sun-burning day on the golf course to witness Lowry on the 17th.
I should never have looked.

Speak Now

Birdie for Lowry on last. He'll be disappointed with a level par round to finish. Still has a busy week ahead.

Hope the Italian wins it.