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    #3302
    BumperD
    Registered Users Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭BumperD


    Any fancies for the open golf?


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    #3303
    tomaussie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 913 ✭✭✭tomaussie


    BumperD wrote: »
    Any fancies for the open golf?

    I wouldn't put you off Kuchar or Dustin Johnson. In fact I couldn't.


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    #3304
    Bangor Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭Bangor Billy


    Bubba Watson for me @ 40-1 and Jiminez to lead at the end of the first round @80-1.

    The open takes place on my doorstep this year. Off there on Thursday. Sweet!


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    #3305
    Bateman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    Big Phil seems to be the one a lot of lads like, I might have a twist on him


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    #3306
    andyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,641 ✭✭✭andyman


    Angel Cabrera to lead after 1st round is my only bet at the moment.


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    #3307
    BumperD
    Registered Users Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭BumperD


    I stuck on these (less than 50 staked).
    Lowery ew 100\1 - carries 15ew and the rest split between this shower of hackers
    Jimenez ew 90\1.
    Tiger win 22\1
    Mickleson win 25\1 I think
    Stadler ew 175\1
    Paddy Harrington 125\1
    Chris wood 140\1


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    #3308
    sdoc13
    Registered Users Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭sdoc13


    Have done charles swartzel @ 50s. Lowery at 100 and ryan palmer at 150s. All ew pp 7 places. All good stats this year for driving gir and putting.


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    #3309
    jimjamcos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭jimjamcos


    Bubba's my human Fugue. Must have backed him 4 (losing) times and watched him hack up in 2 Masters. Stenson @ 16/1 is the one I like. Not the greatest price in the world but he's ultra consistent, has the game for it and with Paddy Power going 7 places I'm happy to play each way.


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    #3310
    droidman123
    Registered Users Posts: 5,475 ✭✭✭droidman123


    I havnt a clue about golf and never had a bet on it...so, this year I am going to have a small ew for an interest. can someone give me a decent ew punt please? I,m looking for at least 80/1 or thereabouts.


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    #3311
    jimjamcos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭jimjamcos


    droidman123 wrote: »
    I havnt a clue about golf and never had a bet on it...so, this year I am going to have a small ew for an interest. can someone give me a decent ew punt please? I,m looking for at least 80/1 or thereabouts.

    Nick Faldo @ 2500/1. Can't for the life of me understand the price. Serious record for a young lad, he has. :D


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    #3312
    droidman123
    Registered Users Posts: 5,475 ✭✭✭droidman123


    jimjamcos wrote: »
    Nick Faldo @ 2500/1. Can't for the life of me understand the price. Serious record for a young lad, he has. :D

    haha well I,m not that naïve about the game jim:D


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    #3313
    Bateman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    Mannassero probably a decent long shot for an e/w bet


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    #3314
    BumperD
    Registered Users Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭BumperD


    droidman123 wrote: »
    I havnt a clue about golf and never had a bet on it...so, this year I am going to have a small ew for an interest. can someone give me a decent ew punt please? I,m looking for at least 80/1 or thereabouts.

    Don't know much about golf either but its links and some players are suited, others not so. Irish do well Harrington, McDowell? Clarke winning it, as they play a lot of links golf as amateurs. Links are near the coast so if the wind gets up, it might not suit the yanks who are used to playing in 80 degrees with perfect weather. Add in rain and sometimes they just dislike it and chuck in the towel. Links drain quicker so the ball runs further on the fairway and on the green. It was sunny and dry so one would expect lightning fast conditions but I see rain now in the forecast for Liverpool if my mobile app is correct. If its chucking it down and windy, expect players who are used to playing in those conditions to rise to the top. Which brings me back to the Irish . they were conceived in these conditions. They are used to crap weather and might handle the conditions if it chucks it down. So Lowery 100\1 7 places might be a worth a euro ew of your precious weissbier loot. But I don't know as much as the other lads here so take my advice with a bit of caution :)


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    #3315
    BumperD
    Registered Users Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭BumperD


    Also, if your having a bet. Wait until the tee times are out wednesday and check the weather, ie if its fine Thursday morning, and your player has an early tee time, you may post a good round whereas if the wind is due to pick up pm and your guy tees off at 1pm, then the afternoon scores may be poor compared to the advantage the guys had Thurs am etc. Hope this makes sense


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    #3316
    Bangor Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭Bangor Billy


    The tee times have been available on the Open website since Monday.


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    #3317
    tomaussie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 913 ✭✭✭tomaussie


    droidman123 wrote: »
    I havnt a clue about golf and never had a bet on it...so, this year I am going to have a small ew for an interest. can someone give me a decent ew punt please? I,m looking for at least 80/1 or thereabouts.

    Not sure what price Angel Cabrera is but he is Argie so that should be good enough ?


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    #3318
    droidman123
    Registered Users Posts: 5,475 ✭✭✭droidman123


    tomaussie wrote: »
    Not sure what price Angel Cabrera is but he is Argie so that should be good enough ?

    Haha good point Tom.I actually might have a small e/w on him


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    #3319
    byronbay2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    Bateman wrote: »
    Big Phil seems to be the one a lot of lads like, I might have a twist on him

    Wow - he's some man for 1 man!! No sooner does he leave the Brazil job then he's off to Hoylake for the golf. Will he have overcome his WC exertions in time for the first round though?
    jimjamcos wrote: »
    Bubba's my human Fugue. Must have backed him 4 (losing) times and watched him hack up in 2 Masters. Stenson @ 16/1 is the one I like. Not the greatest price in the world but he's ultra consistent, has the game for it and with Paddy Power going 7 places I'm happy to play each way.

    Don't think Bubba has any chance at all. Hoylake not a long drivers course - remember Tiger only played driver once in 72 holes when winning in 2006. Can see Bubba missing the cut, in all honesty.

    Stenson has a good chance though! :D


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    #3320
    convert
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭convert


    Sitting out in the garden enjoying a nice glass of vino, summoning up the energy to go inside and cook a steak for dinner. It's my reward for weeding some of the garden and getting sun burnt on my back.


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    #3321
    bellybuster12
    Registered Users Posts: 551 ✭✭✭bellybuster12


    You learn something new every day, people are weird.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgcWpnvyZeA


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    #3322
    Nulty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    convert wrote: »
    Sitting out in the garden enjoying a nice glass of vino, summoning up the energy to go inside and cook a steak for dinner. It's my reward for weeding some of the garden and getting sun burnt on my back.

    Your always eating steak. What recession?

    :cool:


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    #3323
    Peintre Celebre
    Registered Users Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Peintre Celebre


    Does anyone know how to make it so that I don't get an e mail every time someone posts in a thread I have followed? I could unfollow them but it persists when I post in a new thread. Basically I want to prevent it from following any threads automatically


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    #3324
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,094 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Peintre Celebre wrote: »
    Does anyone know how to make it so that I don't get an e mail every time someone posts in a thread I have followed? I could unfollow them but it persists when I post in a new thread. Basically I want to prevent it from following any threads automatically
    Within your user Control Panel, click on "Edit options"

    Within "Messaging and notification" there is a "Default thread subscription mode"

    Change this to "No e-mail notification"


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    #3325
    hucklebuck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,173 ✭✭✭hucklebuck


    convert wrote: »
    Sitting out in the garden enjoying a nice glass of vino, summoning up the energy to go inside and cook a steak for dinner. It's my reward for weeding some of the garden and getting sun burnt on my back.

    Any jobs Convert.

    Your life isnt far off the last days of Rome ....


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    #3326
    hucklebuck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,173 ✭✭✭hucklebuck


    bellybuster12 wrote: »
    You learn something new every day, people are weird.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgcWpnvyZeA

    I would be interested to hear what you googled to find that :)


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    #3327
    bellybuster12
    Registered Users Posts: 551 ✭✭✭bellybuster12


    hucklebuck wrote: »
    I would be interested to hear what you googled to find that :)


    While trying to find new documentaries, i youtube the trailers to see what there about. This one blew my mind(not in a good way).:)


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    #3328
    hucklebuck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,173 ✭✭✭hucklebuck


    bellybuster12 wrote: »
    This one blew my mind(not in a good way).:)

    So that is where bellybuster came from.....


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    #3329
    byronbay2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    byronbay2 wrote: »
    Don't think Bubba has any chance at all. Hoylake not a long drivers course - remember Tiger only played driver once in 72 holes when winning in 2006. Can see Bubba missing the cut, in all honesty.

    As anticipated ......


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    #3330
    ste2010
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭ste2010


    Waiting a long time for Beau Michael to get his head in front since last year...I was pretty adamant the trigger was going to be pulled this Sunday in a race he won last year...HOWEVER I noticed the head gear he wears when he won the last 2 is not on. I noticed E Lalor
    Is on board last win was over a year a ago. I wonder if Richie is any relation (PM me if you are) I'd be interested if the handbrake is kept on Sunday with a view to galway


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    #3331
    convert
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭convert


    ste2010 wrote: »
    I noticed E Lalor
    Is on board last win was over a year a ago. I wonder if Richie is any relation (PM me if you are) I'd be interested if the handbrake is kept on Sunday with a view to galway

    Are their surnames not spelled differently? Also, I'm pretty sure Liz has won a point to point in the last season, so less than a year ago (i.e. at least since September).


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