Shane Lowry - 2019 Champion Golfer of The Year (note first post please for posting guidance)

See WGC rules: No alternate list, you either qualify or you don't, simples

Eligible players are:

-- Playing members of the 2013 U.S. and International Presidents Cup teams. NOTE: In odd-numbered years, playing members of the last-named U.S. and European Ryder Cup teams shall replace the last-named Presidents Cup teams.

-- The top-50 players, including any tied for 50th place, from the Official World Golf Ranking as of Monday, July 21, 2014, and Monday, July 28, 2014.

-- Tournament winners, whose victories are considered official, of tournaments from the Federation Tours since the prior year’s Bridgestone Invitational (with an Official World Golf Ranking Strength of Field Rating of 115 points or more).

-- The winner of the following tournaments from each of the following Tours: Japan Golf Tour Championship (2014) and Bridgestone Open (2013) from the Japan Golf Tour; Australian PGA Championship (2013) from the Australasian Tour; Dimension Data Pro-Am (2014) from the Southern Africa Tour; and Thailand Golf Championship (2013) from the Asian Tour.

Exactly, ET website is still a crock of sh1t

AGC wrote: »

???

That is the entry requirements, also Thomas Bjorn was not last years captain.

I'm saying why should 7 or 8 players who could be picked on a whim by a ryder cup captain automatically get into a lucrative competition that has nothing to do with the ryder cup? Qualification should be based on solely on how players performed individually based on world rankings or results on the major tours.

I'm also aware that the picks probably would have all qualified by other means but I disagree with it in principle.

They play the proposed 2019 rule changes in Crossfield's videos. This includes putting with the flag in, dropping from just above the ground, etc. http://www.randa.org/News/2017/03/Preview-of-proposed-new-Rules-of-Golf-unveiled-by-RandA-and-USGA

Remind me of Austin Powers, bit annoying but kind of harmless enough in small doses.

AGC wrote: »

Very tough on Shane at 17 after super golf. Seemed an unusual place for a yellow hazard.

Hopefully he can reproduce today's golf tomorrow

Was it not anywhere he dropped it near where it went over the hazard line was closer to the hole? Therefore he had to either cross to the far side of the water or drop it where he hit it from. I thought chose to take advantage of the drop zone so that he could play from the short grass

AGC wrote: »

No yellow he'd to keep the hazard in line. Red at point of entry.

Just very unusual to see a player beyond the hazard then having to go back🙈

Yeah that's what I thought. Even if there was a point within two club lengths that wasn't nearer the hole he'd have been dropping in that heavy rough again. He probably thought he had a better chance from the drop zone. He was unlucky it spun so far back and then unlucky with the putt.

AGC wrote: »

It was defo yellow all the way around, just unusual and unlucky to have the lie he did where he did I suppose.

Well if it's a yellow hazard you must either replay the shot or drop behind the hazard. The extra option of the point where the ball crossed the hazard is for lateral hazards.

AGC wrote: »

Ah I know that, just surprised it wasn't red on that side.

I get that now reading it back, took you up wrong.

Excellent par putt on the last as well was good to see

Really moving on the back 9, eagle has him at 13 under, tied for 4th , only 2 shots behind

Is tonights coverage on SKY or is it just Solheim cup?

Looks like he's going to finish tied 5th and just miss playoffs

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Finished tied seventh. Will he keep his tour card after that result?

He will be out of the top 125 (projected 127) so won't make the playoffs but he's ok for next year on account of the three year exemption he got from the 2015 WGC Bridgestone.