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Golf coverage/commentator discussion thread!! Mod note #12

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    #422
    callaway92
    Registered Users Posts: 14,401 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Is that Butch’s son on Sky too?

    Ya, Claude. Really good on it too


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    #423
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users Posts: 16,085 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Memo to McGinley:

    why-you-should-stop-multitasking-and-embrace-singletasking-11-638.jpg?cb=1394806252


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    #424
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users Posts: 7,616 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    McGinley has hit Monty levels of intolerable at this point


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    #425
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,114 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    What was with the embargo on Casey and Hatton? Best golf and showing us nothing of them bar the odd putt.


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    #426
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,652 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    GreeBo wrote: »
    What was with the embargo on Casey and Hatton? Best golf and showing us nothing of them bar the odd putt.

    Same yesterday. Showed very little of some pairings.


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    #427
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users Posts: 16,085 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    NDWC wrote: »
    McGinley has hit Monty levels of intolerable at this point

    His brand of commentary is a cross-sport nuisance: never letting the sport speak for itself, hyping up everything, stating the bleeding obvious like it was a "molten bronze droplet of sporting wisdom", to paraphrase Billy Connolly. Mats Wilander in tennis is another classic case...


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    #428
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,114 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    I'd take Davies all day over McGinley...even Henni...maybe


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    #429
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    Poor coverage regarding missing shots. There aren't that many golfers out there!

    Don't get the hate for McGinley, actually like him.


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    #430
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    How come the Ryder cup is free to watch in the US but not Europe?


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    #431
    MisterAnarchy
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    quarryman wrote: »
    How come the Ryder cup is free to watch in the US but not Europe?

    $$$$$$$$


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    #432
    irishguy1983
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    Anyone else finding McGinley over the top with commentary?? So biased towards Europe..


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    #433
    TCM
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭TCM


    irishguy1983 wrote:
    Anyone else finding McGinley over the top with commentary?? So biased towards Europe..


    Did u know he's European.


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    #434
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users Posts: 14,593 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    irishguy1983 wrote: »
    Anyone else finding McGinley over the top with commentary?? So biased towards Europe..

    He is a pure clown .


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    #435
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users Posts: 16,085 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    irishguy1983 wrote: »
    Anyone else finding McGinley over the top with commentary?? So biased towards Europe..

    Just OTT in general. Talking a mile a minute, most of it complete platitudes. Golf is the sport least suited to that style of commentary, well maybe next to snooker.


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    #436
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,114 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    LOL, anyone watching the highlights? Looks like Mark Roe popped into the studio on his way back from his lead role in an Off Broadway production of Boogie Nights!


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    #437
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    GreeBo wrote:
    LOL, anyone watching the highlights? Looks like Mark Roe popped into the studio on his way back from his lead role in an Off Broadway production of Boogie Nights!

    Haha I thought the same. Very 70s in appearance.

    I figure it was along the lines of Sean Penn in Carlitos Way....like an accountant for a mob boss.


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    #438
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,815 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Watching BBC highlights

    Poor Peter Allis showing his age - we may not enjoy him much more.


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    #439
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users Posts: 7,616 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    Laura Davies said today that one of the main reasons Dechambeau and Woods lost was because they "didn't look like they were enjoying themselves" whereas Molinari/Fleetwood "relished the challenge of the course a lot more and really enjoyed it".

    What absolute rubbish, Fleetwood and Molinari played the better golf and hence they won the match. How are Woods and Dechambeau supposed to enjoy being 5 down through ten holes? Can you imagine if they were laughing and joking when 4 or 5 holes down? They'd be absolutely slated. Plus who's to say they didn't relish the challenge too?

    Tripe like that from the commentators really brings the coverage down, with McGinley being the main culprit. I do find Davies fairly good for the most part and wouldn't mind hearing her at future tournaments. Plus she at least has a bit of pedigree as a player.


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    #440
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,114 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    ligerdub wrote: »
    Haha I thought the same. Very 70s in appearance.

    I figure it was along the lines of Sean Penn in Carlitos Way....like an accountant for a mob boss.

    For those that missed it
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    #441
    Niles Crane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭Niles Crane


    NDWC wrote: »
    Laura Davies said today that one of the main reasons Dechambeau and Woods lost was because they "didn't look like they were enjoying themselves" whereas Molinari/Fleetwood "relished the challenge of the course a lot more and really enjoyed it".

    What absolute rubbish, Fleetwood and Molinari played the better golf and hence they won the match. How are Woods and Dechambeau supposed to enjoy being 5 down through ten holes? Can you imagine if they were laughing and joking when 4 or 5 holes down? They'd be absolutely slated. Plus who's to say they didn't relish the challenge too?

    Tripe like that from the commentators really brings the coverage down, with McGinley being the main culprit. I do find Davies fairly good for the most part and wouldn't mind hearing her at future tournaments. Plus she at least has a bit of pedigree as a player.

    In fairness there is probably some merit to her point.

    He looks totally disinterested which can't exactly help in a team event particularly when he's playing with a rookie who's probably intimidated enough by him already without him looking so glum.


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    #442
    doc_17
    Registered Users Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭doc_17


    What happened Montgomery and Sky?


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    #443
    callaway92
    Registered Users Posts: 14,401 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    doc_17 wrote: »
    What happened Montgomery and Sky?

    He got an offer from CBS (or something like that) in America last year for decent money so joined them.


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    #444
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users Posts: 7,616 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    David Livingstone just announced this Ryder cup was his last event and he's retiring, not sure if this was common knowledge or not. Great presenter!


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    #445
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,815 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    NDWC wrote: »
    David Livingstone just announced this Ryder cup was his last event and he's retiring, not sure if this was common knowledge or not. Great presenter!

    fairly low key exit


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    #446
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users Posts: 7,616 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    fairly low key exit

    Very! Not on the main show and he wasn't even in the studio!


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    #447
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,732 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    NDWC wrote: »
    David Livingstone just announced this Ryder cup was his last event and he's retiring, not sure if this was common knowledge or not. Great presenter!

    Common knowledge, was on the sky sports podcast last week and was pretty revealing about his career, was a good listen.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



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    #448
    Deeper Blue
    Registered Users Posts: 7,616 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    Common knowledge, was on the sky sports podcast last week and was pretty revealing about his career, was a good listen.

    Thanks I must have a listen to that.
    Thought he deserved a better send off but I presume it was his own choice


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    #449
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,300 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    Common knowledge, was on the sky sports podcast last week and was pretty revealing about his career, was a good listen.
    Great presenter. Will miss him. Wonder who'll be taking his spot. Nick Dougherty perhaps?


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    #450
    Joe_ Public
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    prawnsambo wrote: »
    Great presenter. Will miss him. Wonder who'll be taking his spot. Nick Dougherty perhaps?

    Nick has always been the anointed one there I’d say. Don’t particularly mind him too much either way, though I’d still have Rob Lee over him any day of the week.


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    #451
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    prawnsambo wrote: »
    Great presenter. Will miss him. Wonder who'll be taking his spot. Nick Dougherty perhaps?

    Nah, they'll go for the quotas angle and give it to Sarah Stirk or Henni.


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