Your favourite golfer ever

wanmo · 18-02-2019 03:56PM #1

Who is your favourite ever golfer. I liked Greg Norman

GreeBo · 18-02-2019 03:59PM

Jack for my old man, but there was just something about Norman for me too.

Dtoffee · 18-02-2019 04:03PM

Lee Trevino .... a natural talent and a force of nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lkDcuc5YwA

valoren · 18-02-2019 04:09PM

Nick Faldo.

Got into golf at the end of the 80's/90's when he was at his peak. Norman, Seve and Faldo were the big three at that time.
Faldo's swing was just majestic to me during that era. He was a machine.
Got a photo with him at the Seve Trophy in 2007 but lost the picture

blue note · 18-02-2019 04:09PM

Padraig.

Mantis Toboggan · 18-02-2019 04:36PM

Rory

vapor trails · 18-02-2019 04:38PM

Seve

Keyzer · 18-02-2019 04:40PM

Bagger Vance...

Scott Tenorman · 18-02-2019 05:28PM

Tiger!

Seve OB · 18-02-2019 05:46PM

loved Christy Jnr when I was a kid and I idolised him. did have a soft spot for Faldo back then, I've no idea why though!! Liked Norman a bit, but my dad kept putting me off him because he snubbed me quite rudely in the car park of Royal Dublin when I asked for an autograph.

Seve has to be my all time favourite though.

kennethrhcp · 18-02-2019 05:50PM

I used to love jesper parnevik

I'm in my mid30s... Tiger was everywhere & won everything when I was growing up so he's gotta be up there

begbysback · 18-02-2019 05:55PM

Bubba

Golfhead65 · 18-02-2019 06:16PM

I grew up watching the magician that was Seve, always great to watch,also lucky enough to see Jack at Mount Juliet,two of the all time greats

slave1 · 18-02-2019 06:22PM

At times Norman - but was hard to see his nearlys, Padraig - just the sense of enjoyment he portrays and love of the sport....but ultimately no one can compare to Tiger.
His difference in a tournament is unsurpassed and when he's on fire anything can happen, what he did in the US Open in 2000 showed he truly was on another planet the way he absolutely decimated the field and went on to win the four majors in a row...

mafc · 18-02-2019 07:01PM

Padraig Harrington for me but Seve a close second, had the pleasure of shaking Seve’s hand once when his trophy was been played in The Heritage.

OS_Head · 18-02-2019 08:15PM

At the moment, Shane Lowry. Ever since the interview he gave Joe Molloy while practicing for the Irish Open

Break80 · 18-02-2019 08:37PM

Friend of mine won a comp to play in the pro am at The Irish Open in Killarney a few years back.
His young lad was outside the ropes at the practice area when my friend went to him got his cap and asked Padraig to sign it for him. Padraig refused. Fair enough thought my friend he is practicing and don't want any distractions.
Padraig had seen him go to his young lad already and guessed what was happening
so over he went lifted the ropes and walked the young fella up the line of pros meeting every one of them and getting his cap signed. Real VIP stuff.
Father and Son still talk about it.
A real Mark of the man.
Without a doubt our greatest sportsman ever.

gimli2112 · 18-02-2019 08:42PM

Phil Mickelson. I always liked him and then he started winning me money in the bookies. When he won his first major I remember Butch Harmon saying he'd had to adopt his game and curb his attacking instincts. This may have been true but I don't think he did, years later he hit that shot from the pine needles on 13 at Augusta.

FixdePitchmark · 19-02-2019 12:17AM

Tiger
Seve
Phil

And as well documented anybody Irish or northern Irish.

FixdePitchmark · 19-02-2019 12:21AM

To add to that was too young for real seve so in his day Jose Maria olazabal was a great sub.

I also had a strange admiration for the peculiar style of Langer and for that matter Kaymer was one cool ****er.

I also like Daly , he just broke every mould going.

Agree Norman changed golf but it was heartbreaking stuff .

The stiff upper lip of the English pros was a pain in the arse and a bit fake .

Woosnam was a great shake up of that.

Lefty Bicek · 19-02-2019 12:28AM

Ray Floyd for his books on scoring.

Padraig for his dedication.

Seve.

TCM · 19-02-2019 12:37AM

Ben Hogan. Loved watching him on Sky Sports.

Adiaga 2 · 19-02-2019 08:22AM

Faldo.

Loved the Irish guys O'Connor Jnr, Walton, Rafferty, Darcy and Smyth and tracked their progress religiously on Ceefax(P.321)

Harrington and Seve would be up there but it was Faldo from being a kid and trying to copy his swing from magazines and Leadbetter videos.

Benicetomonty · 19-02-2019 09:05AM

Was a huge fan of Davis Love when I was younger. Such an elegant but powerful swing and always seemed to behave well on the course, a real southern gent.

Always root for the Irish but my guilty pleasure has to be Colin Montgomerie. Unfailingly rude and entitled though he was, you just had to love somebody who loved the game so much and wanted so desperately to perform well. And what a brilliant player. Wonderful swing and refreshingly quick. When he blew the US Open at Winged Foot in '06, its as close as Ive ever come to crying watching golf. His golf in the Ryder Cup made him a player to respect whether you love him or hate him. Ditto Poulter.

I was a massive fan of Payne Stewart. What a golf swing, it was almost therapeutic watching him hit the ball. 1999 US Open remains the most exciting major Ive ever watched. Stewart pulling through after messing up the previous year against a leaderboard that featured Woods, Mickelson, Singh and Duval right in their prime. Such a tragic loss

But probably my all time favourite has to be the king of cool, Fred Couples. So much talent its ridiculous. An incredible swing, like hes made from elastic. Even with his record, an under achiever to rival anybody in sport, but does he care? Like **** he does! Legend.

Dublin Spur · 19-02-2019 12:14PM

Freddy Couples

Henry Ford III · 19-02-2019 12:37PM

gimli2112 wrote: »

Phil Mickelson. I always liked him and then he started winning me money in the bookies. When he won his first major I remember Butch Harmon saying he'd had to adopt his game and curb his attacking instincts. This may have been true but I don't think he did, years later he hit that shot from the pine needles on 13 at Augusta.

Do a bit of research. "Figjam" is a fine player, but not a good guy at all.

lawred2 · 19-02-2019 12:38PM

Padraig Harrington and Tiger

Both by an absolute mile

Seve OB · 19-02-2019 12:45PM

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Do a bit of research. "Figjam" is a fine player, but not a good guy at all.

That's what Billy Walters says anyway.

gimli2112 · 19-02-2019 12:52PM

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Do a bit of research. "Figjam" is a fine player, but not a good guy at all.

I've heard he was unpopular. The PGA tour itself is full of rather unsavoury characters imo, some of this is ego which you find common in elite sports.

There's always a gripe around someone particularly if they are good. Faldo, Tiger and Phil were all widely disliked on tour. I've heard enough to accept I probably wouldn't like Phil the person without knowing how true any of it is but as a golfer he's my favourite.
Always liked Bernard "Nice Guy" Langer too.

Beaulieu · 19-02-2019 01:09PM

Break80 wrote: »

Without a doubt our greatest sportsman ever.

110% Compete and utter Gent. Queued with my son in Dundrum SC a few years ago where he stayed for at least 8 hours speaking to fans and signing everything and anything that people proffered. He was there as a fundraiser for Goal.

gypsy79 · 19-02-2019 10:26PM

Padraig by a mile

Watch the senior tour all of a sudden get popular in Ireland in a few more years

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