fullstop wrote: » Don’t know why certain posters have such an issue with Bob. A British broadcaster focusing on a British player in the world’s top 50 and looking like he could be a cracking player, playing in a tournament with nobody else in the top 50 playing...who’d have thunk it.
Mysterypunter wrote: » My issue is not with the player at all, it's the sky coverage, including the on course interviews, when a player sets off to play a round, there should be no microphones allowed, it's invasive. I wonder what the reaction would be if I turned up at Tim Barters House, and interviewed him about what he was going to have for breakfast, I'd be arrested. What's he doing on the course during a tournament? Bland won for the first time ever, and they had the family on Skype, its nice and all that, but give the man a bit of privacy
Mantis Toboggan wrote: » You obviously haven't been watching much of the European tour and Robert Mcintyre is currently a top 50 player in the world at 24 and just finished 12th at the masters. Highest profile Scottish player currently.
Mysterypunter wrote: » Its a very high bar at the moment.
abff wrote: » ?
Mysterypunter wrote: » The standard of players at the top of the game, are of a very high standard, Morikawa Hovland, Neimann and a few more. If you want a real prospect, look at the South African youngster Jayden Schaper, he could be anything.
abff wrote: » Does anyone know how this week’s Scandinavian Mixed is going to work? I see there are 78 men and 78 women taking part, with a single prize fund and with the winner based on total strokes (which rules out having a different par for men and women and basing the result on score relative to par). Will the same tees be used for both men and women? I’ve tried searching online and have been unable to find anything about the format, other than the fact that they will play in groups of 3, with either 2 men and 1 woman or 2 women and 1 man in each group.
Roger_007 wrote: » I can’t see how they can run a fair competition if they use different tees. What would likely happen is that if, after day one, there are not enough women at the top end of the leaderboard the tees would be tweaked for the second day. If this sort of format becomes a normal replacement for current regular events then both the men and women who are lower down the rankings are going to lose out by not getting a starting place. However, if it is just a one-off event then there would be no problem and will be interesting to watch.
Speak Now wrote: » It's 1 event, obviously women will tee further up. Even with the men off the back tees you'd imagine it will still be a male dominated leaderboard.
Roger_007 wrote: » The game in South Africa seems to be very healthy. They keep producing good new young players every year. They same cannot be said for Ireland. Most weeks you have to look a long way down the leaderboard of a European Tour event to find any Irish player at all. There must be some deficiency in the GUI under-age structure that underlies this problem. It’s certainly not for want of top class courses and facilities.
abff wrote: » I’m not sure I’m following what you’re saying about tweaking the tees on the second day. How would this work? And is the draw for the first two rounds not set in advance in any event? If it’s a completely level playing field, then it seems likely that at most a handful of women golfers will qualify for the final two rounds. Maybe the organisers are OK with that? When I was trying to find out how the event works, I saw a statement that the event would count for world ranking points for both men and women. I presume that would have to be done by reference to how each golfer places among their own gender?
abff wrote: » Do you know that for a fact or are you just assuming that it will be the case?
Roger_007 wrote: » It’s nothing to do with the draw and I would expect that the women will play from forward tees, the question is how much forward? Tees are often changed from day to day in pro events. How would anyone determine what is a fair differential between the male and female tees when they are playing in the same competition for the same title and prize money.
Speak Now wrote: » Roughly 900 yards shorter. Men - 7060 Women - 6138
abff wrote: » Thanks. Where did you find that information? I was obviously looking in all the wrong places.
Rikand wrote: » We're only a small country with a small population and we have plenty of players in the +3 and +4 handicap range but making the kick on from exceptional low amateur to professional is massive and it's certainly not faulting at underage level. If it was, we wouldn't have the dearth of underage talent that we do have. It's when players hit young adult that maybe they are stalling and perhaps that is because of funding from sport Ireland for those young adults. We've had a number of good players down through the years who have looked for a dig out from their clubs to support them on the early part of their adult careers. It probably should be sport ireland that assist in that rather than it falling to their own clubs. But the underage setup is excellent and there are almost unlimited provincial coaching and practice opportunities for any underage golfer showing a bit of talent and then ireland coaching for the really good kids
SeeMoreBut wrote: » How do you define dominated? Say how many women in the top 20?
Speak Now wrote: » Similar past events have been male dominated. Looking at the early starters it looks like they've got the right balance right with a good mix in the top 20. Let's see how it plays out over 4 days. Prize money wise it's a big purse for the women compared to most regular LET events.
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