Conor Purcell has won the NI Open by a shot on the Challenge tour. That should be enough to secure him a main tour card for next season. The Challenge tour stays in Ireland next week with an event in the K Club.
Going full into the aimpoint routine does slow things up. I'd love to see a stat kept for players for their time taken on shots (Cantlay and Harman would be the worst offenders no doubt). Lowry has become noticeably slower on putts over the last year too tbf.
Would've loved to see an Adam Scott win but regardless it's nice to see him back in contention. Had Bob as my dark horse for the open but I think it will be hard to go back to back now, you never know though...
MacIntyre is excrutiatingly slow and a huge part what is wrong with golf
Can't help but feel a bit for Scottie, always comes across as such a nice guy, fair dues to Bob for the approach and putt though, that's how you close things out
Bob now has two PGA tour wins on the season. I'd imagine he'll shoot up the rankings after that one and up the Fed Ex cup rankings as well.
Love McIntyre, himself and Lowry come across as the most ordinary lads out there who are a bit of craic
Delighted for Bob MacIntyre. What a win on home soil, 12 months after heartbreak losing by one to Rory. Brilliant stuff!
true but didn’t make the top 60
Has made the cut in both Majors that he played this year to be fair to him.
kaymer got a tee time due to national spots this week. Another player long forgotten about
Brilliant stuff from Liam Nolan
saw him giving out in a video on twitter because he was put on the clock for slow play
Bunkers are safe with Garcia not doing enough
Galway amateur Liam Nolan has almost certainly qualified for The Open. He is currently in tied 2nd and I don't think there are enough players left on the course that can overtake him. No luck for the remaining Irish.
Kearney going well atm. Abraham Answer leading at his venue and Rose is also tied with Kearney.
Final qualifying for The Open is on today. 4 venues with 4 places available at each. It is very early stages but there is at least 1 Irish player currently in the top 4 at each venue.
https://www.theopen.com/qualification/final-qualifying
Spotted that today. Seamus Power nudging in the wrong direction, unfortunately.
McKibben has a great shot at getting a PGA tour card for next season. He's 8th in R2D rankings and 5th on Top 10 for PGA exemption. A win or a few good finishes could jump someone outside the top 20 very quickly. Lots of golf still to play and plenty of events with big points. Hopefully, he can keep the hammer down.
McKibben up to number 97 in the world rankings, nice milestone in his career getting into the Top 100
One of the most impressive things about McKibben to me is his ability to finish highly on his poorer weeks. Even when not playing his best stuff he still manages to pull himself into a Top 25 finish
Good to see Siem get the win, great character. McKibben will get plenty wins down the line by I'm sure
Clutch from Siem in the end
Nice pay day too, despite not winning he actually got approx €20k more than for his win last year. Took home €334,000 so nice weeks work.
Funny story too about his caddy today, they were so sure he wouldn't be featuring the caddy was already gone to the train station and they had to call him back when Siem starting to hit the bogey run
You'd have to give Siem credit for pulling off those birdies. Still a fine day for mckibben
Whatever happens in play off its been a good day for mckibben, securing the Open spot is huge.
Finally Siem comes up with the goods, playoff time
Had forgotten the PGA tour card implications here.
Certainly helps with Siem in meltdown mode, could almost guarantee his PGA tour card for 2025.
Crazy how it's going. Some collapse from those on top. Would get him an Open invite too I think?
Tom McKibben clubhouse score could be enough to win here!
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