PGA Championship Live Scoring

Marian Riordan started off with 3 birdies today which was pretty impressive, has a bad run on the back 9 though before finishing with a birdie on 18.

:eek:There's a guy there 40 over for the two rounds! I'm sorry but is it just me or is that bordering on ridiculous. Surely there are guys here who could better that, even off the tips, even at the European! Jaysus!

Myksyk wrote: »

:eek:There's a guy there 40 over for the two rounds! I'm sorry but is it just me or is that bordering on ridiculous. Surely there are guys here who could better that, even off the tips, even at the European! Jaysus!

I would fake an injury after the first 18 - no actually after the first 5 or 6 holes yesterday. Humiliating is an understatement.:pac:

Myksyk wrote: »

:eek:There's a guy there 40 over for the two rounds! I'm sorry but is it just me or is that bordering on ridiculous. Surely there are guys here who could better that, even off the tips, even at the European! Jaysus!

Paddy McGuirk. Played with him in a pro-am in our place. Won the Carroll's International (effectively the Irish Open, just not using the name at the time) in
1973, so was a very decent player in his day. They call him the 'One-Handed Chipper' because these days he hits all his chips with one hand. Apparently has just lost all confidence in chipping 2 handed so is doing it one handed now. Very nice guy though, so don't judge him too harshly!!

I wouldn't be getting too carried away about Harrington just yet. Sounds like he actually played a lot of Barry White today...

FROM IRISH GOLF NEWS:

Padraig Harrington is running out of time to be ready for the Open after a confidence-sapping performance in the second round of the Ladbrokes.com Irish PGA.

The Dubliner hit a one under 70 to grab a one-stroke lead over Dundalk’s Leslie Walker on four under par at The European Club.

But he completely lost his trust in his swing and spent nearly three hours bashing balls on the range in the afternoon to try rectify his faulty backswing in time to chase a hat-trick of Claret Jugs at Turnberry next week.

With just two days to go before he jets off to Scotland, he said: “Hopefully it will be better tomorrow. We’ll have to wait and see. I’m not going to panic over one day, let’s say.”

One behind Walker overnight after a sublime first round putting performance, Harrington raced into the lead with three birdies in his first 12 holes before his game started to fall apart at the seams.

But had it not been for his brilliant short game and competitive drive, he could easily have dropped several more shots coming home.

The first blow came at the par-four fourth, where he took one hand off the club in disgust as he watched his three-iron tee shot sail right into the deep jungle, forcing him to chip back into play.

Still a class act, he almost saved par after a sublime 188-yard five iron cut through the wind to nestle just six feet from the flag but missed the putt on the high side.

But he could thank is putter for rescuing him from an even bigger disaster at the par-three sixth, where he tugged a cut-off eight iron into a water hazard.

After a penalty drop on the bank, his chip came up 10 feet short but he steeled himself to “save" bogey and then got up and down from 20 yards left of the seventh for his par four after two successive pulls.

He said: “I obviously didn’t play very well. I seemed to lose a bit of rhythm with the swing out there. It was gradually getting a little bit worse as the round went on but I can’t really complain about the score.

“When you are thinking about your swing, you overthink it, you doubt it and you don’t commit to it and the idea this week is to see those mistakes.

“The ideal would be to leave here on Sunday where I am committed to every shot, so that I am committed for next Thursday. I’ve got two more days to get it right because I failed miserably on it today.”

Leslie Walker just pulled out after injuring his wrist badly after connecting with one of the sleepers.

karlyk1 wrote: »

However, it is an absolute thrill and I'm looking forward to playing here on Monday week once again. Will have to stock up on ProV1s though!

Commandos?

Not sure Kevin i think he was in second place when it happened,i just got a brief text when he got injured..

Bit more info on Walker's injury here...

PGA Irish Championship; Never mind the oranges at halftime, Irish PGA officials were called into action midway through the third round of the Ladbrokes.com PGA Irish Championship today when they had to find a replacement to play with Pádraig Harrington after Leslie Walker was forced to retire.

Overnight leader and defending champion Harrington, and his nearest challenger Walker, set off in the final group at The European Club just before midday. However, Harrington finished the round with Banbridge amateur Conor Doran after Walker suffered a recurring wrist injury.

The Dundalk pro was playing out of a bunker at the par four third when he aggravated an old wrist injury. The 40-year-old tried to play through the pain but eventually had to call it a day after 10 holes.

PGA officials then recruited irish international Doran, who had come down to support his friend Richard Kilpatrick, to play alongside Harrington as a marker for the remainder of the round.

It was a big disappointment for Walker, who led after the first day following his opening four-under 67, before he kept close tabs on Harrington for the next day-and-a-half.

In difficult wet conditions at Brittas Bay, Harrington maintained his advantage at the top of the leaderboard despite not recording a single birdie.

Today’s third round contained two bogeys - sixth and the 12th - and the rest pars as his two-over 73 left the world number 12 the only man below par with a two-under 211 aggregate going into the final round.

With the rough so penalising at the Wicklow venue today’s golf quickly became an exercise in damage limitation.

Simon Thornton was one of the few players to cope with the conditions as the Royal County Down pro matched Harrington’s 73. The 31-year-old birdied the opening hole but gave shots back at the fourth and sixth and 14th.

At two-over, four shots off the lead in second, the two-time PGA order of merit winner who competes mainly on the Chllenge Tour this season, will get the chance to go head-to-head with Harrington in tomorrow’s final round.

Naas professional Gavin Lunny (74) and Banbridge's Kilpatrick (77) share third on six-over.

David Higgins, who must surely have one eye on next week’s British Open at Turnberry, fell further off the pace after today’s 80 dropped the Waterville pro to 19-over.

Tomorrow's final round has been brought froward in the hope of completing the tournament before the forecast of poor weather comes in.

Final Round Tee Times

1st Tee
8.00 – Dignam, Fitzpatrick
8.09 – Cullen, Gleeson
8.18 – Allan, Kerr
8.27 – Bolger, Mooney
8.36 – O’Callaghan, McNamara
8.45 – Rice, O’Rourke
8.54 – Collins, Staunton
9.03 – O’Sullivan, McGovern
9.12 – McMonagle, Robinson
9.21 – McElhinney, Kelly
9.30 – Kilpatrick, Lunny
9.39 – Thornton, Harrington

10th Tee
8.00 – Bowler, Mulryan
8.09 – F Howley, N Howley
8.18 – Brady, Giles
8.27 – McTernan, McGrath
8.36 – Young, D McNamara
8.45 – Ryan, Carroll
8.54 – D Higgins, T Higgins
9.03 – Tracey, Trainor
9.12 – Mallon, Mortimer
9.21 – Dwyer, Scullion
9.30 – Mulally, McDermott

david-k wrote: »

Lmao
Reminds me of an old story about a guy who crashes his car into a ESB pole after a feed of drink and then claims it's the ESB's fault.

Wat