The 2012 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship Thread

Enjoyed the week.

Have to say 36 on the last day ruins the final.

take everything wrote: »

"U. S. A."
FFS

That and get in the hole BS should be banned..... ridiculous the idiots that they are letting in to watch this beautiful game.

Won't even get started on the slow players and the spitting...

Well done Mahan, very very solid round of golf and a deserving champion as the best player all week.

McIlroy ultimately didn't play well enough on the front 9, missing from 3 feet on the first and then the ridiculous 7th were the killers.

Another great couple of weeks golf to come with the Honda next week and the Cadillac the following week.

Good weeks work though for McIlroy seeing as his swing hasn't been his usual best.
Think he will go top of the race to dubai now as well.

Well done to Hunter Mahan, very good golf all week and a deserving winner.

It's worrying that Rory doesn't seem to have the killer instinct to close out tournaments, especially when he's under pressure, the amount of top 5's at his age is staggering. Hopefully, it will develop over time.

He's one incredible talent though.

BackScrub wrote: »

Well done to Hunter Mahan, very good golf all week and a deserving winner.

It's worrying that Rory doesn't seem to have the killer instinct to close out tournaments, especially when he's under pressure, the amount of top 5's at his age is staggering. Hopefully, it will develop over time.

He's one incredible talent though.

I think Rory lost this in his Semi. Tough mental game.

But as the man just said there Mahan had 35 birdies :eek:

BackScrub wrote: »

Well done to Hunter Mahan, very good golf all week and a deserving winner.

It's worrying that Rory doesn't seem to have the killer instinct to close out tournaments, especially when he's under pressure, the amount of top 5's at his age is staggering. Hopefully, it will develop over time.

He's one incredible talent though.

He played pretty average this week and came second and lost today to the best player of the week. If the tournament was strokeplay Mahan would have walked it so I'm not really putting this one down to lack of killer instinct.

His short game is getting better and better and I'd fancy him to win 2/3 times this year including a major. People have got to remember that the standard of play by the top 50 or so in the world is so good now that its not really comparable to when Tiger was blowing fields away 10/12 years ago. Top 5's nearly every week is ridiculously good form

dvemail wrote: »

I know McIlroy gets a lot of stick for not finishing off enough tournaments but at least he is putting himself in a position to do so week in week out.
His consistency is just staggering, thats top 9 top 5's in his last 10 events. Incredible stuff really.

He is going to win everything going.

But he does roll the head and is too emotional when he hits a bad shot. He needs to drop this. He needs to work on the mental side.

He is too up and down, this will haunt him in majors and last rounds if he does not sort it out.

But, he is only a kid , 22 , unreal.

I think the fact that he never gave up even though he was 4 down shows us that he has the mental strength needed to do well. He could just as easily have thrown in the towel but he never gave up and made Mahan win it.

Lee Westwood isn't a good putter. There you go, I said it.

k.p.h wrote: »

I guarantee you every golfer in the world thinks "ahh bollox" when they hit a bad shot, this has nothing to do with the mental side of the game.. Some players have poker faces and some let it show.

It's what he dose when he gets up to his ball that matters, he shows no sign of loss of focus and seems to forget the previous shot easily enough. I say back to the books Bob..!

Well maybe.

He needs a new "poker face" then, it must make the guy playing with him feel great when Rory is rolling the head and dropping the shoulders. Look at front of The Times. He does this all the time. You think that is just poor poker face, I think it is more.

But I don't think he has the focus he needs at the moment.
Does he work with someone on this side ?

He will still win every major going , but I want him to win more now and knock Tiger "off his perch".

stringy wrote: »

Lee Westwood isn't a good putter. There you go, I said it.

I'm going to tell Borisss you said that

blackwaterfish wrote: »

3 geniuses predicted two correct out of the last eight... but LOFT wins on account of naming two correctly - one of which was a finalist.

It must feel great to be you loft.. i can only imagine... well done sir!

pointless excercise of the week concluded.

You win the no life title.