The Open Championship 2013 - *** no gambling/streams ***

koheim wrote: »

5 put wasn't it?

They only mentioned that at the very end of courage, they didn't say during live coverage.

RikkFlair wrote: »

8 over is currently tied 70th! Only one group left, yes they are still playing and its passed 9 o clock.

The way Paul Lawrie was tweeting earlier, I hope he hasn't gone home not expecting the make the cut :pac:

Crazy to let 84 players in for the weekend. A 10 shot rule would have sent home the +8's.

bigtimecharlie wrote: »

Crazy to let 84 players in for the weekend. A 10 shot rule would have sent home the +8's.

The 10 shot rule would not have done this at all. It is only ever used to let players through who would otherwise miss out. It is secondary to the Top 70 & ties rule and so can't be used to reduce the field.

http://scores.theopen.com/en/TeeTimes.aspx

Tee times, Harrington out with Garcia, just after Lowery and Oliver Fisher, McDowell with Bourdy and Clarke with Spieth.

Hope PH an SG don't bring each other down.

Martin567 wrote: »

The 10 shot rule would not have done this at all. It is only ever used to let players through who would otherwise miss out. It is secondary to the Top 70 & ties rule and so can't be used to reduce the field.

I still think 84 players wound do the Open no good, the +7 and 8's have no hope and they are only going through motions. A premiership footballer caddied for the last placed player last year, what does that say about a major?

Back in 1991, 120 players made the cut at Birkdale because of the 10 shot rule. That's why it was done away with shortly afterwards.

In 2011, the field was so compressed after 36 holes that those who were only 8 shots behind missed the cut. This year it's gone the other way. The only way they might have dealt with that would be to reduce T70 to T65 or T60. But in a different year, that might mean that players only 6 or 7 behind and still with a chance of winning would actually miss the cut.

Any sign of an outbreak of warfare between Paddy and Garcia yet? :-)

Garcia well and truly putting Harrington in his dust today. -3 for his round now and almost in to the top 20.

Great shot from Paddy at 13.

Mahan starts with back to back birdies, the one on the second was a huge putt.

GreeBo wrote: »

So, crazy question...why can't the best players in the world hit the first fairway with an iron?

I think they want to give something back to the ordinary golfer, it's to make us all feel a little bit better about ourselves.......that or they are aiming for about a 2 yard spot on the right hand side of the fairway but I'm thinking the former.

kingcobra wrote: »

I can never understand why the BBC show slow motion video clips of absolutely everything they can find, every so often. It's beginning to look a little daft to me now :pac:

It's not just the BBC. The TV world seems to have a weird obsession with High Def slo-mo replays of the most innocuous things...

Still though lads - how cool is Shot-Tracer?? I wish they had it on every shot!

handsomecake wrote: »

i'm all over woods at 9/4.

any one have a link to a stream, i'm in work grafting hard.

banned.

Muff Richardson wrote: »

I'd pay big money for a Peter Alliss mute button

already been an in thread warning.
this thread is for golf only if you want to talk about a commentator, take it to a new thread please.

final warning.