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Diego Tristan · 28-03-2015 03:16PM

Kevin Phelan in a great position at the moment in Round 3.

Just birdied the 10th to go -3 for the day and -7 overall, 1 behind the 2 joint leaders from Scotland Richie Ramsay & Andrew McArthur.

Seems to be in really good form lately.

Mantis Toboggan · 28-03-2015 04:12PM

Very few high profile players at the top of the European tour. Seems the top Europeans don't bother with it anymore. Shame. Wonder if they can do anything to win them back.

PARlance · 28-03-2015 05:13PM

Johnny kills wrote: »

Very few high profile players at the top of the European tour. Seems the top Europeans don't bother with it anymore. Shame. Wonder if they can do anything to win them back.

Add between 4-5 million $'s to the prize money for most events.

coylemj · 28-03-2015 06:03PM

Johnny kills wrote: »

Very few high profile players at the top of the European tour. Seems the top Europeans don't bother with it anymore. Shame. Wonder if they can do anything to win them back.

Lack of sponsors is the problem. What with co-sanctioning and all that, the European Tour 2015 season notionally starts in December but the first tournament in mainland Europe this year is not until the Open de Espana which starts on May 14th. Up to then the players are hopping all over the place and the farce last week in Madeira doesn't help the tour's reputation either.

You really can't blame Westwood, Casey et. al. for moving to the PGA Tour. I know money was probably the main motivator and I'm sure the wives like the Florida sunshine but the lack of decent sponsorship has reduced the number of tournaments being played on European soil and is why a lot of players have upped sticks.

Mantis Toboggan · 28-03-2015 08:20PM

Not much of a European tour when it takes 6 months to have an event in Europe. You would think with Europe having so many high profile players these days that sponsorship should be easy.

vienne86 · 29-03-2015 08:49AM

Johnny kills wrote: »

Not much of a European tour when it takes 6 months to have an event in Europe. You would think with Europe having so many high profile players these days that sponsorship should be easy.

The bloody weather must have a lot to do with the current hopping and trotting.-

Diego Tristan · 29-03-2015 05:21PM

How valuable a birdie would be on 18 for Phelan. Would probably be enough to secure him a card for next season.

FixdePitchmark · 29-03-2015 05:23PM

Diego Tristan wrote: »

How valuable a birdie would be on 18 for Phelan. Would probably be enough to secure him a card for next season.

Unless a par will do for playoff.

Diego Tristan · 29-03-2015 05:32PM

Unlucky! Birdie putt rammed the back of the hole and came out again. Great week though. Top 10 will get him in to next event as well.

Diego Tristan · 29-03-2015 05:33PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Unless a par will do for playoff.

Ramsay in trouble now, so you never know!

PARlance · 29-03-2015 05:34PM

Ramsey had to play a provisional off the 17th tee. Could get interesting

Diego Tristan · 29-03-2015 05:35PM

OMG Wattel. Hilarious duffed chip followed by hole out for par.

FixdePitchmark · 29-03-2015 05:35PM

Diego Tristan wrote: »

Ramsay in trouble now, so you never know!

If there is.

How on earth would a playoff that size work.

LuckyGent88 · 29-03-2015 05:35PM

Thank god there is no pictures on the scorecard for wattell. Some par after the complete duff.

Diego Tristan · 29-03-2015 05:53PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

If there is.

How on earth would a playoff that size work.

Would have gone as 2 fourballs I suppose? Looks like it's going to be Ramsay or Wattel now though.

Diego Tristan · 29-03-2015 06:02PM

€61,250 for Phelan if Wattel makes 3 or 4 at the last.

€76,308 if Wattel makes bogey.

Speak Now · 30-03-2015 01:22PM

Good week for Phelan, gets him a trip to China for the Shenzhen International the week after The Masters.

vienne86 · 30-03-2015 02:35PM

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Good week for Phelan, gets him a trip to China for the Shenzhen International the week after The Masters.

Excellent. Hopefully he is well on the way to his tour card for next season.

sydneybound · 30-03-2015 03:22PM

All looking very quiet on the European tour till after the Masters. Given last weeks non event and now a mini break it can't be good for the players to twiddling their thumbs for weeks on end.

FixdePitchmark · 16-04-2015 05:20PM

Lads never give up hope of playing on Euro tour.

HUANG, Yong-le - had a 97 today.

Now unless he had a shot penalty applied to every hole ?

http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/showthread.php?76045-HUANG-yong-le-on-European-tour

abff · 16-04-2015 06:32PM

All the Irish players are hovering around the cut mark after day one. Hopefully they'll all make it through tomorrow. Cut looks likely to fall somewhere around 1 over based on today's scores.

Speak Now · 17-04-2015 12:10PM

Disappointing day only Hoey made the cut.

PARlance · 17-04-2015 06:09PM

So much for starting young, the Chinese lad that's leading didn't take up golf until 22. 35 now.

Thepoet85 · 17-04-2015 06:19PM

PARlance wrote: »

So much for starting young, the Chinese lad that's leading didn't take up golf until 22. 35 now.

Who?

PARlance · 17-04-2015 06:39PM

Thepoet85 wrote: »

Who?

An old link, he was leading yesterday.
http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/huang-wenyi-former-laborer-takes-one-shot-lead-shenzen-international

charlieIRL · 17-04-2015 11:59PM

I've watched Ulhein and Mannassero over the years thinking they were goung to be the next big thing. They haven't played to what i thought was their potential at all.

slave1 · 18-04-2015 10:05AM

Italy's Edoardo Molinari was disqualified from the European Tour's Shenzhen International on Friday after failing to include a strange penalty on his round of 75 Thursday; his caddie hopped a golf cart between the ninth and 10th tees, but Molinari didn't see it.

HighLine · 18-04-2015 10:53AM

slave1 wrote: »

Italy's Edoardo Molinari was disqualified from the European Tour's Shenzhen International on Friday after failing to include a strange penalty on his round of 75 Thursday; his caddie hopped a golf cart between the ninth and 10th tees, but Molinari didn't see it.

That's very strange indeed! Never heard of such a scenario before. Judging by his twitter account, Molinari wasn't best pleased.

Pierce_1991 · 19-04-2015 12:57AM

slave1 wrote: »

Italy's Edoardo Molinari was disqualified from the European Tour's Shenzhen International on Friday after failing to include a strange penalty on his round of 75 Thursday; his caddie hopped a golf cart between the ninth and 10th tees, but Molinari didn't see it.

Sometimes golf is stupid.

LinksLad · 19-04-2015 06:37AM

charlieIRL wrote: »

I've watched Ulhein and Mannassero over the years thinking they were goung to be the next big thing. They haven't played to what i thought was their potential at all.

Still think Uihlein can do it. Not sure about Mannassero, not long enough off the tee maybe. They don't be washed up not having won a big one yet. Uihlein is just 25.

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