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    #32
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,652 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Ah padraig is a legend but if I've an hour free to watch some golf then it's got to be McIlroy.

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    Whiplash85
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭Whiplash85


    gimli2112 wrote: »
    Phil Mickelson. I always liked him and then he started winning me money in the bookies. When he won his first major I remember Butch Harmon saying he'd had to adopt his game and curb his attacking instincts. This may have been true but I don't think he did, years later he hit that shot from the pine needles on 13 at Augusta.


    I agree. My favourite golfer of all time. He really should have had 10 majors by now. So many close calls. In terms of longevity of career and playing at highest level he will go down as one the greatest of all time.


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    newport2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭newport2


    Padraig and Henrik.

    When Stenson's on form his irons are a joy to watch. His win at the Open was one of my favourite rounds of golf ever.


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    Tilikum17
    Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Tilikum17


    Tiger.


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    #36
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users Posts: 5,405 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Tiger and Stenson.


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    #37
    skallywag
    Registered Users Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭skallywag


    John Daly


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    #38
    billy3sheets
    Registered Users Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭billy3sheets


    Lee Buck Trevino
    He won six major championships and 29 PGA Tour events over the course of his career. He is one of only four players to twice win the U.S. Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship. The only major that eluded him was the Masters Tournament.


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    #39
    bailey99
    Registered Users Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭bailey99


    Has to be Seve. Only him.

    I did like Norman but I think people like him cause he choked quite a bit. A bit like Jimmy White. Sure a loser is very appealing in an endearing type of way.

    Padraig cause he's Irish of course. I think he is infinitely more popular than McIlroy will ever be. McIlroy just isn't very likeable.


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    callaway92
    Registered Users Posts: 14,324 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Padraig
    Tiger
    Stenson
    Scott


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    #41
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Tilikum17 wrote: »
    Tiger.

    Posted a day ago, a recap of his final round in Mount Juliet.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27VBPf7XZaM


    His swing was just majestic. The speed and the controlled power. Turn up the volume for this one, the sound from the pured blades is fantastic.


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    #42
    Dr_Colossus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭Dr_Colossus


    Ernie Els by a good stretch, what a swing but was always frustrated as even when in contention he never seemed to get much coverage.

    Was an admired of Nick Faldo also, so meticulous and such consistency. Enjoyed one story where he’s only cut his fingernails so many days before a tournament to have the rights level of feeling in the finger tips.

    Greg Norman gets a mention also, one of the best drivers of a ball with great power and speed and always so exciting to watch. The 96 Masters was one of the most exciting and agonising tournaments to watch in real time.

    As an ambassador for the game in this country is has to be Padraig Harrington. Rarely if ever a bad word from fans and some great stories such as that in post #17 by Break80, one of my favourites was a minibus with down syndrome kids on board pulled up outside his gates and seeing Padraig outside practicing got a bit excited and boisterous. Hearing the noise Padraig went out to check and expecting to be told to keep it down or move it along they were instead invited in for a tour and to watch him practice. Seems to have great time for everybody and always with that smile.


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    sky88
    Registered Users Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    Tiger and Phil just the 2 best golfers to watch on tv and the best entertainment for me.

    i grew on the PGA tour so always had more of affinity with those guys then the european players


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    #44
    RoadRunner
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭RoadRunner


    Not even close, Ho sung choi


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    #45
    redzerdrog
    Registered Users Posts: 7,750 ✭✭✭redzerdrog


    Torn between Padraig and tiger


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    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,110 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    It'd be wrong not to say Tiger, he made the game compulsive viewing at his peak. And even now, there's an extra dimension when he's in the mix.

    Other favourites, I liked Duval a lot, Payne Stewart and O Meara too, lot of time for Cabrera-Bello.

    Padraig goes without saying, and Lowry too. I think a lot of younger Irish golfers would look up to him more than Harrington, he's very grounded, seems a regular guy with a lot of talent.


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    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,742 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Mushy wrote: »
    It'd be wrong not to say Tiger, he made the game compulsive viewing at his peak. And even now, there's an extra dimension when he's in the mix.

    Other favourites, I liked Duval a lot, Payne Stewart and O Meara too, lot of time for Cabrera-Bello.

    Padraig goes without saying, and Lowry too. I think a lot of younger Irish golfers would look up to him more than Harrington, he's very grounded, seems a regular guy with a lot of talent.

    I think Harrington became more of a character as he got older .

    He basically trying so hard when younger he hadn't time to be a character.

    He was always a complete gent and honest on a golf course.

    Imagine Harrington banging club into a green . It wouldn't happen. Even at his lowest and he had them.


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    #48
    galwayllm
    Registered Users Posts: 318 ✭✭galwayllm


    Tiger by far

    I also like DJ


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    #49
    Pissartist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 473 ✭✭Pissartist


    Tiger


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    #50
    Golfgorfield
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Golfgorfield


    Conno.


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    #51
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Langer. 1991 Ryder Cup was one of the first tournaments I watched and felt bad for him after he holed 2 or 3 clutch putts but missed the one on the final green. Could have ruined a lot of players or at least set them back for a bit. Not Langer. The next week, he destroys the field on the European Tour. Astonishing mental strength.


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    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 18,678 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    Langer. 1991 Ryder Cup was one of the first tournaments I watched and felt bad for him after he holed 2 or 3 clutch putts but missed the one on the final green. Could have ruined a lot of players or at least set them back for a bit. Not Langer. The next week, he destroys the field on the European Tour. Astonishing mental strength.

    Re the missed putt, he would have been able to repair the spike damage on his line if the rules were of this year, shame, the anguish on his face that day

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    #53
    Rikand
    Registered Users Posts: 20,340 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Sandy Lyle

    I dont remember how or why I started following him, I think I just liked his name lol. But around the age of 5 or 6 I started following his results and him when he was on TV. My dad is a huge fan of Bernhard Langer and every week we'd be watching their scores on the paper to see who was on top (sadly it was langer more than lyle, lol) - It went on like that through the years for us and if we were getting to watch them on TV I would cheer every time Lyle did something good with a 2 fingers to my dad and he would do the same to me when Langer did it. It was great. I've loved Sandy ever since and of course he has hit one of the most iconic shots in golf, That bunker shot that sealed the 1988 Masters

    Two close runners ups for me are Fred Couples and Sergio Garcia, but it'll always be Sandy :)


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    #54
    ConcertKing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭ConcertKing


    Payne Stewart was always my favourite and was gutted when he died. :(


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    #55
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,485 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Seve for his skill.
    Sergio for his Ryder Cup exuberance.
    Jimenez for a good laugh with his cigar warm-ups.
    Poulter because he’s half mad at times.
    DJ because he always looks as if he couldn’t give a s***.


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    fullstop
    Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Golfgorfield wrote: »
    Conno.

    Blast from the past there :D


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    #57
    spiderdan
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭spiderdan


    Angel Cabrera - ridiculously good swing, fast player, and didn't give a ****e.


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    #58
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    Stenson. From being near on broke to banking the Race to Dubai and the FedEx. Best of it all was his final round with Phil for his Major.
    Phil. Always aggressive and insane short game at times although that's on the wane the last few years.
    Was coming around again to Sergio after his long awaited major until that DQ in UAE.
    Was never a Tiger fan, though I tip my hat to his latest resurgence and wouldn't mind seeing him win another few majors.Just a few.


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    #59
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    Tom Kite, hands down.

    The Sugar Ray Leonard of Golf


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    #60
    OffalyMedic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭OffalyMedic


    Ian Poulter for his heart, determination, passion, drama and family values

    Shane Lowry because he's a fellow BIFFO

    Rickie cause I love orange


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