stopped watching when we was geting panned. Turned it back on to see us lose another so decoded not to watch incase i jinxed it.
Love the Yanks but always good to slap em down.
Hope the English guys start to get some of the recognition for being on top of the World for years----rather than being ignored. Just one Masters and maybe they will.
Sooooooooo glad ididnt see that FatScots TWAT Salmon it would have spolid it all ( well done to those that gave him stick)
A lot of credit is going to poulter, and it should, but sunday was a team effort. To look at the spirit you should look at our worst performers (points wise). Hansen was 4 down, dead and buried, yet he took his match to the final hole.kaymer has been hopelessly out of form for most of the season but he stayed strong and his big achievement was still being in contention at the final hole (he put himself in position to make that put). Molinari has played well and lost to woods in singles before. He handled the nerves and pressure brilliantly gaining that half for the win.
Lawrie played exceptional and I'm not surprised. He was a flukey open champion years ago but this time he has turned himself into a world class player who can beat anyone. Our top 5 did the job and got the points on the board early. Rose in particular did a poulter with brilliance at the 16th, 17th and 18th. All in all a team effort.
The crazy thing was, there were just so, so many key, result defining moments. In the space of half hour there must have been about twenty !
If it I had to highlight one changing point though it was the confidence of Mickelson, chipping with the pin out and marginally missing one of the greatest ever chips, being absolutely destroyed by Justin Rose just seconds later.
The last few holes of Mickelson / Rose was some of the best, most intense matchplay I've ever seen, and how Justin closed out 16, 17 and 18 I will never know.
Absolutely superb. And baring those who tailored the course, I think every single person involved in this tournament deserves credit.
From the WSS link "I've got a feeling Team Europe is doomed. I've got a feeling that Tiger Woods isn't going to go 0-for-Medinah. I've got a feeling that the eight veterans in that USA team room are reminding the four rookies it's time to step on a few throats. "
No sympathy for the Americans. Whipped up themselves and their fans into their usual, excessive, over-patriotic frenzy + manufactured a course to enable them to blast past the Europeans on a game-plan of inaccuracte, long driving........and we wooped them in their own 'backyard'. Sheer admiration for each and every one of our boys. The level of composure shown throughout the team for such a sustained period will rarely be seen again in any sport.
What a sporting year it has been for a Charlton fan from GB!
I am not into Golf at all and at the start of the weekend wondered what all of the fuss was about .
I was reading this thread and decided to watch 'what all of the fuss was about' and I actually enjoyed watching the last three hours and found the twists and turns fascinating . By the end I got caught up in the occasion and cheered every European victory.
Thank God that the rules were changed in the 70's to allow us to include the whole of Europe and make it a real competition rather than the old one sided GB V USA where we were regularly tonked.
Thank God that the rules were changed in the 70's to allow us to include the whole of Europe and make it a real competition rather than the old one sided GB V USA where we were regularly tonked.
Seeing as Europe have now won 7 of the last 9, is it time for the yanks to have some help? South Africa or Auz?
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Taking a freebie no doubt. You can't beat a champagne socialist.
Come on ollie
All men die but not all men live and you made me feel alive
Top top man
Decent BBC highlights marred by going off air just at the point of the presentation. I assume that was for contractual reasons. Irritating though.
As for the Yanks, most of their golfers are class acts typified by DL3.
At one stage I turnt it off sat with the wife put the recorded x factor on and declared I can't watch it's doing my head In
We have a chance
No we don't
Yes we do
No we don't
I couldn't take it
Then kept looking on here and it was then boom straight back over at 12 all
But today as soon as we got about them early with Luke poults and Rory
It was brilliant
Where did Lawrie pull that rd of golf from
poults unplayable all event. well played colsearts also. kept us in it on Saturday.
just feels justice has been done. booing shots
is just not golf. perhaps they might learn to behave. then again, probably not
great event. top marks to DL3 who set a great example.
Love the Yanks but always good to slap em down.
Hope the English guys start to get some of the recognition for being on top of the World for years----rather than being ignored. Just one Masters and maybe they will.
Sooooooooo glad ididnt see that FatScots TWAT Salmon it would have spolid it all ( well done to those that gave him stick)
Got to love Jose...
A lot of credit is going to poulter, and it should, but sunday was a team effort. To look at the spirit you should look at our worst performers (points wise). Hansen was 4 down, dead and buried, yet he took his match to the final hole.kaymer has been hopelessly out of form for most of the season but he stayed strong and his big achievement was still being in contention at the final hole (he put himself in position to make that put). Molinari has played well and lost to woods in singles before. He handled the nerves and pressure brilliantly gaining that half for the win.
Lawrie played exceptional and I'm not surprised. He was a flukey open champion years ago but this time he has turned himself into a world class player who can beat anyone. Our top 5 did the job and got the points on the board early. Rose in particular did a poulter with brilliance at the 16th, 17th and 18th. All in all a team effort.
The crazy thing was, there were just so, so many key, result defining moments. In the space of half hour there must have been about twenty !
If it I had to highlight one changing point though it was the confidence of Mickelson, chipping with the pin out and marginally missing one of the greatest ever chips, being absolutely destroyed by Justin Rose just seconds later.
The last few holes of Mickelson / Rose was some of the best, most intense matchplay I've ever seen, and how Justin closed out 16, 17 and 18 I will never know.
Absolutely superb. And baring those who tailored the course, I think every single person involved in this tournament deserves credit.
Sport at its best
"I've got a feeling Team Europe is doomed. I've got a feeling that Tiger Woods isn't going to go 0-for-Medinah. I've got a feeling that the eight veterans in that USA team room are reminding the four rookies it's time to step on a few throats. "
The comments on the end of it are choice
What a sporting year it has been for a Charlton fan from GB!
I was reading this thread and decided to watch 'what all of the fuss was about' and I actually enjoyed watching the last three hours and found the twists and turns fascinating . By the end I got caught up in the occasion and cheered every European victory.
Thank God that the rules were changed in the 70's to allow us to include the whole of Europe and make it a real competition rather than the old one sided GB V USA where we were regularly tonked.
If it was the other way round, I would have been fuming. Might not have won the cup, but a huge difference between drawing and losing.
Strange guy Tiger