Golf 2023

[Martin Alvito]

Seems to be an American tactic to hit the tee shop into the galleries to get a trampled down lie

It's because they play wide open tracks without actual rough every week. I played Kingsmill once back when it was in the Tour rotation, and it was nice to not be punished for pushing it right off the tee every other hole for once.

I'm short off the tee and it has plenty of trouble otherwise, so it still destroyed me.

 

[longers]

How does anyone get partisan about 'Europe' as a sporting outfit...


Lol.

I focus more on supporting America losing than Europe winning. I’m not a big golf guy though and my knowledge of the sport goes about as far as the documentary Happy Gilmore.

 

[Martin Alvito]

I focus more on supporting America losing than Europe winning. I’m not a big golf guy though and my knowledge of the sport goes about as far as the documentary Happy Gilmore.

The price is wrong, [AndyC]!

 

[davek]

It's fun to watch. It's a Vince McMahon made-for-TV sporting event, except that the competition is real and the participants care about more than dollar signs.

So, pick your side and take your chances. It's not an ad for the EU, and never was. The present format predates the EU.

The Hovland marriage proposal in the stands is an absolute riot.


Would give this ten likes if I could. Two thousand years of history says drawing the battle lines that way works so well.

It's unauthentic to me.

A hotch potch of different nations but with a bias toward GB players versus a group of yank mercenaries.

 

[Martin Alvito]

It's unauthentic to me.

A hotch potch of different nations but with a bias toward GB players versus a group of yank mercenaries.

What is authentic, then? Legit curious.

 

[BlueStevie35]

It's unauthentic to me.

A hotch potch of different nations but with a bias toward GB players versus a group of yank mercenaries.

It originally was just British and Irish players against the US, then became Europe in 1979

 

[davek]

What is authentic, then? Legit curious.

Nation states v nation states; clubs v clubs.

 

[davek]

It originally was just British and Irish players against the US, then became Europe in 1979

I know. So the growing imbalance was made up by supplementing other nations.

It's be like England football team getting scrapped and a GB national team formed. As legitimate as that.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Nation states v nation states; clubs v clubs.

You do realize how arbitrary the boundaries are in Africa, right?

Fair play to complain that this is a made-for-TV event in the sense that the set of participants was chosen for competitive balance reasons. I infer that you also loathe American sports in general because they put a thumb on the scale for inferior teams in the offseason.

 

[davek]

You do realize how arbitrary the boundaries are in Africa, right?

Fair play to complain that this is a made-for-TV event in the sense that the set of participants was chosen for competitive balance reasons. I infer that you also loathe American sports in general because they put a thumb on the scale for inferior teams in the offseason.

Yes, boundaries are arbitrary but they at least attempt to contain discernible differences and a unitary culture - imprecisely but thereabouts. So when they face each other there's usually something tangibly 'other' about the opposition.

 

[bcblue1878]

How does anyone get partisan about 'Europe' as a sporting outfit...


Lol.

Golf thread this @davek, for people who have an interest in the sport worldwide - if you have no interest then stick to winding people up in the Ukraine and Nathan Patterson threads!

 

[Handball]

Scheffler wants to get his money back off whoever his putting coach is.

 

[jazzy]

Schaeffer putts like Happy Gilmore

 

[Martin Alvito]

Yes, boundaries are arbitrary but they at least attempt to contain discernible differences and a unitary culture - imprecisely but thereabouts. So when they face each other there's usually something tangibly 'other' about the opposition.

My point there was that the process you describe did not happen in Africa.

Do we need the opposition to be 'other' for the competition to be pure? We might need the chess match to be US-USSR for it to get media attention, but does it follow that chess needed Fischer to disrupt Soviet dominance for purity? I'm not buying. That argument seems very media driven to me.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Scheffler wants to get his money back off whoever his putting coach is.

He just changed that one. I suspect that Bernhard Langer could not fix the problem between his ears.