VictorOnopko

Remarkable stuff. The smirk on Warnock's face at the end rounds it all off. Would be good entertainment to see some needle between him and McInnes now that the bold Neil is up here.

Yeah, I just saw that info on the Bob Mac tracker on Twitter. Don't know who runs it but at the start of the month they were expecting him to play Phoenix. As you say this shows that the full card isn't really that at all - the DPW guys must be way down the exemptions list to not be in a 132 player field! I'm not surprised he doesn't fancy the Monday qualifiers either, given his form atm.

Very surprised and disappointed that he's not playing Phoenix as you'd expect Bob to enjoy and thrive in that raucous atmos. Either he doesn't qualify (unlikely as he has a full card and his world ranking is still decent - Pebble is a small field) or he's maybe decided his putting is so calamitous that he needs more time to work on it?! Think I read somewhere that he'd flown home after the last event? Just checked and this Hootsmon article had him likely playing Phoenix in terms of early season plans - so looks like a mysterious change of schedule: https://www.scotsman.com/sport/golf/bob-macintyre-braced-for-big-culture-change-on-pga-tour-but-wowed-by-new-florida-base-4469865 MacIntyre is wasting no time in making full use of his new status. In addition to the Sony Open in Honolulu, he’s also teeing up in The American Express and Farmers Insurance Open then taking a week off back in Orlando before the WM Phoenix Open, Mexico Open, Cognizant Classic, Puerto Rico Open, Valspar Championship, Houston Open and Texas Open all look set to be on his early-season schedule. “Well, you have almost been given a golden ticket and, for me, it is like a free shot at the PGA Tour,” said the Scot. “Go and get your card secured up by August and then come back to the DP World Tour and then, hopefully, you play well and secure that card.”

Agree with all this - it's very short-termist from Aberdeen and unclear why they need a big name at presumably a high cost to try to finish in a respectable position, with 3rd gone. Bit surprised Warnock seems to be taking it, as he's basically semi-retired and like you, I thought if he took any Scottish gig it would be Morton, which is closest to his Dunoon stomping ground (he can see Greenock from his favourite rain-lashed boggy Argyll golf course).

Taking the 1-1 draw which should have been a Celtic loss well, I see.

This is an extremely pleasing result, well done the Dandy Dons. You were unlucky not to win. Celtic should have had a man sent off, so there is clearly some kind of conspiracy going on in their favour IMO.

Nah. Sergio is petulant, spoiled, badly behaved and frankly seems a bit unstable (that has always been the case, all through his career, and hot-headedness is one of the things which made him interesting) but he is also Europe's greatest Ryder Cup player of all time, and deserved some respect based on that, if nothing else. When he left for LIV (a bad look, I agree; LIV is rubbish and he did it for the money) he was not only fined and condemned by his peers but was essentially cut off/ghosted by Rory on a personal level, even though Rory was best man at his wedding. Rory now suddenly says no one should be fined after all, LIV players should be eligible for the Ryder Cup, and the two of them appear to have made up when Sergio reached out. Rory must be a poor judge of character (or have been totally blinded by PGA Tour zeal) to have gone from close friends/best man to hating Sergio for going to play golf somewhere else he didn't approve of. I don't think Sergio deserved all the slagging. I do agree with you that the guys who went to LIV first, basically as a final huge pay off late in their careers, copped far more heat than Rahm, Hatton or Meronk are now. The latter are still stepping away from proper tour golf and bagging masses of Saudi cash. Meanwhile, the European / Dubai Ports tour is a hollowed out shell and the golf world is in flux. Hopefully this is all sorted out soon and a unified approach with various different backers can be agreed. The politics of it all are so, so boring at this stage. PS Sergio winning the Masters remains in my Top 3 favourite majors along with Lyle '88 and Stenson '16 (another LIVver - boo, hiss, etc.).

He's in an impossible position given how things have developed but yeah, having to admit to major u-turn now as he wants Rahm and Hatton on his RC team is a honking look. No one should be fined for returning to Rory's tour(s) now. He obviously thought he could give Westwood, Garcia etc both barrels because they were too old for his future RC teams.

I don't think the week-in week-out PGAT courses have more difficult greens than the Euro tour, and Bob has been an excellent putter in the past (e.g. his two Masters appearances on genuinely scary greens). The worry is that he has lost it just now to the point that it's a liability so everything depends on if/how fast he can get that touch back. If he can't do that soon then he won't make cuts and this will be a single season in the states.

DA pre-match today: "we've got players making their debuts for the first time" "you can't deal with the past" "football's simplistic".

Two wrongs don't make a right (Tam was forced to apologise on air for his attacks on Bartley from his BBC pulpit, albeit in a mealy-mouthed insincere way) and there's quite a lot of background with Eilidh Barbour and others walking out of Tam's staunch pal's off colour "comedy" routine at that awards event. Aaaaahh, OK. Cool...

Pavon, Hojgaard and Hitsatsune all look like they are making the transition to the PGAT with ease. Stating the obvious but Bob needs a good week to get his confidence up. Maybe he'll do something random like contend at / win the Players!

If he was active in Scottish fitba then he'd definitely be on my list. An absolute clown.

I think even if that happened and McBurnie piloted the plane, despite some promising test flights at low altitude around the Sheffield area he'd fall disappointingly short for Scotland and miss his destination, landing in Belgium by mistake.

There are actually a few on Islay.

A lot of folk on Twitter give the Sky golf commentator pelters when Ewan Murray (the "journalist") has written a shite article, and moan to the latter about the golf, which winds him up no end. A wee shame for both Murrays.

Not sure Marvin Bartley and Eilidh Barbour would agree with that.

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In last night's interview having just been pumped 3-0 at home by a team in the league below, he threw his players under a bus ("they've all had a chance") and admitted he maybe shouldn't have taken his job and hadn't done his homework. It's "honest" I suppose but at the same time it makes him look like an absolute trumpet who is unwilling to take responsibility for his team being an utter shambles. His style is that of a man who is much, much thicker than he thinks he is.

Seeing Craig Gordon back playing today was lovely stuff.

Craigen!

Yeah, not great at all on the easiest course as you say. Making the cut looks pretty unlikely this week. Hopefully Bob can get some momentum going with better first rounds in upcoming events. Still finding his feet so far (although he did OK last week). Bit surprised he didn't play Dubai this week but maybe he couldn't be arsed with the flights.

We did that by spending beyond our means under our idiot megalomaniac ex-chairman, and getting lucky when Doolan came in and got the team to kick on when things had been drifting badly under McCall (who to be fair to him had a long injury list). We just squeezed into the final playoff spot on GD before the playoff chaos. McCall seems like a decent guy and is an interesting character, so I hope he doesn't end his managerial days at Clyde. I suppose if he did come back to you he'd quite likely keep you up - and if you went down, he'd probably get you back up out of L1. Would he be welcomed back though?