peasy23 Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 I watched most of this on the Golf Channel USA and I thought the coverage was excellent tbh. They cut to ad breaks but kept the golf on a split screen. Obviously need to deal with some more brain dead American commentary but on the whole it was fine. First Scottish player I can remember going down the US college route was Richie Ramsay, though there might have been others even before him. Certainly of the latest batch of Scots on tour, MacIntyre, Hill and Forrest all played at NCAA level. Young lass from Bishopbriggs has just started a scholarship at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga.Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 26 minutes ago, The Moonster said: I like the idea of the award but it seems mental to make it compulsory to give it, you end up with instances like this where they just need to choose someone sound because nobody really did anything that sporting. As an analogy, the UFC don't hand out a mandatory performance bonus every time they hold a fight card, they give it to people when the performance merits it. I feel this award should be similar. Don't massively disagree but after making a song and dance about launching it this year it would have been a massive let down not to actually give it out. Clearly the sponsor wasn't involved to not give it out. As I alluded to earlier there were minor sporting gestures that could have been acknowledged and I by no means saw the whole thing. If you don't start by acknowledging what there was then you're not going to encourage more grandiose gestures. I think it might be an option to ask the opposing captain to pick it for each side rather than a committee. 11 minutes ago, peasy23 said: First Scottish player I can remember going down the US college route was Richie Ramsay, though there might have been others even before him. Certainly of the latest batch of Scots on tour, MacIntyre, Hill and Forrest all played at NCAA level. Martin Laird? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Martin Laird?Yep, he would be one, difference with him though is that he never came back!Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 5 hours ago, peasy23 said: First Scottish player I can remember going down the US college route was Richie Ramsay, though there might have been others even before him. Certainly of the latest batch of Scots on tour, MacIntyre, Hill and Forrest all played at NCAA level. Young lass from Bishopbriggs has just started a scholarship at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk Gordon Sherry is involved in a programme just now to help young Scottish golfers obtain a scholarship to go to colleges in the states.I think Bob went through that route 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Gordon Sherry is involved in a programme just now to help young Scottish golfers obtain a scholarship to go to colleges in the states.I think Bob went through that route She went through a company called ProDream USA, whose alumni include Liam Johnston who went to the same university, and Grant Forrest who went to the University of San Diego. They run qualifying tourneys in the UK to try and find the best young golfers.Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Lovely weather for the first day of the Dunhill it's chucking it doon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_binos Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 1 hour ago, doulikefish said: Lovely weather for the first day of the Dunhill it's chucking it doon Tony Finau woke up on Monday, looked at the weather forecast, thought ‘f**k that’ and straight onto Twitter to pull out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 2 hours ago, dave_binos said: Tony Finau woke up on Monday, looked at the weather forecast, thought ‘f**k that’ and straight onto Twitter to pull out Aye seen that I must admit I was laughing at the amount of people saying he has a hangover etc they obviously don't know his background well 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Always amazes me how different the 18th at Carnoustie looks without all the grandstands down the left. Unusually, Kingsbarns seems to be playing the toughest of the 3 courses today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Tyrell Hatton leaves a putt short on the last for a 63 at Carnoustie, comes back in 29 for a 64. Haotong Li also well up the leaderboard, he hasn't made a cut since the Golf in Dubai championship last December. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 27 minutes ago, peasy23 said: Tyrell Hatton leaves a putt short on the last for a 63 at Carnoustie, comes back in 29 for a 64. Good to see him find some form 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Good to see him find some form Fleetwood right up there too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Heading along to Carnoustie tomorrow morning. The weather looks pretty brutal in the afternoon with strong winds forecasted 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Lovely weather for the first day of the Dunhill it's chucking it doon Ended up decent conditions after a poor start. Shane Lowry said it was possibly the worst he had ever played in, but it cleared up late morning and some benign conditions for the later starters have seen a lot of low scores. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, peasy23 said: 9 hours ago, doulikefish said: Lovely weather for the first day of the Dunhill it's chucking it doon Ended up decent conditions after a poor start. Shane Lowry said it was possibly the worst he had ever played in, but it cleared up late morning and some benign conditions for the later starters have seen a lot of low scores. Yip...can you guess when I was at St Andrews today Absolutely drookit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Justin Thomas has changed caddy to bones Mackay so Jimmy Johnson illness must be bad which is a shame 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 It was absolutely Baltic at Carnoustie this morning with 20mph + winds. The 2nd was 491 yards into wind. I’d be driver - 3 wood and probably still wouldn’t be on the putting surface. It amazes me how much control the pro’s still have in those conditions. Celeb wise I seen Jamie Redknapp, Ruud Gullit, Wladimer Klitchsko, Andy Garcia, Huey Lewis and Sir Steve Redgrave. Also has a chat with Michael Vaughan who seemed decent. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Genuinely thought Huey Lewis was deid! Sounds a good day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Genuinely thought Huey Lewis was deid! Sounds a good day. Aye it was decent. Just a pity the weather was so bad. There still shooting decent scores out there though. These guys are all a lot bigger than I thought as well in both height and build. As expected Klitschko is enormous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Few pics. Also seen Steven Hendry who plays off of 4 apparently and Darren Gough who went round in 80 yesterday which he says is his best ever score. Michael Vaughan was 2 out the bunker on 9 but can hit the ball a mile. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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