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GPB wrote:Rory is NOT playing Dubai next week.

My guess is we won't see him until WGC Mexico.

I wonder if Pelley will give Rory a pass if it doesn't play the 4 (or 5) required Euro Events.

Duh, GPB, of course he will.

It looks as if Rory is confirming his Mexico date.
He'll probably have to climb over a wall to get there by then . . . . . . .

Chris Wood tweet. Click here

!!!!

kwinigolfer wrote:It looks as if Rory is confirming his Mexico date.
He'll probably have to climb over a wall to get there by then . . . . . . .

Wall? No problem... He can just walk under it...

Cool way to play #'s 16, 17, 18 by Chris Paisley. Birdie, eagle (hole in one), birdie, made the cut by two strokes.

McDowell back to last year's form after Thursday's excellent cameo.

Martin Kaymer's streak in jeopardy as he only just makes the cut.

Paisley wins 150K from Qatari Duty Free - that's a lot of Remy Martin . . . . . .

No sign of nerves from the last group, both birdie the first 2 holes. Guess it's between them 2 then. Another encouraging performance from Smith. After his rise through the Pro ranks I thought he'd do ok and probably keep his card, didn't expect him to step up and regularly compete so well so early.

That must close out the Kaymer streak . . . . . . .
Smith looks quite the player JAS,

3 way playoff?

It is. Putt by Wang to win it left an inch short.

Wang wins it

Wang's win could get him as high as OWGR #39, depending on results on PGATour later today. And unless Ben An has a great final round to get into the Top 4 today at Torrey, Jeungwun Wang will be the highest ranked Korean tomorrow.

Today's win should be enough to get him into the Masters and definitely the WGC-Match Play. He is already qualified for the Mexico-WGC.

Incidentally, Asian Tour had a tournament this week in Myammar. Aussie Todd Sinnott won. Goes from about 700 to well inside the Top 300. Spain's Carlos Pigem finishes 2nd.

kwinigolfer wrote:That must close out the Kaymer streak . . . . . . .
Smith looks quite the player JAS,

He is Kwini, I know guys thatve played with him and know he's good, as in very good. What amazes me is how unfazed he is each time he takes a step up. Nobody has ever gone (as far as I'm aware) Minor tour oom winner, Challenge Tour Oom winner, RTD winner. He's 2 down, one to go. You'd have say no chance as the step up from the challenge tour is huge but based on performances so far would you bet the house against it, especially if he wins a biggie like next week for example?

JAS wrote:

kwinigolfer wrote:That must close out the Kaymer streak . . . . . . .
Smith looks quite the player JAS,

He is Kwini, I know guys thatve played with him and know he's good, as in very good. What amazes me is how unfazed he is each time he takes a step up. Nobody has ever gone (as far as I'm aware) Minor tour  oom winner, Challenge Tour Oom winner, RTD winner. He's 2 down, one to go. You'd have say no chance as the step up from the challenge tour is huge but based on performances so far would you bet the house against it, especially if he wins a biggie like next week for example?

To qualify... my regular doubles partner played foursomes with him for County at regional level and isn't surprised at all at what he's doing currently.

JAS,
That's a pretty sporty Walker Cup Team he played on, Fitzpatrick, Kimsey, Phelan, Orrin, Shinkwin.

Not as much hoo hah as Justin Thomas, Patrick Rodgers, Michael Kim etc.

Too bad GB&I didn't show their current form back then.

I like how you guys have noticed Jordan Smith's rise to the top. I'm a keen follower of the emerging talents that come through. Smith looks like the real deal and will hit the highs that the likes of Lewis, Pepperel, Parry etc have been tipped for.

Great to see Rahm winning too. Hopefully those 2 will come through and challenge their respective tours and be a big force in for European golf on both sides of the pond.

On a sidenote.... I know we all follow Martin Laird's progress here but without "Google" who can guess how much his career earnings are so far?

ED57,
Check out my Note 8). this week . . . . . . . . . .

Re: Jordan Smith: Remember that Faldo Fan and JAS are locals and track these guys' progress and predicted his success, most of the rest of us are just hangers on.

kwinigolfer wrote:JAS,
That's a pretty sporty Walker Cup Team he played on, Fitzpatrick, Kimsey, Phelan, Orrin, Shinkwin.

Not as much hoo hah as Justin Thomas, Patrick Rodgers, Michael Kim etc.

Too bad GB&I didn't show their current form back then.

To be fair Mr smith didn't have a great WC in 2013, was better when Wiltshire won the County Championship in 2011 & 2012, I thought more from that squad would make the WC squad in '13, they didn't and GB & I got humped. There's quite a conveyor belt coming behind Smith, watch out for Ben Stow (won the Brab after Smith). Then there's the Loughries (Josh & Ben), Ben Amor. They've all got a decent chance of making it. Right little hotbed Wiltshire is.

Meanwhile my mate Steve, who's daughter is one of top juniors at our club is taking shedloads of flak on the twittersphere again because a whitehouse aide never checked for the right twitter account before posting :-/

Ivanka?

pedro wrote:Ivanka?

Dunno Ped but they mistook my mate SteveBannon for Stephen K Bannon. Steve's as laid back as you like but crikey he's taken some pelters from the technologically illiterate this week :-/

Just thought of this JAS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38647934

Woods in a threesome (no, not with waitresses from Perkins) with Fitzpatrick & Willett.
After TW, DJ & JD missing the cut last week, what are the chances of an early bath for these three?

What have Danny and Matty done to deserve that???

They're just a little bit scheisser at golf?

LadyPutt wrote:What have Danny and Matty done to deserve that???

2016 Ryder Cup

Danny 0-3-0
Matty 0-2-0

LadyPutt wrote:What have Danny and Matty done to deserve that???

They're from Sheffield.

Woods flying commercial for the first time in 10 years... poor guy, it's really going downhill for him...

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golf-central-blog/woods-arrives-dubai-despite-lax-protest-delays

Patrick Reed was scheduled to play in the Perth Australia Euro event in a couple of weeks.

Citing Illness.

Yet he is playing this week. He must have a clairvoyant Doctor.

I had a look at the scorecard for this course and it's very short indeed. I don't know the course very well, but I'm presuming it's very tight and penal to make up for its lack of length.

super_realist wrote:I had a look at the scorecard for this course and it's very short indeed. I don't know the course very well, but I'm presuming it's very tight and penal to make up for its lack of length.

Wouldn't say 7300 is excessively short Super although as a Par 72 you wouldn't say its long by tour standards these days either. It's not tight although I'm not sure if they let the rough grow in more at this time of year. There is fair sprinkling of water hazards mostly on the front 9 (2,4,5,7,9) and 18. Greens are big and quick, not excessively slopey but there are no doubt a few "nasty pin"  and "sucker pin" options. There's quite a bit of risk reward in terms of the lines you could/should take on a dogleg. Depending on the breeze 17 is driveable with a big fade, 18 (Par 5) of course is takeable in 2 if you can pick the right line off the tee and the breeze isn't hurting. All depends on the conditions obviously but in normal weather you would expect the winner to be about 20 under.

I must have been mistaken JAS, I was looking on the official card of the course on the website. They must have got it wrong or put the members tees in.

How is Malmo?

No worries, looks like it was long enough and tough enough to crack Woods ;-)

It's Helsingborg rather than Malmo I'm in. The jobs fine, the town itself is ok too, bit dreary at this time of year but where in Northern Europe wouldnt be at this time of year. Plenty of decent restaurants but expensive. Only had the one round so far at Rya, just South of Helsingborg, haven't quite worked out the logistics of hiring a car at the weekend, parking in town etc so cabbed it down to Rya...ouch!!! Won't be doing that again. Cost me more to get there & back than to play. Gonna do a Mac and look to get the bus to Vasatorps on a regular basis as they have a decent driving range and 3 courses.

Looks like conditions for Round 2 could be even windier, perhaps easing off a touch in the p.m. Good job TW got the easier side of the draw . . . . .

JAS wrote: haven't quite worked out the logistics of hiring a car at the weekend, parking in town etc so cabbed it down to Rya...ouch!!! Won't be doing that again. Cost me more to get there & back than to play.

Is this a Scandinavian thing? I looked into getting a taxi ride on my recent trip to Norway. A 35 mile round trip (for an hour or so's photography) was about double what a car hire for the day was. Are there any hidden insurance costs? I got a result as I managed to get on a coach trip to get where I wanted to go for a lot less.

Looks like Woods got off to a flyer in Dubai ( )...

Good to see Garcia playing well ( Mac) and encouraging signs for Poulter...

That has to be one of Tiger's worst putting rounds I've seen from him....Yes, he probably has had worse statistically but my word he hit so many poor putts

Tiger has withdrawn, if it's the back injury again...well he may truly be done

Good riddance.

sirbenson wrote:Tiger has withdrawn, if it's the back injury again...well he may truly be done

According to ET website, it is his back. CLICK HERE

Maybe he just needs more "reps"

And so another premature(?) end to a comeback from Mr. Glass. He's done; may as well concentrate on course 'design'...

So much for flying commercial..

sirbenson wrote:Tiger has withdrawn, if it's the back injury again...well he may truly be done

Sad way to end his career if that's it..

Maybe he didn't like seeing Sergio on top of the leaderboard either...

I do wonder how spasmy his back would have been if he'd been 5 under rather than 5 over. I'm no medic but with the amount of poking around that been done on his back it's inevitable that he's going to have the odd spasm. If he's gonna withdraw every time he feels one then he might as well hang up the clubs. A dash of voltarol with his muesli in the mornings should keep the spasms at bay.

According to what I read, he was OK after the round (although he didn't look comfortable to me) and at dinner but suffered the back spasm afterwards when he was in his room. Wonder what he was doing (and with whom) to cause that

LadyPutt wrote:According to what I read, he was OK after the round (although he didn't look comfortable to me) and at dinner but suffered the back spasm afterwards when he was in his room. Wonder what he was doing (and with whom) to cause that

You can get jailed for casually taking part in that kind of activity in the UAE :-O

If you looked at Tiger's round he actually wasn't moving well from his first hole. So I don't see how the back spasms only started after his round.

Maybe it's PR to make it seem less impact-full? All I know is he looked hurt to me from the first hole on.