Once again it's up to the Irish to save the day

First topic message reminder :

McDowell, Rory and now Darren Clarke saved the day for the UK and Europe. What a joke the English, Scottish and Welsh players are. The Irish have now won 6 majors in a few years what have the Brits done? Nothing!!

Lets look at the English - Luke the bogus number 1 choked along with the others Westwood, Poulter, Rose e.t.c They failed miserably in their home major.
The Scottish - The worst of the bunch and complete let down despite have the most golf courses per person in the world. A complete travesty and as useless as their Football League. The Welsh a joke but still better than the Scottish as they at least had a world number 1 in Woosnam none the less a joke still.

McLaren wrote:Pga tour wins this year by nationality

USA 20
NI 2
South Africa 2
Scotland 1
England 1
Venezuela 1
South Korea 1
Sweden 1

So on home soil the Americans are still doing the business. The climb in the rankings by Europeans is down to some players managing consistent results on the pga tour and majors, which translate to higher tournament OWGR back homes.

In 5 years time I would like to bet the likes of Dustin Johnson, Kim, Fowler, Watson etc have more majors than the UK's best.

Do the rankings again, but based on per capita, or better yet, area of the country

To quote something I saw recently.....

Dear Golf,

We like totally own you now.

Best regards,
Northern Ireland

Or you could do it by acreage of links course per country and it wouldn't look that good, only Scotland, Wales and England would do worse in the last 20 years.

You can show anything you like, if you know how to manipulate the data.

Bob_the_Job wrote:Dear Golf,

We like totally own you now.

Best regards,
Northern Ireland

Why would someone from Northern Ireland speak in American

(GMac need not apply)

Davie wrote:

Bob_the_Job wrote:Dear Golf,

We like totally own you now.

Best regards,
Northern Ireland

Why would someone from Northern Ireland speak in American

(GMac need not apply)

We use "like" and "totally" a lot over here too.. but with a very different accent ..usually GMac is the exception that proves the rule..so he is.

Bob the Jobby

You do, and well done to you guys.

Does this mean we also need to 'catch ourselves on', so we do?

Dave wrote:Does this mean we also need to 'catch ourselves on', so we do?

What you do to yourself west of the Bann is nobody's business but your own. Work away there

Doon the Water wrote:Bob the Jobby

DTW

a deliberate faux pas??

drive4show wrote:

Doon the Water wrote:Bob the Jobby

DTW

a deliberate faux pas??

Or he/she has seen my swing..

Could have been Bobby on the Job, but then I thought he might be in a senior position with the Met.

Doon the Water wrote:Could have been Bobby on the Job, but then I thought he might be in a senior position with the Met.

AKA "working for the News of the World"

drive4show wrote:

Doon the Water wrote:Bob the Jobby

DTW

a deliberate faux pas??

Doon the Water wrote:Could have been Bobby on the Job, but then I thought he might be in a senior position with the Met.

Bob_the_Job wrote:AKA "working for the News of the World"

Congratualtions to Darren could not happen to a nicer fellar.
3 wins in 14 months for Northern Ireland is remarkable.

In amongst the dross there is a serious point here - how is it that top/world class golfers from England/Scotland/Wales in nearly all cases have failed to translate this ability into Major wins.

Only Jacklin, Faldo and Lawrie have won majors since 1951. Given the players concerned that is a very poor return.

Westwood, Donald, Montgomerie etc etc

Someone made a comment re NI golf courses - as an FYI Tom Watson described the front nine at Royal County Down as thebest front 9 in World Golf - so maybe we do have the best course.

Geoff, you forgot about Woosnam and Lyle too. Golf not your strong point?

geoff998rugby wrote:...Someone made a comment re NI golf courses - as an FYI Tom Watson described the front nine at Royal County Down as thebest front 9 in World Golf - so maybe we do have the best course.

RCD is absurdly good. Not sure about the associated infrastructure but it's easily a good enough test for the players.

super_realist wrote:Geoff, you forgot about Woosnam and Lyle too. Golf not your strong point?

Is it always necessary to be that demeaning S_R? His point is perfectly valid IMO.

navyblueshorts wrote:

geoff998rugby wrote:...Someone made a comment re NI golf courses - as an FYI Tom Watson described the front nine at Royal County Down as thebest front 9 in World Golf - so maybe we do have the best course.

RCD is absurdly good. Not sure about the associated infrastructure but it's easily a good enough test for the players.

I was having a look at the rules for visitors the other day and looking at pictures of the course.

One of their stipulations is that if sandals are worn, it MUST be with socks.

navyblueshorts wrote:

super_realist wrote:Geoff, you forgot about Woosnam and Lyle too. Golf not your strong point?

Is it always necessary to be that demeaning S_R? His point is perfectly valid IMO.

I wasn't being demeaning so apologies if it came across as such, merely pointing out that he is mistaken in his claim.
He has a valid point but I'm not sure how he could have forgotten these two, especially as Lyle won two.

Pardon me for missing a couple of flags checking on Wiki.

As others have said the point is still valid no British winner since 1999 and only 2 English winners since 1951 - that is a poor return

super_realist wrote:

navyblueshorts wrote:

geoff998rugby wrote:...Someone made a comment re NI golf courses - as an FYI Tom Watson described the front nine at Royal County Down as thebest front 9 in World Golf - so maybe we do have the best course.

RCD is absurdly good. Not sure about the associated infrastructure but it's easily a good enough test for the players.

I was having a look at the rules for visitors the other day and looking at pictures of the course.

One of their stipulations is that if sandals are worn, it MUST be with socks.

I played it earlier this year - it was great. Front nine the weather was calm and sunny.. and all went well. Back nine it started to blow a bit and it took me 4 big digs to get on the par 5 on the way back in. Was still wonderful to play it though

I also watched the Walker cup there - it should be a good enough course for viewing.