Golf - classic or dud

Playing golf is something I won't do till I'm a good bit older but it is the best activity for people as they get older. Very social, not too strenuous, lots of dinners/drinking sessions. I love golf on BBC, Alex Hay is such a polite and good humoured man. There's no sport left on TV with as little glitz as Golf right down to the commentators.

Ah golf.....I even love the rippling applause and the noise when they hit the ball

Rant over.

am sad i am missing the open (already missed wimbledon and the eng sri lanka test series) but the good thing abt missing the open is not hearing Peter allis' 'commentary'. It's just torture really.

They then started creating artificial coastal scrubland all over the world.

apparently American golf courses are more "artificial" than Irish & Scottish ones, and there is some pressure on courses over here to become less natural so as to appeal to yankee dollar.

but whatever, it's all golf = all boring middle class men off playing their boring game and cosying up to the boss over a few gin and tonics and then drink driving home.

The fact that there is no player interaction only increases the enjoyment of the game for me. Sublime and no jock0's around to spoil your day.

golfing with the boss=dud, which is why almost nobody does it.

My husband streaking across golf courses at sunrise in the early 70's=classic.

Miniture Golf- A good time for druken teenagers on a Saturday Night. Watch where your standing at the ramp over water hole, I was hit with a flying ball and got a bruised collar bone. It was funny till the booze wore off...

Classic Allis - Hay exchange from yesterday;

Allis (lamenting Seve's withdrawal due to being rubbish now): 'I'm afraid there aren't too many things you get better at as you get older'.

Hay: 'Sweeping?'.

today they showed a bunch of CLIPS together [highlights, perhaps] with some krazy 'dance' music over the top.

one commentator: is that the sort of music you like to dance to?

another commentator: no, actually. I'm more of a gavotte-merchant.

I have an inkling that the another one was allis. if so: AllyC is OTM.

and the end of the open yesterday was rather thrilling

Allis: A mention to Mrs [x] who's just about recovered now from the shock of the burglary. I hope they catch the culprits soon.
Hay: Terrible. [Proceeds to say something about appropriate capital punishment to apply when they are caught]
Allis: Ooh no, surely a bit of flogging first. So the punishment lasts longer.
Hay: Oh yes, of course.

i hit golf balls this week. i have more natural ability at it than most other things that involve hitting balls. fun. and v. satisfying when you actually get it up in the air and far away. though i usually don't get quite as much distance as others. dunno if that's a strength thing or a technique thing (or the stella i had?). not too much exercise if you're just driving, though.

(we never heard of Africa in America, btw. TS: chatty, bubbleheaded non-news v. snide content.)

I've started playing again recently too and my handicaps gone down from a 14 to about an 11/10 - played ardeer and carded an 84 (an unecessary 7 [!!!], and three unecessary 6s) but shoulda been a 79. that is playing to handicap I guess (it was 14) but I reckon markers would have given me the 7 and 6s as 5s (taking into account the rest of my card.)

I love golf.

soft hands!

do you like it? do you play? are you watching wentworth? will you play golf with me?

How many of the US team are MAGA/fash?

I know there are a few believers in Christ, one other who has played a round with Trump, but that's about it.

Rory's played twice with trump and called elon musk "the smartest guy in the world" if we're keeping score. but really theyre all millionaire golfers what can one expect.

anyway the Irish open was great yesterday and looking frwd to wentworth this week. still think europe winning an away ryder cup is p long odds.

you love to see it

could maybe give the PGA some relevance by reprogramming when it falls (and tweaking the format potentially)

Mood... 😩 pic.twitter.com/HsVmMBZSBC

— Golf Digest (@GolfDigest) September 30, 2025

god I love watching scottie scheffler play golf. there's been a lot of other players over the years I've rooted harder for but not sure I've actually enjoyed watching someone play more since seve back in the day. maybe 2014-2017 spieth was close.

Rory running hot!

Excellent

Crikey

All set up for a great finish

man, if lowry wins this…

rory fs

Fancying Scheffler rn..

percolating nicely

Lovely leaderboard tho obviously annoying Rory drifting away.

Would like Rose to win tbh

Rory's not dead yet

Feel like the lead is gonna change a lot here. It's very spicy.

so many hitters so close to each other here. def turmoil incoming on this back 9

Yeah it's so hard to get the head around! Who is going to win?

young’s luck seems to have run out

This is madly entertaining but also my mind can't cope with the weird stasis.

scheffler should be forced to wear a fin imo

a wild morikawa appears

Back to thinking Rory is going to do it. Ask me again in ten minutes.

wonderfully close

what a shot from rose at 14

give us a 6 man playoff at -10

diabolical birdie from scheff at 15

he’s lurking

rory seems to have fully stabilised tho. ominous for the field

Exactly the word I just used talking to friends, xpost.

omg lol that scheff birdie

ouch

If you were curious what happened to Haotong Li, here's where he played his fifth shot on 13.

Went triple, quintuple bogey on 12 and 13 to drop from seven under to one over. pic.twitter.com/sFB00A7zim

— Sean Zak (@Sean_Zak) April 12, 2026

"gentlemen let's make this interesting shall we?" mcilroy

Faldo's out of his tree

Yes!

Awesome

never doubted him

he's such a mad bastard, pure emotion, danger leading to genius shot to shot. also what makes him likeable tho. delighted for him.

winning a bit much now. seems a bit ... idk british of him

happy for rory

i have been watching the masters forever and can't recall any winner (or anyone) playing 18 like that lol

rory is a real one

Super weird the cameras couldn’t find his or cams 2nd shots on 18. Horrible time to completely choke their coverage. Happy for Rory but man that Scottie chef put on 17 is playing back in my head over and over. Seems like it hit a lip at the very end and peeled off the hole. Brutal. A playoff between them would’ve been pretty special.

Great leaderboard overall. All but Henley at least, who I personally just don’t like watching at all.

I guess last year it took him a while to calm down from the emotions.

Wouldn't be surprising if Rory was to go through a solid run of major collections now. Nobody can really stop him when he gets going.

surely too much of a seat-of-his-pants player to have a thoroughly consistent run?

I feel like he could win a good few more even playing the mad way he plays.

don't doubt he could but i feel like sporadically rather than ever becoming Tiger-level dominant

i think that's true. he's too emotional to emulate peak tiger. luckily there was no fallout for tiger from living that way.

Lol

Don't think he'll ever get to 15 majors but was thinking maybe another 3-4 in the next few years.

ha i dont care about pro golf _at all_, dont know current players, only i saw a blazer award photo and went “damn. he’s a fuckin’ shrimp- how long does he hit it?”

surprisingly far!