Comments on: 2009 British Open Final Round Live Blog

By: sharkhark

sharkhark — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:33:46 +0000

most deflating golf tv viewing experience of my life. it kind of takes all the long bomb putts by watson and his up and downs and clutching and efforts to scratch a victory out at his age and make it meaningless...
..we all say supportive things when someone tried but he came one hole short and his shaky nervous shots at the end took a fairybook story and gave it a cruel ending that left me sitting with PVR remote in hand...as it ran out of recorded programming...sitting motionless and empty....like a kick in the gut...
..he made so many shaky decisions it killed me...so very very sad...makes the whole rocco US open thing look so much milder in retrospect...this was a sad hot mess.

By: shortgame85

shortgame85 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:19:36 +0000

Sigh...... I feel hollow, sad, unfulfilled that Mr. Watson could not stroke the putt on 18 with acceleration and conviction into the hole. How utterly cruel. And yet, Mr. Watson had it in his grasp, in his control and it so sadly, quietly slipped away just as it does for so many of us on any given Sunday afternoon. His deflation was reflected in the playoff, which shouldn't, but for history's sake does, take away Stewart Cink's accomplishment.

Thank you, Mr. Watson, for an inspiring performance for the centuries, a final thrashing of a king, perhaps inspired by Aeschylus, but without the hubris; indeed, something more noble: an effort given one's all that fell just short, the result perhaps only and finally of age.

Congratulations to Mr. Cink, a deserving, if unwished for. victor.

By: fatphil

fatphil — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:36:43 +0000

cink wins wow what a jerk ball...doesn't remove his f....'n Nike hat during the acceptance speach then he sucks up to god as if god gives a shit. I hope Nike can put in a good word for him after he's dead. I'm sure all the 10 yr old chinese girls working 10 hour days are happy so they can sell 50 cent hats for $25.

By: RickS

RickS — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:23:02 +0000

Tom is toast, but put some serious wind under the wings of a lot of 50- and 60-somethings...

By: cdat

cdat — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:07:34 +0000

same situation here...in puerto escondido, mexico with no tv, no radio. this is the best blog i've found. thanks

By: evie

evie — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:00:02 +0000

Thanks for the great live blog. I can't bear to watch anymore and yours is the best liveblog I've found. Real time.

By: RickS

RickS — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:50:05 +0000

Thx for the blog. Am sitting in a hotel in Paris, nothing on TV, and can't access any live coverage from here, not even BBC radio. Merci.

By: cdat

cdat — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:39:02 +0000

does the playoff start immediately?

By: RichF

RichF — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:30:04 +0000

I'm sure the entire crowd are behind him, but I've got a feeling Watson will run out of steam here...

By: Liam84

Liam84 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:27:39 +0000

5, 6, 17, 18