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2013 Accenture Match Play Bracket Challenge and Discussion Thread

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Rick Martin Great Member

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So limit it to your favorite players? That doesn't seem right its a World Golf Championship not a PGA tour championship. Do you honestly think Steve Stricker(16th WGR) is playing better than Colsertes or Olesen?

Many of the currently ranked top 16 aren't close to being my favorite players.

Watching Garrigus instead of Tiger or McIroy in the finals is like watching the Milwaukee Bucks in the finals of the NBA - who cares?


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Sorry for your pain. How do you suggest the organizers arrange for the people you like to win and people you don't like to lose? Maybe some sort of American Idol setup where there's an online vote and

SCfanatic35
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So I'm nobody? I see how it is.  Your my kid brother! Send Fredo out to do this, send Fredo out to do that.  I'm smart! Not like everyone says, I'm smart, and I want respect!

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Rick Martin Great Member

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Does Kelly Tilgman write that crap herself, or did she hire a crack addicted monkey?


Seems like she's trying to become the new Jim Huber with this stuff.  Never a big fan of hers - mostly d/t the hard southern accent.


Rick Martin Great Member

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Originally Posted by Chilli Dipper  If the final four turns out to be Lowry, Jacobson, Fernandez-Castano, and Piercy, the network might want to consider packing in the cameras Saturday night and find a figure skating exhibition to air on Sunday.

Well said - not sure how the PGA can make this event better - except to have the top players and eliminate the Sutherlands from the event.


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Many of the currently ranked top 16 aren't close to being my favorite players. Watching Garrigus instead of Tiger or McIroy in the finals is like watching the Milwaukee Bucks in the finals of the NBA - who cares?

I agree but what I'm saying if you limit it to 16 how do you pick the 16? A win on the PGA brings in more WGR points than a win on the European tour. But golf fans will watch regardless of who is in the finals. Golf fans enjoy watching 2 of the best players in the world clashing it out head to head.


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Many of the currently ranked top 16 aren't close to being my favorite players. Watching Garrigus instead of Tiger or McIroy in the finals is like watching the Milwaukee Bucks in the finals of the NBA - who cares?

I agree but what I'm saying if you limit it to 16 how do you pick the 16? A win on the PGA brings in more WGR points than a win on the European tour. But golf fans will watch regardless of who is in the finals. Golf fans enjoy watching 2 of the best players in the world clashing it out head to head.


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Sorry for your pain. How do you suggest the organizers arrange for the people you like to win and people you don't like to lose? Maybe some sort of American Idol setup where there's an online vote and every time the guy who flops in the popularity content makes a birdie putt, Faldo and Randy Jackson come out onto the green drinking a Pepsi and tell him it doesn't count because they just weren't feeling it, man?

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Originally Posted by Stretch

Sorry for your pain. How do you suggest the organizers arrange for the people you like to win and people you don't like to lose? Maybe some sort of American Idol setup where there's an online vote and every time the guy who flops in the popularity content makes a birdie putt, Faldo and Randy Jackson come out onto the green drinking a Pepsi and tell him it doesn't count because they just weren't feeling it, man?

Awesome.

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Stricker is a badass with the putter, that was sick.

Stricken and Poulter now. Gonna be a helluva match!

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that putt Poulter just made, wow!!!

Poulter is en fuego!

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Hybrids: Titleist 910H 19* and 21* Diamana Kai'li
Irons: Titleist 695cb 5-Pw
Wedges: Scratch 51-11 TNC grind, Vokey SM-5's;  56-14 F grind and 60-11 K grind
Putter: Scotty Cameron Kombi S
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Originally Posted by Chilli Dipper

It seems like the 2013 Match Play Championship will prove to be a stinker of millennial proportions. I'm sure that the PGA Tour and NBC are hoping for Bubba Watson to advance to the final, as he's the only needle-pushing name still standing. If the final four turns out to be Lowry, Jacobson, Fernandez-Castano, and Piercy, the network might want to consider packing in the cameras Saturday night and find a figure skating exhibition to air on Sunday.

Not buying it.  Poulter, Kuchar, G-Mac, Mahan, and Webb are all great players and great to watch.  2 US Open Champs, all Ryder Cup players, and perennial invitees to the Tour Championship and Kapalua.  I think Sunday is looking pretty good.

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Just caught a closeup of Kuchars putter...

As I own two - Big Ben and B6 I was very happy to see the putter logo featured on his putt.


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Not buying it.  Poulter, Kuchar, G-Mac, Mahan, and Webb are all great players and great to watch.  2 US Open Champs, all Ryder Cup players, and perennial invitees to the Tour Championship and Kapalua.  I think Sunday is looking pretty good.

Amen.

I'm actually quite surprised at a lot of the comments on here.  I get that the general public - the "casual fans" - might be less interested without Rory or Tiger, but of the people who love/care about golf enough to frequent a golf forum on the internet, I'd expect more that just love watching great golf played by any of the best golfers.

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SCfanatic35 Great Member

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Amen.

I'm actually quite surprised at a lot of the comments on here.  I get that the general public - the "casual fans" - might be less interested without Rory or Tiger, but of the people who love/care about golf enough to frequent a golf forum on the internet, I'd expect more that just love watching great golf played by any of the best golfers.

Maybe the people who are posting this stuff are just casual fans.  I think this is a very exciting tournament still.  The golfers in it are world class.


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Maybe the people who are posting this stuff are just casual fans.  I think this is a very exciting tournament still.  The golfers in it are world class.

Quite possibly.  But, personally, I am a casual fan of a lot of things; tennis, the Olympics, Game of Thrones, yet the only internet forum I've joined is this one ... because I'm obsessed with golf.

I'd feel kinda weird going onto a tennis forum telling all of them that tennis sucks unless it's Federer vs. Djokovic.  Just doesn't seem like that's the place where I'd get much agreement.  Of course, based on this thread, I think I'm wrong.

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David in FL Incredible Member

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Maybe the people who are posting this stuff are just casual fans.  I think this is a very exciting tournament still.  The golfers in it are world class.

Tomorrow's gonna be great! I'm going to have to DVR it though. Got a 9am tee time. :-)

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Hybrids: Titleist 910H 19* and 21* Diamana Kai'li
Irons: Titleist 695cb 5-Pw
Wedges: Scratch 51-11 TNC grind, Vokey SM-5's;  56-14 F grind and 60-11 K grind
Putter: Scotty Cameron Kombi S
Ball: ProV1

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Has been some really great golf, 4 of the worlds best are playing off tomorrow, I really don't see the problem with some of the comments on here.

(Conteriversial point with some on here)

Yeah lets have a WORLD championship, but americans need only enter.

I don't mind who wins, would be nice for the aussie to come home with it, but as long as the winner wins it and dosn't just not lose it, I will be happy.


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