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Irish Open or the Byron Nelson

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  1. 1. Will you pay more atttention to the Irish Open or the Byron Nelson?

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The Irish Open is being played at Royal County Down, one of the more interesting tracks in the world, and has a decidedly better field. Personally, I will be watching a lot of golf in the AM this week.

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ChrisP Great Member

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Yeah, I'll be watching the Irish Open, at least the first couple days as I'm anxious to see RCD. If the leaderboard is "meh" like last week, I'll probably tune out by the weekend.

Byron is usually a boring event for me, but Spieth is playing and if he can get in contention late Sunday, I'll probably be watching.


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Ha, another good question. As last week, depends on the leader board. Colonial was much more compelling so I ended up spending far more time there than the BMW. We'll see what this weekend brings. I look for Rory to have a big week, he was drained last week but he got some rest and will bounce back strong.

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Irish Open.  The Bryon Nelson has been kind of dull since he passed.

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Stretch Super Member

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Royal County Down is one of my bucket list courses, so I'll be watching that mainly.

Stretch.

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joekelly Great Member

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Ireland for sure. Rory and Rickie: it doesn't get any better. And, no insult intended, but i am sick of texas.

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Crim Great Member

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Easily the Irish Open. It should be amazing.

I'll only be keeping tabs on Byron Nelson for fantasy golf reasons. There's a good chance I won't watch very much of it.

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Royal County Down is one of the five greatest courses in the world; the TPC Las Colinas, or Four Seasons, or Whatever They're Calling It These Days, is probably the worst course the PGA Tour plays four rounds on all year. The field in Ireland is stronger at the top. I have to go into work on Saturday and Sunday. To the extent that I will be watching golf this weekend, it will likely be the Euros.

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Good field for a Nelson minus some of its usual European players:

At the top...

Winner - PGA/U.S. Open Championship - Prior to 1970 or in the last five seasons
Keegan Bradley
Jason Dufner
Winner - THE PLAYERS Championship - Last five seasons
Matt Kuchar
Winner - The Masters - Last five seasons
Charl Schwartzel
Jordan Spieth
Winner - Open Championship - Last five seasons
Louis Oosthuizen
Winner - TOUR Championship - Last three seasons
Brandt Snedeker
Winner - World Golf Championship Event - Last three seasons
Jason Day
Dustin Johnson
Hunter Mahan
Ian Poulter (for derision and Twitter fans)
Tournament Winner in Past Two Seasons
Sangmoon Bae
Jonas Blixt
Steven Bowditch
Scott Brown
Angel Cabrera
Ben Crane
Ken Duke
Harris English
Derek Ernst
James Hahn
Brian Harman
Russell Henley
Charley Hoffman
Zach Johnson
Matt Jones
Brooks Koepka
Martin Laird
John Merrick
Geoff Ogilvy
D.A. Points
John Senden
Michael Thompson
Brendon Todd
Jimmy Walker
Nick Watney
Boo Weekley
Gary Woodland

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Huddo Well Established Member

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It's a no brainer, best course and line-up....Irish all the way!

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David in FL Incredible Member

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Y'all know that there's a time difference, right? There is no either/or, only both! :-) Irish for the course. Nelson for the field.

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Y'all know that there's a time difference, right? There is no either/or, only both!

Irish for the course. Nelson for the field.

There's the time difference, but there are only so many hours in a day. Irish Open gets precedence.

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Keegan Bradley just isn't a draw for me anymore. I'll be honest...that incident at the Match Play really changed my perception of him in a negative way. That's the way it is sometimes with players. Like Billy Mayfair....I thought he was a nice guy and then I saw him scream at a marshall like a jerk one time for something so silly at a tournament and completely changed my view of him.


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I'd like to see these guys mix it up on Sunday at the Nelson:

Jordan Spieth

Jason Day
Dustin Johnson
Hunter Mahan

But it usually doesn't get that good

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Wally Fairway Great Member

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I'd like to see these guys mix it up on Sunday at the Nelson:

Jordan Spieth

Jason Day

Dustin Johnson

Hunter Mahan

But it usually doesn't get that good


Day withdrew - along with IJP, Kinser, Oosty and a few others; better check on your fantasy teams before they lock in the weekly roster.

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