2016 British Open at Royal Troon Discussion Thread

[Chilli Dipper]

20 minutes ago, iacas said:

Just the two of them now.

The gap between the final two and everyone else is up to eight shots. Beef can't catch up to that.

Good match play scenario on the seventh tee. Phil takes driver off the tee, and loses it into the rough; Henrik responds with an iron down the middle.

[Shindig]

Wait, so pros don't always make birdie when hitting a wedge for GIR?  Iron off the tee, wedge in didn't produce a better score?  /s

Stenson birdies the postage stamp.  Will Phil?

Yikes, miss by Phil... Stenson by one, plenty to play. 

[BallStriker]

Interesting that PMich didn't use claw grip to putt on 10

[iacas]

Phil needs to get something going here soon. Stenson looks strong. 

[RJH999]

lol McIlroy gets in with a backdoor top five.

Edited July 17, 2016 by RJH999

[newtogolf]

Callaway will be the big winner this week, Phil and Henrik have separated themselves from the field and turned The Open into a match play event.  

[iacas]

Dang. -17. One shot lead as Phil drops it in on top of him. Clear by 9 and 10.

[Shindig]

Stenson on GIR but has plenty of real estate to cover. 

[atb5079]

Damn this is quite the duel. If this back 9 continues as the front, could go down as an all time great finish.

[Shindig]

Phil's approach... near-GIR, but he can use his putter.  Or whatever club he deems worthy of the shot I guess. 

Phil still hasn't gotten the memo about leaving the pin in. 

Phil makes par, Stenson stands mid-point of his putt... and then walks to the other side of the hole to read with his eyes.

[Hardspoon]

5 minutes ago, Shindig said:

Phil still hasn't gotten the memo about leaving the pin in. 

Yeah, that was strange. The announcers talked about it being related to the thicker flagsticks, but he seems to do that a lot.

[newtogolf]

Phil gets a break there, good match play strategy to put the pressure on Stenson.  

[Shindig]

And just like that, J.B. Holmes pulls to within single digits of the lead. 

Yikes.  Tied for the lead, Phil misses the fairway with an iron.  

Bones repeatedly saying "no cameras, please."  Not the same approach Stevie took that one time.  I hope it works. 

[Hardspoon]

What a putt by Phil...wow.

[newtogolf]

What a putt by Phil

[Chilli Dipper]

Just now, Hardspoon said:

What a putt by Phil...wow.

Did you expect anything else?

[Shindig]

Phil!  Two adventurous pars this weekend at this hole. 

[newtogolf]

Wonder how that will affect Stenson, he had to think he was going to get the lead back on that hole.