2016 British Open at Royal Troon Discussion Thread

[nevets88]

Bummer. No strokes gained data for The Open. Come on R&A. Get with the times. I was looking forward to seeing Stenson's SG numbers. I'd suspect putting would be pretty high, but so would his driving and approach shot numbers too as they gave him those scoring chances.

 

[Gunther]

31 minutes ago, bogdan101 said:

Best golf I've ever seen!.... And folks, this is The Open, not the British Open. Do you call The World Series The U.S. World Series?

We have a winner, post #378!

[GolfLug]

46 minutes ago, bogdan101 said:

Best golf I've ever seen!.... And folks, this is The Open, not the British Open. Do you call The World Series The U.S. World Series?

I don't think people intend any irreverence. Just easier to differentiate venues between the two championships . I personally don't get the "World Series" either.. but that's a different thread I guess.

Anyway, back to being all googly eyed over yesterday's golf... 

 

[saevel25]

55 minutes ago, bogdan101 said:

Best golf I've ever seen!.... And folks, this is The Open, not the British Open. Do you call The World Series The U.S. World Series?

It will take a while for it to stick. For most part it has been called the British Open by the PGA Tour up till 2014. 

The World Series technically does include teams outside the US. Toronto has a MLB team. 

 

[newtogolf]

I watched some of the final round again last night, what an amazing final day.  Phil and Stenson outplayed the field by a considerable margin.  Stenson must have ice in his veins given how well he played in winning his first major.  With the exception of the first few holes he was focused and seemed to thrive in taking Phil on head to head.  

Phil is one of my favorite golfers and I wanted to see him win it but after that battle I'm a big fan of Stenson too.    

[rehmwa]

1 hour ago, bogdan101 said:

Best golf I've ever seen!.... And folks, this is The Open, not the British Open. Do you call The World Series The U.S. World Series?

YAY!   was waiting for the comment.

 

What a TREAT to watch the final two-some - lucky AND good.  The conditions set up perfectly for a blowout (they had the best weather combo of the week by far than the rest of the field, AND still played amazing golf).  It was a Tiger/Rory kind of 'blow out the field' performance.

Poor Phil - his face was priceless towards the end - he's happy with his game, he's happy for Henrik (you could see that he was enjoying the two-some very much), but it was still a "what the heck does a guy have to do here" kind of look.  But he never gave up and played all the way through to the final putt - classy.

Phil's last putt - "So, how many putts do I have to keep solo 2nd?????"  

 

IMHO - Seems that Henrik played the better game (Fairways and greens) and earned it for sure.  Phil scrambled better enough to keep up.  Sweet putting across the board.

I was hoping Rory and Sergio would play well - good for them too.

[turtleback]

2 hours ago, bogdan101 said:

Best golf I've ever seen!.... And folks, this is The Open, not the British Open. Do you call The World Series The U.S. World Series?

No, but if they did we would not get our panties in a bunch over it the way some Brits do when the British Open is called by the same name that Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus,  et al called it for years.

 

[Hardspoon]

2 minutes ago, turtleback said:

No, but if they did we would not get our panties in a bunch over it the way some Brits do when the British Open is called by the same name that Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus,  et al called it for years.

Also, the PGA Tour itself called it "the British Open" until recently.

[turtleback]

Both guys earned enormous respect and credit from me for that round.  It was right up there, IMO with the Nicklaus/Watson Duel in the Sun.  Phil has to be scratching his head - goes into the final round leading by 1, shoots a brilliant 65, and loses by three.  

I was never a big Phil fan but my regard for him has been growing over the last 10 years and this pushed it to a new level.  

[70sSanO]

3 hours ago, bogdan101 said:

Best golf I've ever seen!.... And folks, this is The Open, not the British Open. Do you call The World Series The U.S. World Series?

For decades it was called the British Open on this side of the pond.  I don't have a problem calling it the Open Championship, but not for the sake of those that want to stick their noses up at the use of the word British.

Be thankful that it is still either the British Open or Open Championship... who knows, in 10 or 20 years it could be a sponsors name tournament like some of the LPGA Majors.  Maybe the BAE Championship.  Then people will be longing for even the use of the word British.

John

[Aflighter]

I dont know what it was called decades ago but growing up it was always called the British Open.Afterall it is played in Great Britain but I guess you could call the Scottish Open British too.

[Gunther]

The best golf selfie ever, yesterday at Troon.

Correction:  can't be Troon with those mountains, confused cuz Henrik wearing the same shirt as yesterday.  No idea when or where, but still purty cool.

Edited July 18, 2016 by Gunther

[b101]

1 hour ago, Aflighter said:

I dont know what it was called decades ago but growing up it was always called the British Open.Afterall it is played in Great Britain but I guess you could call the Scottish Open British too.

Not so much as the Scottish is played uniquely in Scotland, whereas the Open is in both England and Scotland (and soon to be Northern Ireland). Personally, I'd like to see a few more courses added to the rota. It's great that Royal Portrush is getting it in 2019 and I hope Turnberry gets back on as well. Would also be nice to go inland for a heathland course, but maybe it wouldn't be penal enough.

6 minutes ago, Gunther said:

The best golf selfie ever, yesterday at Troon.

Correction:  can't be Troon with those mountains, confused cuz Henrik wearing the same shirt as yesterday.  No idea when or where, but still purty cool.

Switzerland for the Sergio foundation. Still very cool that he got that many of them out there.

Edited July 18, 2016 by b101

[bogdan101]

5 hours ago, saevel25 said:

It will take a while for it to stick. For most part it has been called the British Open by the PGA Tour up till 2014. 

The World Series technically does include teams outside the US. Toronto has a MLB team. 

 

Point taken... The U.S. - Canada World Series then!.. 

[natureboy]

8 hours ago, saevel25 said:

It's not even close to it's equal. 

If anything his Friday round was nearly equal to his Sunday round in terms of how tough the course played compared to the field. 

Typo. Did you not read the post immediately below it indicating that I meant Friday?

Edited July 18, 2016 by natureboy

[ChrisP]

Already bet Sergio for the PGA. This is the year for guys to get the monkey off their backs. At 33-1 and 10 bucks, it's worth a shot.

Edited July 18, 2016 by ChrisP

[70sSanO]

51 minutes ago, bogdan101 said:

Point taken... The U.S. - Canada World Series then!.. 

Then there is always the NHL...

John

[Shindig]

7 hours ago, bogdan101 said:

Best golf I've ever seen!.... And folks, this is The Open, not the British Open. Do you call The World Series The U.S. World Series?

I call it "oh, they're playing baseball."  I use the phrase "The Open" to refer to one particular major, but it's the one that actually has the phrase "Open Championship" on its trophy.  

5 hours ago, turtleback said:

Phil has to be scratching his head - goes into the final round leading by 1, shoots a brilliant 65, and loses by three.  

I believe he was trailing by one going into the final round.  To be the case with Phil leading by one, shoot a 65, and lose by three, Stenson would have had to shoot a 61.

4 hours ago, 70sSanO said:

Be thankful that it is still either the British Open or Open Championship... who knows, in 10 or 20 years it could be a sponsors name tournament like some of the LPGA Majors.  Maybe the BAE Championship.  Then people will be longing for even the use of the word British.

As long as we don't have to watch the Pizza Hut Masters, I think I'm okay with the other three getting presenting sponsors.