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2 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

None which contributed to the world rankings.

 

Rolexrankings have 3 events last week on the website (on the LET, WPGA and Thai LPGA)?

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There were women's events last week

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9 hours ago, NaBUru38 said:

Bryson DeChambeau, Abraham Ancer, Paul Casey, Louis Oosthuizen and Brooke Koepka have also jumped ship to Liv.

And Henrik Stenson who was set to captain the European Ryder Cup team

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8 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Mito Pereira who's basically done nothing except being in the OG bronze medal playoffs last year leads the PGA Championship by three shots after three rounds. This will either be the biggest golfing upset in XXI century or another of these epic meltdowns in the final round

I would say that 2003 had some much larger upsets with Ben Curtis and Shaun Micheel

Pereira is in the top 100 and had a very fine 2021 season, dominating the Korn Ferry Tour and joining the PGA Tour with 3 top 10 results. 
No doubt that it will be his best result by far, but he is a strong player.

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Back to back Højgaard victories on the European Tour. First time ever that two brothers won after each other and they're the only players from the 2000's to win so far!

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Ooooh. Controversy in Solheim Cup!

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Emily not quite having the day with the putter

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Not the best of rounds from the Danes but they're still in the game! Emily just needs to find those fairways again!

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Damn it. No 59!

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I wonder how @rajiv feels about the players outside top 200 now. A silver medal and another player in the playoff for bronze.

This really shows how amazing golf can be!

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Play resumes!

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1 hour ago, hckošice said:

Sabbatini with 2 another bogeys today, but still able to save the day just like yesterday. All in all, pretty nice effort from Rory so far.

Wouldn't mind Slovakia getting a medal but I would very much mind Sabbatini getting it!

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With pretty small golf nations like  ,  ,  and  in top 5 we get another weather delay!

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Worst round of the day: 76. No problem breaking 80!

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Great round by JB while Højgaard sadly lost his chance after play resumed.

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There goes our first suspended golfing!

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1 minute ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Possibly a few more golfers may opt out plus countries like New Zealand and Sweden may not accept their quotas due to low ranking

Sweden has already officially selected them!

 

https://sok.se/pressmeddelanden/2021-06-21-sex-nya-namn-klara-for-tokyo.html

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30 minutes ago, rajiv said:

I just saw this and am assuming you are talking about me .

If not read no more 

I've played a bit  of golf  ( result of many years in Australia - wouldn't have happened in India  ) and figure that unlike just about everyone else I've read here  I actually know something about the sport  . I very much doubt for instance many here would know one club from another . Indeed I had the golf bug for a few years .

Most here have a golf knowledge limited  to just looking  at the flag next to a player's name -just as they do for many sports 

 

The no 300 player is pretty ordinary by pro standards and plays on a minor Tour because he wouldn't qualify for the US Tour and then the European Tour . ( Unless maybe he's just starting out as a pro ) ( actually there are probably many dozens of amateurs who are better )

Just check out say the Asian Tour which is regularly dominated by no name players from real golfing countries 

 

Much better to have 4 golfers from GB . South Africa , Australia etc than anyone from China , Malaysia , Finland  etc if you want a serious competition .

But maybe this is all theoretical as I expect few top 60 players to turn up for this mickey mouse tournament . (And these guys ranked above 200 will be lucky to break 80 )

I happily admit that I've never played golf but I have watched quite a few tournaments throughout time and I live with a former golfer. I do not see the things that he does but I would say that I have a decent understanding of the game. 

Once again, among the 5 lowest ranked players going to Tokyo (at the moment) 1 has a PGA Tour Card, 2 have European Tour cards, 1 is ranked high enough on the Korn Ferry Tour to get a PGA Tour Card and one is doing well enough on the Challenge Tour to get a card for the European Tour. 

Sure there are some Asia Tour players in there as well but these would be the first to go!

 

I know there are mixed feelings about the Olympics in the golf world (among both players and fans) but talking about a "mickey mouse tournament" and players being lucky to break 80? That's pretty damn low!

I haven't looked at the course yet but in Rio there was ONE single round at 80 in the men's tournament in Rio. Almost all others were 77 or below. Rodolfo Cazaubón who was the 2nd lowest ranked player in 2016 had two 70-rounds. You suddenly think this will be that much tougher?

Yes, there's a long way from 292 to top 60 but one of the beautiful things about golf is that even the low ranked players can have a great round (or more).

The fact that you're even mentioning Finland makes the whole statement seem so much more wrong considering the level of the two finnish players.

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1 hour ago, rajiv said:

I have real problems with the Olympic golf qualification business if a golfer ranked # 286 qualifies ( ie the Chinese guy ranked #60 on the Olympic list )

Now I realise that THEY want a certain number of countries represented but you are getting people who can't get into even a B or C grade tournament .

 

It might be nice to have say 35 countries represented rather than 21  but this just makes the Olympic tournament even more of a giggle event in the eyes of golf fans 

 

How about this ( good ideas have to start somewhere ) :

 

the no of countries represented must be at least the greater no of

(1) all the countries which have  a golfer in the top ranked 100       

                                     OR

(2) 10% of all Olympic countries ( currently that's 21 countries )

 

Host country must have at least one competitor 

Maximum of 4 per country 

 

This system would allow more than 2 golfers from the serious golf countries  ( apart from the US of course  who will probably always qualify four )

 

I think of these rather limited golfers who just qualify as being the Summer equivalent of Prince Albert of Monaco whom I remember sitting comfortably in the bobsleigh while his teammates and subjects pushed the darned  thing to get it moving 

"the Summer equivalent of Prince Albert of Monaco"? Seriously?

 

Johannessen may very well be on the way to a European Tour Card, Campos is on the PGA Tour, Yuan (at the moment) on the way to a PGA Tour card, Gavin Green is on the European Tour and Zanotti the same. That's the bottom five at the moment all on (or with chances of reaching) the top 2 tours.

 

The main issue is that the golf schedule is already packed and the Olympics haven't got the prestige (yet). Plenty of major golfers still feel strongly about participating and some of those who withdrew 5 years ago have made it clear that they regret doing so.

The universality is a major part of the Olympics and one of few things that still show some of the spirit of the first Olympic Games. Making a selection where even decent golfing nations like Denmark and Germany would struggle to qualify (in the men's tournament) would make things so unolympic that even I as a supporter of Olympic golf would say that it should be left out!

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1 hour ago, chinmoy said:

Can india qualify two golfers in men currently no one in top 60 ???

 

Lahri 63

Mane 64 

If we have the wave of withdrawals that some people in here think (I'm certainly not so sure), they could have a shot.

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20 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Zalatoris only got to PGA last year due to laxed acceptance rules IIRC? If not for that, he'd still be playing in the second league? So that's one guy who really can be thankful for the COVID pandemic

Well, he was on a secure path to graduating. Would by all mean have gotten a PGA tour card by now.

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Zalatoris is going for the challenge. Impressive showing from the young man who just 2 years ago was outside top 1500!

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12 minutes ago, dcro said:

PGA tour kicks out Trump's golf club from the 2022 calendar. If this is not a witch hunt, then I don't know qhat is. 

You need to study some history! 

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Rasmus Højgaard on his way to the 2nd top result in the post-corona European Tour! 

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4 hours ago, bmo said:

This has to be one the craziest things that I have ever seen on a golf course.

 

 

That comment from Rory!