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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

RIP random women's dignity  

 

No doubt about that as well. Olesen has been a fool in the situation and I'm sure that it has been disturbing to everybody on the plane

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https://www.golfdigest.com/story/reports-thorbjorn-olesen-arrested-for-sexually-assaulting-sleeping-woman-urinating-on-plane-during-flight

 

RIP Olesen's career

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10 minutes ago, dcro said:

I don't get why 43 year old golfer suddenly wants to play at the Olympics. It's not like they are very popular in the golf world.

 

Believe me. After the Rio Games, they are gonna go for it.

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11 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Apart from last year when two Slovaks played at the Czech Masters... 

 

That's European Tour 

And Valasek was in Czech Masters in 2017 as well

Edited January 9, 2019 by Agger

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1 hour ago, phelps said:

 

well, he's basically a former player...

I mean, he's still competing on the major tour, but all of his good results are from 8 or more years ago...

in Golf you can never exclude a "one-hit wonder", but it's reasonably fair to say that his chances to win an important tournament (and/or an Olympic medal) are nowadays very, very slim...

 

p.s. and in any case he's not elegible to take part in the Ryder Cup, since he's not registered as a European Tour "regular" nor he did begin his pro career first in the European Tour (and only then going in the US)...

and you need to fulfill at least one of those 2 requirements to become elegible for the Ryder Cup...

 

I would say that a result like 5th at Valspar Championship is pretty good and he is 163rd on the World Ranking.

No doubt that his very best is some time ago (the latest of his 20 best results (points-wise on the WR) was back in 2012.

But it's afterall easier to win the Olympics than win at the PGA Tour.

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6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I'm going to go with....probably not.

 

Well. He'll most likely be a part of the big group of players that you can't quite feel sure about

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If Noren wins, it's the largest victory since 2006.

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1 minute ago, phelps said:

 

they should call it a day as it stands...

I don't know why they always want to finish also the irrelevant matches...

 

I agree. It's fine that they want to finish the hole that they're doing but 5 holes where you can just hear the roar is pretty damn tough.

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It's got to be rather lonely for Noren and Dechambeau still having quite some time left to play

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And it's Molinari! The right guy to secure it after his weekend!

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So 2 dormie games should mean that it's in the bag! 

But let's wait and see who makes it official.

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6 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

maybe Garcia...or even Poulter, if Stenson goes quick to win also the 14th hole...

 

in any case, it's just a matter of minutes...

 

Was about to write Garcia as well, but then he drove it into the water.

And I though Poulter would be the one taking Europe to 13½ (or at least 13)

Edited September 30, 2018 by Agger

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Now it's just the question of who will finish it. Molinari or Stenson?

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Thorbjørn only played one match and now he's destroying Spieth! 

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Justin Thomas wins game 1 and some more American wins are on the way. It's the 2nd half that's helping Europe right now.

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USA is punching back leading 3 of the 5 first matches.

Not a lot of mistakes needed to make it exciting.

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It's still early but looking fine so far. But all matches are withing one hole.

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Molinari and Fleetwood are only the 3rd couple to be unbeaten through 4 matches. Palmer/Dickinson (1967 and 71)  won 5 in a row while Nicklaus/Watson being 4-0.

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8 minutes ago, phelps said:

and finally, after 5 years of troubles (mental and physical), Tiger is back...

he won the Tour Championship tournament in Atlanta and almost took also the big prize money, which was instead won by Justin Rose thanks to a birdie in the final hole of the day...

and from Friday, it's Ryder Cup time (on one of the most beautiful golf courses in the world, Le Golf National in St.Quintin just outside Paris)...I just can't wait...

 

And with the only 3rd Danish player ever and of course the Bear as captain of the European Team.

Sadly the US team should be seen as pretty big favourites, but you never know!

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Meanwhile it should also be mentioned that Oliver Fischer posted the first 59-round ever at the European Tour.

Only 3 times a better score has been posted on a major golf tour (58's on the Japan Tour, the Web.com tour and the PGA Tour)

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Very happy for Molinari. He has been so close.

Italy is thereby the 19th country to win a major (not counting Jersey).

 

Pretty happy about Olesen's 12th place as well. His shape is great and if he keeps it up, he may even have a small chance to make it into team Europe for the Ryder Cup

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The teams are out for the new European Championships:

 

Men’s Team Championship                                                                        

Callum Shinkwin & Lee Slattery - Great Britain 1 

Richie Ramsay & Ryan Evans - Great Britain 2      

Romain Wattel & Gregory Bourdy - France 1        

Lorenzo Gagli & Guido Migliozzi - Italy 1

Jose-Filipe Lima & Pedro Figueiredo - Portugal   

Pedro Oriol & Scott Fernandez - Spain 1 

Rhys Enoch & Charlie Ford - Great Britain 3          

Jarand Ekeland Arnoy & Kristian Krogh Johannessen - Norway    

Santiago Tarrio Ben & David Borda - Spain 2        

Per Langfors & Johan Edfors - Sweden 2

Birgir Hafthorsson & Axel Boasson - Iceland         

Francesco Laporta & Alessandro Tadini - Italy 2  

Adrian Meronk & Mateusz Gradecki - Poland                      

Michael Hoey & Neil O’Briain - Ireland   

Martin Ovesen & Niklas Norgaard Moller – Denmark

Daniel Jennevret & Mikael Lundberg - Sweden 3

 

Women’s Team Championship

Georgia Hall & Laura Davies - Great Britain 1

Catriona Matthew & Holly Clyburn - Great Britain 2

Olafia Kristinsdottir & Valdis Thora Jonsdottir - Iceland

Celine Herbin and Astrid Vayson de Pradei - France 1

Olivia Cowan & Karolin Lampert - Germany 1

Meghan Maclaren & Michele Thomson - Great Britain 3

Emma Nilsson & Lina Boqvist - Sweden 1

Noemi Jimenez & Silvia Banon - Spain

Isi Gabsa & Leticia Ras-Anderica - Germany 2

Marianne Skarpnord & Marita Engzelius - Norway

Ursula Wikstrom & Noora Komulainen - Finland

Justine Dreher & Manon Molle - France 2

Johanna Gustavsson & Julia Engstrom - Sweden 2

Christine Wolf & Sarah Schober - Austria

Cajsa Persson & Linda Wessberg - Sweden 3

Chloe Leurquin & Manon De Roey - Belgium

 

Can't say that I'm impressed, especially by the men's field but the elite is after all at the PGA Championships at the same time.

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 Women's Individual

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 Men's Individual

Quota	Qualification Event	Notes
Australia	IGF Olympic Ranking	Marc Leishman
Australia	IGF Olympic Ranking	Cameron Smith
Austria	IGF Olympic Ranking	Matthias Schwab
Austria	IGF Olympic Ranking	Sepp Straka
Belgium	IGF Olympic Ranking	Thomas Detry
Belgium	IGF Olympic Ranking	Thomas Pieters
Canada	IGF Olympic Ranking	Corey Conners
Canada	IGF Olympic Ranking	Mackenzie Hughes
Chile	IGF Olympic Ranking	Joaquin Niemann
Chile	IGF Olympic Ranking	Mito Pereira
China	IGF Olympic Ranking	Ashun Wu
China	IGF Olympic Ranking	Yuan Yechun
Chinese Taipei	IGF Olympic Ranking	Pan Cheng-Tsung
Colombia	IGF Olympic Ranking	Sebastian Munoz
Czech Republic	IGF Olympic Ranking	Ondrej Lieser
Denmark	IGF Olympic Ranking	Joachim B. Hansen
Denmark	IGF Olympic Ranking	Rasmus Hojgaard
Finland	IGF Olympic Ranking	Kale Samooja
Finland	IGF Olympic Ranking	Sami Valimaki
France	IGF Olympic Ranking	Romain Langasque
France	IGF Olympic Ranking	Antoine Rozner
Germany	IGF Olympic Ranking	Maximilian Kieffer
Germany	IGF Olympic Ranking	Hurly Long
Great Britain	IGF Olympic Ranking	Paul Casey
Great Britain	IGF Olympic Ranking	Tommy Fleetwood
India	IGF Olympic Ranking	Anirban Lahiri
India	IGF Olympic Ranking	Udayan Mane
Ireland	IGF Olympic Ranking	Shane Lowry
Ireland	IGF Olympic Ranking	Rory McIlroy
Italy	IGF Olympic Ranking	Guido Migliozzi
Italy	IGF Olympic Ranking	Francesco Molinari
Japan	IGF Olympic Ranking	Rikuya Hoshino
Japan	Host Nation	Hideki Matsuyama
Malaysia	IGF Olympic Ranking	Gavin Kyle Green
Mexico	IGF Olympic Ranking	Abraham Ancer
Mexico	IGF Olympic Ranking	Carlos Ortiz
New Zealand	IGF Olympic Ranking	Ryan Fox
Norway	IGF Olympic Ranking	Viktor Hovland
Norway	IGF Olympic Ranking	Kristian Krogh Johannessen
Paraguay	IGF Olympic Ranking	Fabrizio Zanotti
Philippines	IGF Olympic Ranking	Juvic Pagunsan
Poland	IGF Olympic Ranking	Adrian Meronk
Puerto Rico	IGF Olympic Ranking	Rafael Campos
Slovakia	IGF Olympic Ranking	Rory Sabbatini
South Africa	IGF Olympic Ranking	Christian Bezuidenhout
South Africa	IGF Olympic Ranking	Garrick Higgo
South Korea	IGF Olympic Ranking	Im Sung-Jae
South Korea	IGF Olympic Ranking	Kim Si-Woo
Spain	IGF Olympic Ranking	Adri Arnaus
Spain	IGF Olympic Ranking	Jon Rahm
Sweden	IGF Olympic Ranking	Alex Noren
Sweden	IGF Olympic Ranking	Henrik Norlander
Thailand	IGF Olympic Ranking	Gunn Charoenkul
Thailand	IGF Olympic Ranking	Jazz Janewattananond
United States	IGF Olympic Ranking	Bryson DeChambeau
United States	IGF Olympic Ranking	Collin Morikawa
United States	IGF Olympic Ranking	Xander Schauffele
United States	IGF Olympic Ranking	Justin Thomas
Venezuela	IGF Olympic Ranking	Jhonattan Vegas
Zimbabwe	IGF Olympic Ranking	Scott Vincent

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