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ciderman9000000

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Kicks off today at 3pm. Placed my bets with PaddyPower this morning. I'm relying on Tiger's knee screwing it up for him, irrationally putting my faith in the Englishmen.

P. Mickelson
£2 at 7/1

S. Garcia
£2 at 18/1

P. Harrington
£2 at 22/1

V. Singh
£2 at 25/1

L. Donald
£4 at 30/1

J. Rose
£4 at 35/1

T. Immelman
£2 at 40/1

E. Els
£2 at 50/1
 
Sweet, Tiger started with a double-bogey but he's pulled one back to one over par. If you win this and screw up my gambling, Tiger, so help me god I'll...
 
What do you know about golf??

I would like to see someone from Europe win this or Phil Mik
 
1 Streelman US 68 -3 18
1 Hicks US 68 -3 18
3 Appleby Aus 69 -2 18
3 Axley US 69 -2 18
3 Mediate US 69 -2 18
3 Ogilvy Aus -2 17
7 Westwood Eng 70 -1 18
7 Fowler US 70 -1 18
7 Karlsson Swe 70 -1 18
7 Els SA -1 17
7 Allenby Aus -1 17
12 Ogilvie US 71 level 18
12 Pettersson Swe 71 level 18
12 V Singh Fij 71 level 18
12 L Donald Eng 71 level 18
12 Romero Arg 71 level 18
12 Mickelson US 71 level 18
12 Sheehan US 71 level 18
19 Wittenberg US 72 +1 18
19 Stanley US 72 +1 18



Westwood and Donald both faded at the Mastes so we'll have to hope for better from them.

Interesting to see Els get in a good start, if he can maintain decent form into the weekend, his experience could take him far.
 
bazalini said:
What do you know about golf??

I would like to see someone from Europe win this or Phil Mik
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Wind your neck in, you big-headed prat, what do you know about me?

Looks like i'm down to four- Els, Mickelson, Donald, and Singh all still right in the running.
 
Had £200 on Tiger even with his injury because of the odds. Not looking good obviously.
 
ciderman9000000 said:
He's only one over, his knee'll pack up though today, i wouldn't expect him to pick up many shots. Reckon he'll go into round three at +1 or E.
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I was wrong, Tiger's done well finishing two under. Didn't watch any of it cus me mate bought me a bottle of whiskey (i'm skint and planned a cheap weekend staying in watching golf) and convinced me to come out and drink it which ruined me plans.

To be fair it's unlikely that my guys will come through, Donald and Els are my only hopes now, they're looking shaky when it matters, but i can still hope. Obviously I'd love Donald to take it (£4 at 30/1 i'd be dancing) but he's likely gonna flop under pressure of the third round. and Els, who knows? great golfer, great composure, again... £2 at 50/1... i'd love it, but doubt he's got the balls to take the title.

Obviously i've not supported Tiger from the start, i always back the underdogs in any sport, but seeing as you've got £200 on him, Keyzer (what odds? 7/3? 7/2? it was a risky bet) I'd prefer he won it than anyone else i aint put money on. For your sake. £200's a big bet.

Who knows though, it's well set up nicely for an exciting 3rd-4th. I actually fancy Harrington to make a break for the top 5, but that's just irrational bias to the underdog again which is my downfall when gambling. The course aint giving nothing away to nobody, it's beautiful but it's harsh, perfect TV.

To answer your question Baz - I don't know much about golf; i took a couple of days off work last year which happened to coincide with the Open Championship, and because there was feck all else on TV i watched the whole competition and was hooked, Harrington looked to of fecked it to... was it Garcia?.... but pulled it back to win, great moment. I've never played, though i'd love to, but (and i get ripped by my mates for it, old man's sport apparently) i enjoy watching it - it combines the tense individual pressure of snooker with the relaxing sights of nature you'd find on a holiday with the missus. Great TV.

In an ideal world i'd be earning ££££'s a week and i'd take up golf and travel Europe playing at the edge of mountains or around pine crested lakes. But as it is... i'll make do with a good pool table and a few beers on a Sunday night.
 
It was 7/2 Cider, just had a feeling he would come through and the odds would never be like that for him if it was not for his injury. He wasnt that far back but its the fact that his knee is apparently giving him pain which made me thing it was all over, i was thinking it would be OK. Quite a risky bet but i dont gamble often and am up big from my last venture.
 
Tiger fecking Woods.

Can't see him losing this tomorrow unless the knee fecks up badly
 
Woods birdies the 18th to force a play off tomorrow with Mediate. Great final putt. Westwood just misses out, hitting a par on the last.
 
Tiger fecking Woods indeed.

Has just forced a playoff between him and Mediate with a great putt.

Unbelievable.
 
And that!, is why Tiger is a sporting great, that putt on the 18th. Top class.

Got to say i am disappointed in Westwood, build's a platform over three days, shows true mental strength, a then that run of three bogeys today. *sigh*

Have to wait till The Open for a Brit winner, hopefully. Maybe even Monty.

Woods has the big psychological advantage now, mind you an 18 hold playoff is so anti-climacitc, surely they should come in line with the other majors.

Credit to Mediate through all this, done himself proud.
 
What a shot, knew it was doing in when he put it on the green, Tiger is the most clutch athlete since Jordan
 
Considering he is lame at the moment, if he wins this it will be quite a special story
 
Amazing just amazing.

I think he'll win it easy now tomorrow...or maybe, knowing Tiger, he'll win it with a 50ft eagle on the 18th!!
 
This is the very definition of 'after the Lord Majors show', it's an absolutely ridiculous way to decide a tournament of this prestige. People have given up their weekends to watch... so they finish it on monday with everyone back at work, the atmosphere wilted
 
Decotron said:
hes just the best, simple as that. Some of his drives today were terrible. His scrambling skills are beyond belief. I got 2/1 on him winning with about 8 or 9 holes left to play:cool:
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well it isnt matchplay its stroke play so he may be ahead at that time but he wont win until its all over and he has sank his putt at the last green.
 
1926: 12th HOLE Woods (+1) Mediate (+3)

Woods find the bunker with his tee shot on this par-four 512-yarder, then messes up his second shot, while Mediate plays safe with his first two shots to stay on the fairway then find the green.

1915: 11th HOLE Woods (+1) Mediate (+3)

Par three, 192 yards. Tiger finds the bunker with his tee shot but, giving himself a potential lifeline, on-the-ropes Rocco finds the green and has a 18-yard downhill putt for birdie.

Woods goes close with his chip out of the sand. Mediate has a decent stab for birdie but pokes home for par. Tiger pulls his third shot short so taps in for bogey. Mediate's shoulders collapse as he breathes a dessperate sigh of relief. Rocco is still in this. For now.

1904: 10th HOLE Woods (E) Mediate (+3)

Tiger slices into the rough off the tee on this 414-yard par four. Rocco is on the smooth green plains of the fairway. That 9th hole perfectly summed up why Woods is the world number one and players like Rocco are ranked 158. He is unbreakable and gives 110% on every single stroke.

Back to the action... an anguished Rocco pulls up short of the green while Tiger, on the collar of the first cut after skewing his second shot, strikes a beautiful shot onto the green which jags with heavy backspin just off the dancefloor.

Rocco fluffs an attempted chip to the green. No follow-through. Head up son. An amazing par putt from Woods. Over 20 yards out and it curves right into the hole's epicentre. Outstanding. Rocco drops another shot... and really is crumbling.

1902: Loads of you asking what happens if the players are tied after 18 holes today. We think that, as at the 1994 US Open, it will be decided by sudden death rather than a three hole play-off.

1845: 9th HOLE Woods (E) Mediate (+2)

Mammoth par-five: 612 yards. Rocco is short and inaccurate with both his drive and second iron shot. Woods hits a perfect drive which eats up the fairway at a rate of knots... then sends his second into a green-side bunker.

US Navy ships sail away into the distance as the first sign of pain in Tiger's left-knee today becomes evident in the form of a grimace.

Woods pitches out of the bunker but finds long grass on an awkward slope yards shy of the green. Another pitch and it's within 20 yards of the pin. Mediate (I've not forgottten about him) goes oh so close with a birdie putt but has to settle for... bogey. Poor putting. Tiger is just incredible under pressure and makes a decent save for par.

1833: 8th HOLE Woods (E) Mediate (+1)

Tiger is into the sandpit off the tee on this par-three. Rocco pulls up short but safer. Few of you purists out there on 606 not loving his swing... Woods, though, digs out of the bunker but it skids yards past the hole to almost kiss Mediate's ball on the fringe grass.

Tiger sends a skip and a hop to within five feet then rolls a putt in for a disappointing bogey. Just when you thought he might turn the screw. Mediate stays calm to claim his much-needed par.

1822: 7th HOLE Woods (-1) Mediate (+1)

Woods gains another bid advantage distance-wise off the tee but Mediate hits a decent second while Tiger, with caddie Steve Williams playing an influential Doctor Watson to his Sherlock Holmes, finds the green with textbook technique. Despite the pressure, Rocco is smiling loads and really enjoying his round.

Perfect line with a long streaky from the Cheshire cat - but his length is just short. Par. Tiger rattles a straight 12-footer right into the middle of the hole. An ominous birdie. Almost 20,000 on the course for this two-ball play-off by the way folks.

1806: 6th HOLE Woods (E) Mediate (+1)

Two fines drives find the fairway on this 515-yard par four. Woods has the advantage length-wise. The lead has changed hands twice already. Enjoying yourselves? With his second shot Rocco gives himself a tough job for an up-and-down - but Tiger goes hard at it with his nine-iron, an aggressive line, to give himself a super birdie chance.

Ghostly punch just off the green from Rocco as the ball virtually stops.... then gravity does its job as it finds the edge of a deep contour and rolls toards the hole. Ten feet short. Tiger holes a six-foot putt downhill for a birdie three (on a converted par five). Rocco gets his par.


1750: 5th HOLE Woods (+1) Mediate (+1)

Rocco is miles off-line with his tee shot on the par-four 4th and, finding sand, clearly has a touch of the 'rights' today. How does Tiger cope with some of the clowns which follow him? "Cheeeeeeese!" is the cry just yards from his eardrums as he drives down the fairway.

Tiger finds the green with a beautiful left-to-right. Far too long, Rocco hacks into the crowd and the ball pings along a pathway towards the Mexican border. Good recovery finds the green but he is down in two putts for a bogey. Solid as a rock, Woods makes par. Honours even.

"What is there to stop Tiger from using a buggy to stop him from walking so far to protect his knee? It seems a bit of a no-brainer to me." Euan, an Englishman in St Louis, on 606

1737: 4th HOLE Woods (+1) Mediate (E)

Little bit of breeze floats in off the Pacific as Rocco finds a decent position off the tee. Tiger then mis-hits over to the left before shaking his head in disgust. Still not happy - "oh no, damnit," he screams - after shanking an iron left and short of the green before cool-as-ice Mediate lands one on the dancefloor.

But Tiger sends a superb chip within three feet and taps home for par while Rocco putts long and then short for his own par. As you were.

1728: 3rd HOLE Woods (+1) Mediate (E)

Rocco inches away from a hole-in-one on the par-three 195-yard 3rd hole!.... Amazing.

Tiger, framed by the azure-blue Californian sky, digs a decent chip out of the sand with his second shot from the left-sided bunker and then skids a par-putt past the hole. Bogey.

Rocco was a shot behind. But is now, tapping home for birdie, a shot in front.

"If Tiger wins this one, it would rank alongside Stephen Hendry's 1994 World Championship win with a broken arm, what a guy! Still ranks just below Trautmann winning the FA cup with a broken neck though (even if he wasnt entirely aware of it!)" Ginger Freak on 606

1716: 2nd HOLE - Woods (E) Mediate (+1)

Both players find the stubby grass next to the fairway with drives but Woods comes up short of the green with his iron while Mediate skies one and has to conjure a magical chip to with five feet from a slope in no-mans in between green-side bunkers.

Ordinary chip from Tiger stops seven feet short of the hole... but he sinks for par. Standard. Rocco, putting second and under real pressure not to fall two shots behind, keeps his cool for a smart up-and-down.

1700: 1st HOLE - Woods (E) Mediate (+1)

Rocco tees off first... fairway, then bunker, a decent chip out, but cannot scrape a birdie. Bogey. Tiger finds the fairway with his opening drive on a hole he has double-bogeyed three times in the past four days. Then finds the green with a nifty eight iron. A 15-foot putt sneaks left of the hole. Then down for par.

This is strokeplay folks, not matchplay remember. Oh, and Mediate - wearing a red shirt - will be the oldest ever US Open champion if he does it.
 
18 foot birdie put on the 15th puts Mediate ahead.
 
This is awesome stuff. Great shot by tiger followed by a super putt from rocco, then tiger fecks it up and gives the lead to rocco.
 
Big 3rd shot here for Mediate....doesnt look good enough
 
Mediate misses....Tiger wins!! Yeesssssssssssss

What a bloody player!
 
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