2018 Golf Thread

TonyNotJack wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Neil Armstrong wrote: http://www.golf.com/knockdown/2018/04/08/masters-patrick-reed-estranged-family-complex-mix-emotions That's a really horrible article for a website called 'Golf.com' to be publishing. Who cares why he doesn't talk to his parents, that is surely his decision and none of their business! Article/page deleted,PM?

deise316 wrote: So Reed is dislikeable because he doesn't talk to his parents, drank his way through college and may or may not have bent the rules in a game of golf years ago ?? Sounds like he's more Irish than McIlroy to be honest............

Not to mention his thieving of money from fellow golfers back in the day

pre Madonna wrote: TonyNotJack wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Neil Armstrong wrote: http://www.golf.com/knockdown/2018/04/08/masters-patrick-reed-estranged-family-complex-mix-emotions That's a really horrible article for a website called 'Golf.com' to be publishing. Who cares why he doesn't talk to his parents, that is surely his decision and none of their business! Article/page deleted,PM? The link just hasn't been copied perfectly, just search for the main part and you will get it. I just found it a bit distasteful and more what you would expect from the National Enquirer than  a golf website.

Very one sided article, there was talk a few years back that his parents physically and verbally abused him growing up.

Fair play to Reed for not getting drawn on his personal life when questioned straight after winning.

Roberto Baggio wrote: BrendanD88 wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: These lads like Reed and Spieth that are supposedly so much stronger than McIlroy mentally, will be passing his majors tally fairly soon I assume Yea I'd imagine Spieth will alright. We will see. Spieths mental strength wasn’t so good when he totally collapsed to let Danny Willet win the masters a few years ago

Literally the only time that has ever happened to Spieth where as McIlroy is a repeat offender.

One thing looking at the potential lines up for Ryder Cup this year extremely hard not to look past the US.
 
Of their top 8 players only Fowler has not won a major compare that to Europe who only have 2 Garcia and McIlroy as major winner

Europe

Hatton
Rose
Rahm
Fisher
McIlroy
Fleetwood
Garcia
Noren

USA
Reed
Thomas
Johnson
Speith
Watson
Fowler
Koepka
Mickelson





Edited by lassassinblanc - 10 Apr 2018 at 10:49am

ShamtheRam wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: BrendanD88 wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: These lads like Reed and Spieth that are supposedly so much stronger than McIlroy mentally, will be passing his majors tally fairly soon I assume Yea I'd imagine Spieth will alright. We will see. Spieths mental strength wasn’t so good when he totally collapsed to let Danny Willet win the masters a few years ago Literally the only time that has ever happened to Spieth where as McIlroy is a repeat offender.

Spieth indeed had a meltdown on the 12th hole that year thought he showed great mental strength to come back and birdie the 13th and 15th hole.

Another time when Spieth showed great mental strength was the final round of his Open win last year when he was level with Kuchar after 12 holes, on the 13th he took an unplayable, took relief from the trailers and made a fantastic bogey to trail Kuchar and followed that up on the next five holes with birdie, eagle, birdie, birdie, par to win by 3 shots.

Spieth's ability to bounce back from major set backs is what puts him ahead of McIlroy.




Edited by BrendanD88 - 10 Apr 2018 at 12:43pm

Roberto Baggio wrote: These lads like Reed and Spieth that are supposedly so much stronger than McIlroy mentally, will be passing his majors tally fairly soon I assume

Roberto Baggio wrote: Fair enough, he is a better putter than McIlroy and probably will surpass his majors tally. However, his meltdown that time at Augusta two years ago was as bad as McIlroys in 2011, or 2012 whenever it was IMO. He also seems to be in contention for a lot of majors in the past couple of years and hasn't won them, but yet he has this amazing mental strength supposedly.    People trying to say McIlroy had a meltdown or bottled it on Sunday night are wide of the mark IMO also.

Agreed, Mcllroy didn’t collapse on Sunday. He just played babdly. He never got going and the puts he was making on Saturday didn’t go in.

However IMO Mcllroys meltdown a few years back was worse than Spieths.
He completely lost it over a number of holes and lost total confidence with his putting. He was leading after 9 holes and didn’t finish in the top 10. Was +7 for the back 9.

Spieth messed up on one hole but he birdied two of the next three. He finished 2nd.
Of course he should have won but Willet was -3 over the last 6 holes. He played well.

ShamtheRam wrote: Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: Fair enough, he is a better putter than McIlroy and probably will surpass his majors tally. However, his meltdown that time at Augusta two years ago was as bad as McIlroys in 2011, or 2012 whenever it was IMO. He also seems to be in contention for a lot of majors in the past couple of years and hasn't won them, but yet he has this amazing mental strength supposedly.    People trying to say McIlroy had a meltdown or bottled it on Sunday night are wide of the mark IMO also. Agreed, Mcllroy didn’t collapse on Sunday. He just played babdly. He never got going and the puts he was making on Saturday didn’t go in. However IMO Mcllroys meltdown a few years back was worse than Spieths. He completely lost it over a number of holes and lost total confidence with his putting. He was leading after 9 holes and didn’t finish in the top 10. Was +7 for the back 9. Spieth messed up on one hole but he birdied two of the next three. He finished 2nd. Of course he should have won but Willet was -3 over the last 6 holes. He played well. Correct. Spieth literally had a bad hole. Unfortunately for him there happened to be water on the hole so the damage was far greater than on any other hole at Augusta.   Also agree with earlier sentiments from both. Spieth will win more Masters. In fact I reckon he will surpass Tiger and the other 4 time winners. Rory will win more majors than Faldo too. In fact I reckon he might add another US Open to his collection this year.

Speith made a balls of the water hole last year too on the last day hence why he celebrated like he'd made a hole in one this year when he got over it unscathed this year.