2018 Golf Thread

lassassinblanc wrote: 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.

BrendanD88 wrote: ShamtheRam wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: BrendanD88 wrote: [QUOTE=Roberto Baggio]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.

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Rory had a ‘mare at the 2011 Masters.
But 2 months later he won the US Open by 8 strokes.
That’s one hell of a bounce back.
Hopefully they (Spieth/McIlroy) will both be winning majors every year for the next 10-15 years to rival Nicklaus/Palmer/ Player...Nicklaus/Watson and Tiger.....???

Who won most majors since Tiger won the Masters in 1997?
Spieth/McIlroy/Harrington/Mickelson??

Spieth/McIlroy genuine winning rivalry would set golf up for the next 15 yrs, TV networks/sponsors will be chucking buckets of cash at golf coverage.
USA v Europe..... Good v Evil


Edited by GB 1HughJarse - 10 Apr 2018 at 7:29pm

Tiger -8 for the day after 12 holes at Sawgrass.

Tiger has played really well this week at the players.

Have Sky Sports bought back the rights to the USPGA in August yet?

Urgh. That probably means they'll put it behind the red button, screwing over anyone watching on UPC.

US Open starts tomorrow.

Stenson

Backed Spieth, Mickelson, Fowler and Day!

Would be great to have Tiger in contention too.