Olympic golf: Men's final round, part one - Page 3

Yeah, considering the format, the withdrawals, the cluster that was course construction, etc etc etc it went just about as well as possible. I watched some this morning and it was actually pretty enjoyable.

Still not sold on golf really being an Olympic sport, but we'll see how it goes with the ladies and in 2020.

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08-15-2016 , 09:00 AM

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I mean if horse dressage or whatever they do where they gallop in circles is an olympic sport then golf should be. Wouldn't mind a tweak in the format though.

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08-15-2016 , 11:06 AM

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I think there are several things that will help improve the quality of the field in the future.

1. The public realizing that athletes were not staying home because of Zika. It was mostly just rich, male pro golfers staying home.
2. Bubba embracing the whole Olympic spirit and his comments about pro golfers having nothing to complain about compared to the amateurs will go a long way to changing mindsets.
3. A big name like Rose or Stenson winning gold.

Most of all though, I think the golfers themselves will realize that they (as a cohort) did not look good skipping this event. It was as if they had something to lose with respect to Zika that others did not.

Zika would be nasty no matter who got it.

Though if I am a big name golfer and I read about Loche getting held up with a gun to his head I do no regret not going.

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08-15-2016 , 12:45 PM

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Yeah but he is in a once every 4 year sport. That said any non top 5 golfer would would benifit from going and doing well going forward.

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08-15-2016 , 12:52 PM

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Does anyone here suspect that the golfers sitting out the olympic was due to drug testing?

The only athletes that sat out the olympics were golfers and NBA basketball players. Neither of those sports has solid doping programs. In fact they have some of the weakest drug testing of any sport in the world. Pro wrestling might have stricter drug testing than golf and basketball.

Does anyone else here find it suspicious that guys like Lebron and Rory are suddenly uninterested in competing as soon as there is strict testing?

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08-15-2016 , 01:14 PM

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I've come full circle with my opinion of golf in the Olympics (and the importance of golf's best showing up). This article sums up my feelings nicely.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/posn...cs-you-blew-it

To the golfers who passed on Rio - you blew it

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You blew it in two ways. One of those ways has been discussed at length but it remains true — you blew it for golf. It seems that in the countless warnings and cautions and bad omens leading into these Rio Games, you forgot something basic: Just how BIG the Olympics really are. Leave it to USA Boxing coach Billy Walsh, in his glorious Irish brogue, to explain: "There were, what, 40 million people around the world watching Pacquiao-Mayweather?" he asked. "We have 3.5 BILLION people watching the Olympics. Forget everything else. This is the biggest (bleeping) show on earth."

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Rory, you talked bluntly and with admirable honesty about your disinterest in growing the game. "I don’t feel like I’ve let the game down at all," you said. "I didn’t get into golf to try and grow the game. I got into golf to win championships and win major championships." I respect you being that honest. And I think it’s an astonishingly bad attitude about a sport which earns you tens of millions of dollars.

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But forget what being here might have done for golf. I’m more interested in the second way you blew it — guys, you blew it for yourselves.

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You will never play in a tournament that has the spirit of this one, where all the odds were stacked against it and yet it came together and people had the time of their lives.

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Or how about that moment when Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson got to go hang out at the practice pool with the U.S. swimmers. As they left, the swimmers rang the bell. This is what they do whenever one of them heads out for a race.

Fowler and Watson did not know what was happening, so they turned around. And they saw and heard the U.S. swim team, the greatest swim team in the world, chanting "USA! USA!" for them.

"Words can’t really put it into perspective," Fowler would say.

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In the end, I don’t know if golf belongs in the Olympics. But that’s not the point — golf IS in the Olympics, and you guys had a chance to be here at the start, to be part of this bold experiment for the game you grew up playing. And you decided to stay away. You had a chance, Rory, to win Ireland’s first gold medal at these games and only the second gold medal in the last 20 years. You had a chance, Jason and Adam, to be part of the Australian Olympic team, which is like one giant party train moving through Rio.

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08-15-2016 , 01:17 PM

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lol, the brakes have been slammed on the Australian Olympic Team party train (banned from Copacabana and Ipanema beaches after 6pm, no walkabouts).

totally random aside, carry on

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08-15-2016 , 01:24 PM

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Filed Hockey is stupid. It should be replaced by lacrosse.

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08-15-2016 , 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ntanygd760

I mean if horse dressage or whatever they do where they gallop in circles is an olympic sport then golf should be. Wouldn't mind a tweak in the format though.

What are these "athletes" end game? A job at Medieval Times? Or are the people who compete so rich they don't work? Also, does the horse get a medal too?

So many questions...

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08-15-2016 , 08:02 PM

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Filed Hockey is stupid. It should be replaced by lacrosse.

Can we change it to street hockey or floor hockey? I was a great goalie back in the day.

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08-16-2016 , 08:41 PM

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The women get their chance starting tomorrow. Interesting to me to see that there are three amateurs in the field.

Podium prediction:
Stacy to break her win drought
In Gee
Ariya

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08-17-2016 , 08:29 AM

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Are we using this thread for the women too?

Suzann with a huge Nike-logo on her visor... somebody haven't read the rules

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08-17-2016 , 09:46 AM

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Thrown off slightly by the Wed-Sat schedule, about to see if I can find it.

Going
Sei Young Kim
Carlota Ciganda
Amy Yang

for my podium predictions

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08-19-2016 , 10:59 AM

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Holy smokes Lydia with an ace en route to a 29 and currently T2. Wind is kicking up some now.

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08-19-2016 , 02:32 PM

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Why am I not surprised that Lewis has faded?

Gerina doing one of her patented oh so close acts.

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08-19-2016 , 03:02 PM

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And Inbee is back doing Inbee things. 8 rounds since April, with an average score over 75. That's why she started 50-1 this week.

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08-19-2016 , 07:48 PM

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Thunderstorms possible tomorrow. They are going with a two tee start in hopes to miss the weather or at least get the round in. Leaders now scheduled to tee off at 8:44 local/7:44 EDT.

Rooting for Gerina. (LOL Ariya. The good ol' withdraw with a knee injury after shooting +12 after 13)

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