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Good to see a brit win, anyway.

Always good to stuff it up the yanks.

1.05 after the drive on 18

He's Declan Rice, bit of both

1.2 million matched at 1.1 and below.

It doesn't matter what anyone else does. He can lose it on his own

Yikes!

Rory played for Ireland at the Olympics

Hit 1.05 for 15k
1.06 200k

I'm evens whoever wins but I'd like Rose to win now.

Priced like it's 2014. He hasn't won a major in 11 years and this is a massive mental hurdle. Hope he does it. Will be a default win if Rose does but fair play to him

Ireland have an Irish golf union for the island of Ireland.

So Rory supported them by playing under their flag in olympics
but he's a brit.

It's same for rugby union, they have one team
for whole island...

Default win ffs, Rose was clear leader this week until he let it slip himself, now he's fought back, no default win

rose birdied 18, rory got a bogey. that must count for something

He had always played for Ireland be it the amateurs and juniors so he just continued with them

Rose finished expecting not to win. That's all I meant. It's the best over 72 holes. + now and fair play to him if he wins but if he does it will be remembered more for the meltdown than what Rose did. Who was saying Rose would win when he finished?

default is not the right word though is it, that makes it sound like the guy in front pulled out injured before he could complete his round, after 72 holes whoever wins deserves it as they were the best player

Rory missed Olympics that rose won as he didn't want to decide.

I said when Rose finished that holes in hand wasn't an advantage to McIlroy and I was right. He had to par 2 holes and his partner wasn't pressuring him

Wow what play by both

This is unreal

Reminds me of Harrington v Garcia play off

**** me

Blokes like Rice and McIlroy feel loyalty to both and don't want to be made to decide, keep both happy if they can. Journos want them to pick a side.

Putting comp now

Apr 14, 2025 -- 12:00AM, ----you-have-to-laugh--- wrote:

Good to see a brit win, anyway.Always good to stuff it up the yanks.

Irish.

SurelY ShirleY !

Nobody in yankland sees him as British, he half does

moment of truth. Again.

3 footer

Take 2

4 feet too far try a yard

Never in Doubt 

Yes!

Well done Rory...

The first IRISH grand slam winner

What great Night of Sport

Did it the hard way...

Lost money but glad it wasn't a procession

Can't lose money on that, ffs

2 brilliant rounds and 2 fairly **** ones

Get the scorecard in Rory

WD Rory, and well played Rose. always dignified.

will be interesting to see how Rory does from here.
Less pressure in future Majors now that he has completed the Career Slam.

Yes could have got out for tiny profit multiple times but wanted him to go out to 6+

Yes, difficult to lose money on that.

BRITAIN'S RORY MCILROY

t'would bring a tear to a glass eye.

t'would bring a tear to a glass eye.

1.75 for spoty

Was 2.3 when he missed 4 footer.

another $4m. $13m this year. Worth about $400m now

Yanks up for him more than their own

Can only imagine how much mental strength that took to get himself over the line, feel for Rose.

defo. would have been hard not to think of the missed putt from similar distance just a few minutes before

Apr 14, 2025 -- 12:20AM, lurka wrote:

Yes could have got out for tiny profit multiple times but wanted him to go out to 6+

sometimes you make the right bets and lose. I didn't think it made sense to green out at that odds going into the playoffs as I thought the nerves would continue to get to him and Rose had just played a -6 round.

Bryson playing with him was the best chance but he was awful. Rory was priced like it's 2014 so him to go out to 6 would be like any other golfer going out to 10+, prob more.

One bad shot in the play-oof and I'd have been out for a lot less than 6

bryson's got away with what was a shocker of a round. drowned out by all the drama of rory finally getting over the line

worst round on the leaderboard by a mile

Rory to set up his own Tour

The rollercoaster Tour

He stayed loyal to PGA tour, and spoke out against liv,
but has been more conciliatory of late, and I think the
yanks love him for that.

I laid him last night at 1.88 and he dropped 2 shots after that. Was expecting some of the major winners to close the gap if that happened an a few more in close contention but they were all pretty shíte as well.

Rory was a position different to others, he's already make incredible amounts of money, didn't need Saudi cash, can't blame the others especially those older, to jump ship.

I laid Rory several times when I thought him underpriced, but bought back each time
sometimes slightly shorter than I wanted, but that's golf and he's often unddrpriced

There was f all pressure on him the whole round apart from the 1st and right at the end (understandable but not forced by opponents). But he still managed to almost f it up. His 2 middle rounds won it but any sort of 'breathing down his neck' pressure from Bryson and he'd have folded imo

agree lurka. couldnt believe he won the playoff to be honest

There was pressure when he stuck it in rays creek on 13.

He was able to recover his composure. Experience.


Seems, to me, aiming at flag is good for him, but plopping
it onto green might cause errors...

He was visibly nervous the whole round despite the lead, audio picking up him his heavy deep breathing when teeing off for each hole, have to give credit where it's due.

Delighted for the bloke and deserves to be up there with the very best. WTF happened in the last 11 years tho? Should have won all the others multiple times in that period.

credit for the win definitely. sums him up really that he played the play off hole like he should have played the 18th the first time

There are lots of other good golfers around.

Rory isn't the best, but can be any given week.

Being 11 years and the Grand Slam it was prob like winning a major for the first time ever, prob harder

Well played Rory...yer lucky Scottie is having a Rest

He's always priced low because he can hit eagles on certain holes that very few others can't because of his driving

scheffler was poor as well. for him i mean

whatever about him being Irish or British. The Irish will be celebrating him like he's Irish but the UK won't be celebrating him as much.

Not a golf fan but saw the end not fully knowing the build up to the end and quite frankly not bovvered but it was great sport and great to. Live sport is the best reality tv there is. Whether it is a little Irishman trying to fulfill his dream or 4 Scottish women on ice pushing a stone with brooms it does not really matter unless it matters to them.

What an enthralling final round. Pleased for Rory that he got over the line - losing from the lead he held would have been a bitter pill to swallow. Massive respect to Justin Rose too. A class act.

It should be noted that golf grand slam changed over the years
it was the open, us open, amateur championship and usa amateur
championship. Known as the impregnable quadrilateral it was cracked
by Bobby Jones in 1930.

The US PGA became a major, but is not open to amateurs, and was match play
in which the winner qualified for next year's final, and masters
was created in 1930s so the "majors" were reset.

Over the years the course set ups were idiosyncratic to the major
Rather like tennis being played on different surfaces the
majors suited different types of golfers with cream of course
being able to rise.

Today if you like like links golf and can hit it miles you
can contend at all 4 majors, still tough to win em all.

Back in the day without air travel it was sometimes impossible
to compete in all four majors in same year.

A few golfers won 3 majors and were unable to play in masters
during their prime as it didn't exist for them... Walter hagen had 11
major wins.

Phil Mickelson has won 3, but not a us open but 6 2nd places, ouch

Speith needs a usa PGA,

Trevino never won a masters, Watson and Palmer never won PGA...

Hey ho

Still buzzing for Rory

Hope dragon got a few quid out of Rose in play,was a great call

I think he blew it by cashing in too early and laying Rory. As you say it was a great call!

When you play a sport aggressively and get results you are always scared if you back off you'll lose what gets you results.

Rory is in the league of sporting greats. Uncompromising.

It's between Lewis Hamilton and Rory as to who's the greatest ever UK sportsman. Kind Regards.

Andy murray
Steve Redgrave
Bobby Moore
Daley Thompson
Lennox Lewis

Might have a shout

Lewis Hamilton? Is that a joke? He sits in a car!

He sits in the fastest car he wins, he sits in the not fastest car and he doesn't win....and generally speaking, whoever is sat in the lead car after the first bend, wins.

exactly, all about the car.

when it comes to 'greatest' i like it to be something the entire population would've have tried.

most will have run at some point, kicked a football, swung some kind of bat, that's my criteria. I liked Daley Thompson but he wasn't actually anywhere near the best in any of his 10 events.

Yeah, I'm not having Lewis Hamilton. Shows how bad the Brits are at sport when their greatest of all time is a tossup between a car driver and an Irishman.

I'd rule out anyone who is part of a team sport but there are so many ways of looking at it you'll get lots of answers on this that all are valid.

Yeah, I'm not having Lewis Hamilton. Shows how bad the Brits are at sport when their greatest of all time is a tossup between a car driver and an Irishman.

Funny how most of  the F1 teams are based in England, the (British) Open is a Major, Wimbledon is a grand slam and  the Premier League is easily the best football league in the world.

The plebs on the forum don't understand what they're talking about, the best drivers always end up in the best cars, they're not plucked out of thin air. Lewis for years beat his team mates 90% of the time in exactly the same car, at times when he didn't it was when the car had a few mechanical issues, think in the year he was teammate with Button or another.

Hamilton has always got the best out of whichever car he's in, he's overtaking ability, cornering and driving in different conditions be it wet or dry, is a real skill and not all drivers are as good at it as he is, that's why the big boys want him to drive for them and why he's paid the big bucks. Not many over the decades has been as good as him at making split second calculating decisions, it's the nuances of F1 that you plebs don't understand so you simply put it down to a fast car. He gets any car to be greater than the sum of its part, and all his teammate left in his wake in exactly the same car, know that.

7 World titles, and should have been 8 if that absolute mug racing director didn't rob him of a title allowing Verstappen a clean run to victory.

He is undoubtedly one the Greatest ever British sportsman, and he's done it the hard way, most F1 drivers come from privilege, like Rosberg who went to school via the Monaco race track, but Lewis grew up in a dump like Stevenage in a Working class family in a council house, from that to 7 times World Champions is unbelievable.

Rory has completed Golf, won all 4 majors, first European to do so, he's in that conversation now.

I have a natural bias towards Tennis players but Murray is not really in it as you'd be comparing someone who didn't win everything to others that did, though Murray had to play in the hardest era of all time competing against the 3 best players in history, made 11 slam finals, 2 golds, 3 slams and around 14 masters, was also world number 1 for about 6 months before his hip injury ruined him. But can't have a player with 3 slams as the greatest ever British sportsman, looks daft when stacked up against players from Switzerland and Serbia who have over 20, needs more gravitas that that, as great a player as he was.

Daly Thompson was before my time, but the decathlon really means you are never the best at any given discipline, you're a jack of all trades and a master of none.

Steve Redgrave competes in a sport that for me, much like Cycling and long distance running, needs to be seperated from skilled sports like Golf and Tennis, Rowing is just pretty much all physical.

Lennox was great and literally beat every single opponent he ever faced, albeit some in rematches, but you have to look at who he beat in their prime and how great they were, and there werent really any, Tyson was 15 years past his best and Klitcscho looked the better fighter and was only stopped because he couldn't see out of one eye, Lewis refused the rematch.

Each to their own, but for me Rory and Lewis are the two stand outs.

Kind Regards.

Rory has 5 slams, faldo 6

yeah know he's won 5, but I meant he's won a 4 different majors, as in completed Golf, Faldo won 2 of the 4  and runner up in the other 2, same as Murray in Tennis who reached all 4 slam finals at least once.

For sure Rory and Lewis are sat at top table, but they are not dining alone.

as I said previously it must come from a sport that everyone can have tried, what % of people have driven a fast car, f all, that's how many.

as for calling people plebs, stick to your pin sticking losing acca mes.

touched a nerve sweety ?

Hamilton, ffs!

won't be long 'til Elon Musk wins it in one of his.