Crowne Plaza Invitational

forecast a bit damp

Bout time the ponce fired up and remembered he is a star, this missing cut nonsense needs to stop. Am thinking we see a different ponce this week.

is he using his pole vault stick ?

Not much interest in this with Wentworth on it seems. May not be a popular decision by Casey skipping the big one back home but I reckon he is a good shout here. Zach and the ponce to round it off, and looking to trade a few others.

gone for jason bohn 125/ ew and john huh 240 john peterson 75/1 jim herman 190 kevin streelman 80

added small on first round leaders on above

gone for 2 other aussies meself in Sendon & oggy along with Boo to round off my trio of outsiders

Martin Laird 100
Bo V PElt 125

Starting late due to weather, min 1 hour delay at the moment.  Going by the forecast could be a slog all weekend.

I wonder if this could be a washout? Severe t'storms likely for the w/e and 80% chance of them on Monday too.

Casey, Poulter and Reed regretting their decision maybe

Bit early to talk of a washout I think, it's a smaller field and there's light til almost half 8.  Forecasters tend to be quite cautious and deliberately vague when it comes to these storms (so people can't say they weren't warned), so the fact there's a possibility of storms each day is quite standard at this time of year, storms all day every day would still be very unlucky.

Brian Davis knocks his tee shot to 17 feet on 13 and then bogeys it...

f-ck off - I specifically backed afternoon players because of the better conditions and I lose out because these spoilt ponces don't want to get their hair wet.




carry on

I hear what you're saying TB, but my in laws live in central Tx. The t'storm predictions have been spot on for May. Hopefully Fort Worth will miss some of it.

The Crowne Plaza Invitational from Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.

The third event of Adam Scott’s "Texas Slam" - after the Valero Texas Open from TPC San Antonio, Shell Houston Open (SHO) from Humble outside Houston and now the 68th time Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth plays host to the Crowne Plaza Invitational - The first part of another TEXAS TWO STEP, with the AT&T Byron Nelson from TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving to follow next week.

THIS week we again honour Ben Hogan at Colonial C.C. - designed by Perry Maxwell and John Bredemus - it's also known as “Hogan’s Alley” after the legendary 5 times champion with narrow fairways and dramatic dog-legs shaping this course from the tee, it goes down as a classic shot-maker's layout without question.
Not to be confused with the 6th hole in Carn-nasty or Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades  - The PGA Players voted this as one of their top 5 courses to play on TOUR.

Flooding has been a big concern for Dallas this week, and the trend will continue as we head into Memorial Day weekend holiday in the USA.
Normally a warm week for Dallas area with several days making a run at 90 degrees F. The Texas winds usually stand up as the first line of defence on this par 70 but only moderate breezes are expected throughout the week. The very wet conditions with preferred lies have completely changed the outlook to pick a winner.

Another Par 70 course with only two Par 5s - the 1st Hole and 11th hole. The course opens with a friendly Par 5 which is usually the easiest hole on the course.
However that’s where the birdie chances also ends - then the fun starts - from Hole 3 onwards, with a 247 yard Par 3 fourth hole and the extremely tough 481 yard 5th hole, likely to take back any shots that were gained earlier.
It is a tight tree lined track with small greens, numerous doglegs, very well placed fairway bunkers and water in play on six holes.
This is a real test of ball striking and driving accuracy is even more important this week. Course management in finding those small greens will also be crucial (within the Top 30 in GIR will be required) as will scrambling stats when the greens are missed. Strokes Gained Putting another important stat as those putts must drop.

Remember US OPEN places are still up for grabs...for the top 60 in the Official World Golf Rankings.

Spieth at -6 is making some nice odds about others. Sneds -3 and 55, I'll have some of that

Spieth meltdown

Yeah, what happened? I saw him at -8, went out for a bit and came back to see him at -3.

Zach would be leading this putting even half decent

Na going along nicely. Shame he'll fk it on the w/e

BlueNile won't be posting for about another 18 months so what did Spieth do exactly?

Na and Poulter in the final group has the makings of some epic front running calamity

Radio guys sound very pessimistic about the weather for Sat afternoon, Sunday and Monday.  Talk of flood alerts in the area.

I bet Na is really hoping 54

Yup.  Normally if the first two rounds are done in time you'd be very confident they'd get 72 done somehow, even if it involved Monday.  But the radio guys seem to think the end of the world is coming and are talking up the possibility of 54.

The Dallas area has had over the 2014 amount of rain before the end of May!

Way the radio guys are talking they're going to get the same again between now and Monday night!

fek shoulda read this first , have took vj just now @ 120 upto 170 was thinking massive value but with rain....dunno

lol Poulter 4 putt from 16 ft

Hoffmeister talking about Tuesday finish if necessary as next tourny is only a few miles away. Maybe could get it in early tomorrow anyway.

I suspected the pga.com website was run extremely inefficiently, e.g taking ages to update scores on the live leaderboard. Well now I know why. This is the message above the leaderboard right now

" DELAY: Due to incelement weather, tee times will begin at 9 a.m. ET.

whats wrong with that??

That's not how you spell "inclement"

For this tournament I have done what I generally do these days, which is to throw a few quid at 4 or 5 each way pokes before the start of the tournament. Generally come Sunday I'll have one person more or less still in contention and if I'm lucky I might pick up a bit of place money although more often than not my last man standing will do enough to keep me interested before dropping out of contention late on, or will miss the each way place money by one place and/or shot.

Today though I have 3 (three) men in contention in Harman, Kirk and Snedeker. All are 1/4 1,2,3,4,5. Harman and Snedeker would be my best results, Kirk less so but still would be nice.

Anyhow, let me tell you how this evening will pan out. One of my runners (let's say Harman) will drop out of contention immediately with a double on the first hole and never recover. The second runner (Snedeker?) will stand stock still, resolutely refusing to score anything except pars whilst all the men around him slowly work their way up the leaderboard as the evening progresses. The third man (that leaves Kirk) will come out like a house on fire and birdie 3 of the first 5 holes. He will get my hopes right up before things will start to unravel on the back 9. A lost ball & a number of missed putts will lead to frustration for both him and me. On 18 he will need a birdie to secure a top 5 finish and salvage something from this promising but ultimately disappointing situation, but another missed putt will lead to him finishing in a tie for 6th.

lol marychain - sounds familiar

Looks like a proper birdie-fest.  Hope the weather can hold off now.

Would be unofficial, but could see a few guys take a run at sub-60 today.

Speith on the charge

Absolutely shocking that Na and Poulter go wet from there with lift clean and place

15 players within 2 of the lead, interesting back 9 coming up

Keep it going please Sneds

FFS. Hopefully the lift, clean and place comes good there.

Do they go on a course b4 access to play the american tour?? "how to be a complete pu$$y! they all go mental on a sunday aftynoon

Any links to this lads

there were 4 players at 8 under after rnd 1 a couple at 7 more at 6 under, 11 under to be leading now is kinda poor imo

Poor old Poulter. Really does reserve his very worst for when in contention in the US.

Just wouldn't be a Sunday without some Help me Kostis rubbish

http://cricfree.tv/watch/live/crowne-plaza-invitational-at-colonial-live-streaming

for biffo

about ten seconds behind my virgin media pictures

Yeah, horrible isn't it rhino

Hard to believe after all the doom-mongering from all the comms that this tourney is going to finish at the exact planned time in bright sunshine.

And with the right winners, Spieth or Sned!

How on earth is Poulter still in this?

Because they're all playing ordinary. -11 should not be leading.

Yeah true TB. Fortunate they didn't get the rain Central Texas had. My father in laws town had mass flooding

Come on Sned, come on Kirk

Yeah, saw some footage from elsewhere in Texas and it looked really bad, hope everyone there is ok.  Tournament's got very lucky, amazes me how many times they manage to get these things in when the forecast's looked disastrous.

May have spoken too soon......

Speith

Just goes to show what an incredible job the people behind the scenes do.

Thanks Stone

No 19 footer has ever been more likely to be made.

Please mess it up Kirk.

speith clearly a talented player but he is more reliant on brilliant putting thn anyone in the world top 20, I have a feeling if his putter comes down to a more normal level he will look pretty average.

kirk   hould make par from there tho

brilliant putting is what makes these pro's great , Jordan has all round brilliant game

That's a good point sickof, worrying if / when the young nerves start to give way to a bit more doubt.  Quite a lot of pundits have been saying they think he'll be a very good player but not a totally dominant one and I think that (and his lack of length) would be a big part of the reason.

Cmon Kirk give us a playoff.

Sned Go On!!

Held his nerve

Damn!

Not gonna lie, I would love it if........

Suitably pathetic attempt at it.

Sadly Na will go back to more accurate odds when contending now keystone cop final group really

hi , anyone know how low sned traded last night please ?

He defo hit 2.4 on here clouded , maybe went lower.  2.4 is the lowest I can remember

thks larsson ...