abu dhabi championship

no golf chat or selections on south african, none on here either.
where has everyone gone?
my picks
r mcilroy
b grace
t hatton
h t li
j smith   

should be a good tournament.
good luck if your playing.

Cheering on wee Rory with you Ashleigh.

WHAT IS IT WITH THESE SPANISH and Abu Dhabi in 2018 ?????..... Appearance money all taken by Dustbin & Rors ?

Rahmbo tees off shortly in the wrong desert (in sunny California)
AND
Sergio in rain delayed Singapore (shares clubhouse lead with three others, while Oosthuizen is still on 16th with same score).

https://twitter.com/jcorrigangolf/status/953907021107073024

My question of appearance money !

Good article

nice finish wee man

Rory and Dustbin missed loads of great chances today

If conditions stay the same someone is going to go very low this weekend

king rors looks back to his very best

just as soon as I say that he messes up- amazing jinxing ability I have

Aye, Rory back to normal.

Brains of a tortoise.

Get a pro caddie and listen to him. Just hammers an iron in to the one place you cannot got.

In the process of lobbing yet another one away with course management of a 12 year old.

he stole a bogey in end up

this feels like fisher's week- don't like pieters body language and his putting is awful.

although tomorrow will be completely different conditions so this is still wide open.

pieters making a mess of the 18th. rory surely gone fav now.

U would think Rory shoots -5 tomorrow’ minimum,Fleetwood also
Great final day ahead

on pieters and mcilroy and worried that fleetwood will post a number

fisher looks unbeatable at the moment. boring player hits every fairway and green but effective.

bit like a morgue on here these days, like talking to yourself.

"different mcilroy this year, injury free, going to be different"

actually seems to be the same mcilroy missing tiddlers

Fisher in a double with Landry

going to need a special back 9 from rory to beat fisher who is doing little wrong.

time fisher was put on the clock.

typical drivel from the commentators: "to fisher, that will feel like a birdie"

after he makes a bogey on the par five.

. It was odds on to be a double bogey, so to Fisher it would feel like he ' saved ' a shot.

yeah but he's let in tommy fleetwood who is looking ominous, as i predicted at the start of the day.

weird hunchback/lion lookalike takes it i reckon.

tommy on a charge.

lewisham ranger 21 Jan 18 08:39 Joined: 08 Aug 02 | Topic/replies: 2,409 | Blogger: lewisham ranger's blog
on pieters and mcilroy and worried that fleetwood will post a number

as I was saying

and again

so predictable.

Some performance from Tommy. Becoming quite a player. 2nd in a WGc and a near miss in the US Open last year to go with Euro POTY and now this - might be time to consider playing on the big boy tour full time.

chris paisley could be the rising star in 2018.

Pretty impressive back nine for Fleetwood got to feel for Fisher third time he has come second in a short period of time each time he has been pipped by someone on a tear

Tommy has joined the PGA tour rhino so will be playing 15 events.

Two good weeks for Paisley thought he was excellent last sunday and another good week in the desert.

Yes very impressed with Paisley backing it up, good result from Levy-he looks fitter than previously and will be motivated by RC qualification

Tommy was awesome

Rory looks improved with the putter, definitely better with the short ones, but you have to convert on the back 9 and he never looked like holing anything when the pressure was on.

Great to have fields like this hopefully it will continue especially with it being a Ryder cup year.

2018 AbuDhabi HSBC Championship

Oosthuizen (in-form) and PIETERS (course-form) at the prices

Anyone shed a light on this DJ drift? very backable if nothing is wrong with him.

found any onfo yet Rhnio, i was all set to have DJ as my main bet this week, but i am slightly concerned with the slight drift, i am thinking it may just be because no main tipster has backed him but nice to be sure.

decided to keep the faith and have backed Dustin outright, depending on how he goes may add others but best case is he starts well and hangs around the lead all week.

good luck all

Tom Lewis @ 50/1
Si Woo Kim @ 66/1

e/w Dbl

brooks, fleetwood, andrew johnston.

tempted to back stenson as well but might be one fav too many

Former OPEN Champion Louis Oosthuizen has a spring in his step right now after finally winning his home SA Open last month. Playing the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship for the first time since 2011, OWGR #26 posted a 7-under-par 35-30=65 to finish the opening morning in T2, three back from Ireland's Shane Lowry (bogey-free career matching best 62 equalling Stenson's 2006 course record). A 2nd place in 2009 (with a closing 64) and 5th in 2010 from his previous 4 visits, Louis won the SA Open after an opening 62, so let's hope he cashes-in on this fast start too.

i have decided toadd Poulter before the second round as i think 25/1 isnt that bad with a view to trade as i fancy him to hang around the lead for a few days and also i dont thinl Lowry is gnna kick on too far fron his first round.

14's Martin Kaymer last 10 years here - 27,4,16,3,31,6,mc,WON,WON,2nd in 2009

LOOK OUT over your shoulder Louis, it's Koepka coming - on a back nine charge

Top 10 Performers in the 'Desert Swing' (since 2015) and current position...

1.Byeong Hun An -1 MC
2.Henrik Stenson -2 MC on the cut line (71 players @ -3 or better)
3.Tyrrell Hatton -2 MC on the cut line
4.Bernd Wiesberger -6 T23
5.Rafa Cabrera Bello -5 T32
6.Tommy Fleetwood -3 T56
7.Branden Grace -5 T32
8.Joost Luiten -7 T13
9.Dustin Johnson -4 T45
10.Martin Kaymer -6 T23

Lowry 9 under so far for 3 of the par 3's ,must be a record.

To play 3 par threes 3 times and score 9 birdies is truly remarkable.
Hope he manages to birdie at least one of them tomorrow to get a 'full house'.

took a while for sugar shane to collapso but it eventually came!

sterne will never have played a better 9 holes.

Lowry what an absolutey pathetic bottling lump of blubber

big yellow streak running from his neck to his back side

quality choking from sterne

another shocking putt from sterne, trying his hardest to lose

Sunday medal stuff here. Tell Poults it gets dark in an hour or two.

no way sterne holing that lol, gonna be tied in 2mins

hard to see how sterne this now, hes bricking himself and cant buy a putt

*wins

this is what has turned me off golf..hardly watch or get involved these days..just a succession of spineless pricks who can't get over the finishing line

this is what has turned me off golf..hardly watch or get involved these days..just a succession of spineless pricks who can't get over the finishing line

yeh agree johnny

over to the snooker to see some more bottling

NFL later should be the b0llocks

is it 2nite? I thought it was 2mrow

confirmed 2mrow johnny ya mug!

lowry lips in for a miracle par

later is anytime in the future
really looking forward to those 2 match ups

extra holes here maybe

Sterne sub 1.2 backers feeling a bit fidgety

1.08..think he'll nick it

dont fancy being on sterne having to pitch and putt for a playoff

don't really fancy either tbf but one of them's gotta win it

don't really fancy either tbf but one of them's gotta win it

think the odds are right, I have lowry fav aswell from here

wouldnt trust sterne to hole a 6 footer for a fiver

lowry massive fav now

good approach tbf about the only green & fairway he's hit all round but the right time to do it

must be a massive price getting this inside 10 feet

for all they're sport mad the Saffers have got some right chokers in their ranks

for all they're sport mad the Saffers have got some right chokers in their ranks

the way this guy putts hes about a 20/1 shot to hole that

Sterne doesn't look that unhappy I suppose the huge cheque helps

a truly absymal final 6 holes from sterne

not all that a deserved winner really ..bricks it bigtime when leading then when he's basically out of it,starts playing w/o the pressure as another dyed in the wool bottler opens the door for him

johnnythebull • January 19, 2019 11:14 AM GMT

Lowry what an absolutey pathetic bottling lump of blubber


CLASSIC

he still is even tho' he 'won'

Only one bottler here - Sterne is 4 ahead with 7 to play and can't close it out when par in would be enough. Shane played the last 7 in 3 under -closing out with the necessary birdie.
More battling than bottling from Shane I would respectfully suggest.

AGREED.


LOWRY GETS THE JOB DONE...phew !

Lowry has held a 54-hole lead just three times, converting the first when memorably winning the Irish Open as an amateur in 2009 but finishing runner-up at the 2016 U.S. Open and T8 in the 2017 Turkish Airlines Open. The OWGR #75 slept-on-the-lead of three shots from Richard Sterne and five from third-placed Ian Poulter.

His remarkable performance on the par 3s made all the difference this week where he was 10-under on Nos. 7, 12 and 15 – all birdies the first three days - while he was level par for the other par 3, 4th hole (one bogey, one birdie today). 6 -under for the four par 5’s also helped and only eight bogeys all week (ok, 4 were today).

A STERN charge on the front nine would have rattled most -  with 6 birdies, and suddenly Shane was behind by three – only a sweet birdie on 18 the sealed the deal for Lowry...just...phew!...was sh*ting myself & himself too !. "GOLF IS HARD".

Jan 19, 2019 -- 11:14AM, johnnythebull wrote:

Lowry what an absolutey pathetic bottling lump of blubber

Mental note to self: whenever johnnytalksbullshine accuses a golfer of being a choker/bottler deploy significant funds to back said golfer = easy way to make money

THEMONEYSHOT    19 Jan 19 14:17 
Jan 19, 2019 -- 11:14AM, johnnythebull wrote:

Lowry what an absolutey pathetic bottling lump of blubber


Mental note to self: whenever johnnytalksbullshine accuses a golfer of being a choker/bottler deploy significant funds to back said golfer = easy way to make money Cool

there's the winning formula,boys ..from another top man(who's never had a bet let alone posted one) who watches golf with his eyes shut and ignores the blindingly obvious

The start of the European Tour's ((((GULF SWING)))))......

Sergio on playing next week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the following week in Dubai...“If I feel like it will be safe to go there, I will be there. I’m gathering information.”
"No American is safe" - as DeChambeau weighs in on Iran conflict.....he is considering skipping next week's Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship due to tensions between the US and Iran.....rumoured to be getting paid a £1.1M appearance fee to play.....The European Tour has said it expects next week's tournaments in Abu Dhabi - and subsequent tournaments in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman - to go ahead as scheduled but added that it is monitoring events in the region closely.

Some of the top ranked players set to show up.....

Brooks Koepka
Patrick Cantlay
Tommy Fleetwood
Bryson Dechambeau
Shane Lowry
Louis Oosthuizen
Bernd Wiesberger
Matthew Fitzpatrick
Danny Willett
Matt Wallace
Sergio Garcia
Rafa Cabrera Bello
Ian Poulter
Victor Perez
Erik Van Rooyen
Eddie Pepperell
Tom Lewis
Shaun Norris
Lee Westwood
Robert MacIntyre
Mike Lorenzo-Vera
Hao Tong Li

BOMBS AWAY ...and watch out for 'alternates'

Spoils 6pls 14's SERGIO

Brooks Koepka 4....beware the injured golfer
Sergio Garcia 14
Thomas Pieters 16
Matt Fitzpatrick 16
Shaun Norris 18
Branden Grace 20
Rafael Cabrera Bello 20
Renato Paratore 20

Kurt Kitayama 25
Oosthuizen 25
Scrivener 30

40's Patrick Cantlay Shane Lowry Mike Lorenzo-Vera Haotong Li Martin Kaymer Bernd Wiesberger
50's bar

Italy's Renato Paratore 5 goes around here - 54th (in 2019),mc,mc,mc,57th in 2015.

ANOTHR AUSSIE this week ???? Jason Scrivener - 16th last year, 48th & 39th previous 2 years.

"When you do have a morning tee-time you've got to take advantage of it. I did that today." Brookes.
Pieters / Fitzpatrick 16's out early tomorrow

Lee John is actually downing some good putts! Usually can't putt for toffee, has their been some change in coach, equipment etc?

only 3 holes played but westwood and fitzpatrick have a gap on the rest.

I could hit Sergio, pathetic.

Ryder Cup year too

MATTY for President 2020 - “make Engerland great again”

"Go on Westy - One for the ages...World class play and attitude.....
Winning in the nineties, Winning in the noughties, Winning in the 20tens, Winning in the twenties, Just a legend at work" - Thomas Bjorn.

Was that his first event with a new caddie.....maybe should have ditched the wife last year (and no one tipped him either )

BEEN IN MY stable of last 2 seasons but there must be 2 timeform squiggles on Thomas detry at the weekend, 78 today when in contention is horrendous with 63,s 66,s everywhere