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in fairness to tiger he used to be dominant... not his fault he's older now.

heard there's some 16 year old kid in the US who's supposed to be quite good.

20yo Korean Sungjae IM

Sep 16, 2018 -- 2:54PM, frames wrote:

Wow 10/1 the field in a 30 runner event ( biggest priced fav ever in this event ?).Sums up the state of golf at the moment ,all much of a muchness.Crying out for the next superstar to appear , it sure ain't none of this lot.Will there ever be another dominant player ?

Don’t think any of the current breed are hungry enough Frames, Rory especially seems to have chucked it in since getting married.

Crying out for the next superstar to appear , it sure ain't none of this lot.Will there ever be another dominant player ?

Depends on your definitions of dominant and superstar. DJ just spent the best part of 18 months at number 1, won 10 tourneys in 2 years. That's pretty good. Only 3 players have even won double digit majors, if that's your criteria you might wait a while. If Tom Watson, Trevino etc. is your criteria then take your pick, there are a few who could reach those heights.

Expecting another Tiger so soon is probably wishful thinking. We thought we had it in Rory, could still turn out that way.

Defo biggest priced fave I can recall in this event. By a distance.

6 FIRST TIMERS AT EAST LAKE.....Will any do a 'Schauffele' and win on debut ?

Bryson Dechambeau
Francesco Molinari
Tommy Fleetwood
Cameron Smith
Aaron Wise
Patton Kizzire

SECOND TIMERS.....(took Billy Horschel only two go to win - it took Rory four)

Tony Finau 7th
Jon Rahm 7th
Xander Schauffele 1st
Patrick Cantlay 20th
Kyle Stanley 20th

*goes

THIRD TIME LUCKY ??? for.....

Justin Thomas
Brooks Koepka
Billy Horschel (again)
Marc Leishman

LETS STUFF THOSE YANKEES (before the Ryder Cup) with...

Casey 40/1
Rory
Rose

Add ew
Mol
Fleetwood

Casey's four attempts read 5,4,5 & 4th in 2010.

Team of 5 might seem excessive in a 30 runner race, but there we go.

My main bet is Koepka. 16.0 seems huge in such a small field and he's talked this up a few times. Also really like Simpson at 30/1. Bang in form and gone well here several times. Last three are Molinari, Matsuyama and Horschel.

I'll be on Brooks as well, for a guy who only turns up for big stakes 11.5 million might be reason enough to bring the A game.

Only concern with Brooks is his putting - woeful last 3 events...

rolling the dice with tiger, rickie this week.

Yeah that was my rationale too rhino. Seems to struggle for motivation in a normal week to my eyes, but sure he will be bang up for this.

TEE TIMES.....
They go in reverse order of FedEx standings (in 2 balls) starting about 12am local time.
So Tiger's out about 1 pm.

Bryson DeChambeau Justin Rose
Tony Finau Dustin Johnson
Justin Thomas Keegan Bradley
Brooks Koepka Bubba Watson
Billy Horschel Cameron Smith
------------------------
Webb Simpson Jason Day
Francesco Molinari Phil Mickelson
Patrick Reed Patrick Cantlay
Rory McIlroy Xander Schauffele
Tommy Fleetwood Tiger Woods
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Aaron Wise Kevin Na
Rickie Fowler Jon Rahm
Kyle Stanley Paul Casey
Hideki Matsuyama Gary Woodland
Marc Leishman Patton Kizzire

13 of the T20 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee qualified for the TOUR Championship.
5 of the T20 in Strokes Gained: Putting have made it to East Lake.

Tour Champs

Selections :-

J Thomas @15
F Molinari @30
B Horschel @30

GL sirs..........

ten players out on the course and not a single one under par

Gone large on fatius Patius. GL chaps

Rory's in the mood.

Stanley misses a 3fter.
Our relationship is now officially over.

We're back on. Shottracker playing up

rory going well and rose now world number one bodes well for europe in the ryder cup.

Sky well behind the scoreboard

Phil must be a million to play foursomes next week

fowler

lewisham ranger 17 Sep 18 18:56 Joined: 08 Aug 02 | Topic/replies: 3,827 | Blogger: lewisham ranger's blog
rolling the dice with tiger, rickie this week.

Cool

looking good so far, joint leaders -5

Number 1 rule in golf - never mind who posts first or alphabetically if Tiger is on the leading score his name goes FIRST !!!

rahmbo making an early move.

is tiger top five in the world material? what do people think? or does it matter?

could he even get back to world number one?

decham & mickleson go to ryder cup missing the cut

I bet Jim would like to ring the airline and see if he can change the name on Mickelson's ticket !

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xmoneyx 21 Sep 18 20:58 Joined: 12 Jul 11 | Topic/replies: 52,356 | Blogger: xmoneyx's blog
decham & mickleson go to ryder cup missing the cut[/i

no cut in this event.

what an overrated pathetic choker Rose is..bricking it from the get-go

TW starting to look the badass of yore and,of course u know who i've been laying since y'day!

Tiger being a bad boy today

Procession ! Looks like lapping the field !

Betfair preparing the without Tiger market

Most enjoyable couple of hours of golf overseen in years.
Wonderful to see the GOAT back.

Give them hell Eldrick. Come on now....

Get in the queue now ! Absolute schooling !

Tiger eyeing the second 59 of the week

Truly magnificent to see this from him...
Never thought could see him flow like this again.
Absolutely buzzing,wonderful....

tiger odds now collapsing for the masters. into single fav and challenging spieth strongly for outright favourite.

single figures should have said.

As people have said above, "No 0ne can get near him when he's at this level.

tiger disappointing final nine. looked tired huge day for him tomorrow, easy to forget he hasn't won in five years and he will be pressed strongly by rory and rose.

hope he gets over the line as I could do with a winner

a crippled old boy putting these bigged up bottlers in the shade

for parts of that round he couldn't miss but just came back a little

wee mac just can't putt nor can rose so he has to shoot a poor round not to win

and on the basis of the 1st 3 days just can't see it but u never know

if he avoids the big numbers he'll be ok. for example on that 15th two days running he could have gone in the water if he hadn't had the luck.

think rory much bigger threat than rose. rose will be happy just to wrap up the fedex but rory will spin the dice

but he just doesn't hole the putts he needs to ..l r..maybe Rose ahead of the final group could post a score but he needs to come back to those 2 somewhat and they have to hole everything
everyone else already out of it really

rahm probably out of it although he has a very low one in him. Has hit some very low scores in practice rounds apparently and I know that's only practice but with easy greens anything is possible. obviously a top player and a future number one.

tiger should win, if the fatigue/nerves factor don't play too big a part. however getting to 80 wins is massive and we've seen that he's not the consummate closer of the past. anyway the luck I've had the last few months can easily see him screwing it up.

Massive Tiger Fan,but think his price is shocking.
Don't fancy Rose either though

i,ve got myself way too heavily involved laying him just thought smn would beat him but that front 9 was lights out and all but put mine out

i can actually cash out now for a 50 % loss which i'm sorely tempted to do cos i just don't trust macilroy to putt well enough

ur position is better than mine l r..hard to know how to play it

if i cash out one of the other 2 could nick it..if i hang fire and he gets out of the traps again i'm toast

Don't help you much,but I don't fancy Rory either
All I need to do next is say who I wanna Back I still don't know.
But Tiger Lay is my Starting point(Ramper ? I don't think so)

stewardsenquirey 22 Sep 18 23:54 Joined: 20 Jun 03 | Topic/replies: 7,661 | Blogger: stewardsenquirey's blog
Massive Tiger Fan,but think his price is shocking.

not sure his price is shocking when you consider his historic win percentage from this situation is 42/44 (95 percent.)

having said that this is a different tiger these days. rory will be glad to get in the final group as he can try and drag a potentially nervy tiger into a matchplay situation. he has a score to settle having failed in two big match-ups earlier this year, against haotong li and also up against patrick reed in the masters.

that's why I can only see rory or tiger winning, think it will be tough for rose not in the final group and having to think about the fedex cup as well, huge amount of money at stake even for these mega rich people.

getting to 80 will be huge for tiger, the next win will surely be the toughest for him when he's not won for five years. amazing to think of him getting to 80 really, when top players like spieth, fowler, haven't won on the pga tour this year, and fleetwood has never won on it. it's like 4 wins a year for twenty years, incredible.

cashed out guys

laid this aussie in portugal tho' he looked impressive y'day..dude can putt

Tiger done brilliant so far but huge pressure on him tomorrow 1.67 very skinny in my view

I doubt getting to 80 would enter Tiger's head once during the round, getting past Snead's inaccurate record  may mean something, but beating Jacks is the main one of course.

Anyway if Tiger never did get past Snead's he will still eventually get credited with the record because of all the events that counted for Snead and not for Tiger, Snead's record contains 4 events of than 36 holes or less, 5 with 16 or less players, and 5 with a partner, none of which count nowadays.

I wonder if Palmer learnt his lesson from The Open or if he is going to let it run and have 30 grand or nothing !

if it was true that tiger would get the record why wouldn't he have got it already then, it's not like the facts aren't clear in this case. The snead record will stand until he passes it.

as for laying off, I'm not really sure it's a case of "learn your lesson", as you seem to be suggesting that it's a one-way street, laying off obviously harms the profits in the long run.

Well Snead's record has been changed at least 3 times already, once when he asked why his British Open was not included in his total, The PGA tour are not to hot on record keeping, Nicklaus, Palmer and many more have had their totals changed in the past. Snead actually has some that should be but not been credited under the correct qualifying criteria, but not as many as those that will imo get taken away.

and 5 with a partner, none of which count nowadays.

thought the new orleans classic was a team event?

I have never seen that tournament before? guess because it is on the week of the World Snooker, sorry that apparently does count as a PGA tour victory to each player.

anyone back tiger from the start

Yes,but being doing so all season...

Thought for a little while last night he was going to coast home but very rare these days,too many good players.
Rose n Rory will chase him the whole way.
In Tigers favour both are flaky putters under the gun.
Would love him to win..love it.

Rory actually a bigger winner for me, Rose cost me a bomb 2 weeks ago with Keegan to beat FFS. Hope he doesn't down Tiger after his capitulation there which was pathetic..Will cost me a bomb again if does.Hope he settles for the FedEx cash.

xmoneyx 23 Sep 18 17:20 Joined: 12 Jul 11 | Topic/replies: 52,375 | Blogger: xmoneyx's blog
anyone back tiger from the start


lewisham ranger 17 Sep 18 18:56 Joined: 08 Aug 02 | Topic/replies: 3,848 | Blogger: lewisham ranger's blog
rolling the dice with tiger, rickie this week.

Cool

away in front of the final group and the attendant bedlam..the boy Justin on the bridle

Rory backers learning their fate early

ben coley sporting life but tiger up pre tourney

Tiger going forwards everyone else moving backwards. Just like old times.

Take Tiger out and there's a decent tournament going on

R Post editor - Twitter

Steve Palmer needs Tiger for 30 grand. And, no, he has no intention of laying off

Rory going right, left, right, right. Anywhere but middle. Erratic as always

mcmince a waste these days

All over the show for 3-4 years now

Would have been a lifelong dream for him to go head to head with Tiger in the last group on a Sunday at a big event. Shame he didn't bring it, a proper duel would have been incredible TV but instead I'm channel surfing

Rose in big trouble of blowing the 10 million. Tiger will be in pole position (I think, fairly sure) if he doesn't get this up and down

DJ could pinch it.

Palmer also put Tiger up at 100/1 to win the Fedex

what's this about rose 10 million

10 million goes to the FedEx Cup winner - Rose collapse (out of top 5) lets in Tiger

losing 10 mill just the thing Rose needs going into the Ryder Cup

I'd be jelly putting for 10mill

Billy not out of this...............

999/1 Horschel not dead yet.

No pressure on Rosie in the next 5 minutes. Only the 10 million and world number one on the line

999/1 Horschel not dead yet.

No pressure on Rosie in the next 5 minutes. Only the 10 million and world number one on the line

A million for the caddy not to be sneezed at !

Well done Justin. First guy ever to win it without a playoff win, classic Rose.

80 wins. 2019 is going to be a blast.

Unbelievable scenes !!

well done tiger, well done justin

great ending to season

when does next one start , please!

Brilliant isn't it. Nothing better in a sports than a legend making a comeback. Federer these last couple of years when it all seemed over, now Tiger. Magnificent.

Absolutely incredible scenes.
Bloody brilliant.
Well played Tiger Eldrick Woods.

Just a pity Rose sneaked home in FedEx.

Consistently good.
Killer instinct of a midge.

Like you Jedi, Rose cost me an absolute fortune when he blew the BMW the other week. Tiger got some of it back for me today, absolute legend both as a sportsman and also from a punting point of view.

T. Woods
4/1
Winner
Stake: £1000.00
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Win £5000.00

the money **** an ever bigger aftertimer than jedi sophie, who would have guessed. seemed like such a nice bloke.

unlike them I put up tiger before the start:


lewisham ranger 17 Sep 18 18:56 Joined: 08 Aug 02 | Topic/replies: 3,849 | Blogger: lewisham ranger's blog
rolling the dice with tiger, rickie this week.

Cool

Lol.

LR returns.

to be fair to jedi, he did call brooks as a top player. unlike the money ****, who couldn't tip his way out of a wet paper bag