Well someone's gotta start a Go Rory thread

Very nervous looking putt for birdie there

come on rory!!! get it together ffs.

Pressure is showing [:(],needs to just steady the ship for a couple of holes.

just had a little dabble ... c'mon RORY ....

cabrera value now at 13s

2 great putts there,Rory back on track.

wd youngman..

great drive on the 8th

cabrera 9/2 now

he should have joined rory there...

rorys caddie needs to come into play.. no need to take driver there ....

in the **** now

sad thing is he will be remembered for today for a long time

Nightmare.

he's blown it. hopefully he learns from it

he's blown it. hopefully he learns from it

dddddew Joined: 11 Aug 06
Replies: 5211 10 Apr 11 18:40 
lay lay lay he will bottle it mark my word

cabrera will win

No need to quote yourself dddddew,we know your opinion.

just goes to show that watching ulster playing rugby is really bad for you!!!

fooking caddie is the one to blame ...just might be the spur he need ...its not over yet...

Unbelievable at 10

it was heartbreaking watching him at 10

Strange thing is the pressure is gone now,it would be incredible if he can  get going again.

If he makes that, he is right back in it

agree lets go rory..

Would make it 10 times sweeter to come back from a triple.

Puttin gone to pot today!

BJG,it wasn't great all week but today it's unbelievably bad.That last one never had a chance

He badly needs to get a caddy who can help him read a putt.

His putting has been nothing short of appalling all week.

He missed the one come backin again????


Deary me

Had a birdie putt from 12 ft and makes bogey [:x]

Sad to watch now

terrible to watch, poor lad

its a five.ffs..

8.5 million matched on him

Into the stream - oh lord

Gonna take him a long time to get over this

82 @ 999/1 on ogilve

Excruciating viewing ...golf is the type of game that can destroy you .

Excruciating viewing ...golf is the type of game that can destroy you .

the cameras should leave him alone now ffs

off to bed ..cant watch anymore of this from the lad ..this is sad beyond belief ...just hope he can pull himself together for last couple of holes...

poor rory

id be fairly feelin like just walkin off the course

It can be cruel game but they don't give majors away.
He will have to toughen up mentally after this or he could struggle for quite a while as it will be hard to put this behind him.

1.01 in the top 10 gonna be gubbed
1.01 in the top 20 gonna be gubbed

i tink its funny

and then the wheels fell off

at least he got to meet shane o mac

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=71633399

talented as he is thats got to leave serious scars , the winner is 26 and day 23 among a clutch of youngsters coming thru , lets hope he dont go the same way as sergio, he was gone from the 1st today

He needs to work seriously on his putting, he just can't seem to even read a putt.

I don't know whether it's a new caddy required or what, but something has to change. Even apart from the implosion today he missed so many holeable putts over the first 3 days.

He's got a huge amount of talent and he'll learn from this. Dustin Johnson and Nick Watney blew similar leads and have come back to win big events. Hopefully Rory can do the same.

He is a very talented young man with genuine good manners.  He has a lot of friends and support in the game and no doubt he will be back.  That was a poor round, he was under immense pressure.  He needs to go out in his next tournie and win it.  He will play most of his golf in Europe this year so his chances of winning events are a lot greater.  Come On Rory, keep the head up!!!!

Needs a good haircut.  Looks like sideshow bob.

Seems like a very pleasant young man even allowing for that bws.

Not to stir this up but he is more inclined to want to play for Britain. I think it is a shame but best of luck to him whatever he wants to do. I will not be cheering him on anytime.

Oh God -this Irish/British thing again .
I genuinely can't see the problem in acknowledging and accepting that a person can have (as they frequently do)a complex identity where there is combination of different flavourings of ethnicity , nationality and culture.
There does not have to be any one-to-one simplistic correspondence between these criteria.
Without trawling the world for the myriads of examples of identity mixture -one can be Irish and British .

very true vubiant ... lots of examples barry mc g  for a start ...let them be i say ...

Very good first 2 days, slow start today but stil in the lead

We shall see how his head is now

Im glad for him

Indeed

The top 3 have been caught by the rest of the field already - some low scores being shot

Rory level for the round but his putting really lettin him down

how do u see the leinster/ulster game going tonite bjg?

A no bet game for me, i think it'll be a good game and Leinster should win but at 2/7 not for me and the handicap looks about right @ 8

Mite back the handicap draw for interest

Rory looks short enough here at 2.8 the way the field have closed up

ok, ulster +8 apeals to me

Big chance for Rory to go 2 clear

did u do the hcap draw?

Yup, a most pleasing result

wow. 16/1?

22/1 [:p]


Rory only third, slightly disappointing

Great performance after last weeks disappointment by Rory .  Jet lag is always a big factor given the back to back nature of these last 2 weeks , and sometimes the jet lag hits people 4 days after travel .

Manissero is top class , may be someone we have on the leaderboards for a long long time given he is only 17 .

The Italian kid does indeed look a star in the making

Rorys putting cost him the tourney though imo, he needs to make some changes in that department but from tee to green he is brilliant

balmont mast in the first in navan i hear a good word fyi.

3 times he leads into the last day and 3 times wooosh it's stolen from under his nose.

Yes but his putting cost him the tournament don't you know.

Thats ok, i'll tell the bookies that if they dont pay me out.

Money back for being gracious in defeat.

Well Rory and Manassero hit the same number of Greens in Regulation last week - and Manassero would be 30/40 yards behind in the distance stakes (Rory 14th for Driving distance on the European Tour Averaging just over 300 yards - Manassero 178th averaging 273)

And given the quality of McIlroys iron play also, it would be fair to assume The Italian was putting from further away than him more often than not

But Rory actually had 8 more putts than the Italian over the 4 days

BJG ..(.without making any big deal out of it) I seem to recall reading these facts and assumptions in one of yesterday's papers .
If you got them from the same source -I think normal  convention and practice dictates that the source should be acknowledged.
But if you don't give a fig about it that's fine,

Cant do tables to copy wat i want, tis comin out all funny

All the info is there

http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2011/tournamentid=2011021/stats/index.html

Was readin some reviews of the event, think it was the Mail one that went into the puttin/GIR stats

Pos	Name	Country	To Par	Stroke Ave	Driving Accuracy	Driving Distance(yds)	Greens in Reg	Putts Per GR	Putts Per Round	Sand Saves
1	Matteo MANASSERO	ITA	-16	68.00	76.8%	275.4	84.7%	1.674	29.5	44.4%
3	Rory MCILROY	NIR	-14	68.50	60.7%	303.3	84.7%	1.816	31.3	40

Hope the table works [smiley:crazy]


53rd in putts per green for the week and 62nd in putts per round

Derek lawrence in the Irish Daily Mail mentioned the stats above,
We must presume so -if someone doesn't mention the source of facts and figures like this that they come from official agencies like the European Tour  etc.

Telling figures those , bear out most of our views on why Rory did not win in KL .

That Manassero had same GIR figures as Rory while averaging 28 yards behind him shows the difference in their play although I suppose if you are playing from fairway as distinct from rough it is easier to hit and hold a green .

One of the things that puzzles me about play these days is the number of times they miss greens with a wedge in their hands .  Most of my playing days I was using a 9 iron for my shorter approach shots , but I can honestly say I could count on my 2 hands the number of times I ever missed the green using that club . I did find wedges harder to control direction wise though , cant explain that . So I only used a wedge when height / spin was the big factor .

Watched Paul McGinley a few years ago at Valderrama , where Tiger famously failed to get birdie at 17th , Paul had a birdie each day there , but from memory he was hitting a 9 iron in rather than a wedge ( a la Tiger ) . Less spin amd better direction ?

well feck me kelly ...get back on that tour right away ...the're stats phil and tiger would envy ...heres me playing off 18 ...lucky if i make the green with 9 or wedge 5 out of 10 ....i'll try and give you a tipped about why you dont make as many wedges as 9 iron hit the green ..it was pointed out to me that i was forcing my wedges ..hence i was always pulling them...hope that helps ..not that from were i'm standing you need any....

Scintillating stuff so far

After the 6 majors of Sir Nick Faldo, it seemed as if we'd fogotten how to win.  Afetr a long drought, Harrington bagged a few majors, then Gmac last year & now Rory, it makes you proud to be British

I don't think any of those are British

McDowell & McIlroy are from the United Kingdom yes but hardly Britain

As for Harrington [smiley:crazy]

thehonestscouser is a limerickman

db it seems your maps a little way off.  Sure there's a sat nav dealer nearby that will give you some help.  Always good to hear from soneone with a bit of dry humour btw.  Sure though you're just as proud as the rest of us

i do think "our rory" is british after all hasnt he nailed his colours to the mast already?

Mcilroy has not nailed his colours to the mast ...that information is taken from an article by charlie mulqueen in the irish examiner ... Mr Mulqueen likes to think he is one of ireland s most respected journalists far from it .... he s a complete muppet .... ask any of the munster rugby players of the last 10 years !!! .... Mulqueen asked Mcilroy who he would represent in the olympics ... mcilroy said with a smile " i ve always represented Ireland but then again my passport is a British one so i don t know what the situation would be " that fool Mulqueen then wrote a big headline article Mcilroy declares for Britain in Olympics .....
I personally would imagine that both McIlroy and McDowell will be playing for Ireland ... as far as i know golf in the olympics will have 3 representitives from each country where their will be a team and individual event ......The powers that be would no doubt will want the best players playing in it so they would try to best avoid a situation for example where you were trying to pick the best 3 from Mcilroy,Mcdowell,Westwood,Donald,Casey,Rose,Poulter and whoever else comes through in the next 5 years .......
Bottom line its a long way off

Rory's affiliations etc are not in question I suspect .  99.99 % of people in world think of him as the curly haired Irish guy who plays some of the best golf in the world .

To the best of my information his uncle played for Armagh in the eighties , probably saw him but as most people know those in Down or Armagh tend to only see one team on the field . Know he supports Ulster rugby big time , in presence and reportedly also in financial terms --well a couple of those South Africans must be getting £250 k a year  , and even decent attendances at Ravenhill wont be generating fortunes !

Today is probably the defining day of his destiny , losing would not be the end of the world -- just a minor Armageddon . As long as he does not go flag hunting , plays middle of fairway and middle of the greens stuff he should be OK .  It's gong to be a long day though ...

i just hope the day goes well for the lad even though he cost me money in april ..to watch him die the death was horrible...c'mon rory....

dinglemick,my observations have absolutely nothing to do with what was printed on a newspaper... cast your little pea brain back to when europe won the ryder cup,what flag was draped accross his shoulders?

Now the most famous county down man ever .

why call me a pea brain jackdaws ?

In style !  Silenced the knockers too .  Hope its the first of many !

dddddew Joined: 11 Aug 06
Replies: 5211 10 Apr 11 18:40 
lay lay lay he will bottle it mark my word

cabrera will win

The real article now.