Spieth will need to notch a win before US Open to start any shorter.

Serg better at least par in, to get the top 6 payout.

Leonard gonna cost me a pretty penny on the 2 balls. Triple bogey on 14 was d difference between victory and defeat.

On another note, how many chances has Adam Scott had to get to Number One?? He really doesn't seem capable of grasping it. Someone could go past him, before he goes past the Tiger.

Weather delay very untimely for Kaymer. He was really in the zone.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/ponte-vedra-beach-fl/32082/weather-radar/2257860

Nite nite.


Diving Turtle wins the day...

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/grill-room/video-diving-turtle-makes-big-splash-again-players/?cid=twitter-gc-a-video-diving-turtle-makes-big-splash-again-players-051114


TO BACK OR LAY

1.08 €15,021  €7,027   
1.09 €28,109  €54,884   
1.10 €32,810  €318,202   
1.11 €22,305  €341,510   
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1.12  €24,497 €82,222   
1.13  €19,127 €52,209   
1.14  €122 €102,614   
1.15  €248 €39,227   
1.16  €250 €10,896   
1.17  €245 €2,088   
1.18  €245 €2,020   
1.19  €330 €7,275   
1.2  €245 €55,978

well done to martin kaymer,

at 17 when kaymer messed up chip from edge jimbo went 1.9,then when kaymer held hard putt he went out to 5.5
crazy finish

The fluctuation in odds over Kaymers last few holes were huge .  Before the break Furyk was mid twenties  , when Kaymer faced his downhill 6-8 feet aim left to righter on 17 ( putt seemed about 30 feet or so ) , Furyk went to odds on .

Overall suited me well , Martin was one of 3 I backed to trade , and I always keep a few quid up my sleeve .  Jim Furyk I always keep on the right side of  , and I had backed him the previous week when something similar had happened where he finished well and was awaiting developments .

Overall though , the significant statistic I took out of the whole exercise was that 7 of the top 10 were non USA , and top USA was Jim Furyk , one of my 3 world USA players I have harped on about over last series of years . The other USA players just dont cut the mustard faced with the worlds best , hungry fighters , Hagler satin sheets syndrome I reckon .

WHEN was the last time he put FOUR good rounds together ?

11th May 2014 !

I speculated 120 euro on many bets and ended up winning  e2.50, the last hour i ate a large bag of salted peanuts as i sat on the edge of my armchair enjoying the golf, my e2.50 profit paid for my peanuts but the old belly did,nt feel to good this morning,  its a pity that brian davis got a few bad breaks on the last few holes Callit but for all that i enjoyed the day, P.S  im a MAN CITY FAN.

good call on the molinari 2ball bet callit lastnight
spieth looking forward to dallas this week,looks like he be too short though

WEE Rory played TPC Sawgrass’s back nine holes to a cumulative score of 17 under par during this week’s PLAYERS Championship. 

Since 1983, no golfer has played either the front or back nine as low in relation to par as McIlroy did this week. 

The previous low was 13 under par, accomplished this week by winner Martin Kaymer on the front nine, and on the back nine by Ryan Moore in 2010 and Greg Norman in 1994.

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Martin Kaymer held on to post a 1-under-par 34-37=71 in the final round of THE PLAYERS.

This win backs up Kaymer's titles at the 2010 PGA Championship and 2011 WGC-HSBC Champions.

His 13-under 275 tally placed him one better than Jim Furyk. Kaymer was cruising with three birdies, the longest from 12'5" on the par-5 11th, and no bogeys on the card when lightning in the area stranded him on the 14th hole.

The 93-minute delay had a clear impact, as he came back and double-bogeyed the relatively benign par-4 15th, and then struggled to make a par at the par-5 16th. He nearly spun his tee shot on the par-3 17th back in the water, eventually holing a 28'6" par putt to remain one up with one to play. He would put it away with an up-and-down par at the 18th.

The irons were the key to his week, landing 75 percent of his greens in regulation to rank third in that category for the week.

With this victory, he is exempt into the 2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the next three editions of the Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship.

NICE ONE, not to mention the 1.8 in the póca !

Learning To Fly

Yes, Jordan Spieth came up short -- again -- after holding the share of the 54-hole lead at a big-time tournament.
Let's keep that in perspective, though, since he can't legally drink until July.


Give the kid -- and he really is just that -- some credit.

Spieth is learning to deal with defeat and it is no slow, simple education.

He's getting a crash course in final-day disappointment, having played in the last group at the Masters and again here at The Players Championship, only to be shaking hands and offering congratulations to the winner, slinking out of the spotlight.

After finishing tied for fourth at the Players Championship on Sunday, Jordan Spieth moved up to sixth in the FedEx Cup standings and has now earned nearly $3.2 million in the 2013-14 wraparound schedule.

"I'm stinging right now," Spieth said in the darkness at TPC Sawgrass on Sunday night after a final-round 74 left him 3 strokes back of winner Martin Kaymer. "It's not fun being that close and having opportunities and being in the lead on Sunday and not pulling it off."

No, of course it isn't, not for a grizzled veteran who has been through these battles over the years. And not for Spieth, just 20 years old, and lest we forget, a pro for barely 18 months.


But the questions will surely have a bit more of an edge as Spieth proceeds toward his expected greatness. That comes with the territory when you contend for the top titles in the game, ascend to the No. 7 position in the world ranking, see your name atop leaderboards from one coast to another.

Already in 2014, Spieth has posted six top-10 finishes. He had 36-hole leads at Torrey Pines and Pebble Beach, and was tied for the 54-hole lead at the Masters and Players Championship.

He shot a 63 playing alongside Tiger Woods in January and made it to the quarterfinals of the WGC-Match Play Championship in February. In the course of a month, Spieth has been in the last group of the two biggest tournaments of the year to date.

And he has a goose egg to show for it in the victory column and no trophies to display on his mantel.

"I'm disappointed right now in how I performed," Spieth said. "But I think I'm on the path to good things. It's been a great year of putting myself in a lot of positions and having new experiences instead of having to come from behind, trying to hold leads.

"I think that [is] something that it takes a little time to adapt to and hopefully I'm done trying now."

Spieth's remarkable streak of bogey-less holes ended at the fifth, where a poor drive forced him to lay up and he was unable to get up and down from 100 yards. He had played the first 54 holes missing 16 greens and saving par each time and ran his streak to 58 for the tournament.

"I just didn't quite have the magical short game of the first few days," Spieth said.



Nobody should be expected to play entire rounds -- let alone tournaments -- around TPC Sawgrass without a bogey, but adding four more on the card was the problem. His bogey at the 10th was particularly cruel, as Spieth's approach appeared headed for a close birdie chance, only to hit hard and kick to left into no-man's land.
And the birdies at the second and fourth hole would be his only ones of the day.

"When you're at 14 under and then the winning score is 13 under ... and you know I was there during part of that round," he said. "That's tough to swallow."


Spieth's lone PGA Tour victory came last July at the John Deere Classic in a sudden-death playoff. He was just 19 at the time, and it was remarkable, earning him a spot the following week in the Open Championship, as well as invites to the Hyundai Tournament of Champions and the Masters.

He's not been able to follow up with victory No. 2, which will undoubtedly cause some consternation among some who wonder why he's not been able to close. He's had at least a share of the 54-hole lead three times this year. He was second going into the final round at Torrey Pines.

To which the reply would be: who has even been so close to winning so often at age 20?



Yes, Woods was just 20 years old when he won his first two PGA Tour events -- after first blowing a 54-hole lead soon after turning pro in 1996. And he won the Masters in his first try as a pro at age 21. Special stuff there, and an unfair comparison for Spieth.

Yes, Spieth has had some shaky Saturdays and Sundays, and there are clearly a few mental hurdles to overcome. To shoot 74 and lose by 3 will not go down well.
"Certainly last year we did have trouble on Saturday," said Michael Greller, Spieth's caddie. "And we did talk about it. I think he's done a pretty good job not putting expectations on himself."

For Spieth, this is on-the-job training, and it's invaluable. If he weren't at Augusta National last month and at TPC Sawgrass this week, he would be a junior at the University of Texas. When the U.S. Open and Open Championship roll around -- had he somehow not qualified -- he'd be playing in summertime amateur events.

Instead he's competing against the best in the world and having enormous success. That old saying, "It's better to try and fail than not to try at all," would appear to have some merit.

Would Spieth be better off finishing 20th every week, or stepping into the cauldron of contention, feeling the heat but coming up short?
He won't take it as any solace, but Phil Mickelson was 14 years older than Spieth is now when he captured his first major championship.

"Going forward, I still think that I'm playing extremely good golf going into two tournaments [Byron Nelson, Colonial] that I've had success at on golf courses I'm familiar with and atmospheres that are like a major championship for me," he said. "So I'm extremely excited for the Texas swing coming up and carrying the way that I played this week."

Spieth earned another $440,000 on Sunday, a reminder that his on-going lessons remain lucrative.

Thanks to Bob Harig ESPN.