Monday
Aug102009
Uh Oh! Paramor Is Talking
And it doesn't sound like the rules official who told Padraig and Tiger to pick it up is going to go quietly! Lawrence Donegan Tweets...
I'm assuming we'll see more on Donegan's blog and in the Guardian by day's end.
Monday, August 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Reader Comments (10)
and that's what should be foremost in a player's mind when he is paired with and one stroke ahead of arguably the greatest golfer in history, on the 70th hole of a professional golf tournament that is worth $1.4m to the winner.
all the slow play comparisons to joe sixpack playing from the wrong tees are like comparing the time it takes a surgeon to open a patient's chest for heart surgery with the time it takes a butcher to slice a 1/4 lb. of bologna...
Nobody's comparing the speed of Joe Sixpack to these guys. The fact remains that if the butcher decided to take as much time to slice a 1/4 pound of bologna as a surgeon did to crack a chest, the butcher wouldn't have that job very long. . .
Being asked to play expeditiously is not an imposition. It's frankly nothing more than common courtesy. Our beef is that Joe Sixpack watches the pros, and thinks that's the norm. That's why we hate watching their glacial pace. Joe not only buys Nike 1s and ProV1s because he sees it on television, he also tries (even if unconsciously) to mimic their antics. . .
Paramor did what everyone has been clamoring for for years. PLEASE, you can't make rules, and THEN decide when you want them enforced. John was doing his job, better than most I might add.
He and I have not always seen eye to eye, but I reckon I was mostly wrong when those occasions arose ;)
A player has to take responsibility for his actions, and unlike Perry and Ramsey, Harrington did!!! It is the press and you guys making a big deal out of this, NOT Harrington.
Sometimes, reading the comments on Geoff's site, I think all of you should have been professional golfers, because besides being outstanding players, they are the greatest bitchers in the world
NOW, digest that one
Maybe I was too caught up in the drama of the head-to-head battle, but I didn't really think they were playing that slowly yesterday. How often do professional golfers play 18 holes in less than 4 hours?
MOST of the time, the allotted time for a twosome is about 3:35 to 3:40
They were behind.
Slow play SUX
seems to me that principals mean nothing when they are only applied when its convenient.
and, as always, kosmo kramer's words still ring true: "Without rules there is chaos." And kosmo was a golfer.
another thought is that hubert green played under the pressure of getting shot in the final round of a u.s. open after a death threat was called in. makes a "shot clock" seem easy by comparison.
to padraig's credit, he has seemed to handle it all with dignity. rub of the green is a bitch, padraig will fight another day!
Paddy had plenty of time to catch up.
I hope they get on him on Thursday. Lets get this over with and get the tour moving...