2016 Open at Royal Troon

breadman · Jul 14, 2016

Steve Stricker coming out strong as he is one shot out of the lead at 4 under after his first round. Go Strick!!

ChicagoChief · Jul 14, 2016

Pieters in the field as well. Just tee'd off, -1 thru 2

FeelYourPaign · Jul 14, 2016

It was great to see Strick high on the leaderboard. Super early, but its easier to play well from the front than chasing, imo. I guess the back nine at RT can be absolutely dastardly, so hoping Pieters can do well today also.

WesterveltVictoryCigar · Jul 14, 2016

Phil once again lips out trying for the historic round. Great shooting, took advantage of the ideal conditions.

IllininVA · Jul 14, 2016

Pieters just finished off his round at 3 under.

WesterveltVictoryCigar · Jul 14, 2016

Pieters finishes a nice round, 3 under. Should be out early tomorrow with good weather, too.

WesterveltVictoryCigar · Jul 15, 2016

Rough second round for Pieters, will have to hope the cut line moves out a stroke.

ChicagoChief · Jul 15, 2016

Wow, massive choke job for Pieters. Won't even make the cut now.

WesterveltVictoryCigar · Jul 15, 2016

And there goes the cut line to +2.

breadman · Jul 15, 2016

WesterveltVictoryCigar said:
And there goes the cut line to +2.

Just saw that too. Best not to leave for the airport just yet. Weather conditions made this possible today. Still, Stricker is holding steady so far.

WesterveltVictoryCigar · Jul 15, 2016

Brutal conditions for the afternoon wave. Pieters has moved up from 79th to 54th and counting.

Strick just had a bad break, lost tee shot and will have a big number on his card.

breadman · Jul 15, 2016

Amazing!! 17 pars and an 8 on the 15th to fall to even par for the tourney for Stricker.
The cut has moved to 4 over with TP at 2 over.
And again, bad weather reigns.

bdutts · Jul 16, 2016

breadman said:
And again, bad weather reigns.

Welcome to Scotland! Summer here has been pretty cool, relatively speaking for this time of the year. Probably less rainy that expected overall but the weather turns pretty quickly. Normally better on the west coast where Troon is as compared to where I live. Yesterday was crappy here, too. Hopefully better weather to come.

At least it's not gale force winds out there. Yet.

bdutts · Jul 16, 2016

bdutts said:
At least it's not gale force winds out there. Yet.

Oops, looks like it's blowing pretty good out there now. Little wind where I am at.

FeelYourPaign · Jul 16, 2016

bdutts said:
Oops, looks like it's blowing pretty good out there now. Little wind where I am at.

The Scotsman who works for me says that what outsiders have a hard time believing is that it rains pretty much every day in Scotland. And that's why he is in north Carolina, lol

bdutts · Jul 17, 2016

FeelYourPaign said:
The Scotsman who works for me says that what outsiders have a hard time believing is that it rains pretty much every day in Scotland. And that's why he is in north Carolina, lol

Yeah, if we can get three days in a row without clouds, let alone rain, it's a miracle.

WesterveltVictoryCigar · Jul 17, 2016

Fantastic play by Stenson, great theater between he and Phil this weekend.

WesterveltVictoryCigar · Jul 17, 2016

In case you missed it, Thomas Pieters didn't have a good time on #11.

bdutts · Jul 18, 2016

WesterveltVictoryCigar said:
Fantastic play by Stenson, great theater between he and Phil this weekend.

Yeah, how many times would a guy shoot 65 in the final round and lose?

breadman · Jul 18, 2016

And Stricker earns his way into Augusta next year by way of his 4th place finish! How about that!

FeelYourPaign · Jul 18, 2016

WesterveltVictoryCigar said:
Fantastic play by Stenson, great theater between he and Phil this weekend.

Yes, Phil was fantastic and whatever word is better than fantastic, well, that was Stenson. Two terrific performances.

breadman · Jul 18, 2016

That was a great show for once in the final of a major. You could say that Phil did not lose it, Henrik simply went out and won it. It was kind of sad that the 18th hole had to eventually be played. I wanted it to keep going.

Illwinsagain · Jul 18, 2016

breadman said:
That was a great show for once in the final of a major. You could say that Phil did not lose it, Henrik simply went out and won it. It was kind of sad that the 18th hole had to eventually be played. I wanted it to keep going.

Best final pairing that I can remember. -6 and lose by 3 strokes? Phil was absolutely on, Henrik was playing out of his mind. 10 birdies. For someone that isn't supposed to be a good putter, he made some fantastic ones.