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Mark Bourgeois

Over / unders, feel free to speculate and add to list -- please, no wagering.

1. Streaker materializes on 18 fairway: over = after, under = on or before.

2. Streaker has all body markings -- e.g., "19th Hole" on back with arrow pointing down to cloaca -- at or above L5 vertebra: over = higher, under = at or lower.

3. Streaker body markings not political: over = political, e.g., female streaker with "Bush" on tummy and arrow pointing down, under = nonpolitical.  Vegetarian / vegan remarks deemed "nonpolitical."

4. No flour bombs this year: over = at least one flour bomb, under = no flour bombs.

5. Tiger halts swing once due to camera (including camera phones): over = once or above, under = zero.

6. Steve Williams throws one camera into a burn: over = once or more, under = zero.

7. Peter Alliss tops "bum-scratching" commentary from Friday: over = yes, under = no.*

8. Coverage includes 5 shots by Tiger...on the practice range. Over = 5 or more, under = less than 5.

9. Crowd sings 4 full choruses of "Ole Ole" if Sergio wins: over = 4 or more, under = less than 4. (Personally, I'd prefer the "Toreador" song from Bizet's Carmen, but one cannot hope for much at a sporting event.)

10.  Americans only: Faldo looses 3x more zingers than, uh, Zinger: over = Faldo >= 3x Azinger, under = Faldo < 3x Azinger.

11. Americans only: Azinger mentions how he "invented" belly putter twice: over = more than twice, under = twice or less

Mark

*George Peper writes in his memoir of his time at St. Andrews that Open volunteers received a memo and a lecture specifically on not doing anything that would make them fodder for a Peter Alliss hit and run.  Apparently this memo is not distributed at the gate.
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Adam Clayman

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I find it fascinating how the course's firmness is transitioning as the day progresses and how difficult it has been for the leaders, and especially Tiger, to take advantage of the softness.
"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life." - Mickey Mantle

Kalen Braley

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After watching this years open, it made a giant leap up my ratings of which majors I prefer to watch.  Faldo was in fine form in the announcers booth especially when he said something to the effect of, can't remember the exact quote:

The nervous excitment of these last couple of holes is comparable to a bloke taking his girlfriend on thier very first camping trip....

I was rolling on the floor...

Mark Bourgeois

What an Open!
Anyone else completely gutted (exhausted) from watching? As Azinger said, "Pressure will burst a pipe."

Great setup, great telecast.  But no streaker this year?!

Here's one for you, Kalen: if you were given only 100 minutes of viewing time to allocate to the four majors, how would you allocate them?

Here's mine:
60 Open
20 Masters (and falling)
10 US Open
10 PGA (and rising)

Mark
« Last Edit: July 22, 2007, 05:24:22 PM by Mark Bourgeois »

Kalen Braley

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What an Open!
Anyone else completely gutted (exhausted) from watching? As Azinger said, "Pressure will burst a pipe."

Great setup, great telecast.  But no streaker this year?!

Here's one for you, Kalen: if you were given only 100 minutes of viewing time to allocate to the four majors, how would you allocate them?

Here's mine:
60 Open
20 Masters (and falling)
10 Open
10 PGA (and rising)

Mark

Great Question...

So far for this year it would be:

80 Open
10 US Open
10  Masters...

Brian_Ewen

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Gutted !

A fiver each way on Pigu Romero at 80/1 laid yesterday .

Mark Bourgeois

Gutted !

A fiver each way on Pigu Romero at 80/1 laid yesterday .

A semi-inspirational pick!

You may find Ernie Els' reply to Player's comments instructional, then:

"I take Advil for pains and discomfort and anti-inflammatories and something for my knee when it gets damp. And I take Guinness."

Brian_Ewen

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Mark
I wanted to back him from the start , but he had two horror rounds at Loch Lomond last week , which made me wary and I then went and stupidly backed Poulter  ::)

An awful lot of people forget Master Romero finished 8th at Hoylake last year.



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