George -
Finau's approach shot was miss-hit, bounded off the top of a pylon to about eight feet from the pin.
So I assume they were booing because after his crazy good luck, Finau did not have the decency to miss his short putt.
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Possibly the single luckiest thing I have ever seen. He chunked his approach. If it's an inch right, it's in the water. An inch left, it's in the crap 20 yards short of the green. It lands dead on the wooden bulwark and bounces to 8 feet. Bonkers. And that really wasn't booing. Some here (my good friend Rich Goodale amongst them) are trying to find misfeasance where it doesn't exist. We did get a mashed potato shout, though, so things aren't all that great.
Mark
I'm going to disagree. He hit a good shot bang on line. He possibly was half a club short from perfect. Yes he could have bounced off into the water but equally if his ball had landed 6 inches to the left he would have been fine.
With regards to the booing, I only saw the highlights and it sounded like booing to me although it could well have been good natured. Whatever, they at least had the decency to be quiet when he was putting.
Niall
I'm going to have to agree with Niall. I did see the shot, but I've never seen anyone booed like that, and that was booing. I thought perhaps some bozo in the crowd was doing something to elicit the boos and that maybe I missed that, or that I missed something else. They were quiet while he putted, but resumed the boos after he buried it.
I have heard plenty of yells from voices that didn't exactly sound French....
Rory was berating and gesturing rather angrily at the crowd after the last hole, so obviously there's someone there he doesn't care for and I'm guessing they weren't Euro fans. But I kinda like seeing him fiery like that. The Rory v Reed singles match at Hazeltine was electrifying, to me anyway.
I usually just root for close RCs. I hate the blowouts, they aren't interesting to me.