On laptop tonight. With the event at Barasti and Golf on BBC 2 pulled a home office day for tomorrow.
Interesting day out to Ajman today shopping for Grandson tons of big brand labels at £3 for anything then China Mall for some Mukberry handbag presents and
A new booze shop with a stunning range of wines at Aldi/Lidl prices.
I may mispost later.
And Reed is a great player but don’t believe he has the balls or more important the back story to win this
Little pleasures - Peter Alliss
A wayward 2nd.
An awkward recovery chip
Boom! And Rory is in the share of the lead!
Loved Rory’s recovery out of fairway bunker. Even he couldn’t quite believe he hit the green.
When you double check your Fantasy Masters Selections.
Garcia - Duh
Casey - Meh
Poulter - Suckered
Justin - Should have done better
And Ooh.
Rory & Patrick.
I went to a cousin’s wedding reception at a golf club last night, fun was had by all. Does that count as a happy golf story?
Only thing that was weird was they had the football on the telly, had to ask them to put the golf on so I could keep up with it…
A happy golf story.
Ben Bender decided to go out on top. The 93-year-old from Ohio had been playing golf for 65 years when he hit his first-ever hole-in-one last month and promptly announced he had played his final ever round.
Bender took up golf at the age of 28 but had never aced a hole until his last round. “I’d come close to some hole-in-ones, but this one was level on the green before it curved towards the hole and went in,” Bender told the Zanesville Times Recorder. “I was in awe watching it. I played a few more holes, but my hips were hurting and I had to stop. It seemed the Lord knew this was my last round so he gave me a hole-in-one.”
Bender’s shot came on the 152-yard third hole at Ohio’s Green Valley golf course. His form had been patchy until then – he had shot an eight and a seven on the first two holes.
Bender was an accomplished golfer in his prime and said he played off a three handicap at one point. “I was lucky to play golf this long, but I never expected [a hole-in-one],” he said. “It was the last time I was able to play, and I think God had a hand in this. I loved the game and hate to give it up, but I can’t play forever.”
Le God hasn’t lost it!! What a shot!!
#BMWPGA Pro Am
Lols from MLT
Having watched the struggle going on at Lords, I completely forgot about The PGA and I’ve been up there several times in the past few years.
Delighted then to switch on and find Richard Bland leading on 5 under.
Come on boy! If you are to finally win one after over 400 attempts, this one might even get you close to the Rder Cup.
They had 20,000 + for the Pro Am yesterday - it’s a great event and a reminder in some ways that Quality is better than Quantity.
Maybe next year, I keep being invited to work there.
The impossible recovery shot…
40 yard cut (we’d call that a slice)
Gotta love Poulter 
What you like at running…
A very good article on the future of golf by a very articulate young lad - Eddie Pepperrell
Always good value on twitter
U.S. Open started and will be more entertaining than Russia v Saudis.
Justin has parred first 3 holes and just seen Spieth take a 6 on no. 11 par 3, his 2nd.
Posted at14:34
McIlroy +6 (5), Spieth +5 (5), Mickelson +3 (5)
Eeeeek. Bogey for Spieth, double bogey for McIlroy.
The six footers and starting to look like 10 feet and the 10 feet putts like 25 feet.
That’s back-to-back double bogeys for McIlroy and he’s +6.
We were expecting big things from this McIlroy, Spieth, Mickelson group. So far they’ve produced no birdies, seven bogeys, two double bogeys and one triple bogey. Ouch.
Posted at14:45
Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson are not the only ones struggling on the course by any means.
American Scott Stallings hit a nine on the four 14th a little earlier. 23-year-old Englishman Scott Gregory is +13 after 10 holes. He’s about to start the stretch which is causing Jordan, Rory and Phil so much pain.
Posted at14:51
*denotes 10th tee start
-2 Hoffman (4*)
+1 Poulter (4), Pavon (11), Kuchar (4), Knox (4)
Evens Fowler (4*), Reed (5*), A. Johnston (4)
+1 Grace (5*), Fitzpatrick (4), E Rose (6)
+2 Z. Johnson (5*), Casey (5)
+3 Watson (5), Mickelson (4*), Willet (4), Schwartzel (5*)
+4 McIlroy (4*), Spieth (4*)
The wind is causing all sorts of problems for the “some” of the players…
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15:20
McIlroy +6 (7), Spieth +5 (7), Mickelson +4 (7)
Almost, almost for Jordan Spieth. His birdie putt rolls up to the side of the cup but doesn’t drop. He drops his putter to the ground and covers his faces with his hands in disbelief. I think Jordan is a little frustrated but a lot of the issues have been his own making today.
Rory McIlroy has missed that difficult par putt and drops back to +6.
This is certainly not a home of happy Golf Stories for Rory
Posted at16:10
Bogey for McIlroy
McIlroy +9 (10)
With 10 holes played Rory McIlroy has now hit three double bogeys and four bogeys. It has been an absolute nightmare.
There are only four players worse off than the Northern Irishman.