2007 Australian Open

[Jarro]

Allenby starts qucikly with a 5 under par 67

Badds starts with 2 birdies too 8)

Good to see the Nudgee boy Scott Hend have a good start too .... 4 under par :)

[Toolish]

and apparently the scoring system is screwed!

[mikezone13]

and apparently the scoring system is screwed!

Nah.. same as always...

-1 = birdie
E = Par
+1 = bogey

;)

Seriously though the Australian Open website is now down.. down... down...

[Jarro]

Lonards been a little scrappy today, finding water twice in the first three holes :shock:

Appleby has struggled also.. as has Badds.com.

The 11th hole looks fantastic, i'm surprised the marshalls can get the pissheads to be quite at all while the golfers are putting :roll:

[dc68]

Allenby starts qucikly with a 5 under par 67




Allenby has struggled also.. as has Badds.com.




Eh?

[Jarro]

Fixed

:roll:

[Courty]

I wonder how much Allenby copped on the 11th?

[Jarro]

Heaps i hope.

He deserves it after his comments during the week.

[Grunt]

He played the 11th as his second hole at around 7-8am, would have been too early for the people to get there. He will cop it tomorrow though. Will be through there just after lunch.

[Toolish]

Nah.. same as always...

-1 = birdie
E = Par
+1 = bogey

;)

Seriously though the Australian Open website is now down.. down... down...

knew that was coming!

[mike]

Interesting to see on yesterdays coverage of the Senden/Baddeley 3 ball, Ch7 made it look like a 2 ball, completely ignoring player #3. I had to freeze frame the video to see who it was.

Surprised to see it was Michael Campbell.

They ignored a multiple Australian tour winner and US Open winner but gave ample air time to a grumpy , skinny Japanese hacker.

[andylo]

But Campbell has a +10 or something like that isn't it?

[3oneday]

Lonards been a little scrappy today, finding water twice in the first three holes :shock:Lonard birdied the first 2, so he hit it in the water twice on the 3rd ???

[Lambolica]

Go Craig Parry... Round of 64.

I hope the Little nugget goes well.

Cheers
Simon

[PeteyD]

go Bargearse, or Popeye, or whatever we call the fat man now :D

[mike]

Brant Snedeker's caddy is bald as an egg and ain't wearing a hat.

[goughy]

Talk about a start by O'hern. Litterally 5 perfect shots to start his round and go from equal leader to lead by 3, and by 4 over his patner, after 2 holes. Mr Solid!

[Jarro]

Allenby's looking the goods ... leading the field at the end of the 3rd round.

[shavey]

Just when I was going to get on the bandwagon and start talking about my pro-am partner from a few weeks ago Kim Felton, the poor guy has a day he would rather forget.. Thankfully two chip-ins restored some respect but that last hole was a car crash... shanks, dropped shots and then a miracle chip-in... ugly but somewhat entertaining...

[Toolish]

Felton has had the shanks before too....poor guy

[markTHEblake]

So has Eags.

[Eag's]

So has Eags.

:roll: :smt075

[Jarro]

Can Paz hang on and win it ?

I hope so :mrgreen:

[Grunt]

Just thinking if it goes to a play off I am backing Woo Joon Lee.

[Jarro]

Doesn't look like there'll be a playoff now after Parry's great up&down on 17 8)

[Grunt]

Nice to see him win it too. Parry & Lonard are the guys the club golfer like to see win.

[Eag's]

Yep could not ask for a better bloke to win the Aus Open :smt023 :smt038
I had a side bet on Snedeker, that penalty on the 14th was costly to him and me :cry: ;)
How about the storm that just hit them as well :shock:

[Grunt]

Good to see an all round good guy win. Nice guys do win sometimes.

[Jarro]

Congrats to Parry ... he's a role model to us short, fat blokes.

Isn't he Dick.

[Courty]

Congrats to Parry ... he's a roly-poly model to us short, fat blokes.

;)

[TS]

Congrats to Parry ... he's a role model to us short, fat blokes.

Isn't he Dick.

Jarro. I meet Craig before. He is at least twice as fat as you, and two foot taller.

[Fishman Dan]

I went out there today. Pretty disappointed that Allenby and Nitties raced each other to the bottom, but it was a super par save on 17 that won it for Parry. The Popeye fist-pump was great - he knew it was the winning putt.

The others had no idea how to win a golf tournament. Stand up Craig Parry - the SW layup for a second shot that took the water right out of play for his approach to 18 was clever.

All day I watched Nitties and Allenby fire at pins from poor lies, only to wind up in bunkers.

[markTHEblake]

Stand up Craig Parry - the SW layup for a second shot that took the water right out of play for his approach to 18 was clever.

clever? or bleeding obvious.

I thought his third shot was excellent, I have no doubt that he aimed for a 3 foot circle and thats exactly where it went.

[Fishman Dan]

clever? or bleeding obvious.

I thought his third shot was excellent, I have no doubt that he aimed for a 3 foot circle and thats exactly where it went.

Bleeding obvious - yes. But watching Nitties and Allenby continually aim for the skinny parts of greens and fail to make the shot, one after the other, was a disgrace. If you think of it, they only had to shoot 71 and it's a playoff. They could have almost played Matchplay between themselves - if one failed to hit a green, the other should have aimed for the fattest part.

I thought Parry may have been aiming further left than where he wound up on 18. I stood behind his line for a brief moment coming up 18, it was the perfect position, effectively hitting away from the water.

[AndyP]

A couple of articles for the Allenby poo-pooers.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22926723-2722,00.html
http://news.smh.com.au/earmuffs-win-the-crowd-over-for-allenby/20071214-1h53.html

[Rusty]

i watched in slow mo, Paz's swing - it's so out to in it's amazing he hits 'em only slightly left to right.

in slow mo i was noticing Allenby teeing height, and even though he hovers to hit, when addressing he has only a smidgin (i love that word)... a smidgin of the ball above the top of the driver.