US PGA

[Grunt]

Who do you all is going to win the PGA this week?

Was going to place a poll but it just would be too hard to list those with a chance, so you are all going to have to post your tip.

Pity Norman pulled out this morning was interested to see if his recent good form could give them a scare.

My Tip

Vijah Singhe

Strongest Aussie

Mark Hensby.

And I am supporting those tips with Sportstab bets too.

[3oneday]

Tiger will win, simple really.....

Best Aussie, hmmm, Allenby ??

Pete

[McMw]

I look for the PGA to continue its trend of un-earthing an un-expected first time major winner this weekend...

best aussie - O-Hern
best big5 - Goosen

[sominc]

id say tiger will win unfortunately, would love vijay to (hope he can putt)

best of the aussies will be hensby

[markTHEblake]

Everyone knows that a nobody wins the PGA.

[McMw]

but - first time (and ONLY) major winners....
still...shouldn't we all be lucky to have that huge mutha of a trophy in our house...


2003 Shaun Micheel Oak Hill Country Club Rochester, N.Y.
2002 Rich Beem Hazeltine National Golf Club Chaska, Minn.
2001 David Toms Atlanta Athletic Club Atlanta, Ga.
1997 Davis Love III Winged Foot Mamaroneck, N.Y.
1996 Mark Brooks Valhalla G.C. Louisville, Ky.
1995 Steve Elkington Riveria C.C. Pacific Palisades, Calif.
1993 Paul Azinger Inverness Toledo, Ohio
1990 Wayne Grady Shoal Creek Birmingham, Alabama
1988 Jeff Sluman Oak Tree Edmond, Okla.
1986 Bob Tway Inverness Toledo, Ohio
1985 Hubert Green Cherry Hills Denver
1983 Hal Sutton Riviera C.C. Pacific Palisades, Calif.

[markTHEblake]

Yeah thats what a said/meant/mumbled.  You can add a few more to that list for their first major. Price, Singh, Stewart and Nelson i think

Anyway since when was Golfer69 a stats man - I thought he was a feel player.

[goughy]

When's this thing on tv anyway?

[markTHEblake]

It will be on a friday morning,  which one buggared if i know - maybe that stats guy can print up a schedule for us

[oscar]

What about Serg...?

[cazandpaul]

Winner - VJ
Aussie - Nick O'Hern

[Grunt]

Pay TV Only
4 am start

[3oneday]

Its an absolute disgrace. It's our god given right to watch the 4 majors on free to air telly.
A disgrace I tell ya !

every Major ever shown by Channel 9 people whinge about the coverage, number of ads, lack of actual golf, too many flowers etc etc.

It is a pity that it is expensive each month to have, but in my opinion it is worth it not to have Golf Mart ads shoved down your throat every 5 minutes (literally), IMHO.

Pete

[sominc]

Its a shame that foxtel hasnt reached all areas (such as mine ) And everytime we have called them out to see if we can get satalite they dont turn up

Not happy Foxtel

[markTHEblake]

Its a shame that foxtel hasnt reached all areas (such as mine )

thats not right at all.

Wherever Foxtel doesnt provide a service, Austar does, and vica versa. that is an absolute. There is almost nobody in australia that cant get a satellite tv service now.

Also on the Gold Coast both Austar and Foxtel provide Satellite TV together (which was caused by some bungling clerical error years ago).

The only exceptions are if you live in some highrises or apartments (or caravans, tent, donga) and getting a sat dish installed on common property is a huge hassle. Even then there are simple ways around that - ask me if you need to know.

[sominc]

We have the satalite already installed for some other channels but have spoken with foxtel about 10 times and they have said we will send someone out to asses it but no one has EVER turned up

Which means many wasted hours spent waiting at home for them arive. As a result we have given up

[markTHEblake]

we will send someone out to asses it but no one has EVER turned up

That doesnt even make sense.

You ring up, order the service and its installed within a few days. Standard Procedure/

Why would they need to assess it.

out of curiosity, what channels are you getting now on that dish and where do you live?

[sominc]

They just said that they will send someone out to do it and no one ever arrived, its rediculous.

Parents have some US christian channles, we live at bunya near samford.

[markTHEblake]

They just said that they will send someone out to do it and no one ever arrived, its rediculous.

Parents have some US christian channles, we live at bunya near samford.

About 7 Channels right - That means your dish is pointing at Optus B3, which is about 5 degrees off Optus C1 which is where the Foxtel/Austar is transmitted from.

If you want to retain the free channels from the B3 you will need to get a 2nd dish - which Foxtel supplies for free.   You can get a 'double ended" LNB for your dish but thats going to cost you a fair bit of dough and its not worth it - the foxtel guy wont have anything to do with that.

It sounds to me like when you have been ringing them up, you have confused them by talking about the existing dish on your roof.    Just forget about that and order the service and they will book an install date and it will be done.  It makes no difference to the install fee whether you have a dish on the roof already or not.

I dont know exactly where Bunya is - are you sure its in a Foxtel service area?

But you might have a problem if the dish on your roof already belongs to Foxtel - they will just realign it to C1 and pull the cable from your free sat tv service, but I doubt it is theirs - Foxtel has only being installing Sat dishes for a little over a year.

[Grunt]

Interesting start to the PGA

Tiger +5 finished
Scott +3 after 11
Parry +6 Finished
Allenby +6 Finished
Singhe +1 After 9
Hensby -2 After 9
Appleby -2 After 12
Elkington -2 After 9
Lonard +1 Finished
Oglivy E After 12
Pampling +3 Finished
O'hern +4 Finished
Grady +5 After 11
Green +9 Finished

Can Tiger come back from here 7 behind the leaders at the moment.

[Grunt]

Hensby is now a yank by the TV coverage. They have a US flag next to his name on the leaderboard. What is going on there?

[3oneday]

So, kiss off death placed on Tiger and Allenby by ME !!!

Odds of tiger missing the cut from here ??? hmmm, 2/1 on !!!

Pete

[sominc]

Tiger has finished up eight shots behind the pace and apples is -3 and joint leader YAY go Apples

[Jarro]

anybody see that shot of Kenny Perry's that hit the flag 3/4'ers of the way up .... bounced past the cup, then spun back in ... amazing

[Grunt]

Well it looks as if only a few aussies will make the cut today.
Woods Gooonne! +7 after 9
Mickleson has skipped away to lead of 4, -8
Best Aussies is Appleby & Elk @ -3