Poulter Fires a 60 In Hong Kong
by Charles Boyer on Nov 19, 2010 9:20 AM EST
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PrintIan Poulter nearly became the first Mr. 59 in the history of the European Tour yesterday, as he carded a 60 in the second round of the UBS Hong Open.
Poulter even faced a unique obstacle on his way to his low score: while he playing the 14th hole, a mild earthquake rumbled beneath his feet while he lined up a birdie putt. "I wondered what it was. I was just about to pick my ball up and did feel a little tremor," Poulter quipped afterwards. No matter, he was still in the zone and sank the putt anyway on a day where it didn't seem to matter to the Englishman if the heavens and the earth moved while he was playing.
After that 14th hole, Poulter was -8 for his day and looked poised to be the first player on either the European Tour or the Asian Tour to break 60 in a competitive round. It wasn't to be, however, as he parred the next three holes before finishing his day with a final birdie. Asked afterward how felt -- setting his all-time personal low score, but not setting the all-time low score for his Tour, he said that he would "rank it pretty high, to be honest."
Still, ever the golfer, Poulter thought that he might have been to take his score card even lower and that he let a few strokes slip by. "I felt there were plenty of chances coming in. So, you know, happy but slightly disappointed."
That's certainly a feeling that any regular player has -- no matter his ability or score -- that if he had only...he could have done a wee bit better.
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Oh, As I suggested,
ya did give it back than….Goodie for you….See honesty is the best policy…..STUB
Great Guy...
Mr. Poulter, plays well, great dresser, nice smile on the course and just one of those profesionals you want to see do well…gotta love McIlroy’s goldilocks eh…:)
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I’m sitting here on the edge of my seat watching the morning replay of round 2…hey…let’s check in on WR during the commercials…SURELY nobody stayed up all night to watchi it live…..DAMN ! (lol)
Nobody can fault dedication like that, OMP. ^5
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C. S. Lewis
Did you hear the interviews with Poulter and McIlroy after their rounds ? Poulter told someone he was going to shoot 10 under today – and McIlroy said the earthquake (a 4 on the stimp…errr…Richter scale). It was his first earthquake and it made his legs feel like jelly. (been there, Rory ! amazing how Californians hardly pay attention to the “little” tremors)
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Court, that's true...My wife and I were visiting my
brother & Wife in California some years back….I was sitting on the sofa, and I saw a vase on a column start to do the hoocekooche….swaying back and forth….I jumped up and my brother started laughing….He and wife hardly noticed, but for me and my wife, it felt like we were in a boat in real rough seas….He has been out there for over 55 years, and I keep tellin him one of these days the whole state is goona slide into the ocean….Well, maybe San Francisco anyway. Wonder what we would do for the fruits and nuts than…jis sayin….STUB
Some great play today
Hoping for a great finish on Sunday. I didn’t know Anthony Kang was American – why haven’t we heard about him before, based on how good he has been playing in Asia?
Good question
I would say that he is not a force on either the PGA or European Tours, therefore he is hardly noticed by the media whose natural focus is on those circuits.
Kang is the kind of guy who can get hot at a major and the television announcers will make it sound like it is a miracle in the making because they’ve never heard of the guy. We used to get a lot of the same thing here in America for guys on the ET, but not so much any more because of it getting regular coverage here nowadays.
by Charles Boyer on Nov 21, 2010 9:41 AM EST up reply actions
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