Rickie Fowler earns his Masters; Euro Ryder Cup team, Monty win BBC honors
by Emily Kay on Dec 20, 2010 12:27 PM EST
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December 20 -- Rickie Fowler was among 13 players who can thank the season-ending world golf rankings for invitations to next year’s Masters tournament.
The final 2010 rankings include the names of the top 50 golfers who will have their tickets punched for Augusta in April. Fowler, who closed out his first full year on tour at No. 28, is on that roster.
Golfers in the top 50 at the end of the year qualify for A Tradition Unlike Any Other. The rankings criteria largely affect global golfers who don’t play on the PGA Tour and have fewer ways to qualify for berths at Augusta and other events.
Organizers limit the Masters field to about 100 players. Even with 92 now qualified, others can still play their way in by winning tour events that include FedEx Cup points and by making it into the top 50 a week prior to kickoff. The Molinari Bros. (Francesco and Edoardo), Robert Karlsson, Charl Schwartzel, and Ryo Ishikawa also know where they’ll be between April 7-April 10, 2011.
Across the pond, European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie picked up the BBC Sports Personality Coach of the Year honor. In addition to winning the award for leading his charges to a 14.5-13.5 victory over the U.S. in October, Monty collected the trophy for team of the year.
“It’s an honor to...receive this award on behalf of 12 fantastic players and coaches,” Montgomerie said after collecting his goodies, according to the BBC. “It was a fantastic year for European golf...I’m privileged to be here to receive this on behalf of the European Tour.”
After campaigning vigorously on Twitter for Graeme McDowell to walk away with the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award, Euro golfer Ian Poulter was outraged that GMac lost out to a jockey.
“BBC...farce, sorry how could @Graeme_McDowell or @WestwoodLee not win,” @IanJamesPoulter tweeted after the results were announced. He was also disturbed that Westwood was not among the victors. “GMac wins a major westy world no 1. That's Bollox”
Elsewhere on the off-season awards circuit, GMac added the AIB Irish Golf Writers’ Professional of the Year trophy to his collection. With a myriad of wins worldwide, including the U.S. Open, McDowell was the group’s unanimous choice.
McDowell noted, as Monty had at his shindig, that his award cemented Europe’s current domination of the golf world. “European golf is riding the crest of a wave at the moment with Lee Westwood’s move to number one in the world rankings and Martin Kaymer’s win at the US PGA Championship,” McDowell said, according to the Irish Golf Desk.
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NO! ROONEY!!!!
I still say Wazza was the Sports Personality of the Year in the UK. He is The Player For All Seasons and his goal count on the pitch and in the brothels speaks for itself.
Perhaps you football fans over there do not appreciate the sarcastic tone of irony I write that with, but it would have made me laugh if they had done that.
We love irony over here
but the award includes the word “personality” & Rooney has none. Plus he’s dead plumb ugly. Just cheered myself up by reading all the Man. Utd. jokes on Google. Hah!
That’s the irony Wendy. We all know that Wayne Rooney is a dull boy who runs fast and has great football skills, but also that it would take about five minutes to exhaust his knowledge of the world outside of football, pubs and the insides of young women’s thighs. Thus my comment…. :-)
But, I think chances are brightening for a new edition of this:
by Charles Boyer on Dec 20, 2010 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
Didn't I tell you time after time
PUT YOUR MONEY ON MAN UTD but would you listen…..now I undertand when you poor beat upon Hubby says your hard headed…….STUB
Money, money!
How double-dare you be so profane? This is football and Man. Utd. are going down to Chelsea. Would you expect em to desert his Saints? C’mon You Gunners!
Yea, and who's going to console you
when your Gunners go down….Your hubby says yur on yur own here…..And yup, Money, Money Money…..it’s what makes the world go round and all the ladies interesting……STUB
Her Gunners Already Went Down
Poor Arsenel’s gunners start firing duds when the weather turns cold….and at Old Trafford with a chance to go top of the table, they came up short, one-nil. And that nil was nil as in nil quality scoring chances for the first 88 minutes.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 21, 2010 8:25 AM EST up reply actions
Yep, they will change a bunch
And as soon as the 27th when the Arsenal-Chelsea fixture is over. United would not mind having them play to a draw, and that may well be what happens. We’ll see, all I know is that it will be some good football to watch.
United mean while has four games in ten days soon, and it is reasonable to expect 10 point or the full 12 out of this list: home games against Sunderland and Stoke, and trips to Birmingham and West Brom.
Plus they have a home game in hand against Bolton for later in the year…so the Red Devils are sitting pretty in their normal spot.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 21, 2010 9:54 AM EST up reply actions
Oh dear
You don’t know English football that well do you ? Expect Stoke to test them. Birmingham and West Brom are no pushovers this year. This time of year these teams play well in this weather with the long ball. Top teams play on the ground…and the pitches are not suited to that right now.
Fowler at Augusta. Nice.
Thanks for the post Emily. Fowler will make for interesting golf next Spring. Watch out for the green on green duds however. That could be tough to take.
As for the Poulter outrage: No love lost between Poulter and Monty. That much we know. And great to see the word bollocks spelled with an ‘x’. THank you Twitter for spicing up our spelling.
Poulter is indeed very entertaining on Twitter
not least in responding to people who correct his spelling. Usually something along the lines of “Get a life” & “See my Lamborghini”. OK, I made up the last one – but I bet that’s what he’s thinking.
I did vote for GMac, but I have to say that Tony McCoy was a deserving winner of the award.
poulter's lambo
Wendy, did you see the picture Poulter put up last week of his caddie in a Ferrari! Caddies are driving Ferraris. Wicked.
Don't take this as gospel, but I head from Chip
it was a used Cadillac Escallade……hahaha STUB
The Rick
At this point Rickie Fowler is only a hair above a media creation (ala Michelle Wie). He’s making a ton of money on spec. This big hatted kid better start winning or his orange on Sunday will begin to look foolish, if it doesn’t already.
Comon Ping....tis the Christmas
season, good will to men and all that garbage….give the kid a break…..Hell, he’s not long out of the Jr. ranks, and still trying to understand all the hormones his girlfriend has……STUB
A Break?
When I was 21 I was completing SEAL training. This little guy is out there hitting golf balls and working on his tan, probably paying a hundred bucks to get his hair “styled”. He’s no kid, he’s an adult, same as your “Big Weisie”. If he doesn’t understand “all the hormones his girlfriend has” by now, maybe he’s batting from the other side of the plate.
PLEASE ease our minds and tell us that the tanning seal was going to have tan lines. (lol)
"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
he's an interesting story...
He had an outstanding amateur and collegiate career, and had a very interesting life before he decided to narrow things down to golf as a profession. (racing, motocross, surfing, BMX, etc) He’s only been a PGA Tour member one year, and very nearly became only the second player after Tiger Woods to get his card without going to Q-school or a season on the Nationwide Tour. In one year, he played well enough to be considered worthy of a spot on the Ryder Cup team, where he played pretty well as a rookie.
"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
He did good this year
But one can see he is pushed by the media as the next so called superstar. That’s what I meant by the age we are in.
Court
I thought he actually made it without Q-school.
"The game is swell when it's played well."
by Fairways and Grins on Dec 21, 2010 6:50 PM EST up reply actions
T15. Rickie Fowler (11 under) The Oklahoma State product turned pro in September and nearly finished among the top 125 on the PGA TOUR money list despite pocketing cash in just three events. While still an amateur, Fowler lost a playoff to fellow 2010 rookie Derek Lamely at the 2009 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational and later lost to Troy Matteson at the Frys.com open on the PGA TOUR.
http://www.pgatour.com/2009/qschool/12/07/winners.bios/index.html
"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
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