nick faldo sounds like an entitled !@#$ with no perspective

heyeaglefn wrote:Nick Faldo on the broadcast today said it is hard to believe he couldn't give them a sizable donation to move the night to not conflict.

faldo kinda sucks but he was being facetious.

ok i retract my prior pronouncement based on this new evidence

JUburton wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:Nick Faldo on the broadcast today said it is hard to believe he couldn't give them a sizable donation to move the night to not conflict.

faldo kinda sucks but he was being facetious.

Jack Nicholas was being serious when he said that he did that exact thing with his kids' school.

lethal wrote:

JUburton wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:Nick Faldo on the broadcast today said it is hard to believe he couldn't give them a sizable donation to move the night to not conflict.

faldo kinda sucks but he was being facetious.

Jack Nicholas was being serious when he said that he did that exact thing with his kids' school.

How f'n arrogant do you have to be to use your money to cause the families of probably 300 other graduating HS students to change their plans to accomodate your conflict. Seriously I hate this world some time.

Jack Nicklaus, the Memorial tournament host and a father of five, recently explained how he had coordinated his professional obligations with some of the big events in his children’s lives. This tournament, he said, used to coincide with the graduation ceremonies at the private school in North Palm Beach, Fla., that his five children attended. The first time there was a conflict, he said, he successfully appealed to school officials to change the commencement ceremonies.

After that, Nicklaus said, school officials asked him about his schedule before settling on graduation dates and times.

“I did contribute a lot of money to the school,” Nicklaus said, laughing.

Squire wrote:

lethal wrote:

JUburton wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:Nick Faldo on the broadcast today said it is hard to believe he couldn't give them a sizable donation to move the night to not conflict.

faldo kinda sucks but he was being facetious.

Jack Nicholas was being serious when he said that he did that exact thing with his kids' school.

How f'n arrogant do you have to be to use your money to cause the families of probably 300 other graduating HS students to change their plans to accomodate your conflict. Seriously I hate this world some time.

mickelson's daughter attends a small private school and it seems like nickalus' kids did too. i'd be surprised if mickelson tries to change it. he has shown though his career he wouldn't miss events like this.

Squire wrote:

lethal wrote:

JUburton wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:Nick Faldo on the broadcast today said it is hard to believe he couldn't give them a sizable donation to move the night to not conflict.

faldo kinda sucks but he was being facetious.

Jack Nicholas was being serious when he said that he did that exact thing with his kids' school.

How f'n arrogant do you have to be to use your money to cause the families of probably 300 other graduating HS students to change their plans to accomodate your conflict. Seriously I hate this world some time.

My son's and daughter's graduations from HS and College directly conflicted. It was really easy, we nicely asked the HS if they could move the time and they did. We would have been fine if they didn't, but we asked in October of the prior year when they published the tentative schedule, and they were fine with accommodating us. My guess, knowing JN a bit from afar, is that they asked nicely well in advance, and that his gifts to the school were the same as many parents make, not in search of the consideration on graduation. At least that's the way I read JN's comments.

Phil seems like a good guy watching from afar. It's just a tournament. I would hope that most people would make the same decision but I sort of doubt it.

Tiger checked into a rehab facility.

only seeing that in tabloids for now

Might get some rain on Thursday, Phil may have a chance to make it.

heyeaglefn wrote:Might get some rain on Thursday, Phil may have a chance to make it.

I don't think he can opt back in on Friday.

phillychuck wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:Might get some rain on Thursday, Phil may have a chance to make it.

I don't think he can opt back in on Friday.

He is scheduled to tee off 2:20 on Thursday. He needs a rain delay to make it but he didn't pull out as of this morning.

going to be interesting to see how this course plays. not going to be enjoyable on FOX though with Joe Buck

Fowler red hot start.

My $10 bets are on Rahm at 16-1 (he's already +4) and Adam Scott at 25-1 (afternoon tee time)

i've been going fleetwood the last few majors. keep it up buddy.

the blimp covering the tournament caught on fire and crashed in a nearby field. pilot parachuted to safety. link

Still no word if the pilot is alive or not.