I think he has a case. There is no other sport that puts so much pressure on the individual. A few wankers like Spieth try and blame their caddy, but everyone knows it’s you against the course and that’s it. It’s the ultimate mind fuck game.
Faced down all competition to get into the final 125, and then all the way to the final 30. Faced down the best in the world and beat him by seven (7) strokes over 18 holes. Had the home crowd eating out of his hand. A new Irish American hero is born.
Not a sport
Not Irish
SPECTATORS ARE TENDED TO AFTER THE LIGHTNING STRIKE AT EAST LAKE GOLF CLUB IN ATLANTA ON SATURDAY WHICH INJURED SIX FANS. PHOTOGRAPH: JOHN AMIS/AP
Gerry Moriarty
A 19-year-old Co Tyrone student was one of six golf fans who were injured in lightning strikes in the US during the third round of the Tour Championship at the weekend.
Ryan Murphy, from Cookstown, Co Tyrone, was struck by the lightning while he was out following Rory McIlroy at the end-of-season event in at East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia.
He was briefly unconscious, but his father Terry told the BBC yesterday that his “bruised and shaken” son now “wants to come home”.
Mr Murphy said he had been exchanging text messages with his son throughout Saturday as Ryan was providing a “running commentary” on the Tour Championship, in which golfers were competing for a share of a $60 million purse. The Murphys are members of Killymoon Golf Club in Cookstown.
Mr Murphy explained that his son, who is about to begin studying structural engineering with architecture at Queen’s University Belfast, had said in his last text that play was being suspended because of lightning storms.
The father said he knew “in my gut” that something was wrong when he heard about the storms. The family tried phoning Ryan but there was no response. They then started ringing local hospitals. The panic lasted about 45 minutes but then Ryan finally picked up his phone.
The first thing he said to his father was: “Don’t say anything to Mummy.”
Scans
Mr Murphy said Ryan told him he had been sheltering under a tree when the lightning struck and all he could remember was waking up “yards away” with the emergency services surrounding him.
“He’s had scans just to make sure there is no internal damage,” Mr Murphy said.
Ryan was back in his hotel by yesterday afternoon and intends to fly home tomorrow.
He had been due to go to San Francisco and then New York before coming home to start his course at Queen’s. His father said it was “unfortunate” that he had to cancel his plans but “he’s alive”.
The Department of Foreign Affairs said it was “aware of the case” and was providing “consular assistance” to the teenager’s family. Five other people were injured after the lightning strikes, which hit a tree close to the 15th green at East Lake.
The PGA Tour said the injuries suffered by the fans “do not appear to be life-threatening”.
“At 4.45pm there were two lightning strikes at East Lake Golf Club; a tree near the range/15 green/16 tee was hit and debris from that strike injured four people,” the tour said in a statement. “[Emergency medical technicians] tended to those fans and two others immediately and transported them from the property via ambulance for further medical attention.”
“Mummy” ffs
Oswald was a fag
It would be him, Brian o Driscoll and ruby Walsh for me.
Golf isn’t a sport you retarded fuck.
Only a yank would try and count yesterday as a competition, yesterday was about cash and cash alone.Its a Mickey Mouse competition.The majors are where it’s at and Mcillroy can’t win one of them and probably never will again.A nice bundle of cash to win but that’s all it was.
You must be new here
Only an idiot would define yesterday as such. “Yesterday” was the culmination of the entire season, a competition only the elite in golf qualified for rather than were invited to like mickey mouse competitions such as the British Open and FA Cup. Winning the Tour Championship and Players Championship in one season is unprecedented.
Rory has won four (4) majors, more than most golfers who ever lived.
Golf is the ultimate sport. Your opinion is worthless anyway given your experience of sport is lads grabbing each others ball sacks and sniffing each other holes.
A lot of pretend Irish people on this thread. I would imagine they feel the same about George Best, Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Van Morrison.
he needs to have the ‘Green Jacket’ in his walk-in wardrobe to even be in the shakeup
How many Irishmen have worn the green jacket?
Only the greats, like Happy Gilmore, win the Tour Championship.
even God doesn’t like golf, hence the thunderbolt
Koepka looked like he had been hit by one on the back nine.
Under a tree. What a genius.
