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Conference 7.286::golf

Title:	Welcome to the Golf Notes Conference!
Notice:	FOR SALE notes in Note 69 please! Intros in note 863 or 61.
Moderator:	FUNYET::ANDERSON

Created:	Tue Feb 15 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2129
Total number of notes:	21499

303.0. "English Input" by CHEFS::NEWPORTP () Mon Jun 27 1988 08:00

    I'd like to be part of this great conference on the world's 
    greatest game. This is my first contribution, so here goes:-
    
    Firstly, to show you all that I'm a sporting type, just like to 
    say well done to Curtis Strange on the U.S. Open victory. 
    There's no doubt the better guy won on the day. There was real 
    good T.V. coverage in England and it proved to be 'edge-of-the
    -seat viewing.
    
    The pro's must be made of steel... Nick Faldo must have felt 
    so low after the play-off, yet at the weekend he won the French
    Open holing a 30 foot putt at the last. 
    
    So it'll soon be time for our Open at Royal Lytham. Is anyone 
    coming over to watch?? What is the T.V. coverage like elsewhere?  
      
    Phil. ( A scrambling 18 handicap)

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
303.1	Isn't it Strange?!!	MILVAX::FENTON		`Mon Jun 27 1988 13:42`	17
	Hi Phil, Too bad about Faldo! Your right the best man did win. All kidding aside now.....I was fortunate enough to be there on Saturday. What a place! It was just like it looked on TV because I saw it on Sunday and Monday. I think that ABC did a fantastic job covering the Open. As for the "other" open I'll be viewing it on T.V.......unless u have tickets to it and a place to stay and plane tickets.....I don't want much do I? Thanks for starting this up! I couldn't wait to give a guy from England a hard time! See ya, John (Where's my ball? It's in the hole!)
303.2	Humble Pie	USWAV3::FAGERBERG		`Wed Jun 29 1988 15:42`	7
	I went on Thursday to watch for an hour or so....what a humbling experience. After watching 300+ yard drives, iron play that was nothing short of spectacular, that when I played Sunday and cleared the 225 yards out crest of the hill on the fly it seemed like a mis-hit. And I don't want to talk about putting. The U.S. Open is golf at its greatest!
303.3	TV coverage, what's that?	BIRKA::LITBY	...and he built a Crooked House	`Fri Jul 01 1988 15:18`	18
	Swedish TV coverage, HA HA HA!!! I'm happy if they give the results in the sports broadcasts, even that is not too likely. As far as golf on TV goes, this country is definitely agricultural... Of course, if you have cable TV and get these nice British stations, you can watch the big tournaments, but the stupid buggers in the condo corporation where I live keep refusing to install cable TV. It's funny, what with Sweden being the second-largest golfing nation in Europe (after the U.K), that the situation is the way it is. But I guess that's what you get when you have state-run TV... If we can throw the current bozos out in the election this fall there might, who knows, be a change... -- Mr Litby