US Open Crowd

Right, I'm sure this has been posted before but I need to get it off my chest. I've been watching a lot of the US open this week on Sky and amd getting hacked off well and truly (a) by the crowd and (b) by the commentators.

Firstly the crowd. Every shot these days it seems, be it 40 yards from the pin or 600 some moronic imbecilic loser idiot has to shout "Get in the hole!!!!" in a ridiculous way only (and I dont want to sound anti-american here) and american could.  Its ridiculous and if I were the golfer I would be turning round and telling them....I'm sure I'd be less popular than Poulter in days

Secondly the commentators. I know that Peter allis is on side with me about the "Get in the hole" shouts nbut he has fallen foul of another americanism himself without realising. What is it? calling a shot a "golf shot" is what it is. We get comments like "what a wonderful golf shot that was" - well lets face it - its not going to be a cricket shot is it now???? So why the need to clarify that its golf we're watching??? I would hope we all know that!!!!

ARGGHHHH!!!! these things make my blood boil.

Anyway, thanks for rading my rant, I shall sign off now and curl into a ball and rock myself to sleep.

chris 

 Until you hit a "Golf Shot", Chris, you will just not understand.

Tend to agree with you Chris, gets up my nose as well.  What I did think was funny watching it last night was that there was several thousand people following Woods, spraying drives around in a way that I'd be worried about, but when it cut back to Mediate or Westwood it was as deserted as our Sunday afternoon rounds (almost)!

Ah well, such is celebrity.

hey there chris, good rant .....but i gotta disagree with you a bit, cus i dont mind the shouts of "get in the hole" that much, i think its about time for something new though ....cant think of what though how about "wooooo whaata shot" LOL LOL LOL

totally agree with you on the "get in the hole!!" last night/this morning i heard it being screamed when Tiger sent yet another drive on a  500 odd yard par 5  off the tee 60 yards right! unless they are all leftie fans and actually want tiger to put it into a woodpecker hole in one of the trees!!!

On a side note last night was the first time i have stayed up and watched it all "live" and i was not disapointed one bit, for as bad as tiger was he was also just as majestic when he had to be! that chip on the 17th!!!!

Think it may be a little different with westwood with him though, esp if he has to really push himself and his knee!!

bring on tonight and the open!

LOL Chris - how about to John Daly lol hed definately lose it lol, ok guys you gotta check this one out i found it hilarious lol" title="" class="" />

i dont know what the heck happened i pasted it in and its not there !!  lol

ok back to old ways copy and paste this link (or click it if that works) sorry guys dont know why it didnt work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Kf2ZWqmkc

Alps

Thats a great utube vid!!

be great if someone could post it on here (darren !!)  dont know why it didnt work but im sure it will get a few laughs out of everyone !!

just watchin the coverage now, i hope to god butch "golf Shot" harmon aint involved with the open coverage!! 

just watchin the coverage now, i hope to god butch "golf Shot" harmon aint involved with the open coverage!! 

what a putt my Mediate on the 15th !! a part of me wants him to win

cant beleive tigers putt was just short on the 16th !!

ahhhh this is getting to tense !!

chris perhaps you better call your banker then lol

tigers awesome but a part of me would like to see mediate win he so deserves it but then again so does tiger ohhhh heck this is getting too stressfull

if tiger wins this guys chris is buying drinks at our next big event LOL

that tigers just too dam good !!!  keep calm mediate

Is it a bad time to mention I took Mediate at 80-1? £1.50 EW, still not convinced he'll see it through!

that tigers just too dam good !!!  keep calm mediate

hahahaha killed it chris made me laff out that comment !!

i bet your peeing your pants right now - tigers last chance !!!

I reckon Mediate will bottle it!

hahahaha killed it chris made me laff out that comment !!

i bet your peeing your pants right now - tigers last chance !!!

Sorry, am I buying Callaways??

hahahaha killed it chris made me laff out that comment !!

i bet your peeing your pants right now - tigers last chance !!!

hahahaha killed it chris made me laff out that comment !!

i bet your peeing your pants right now - tigers last chance !!!

Thats alright Martin, only you nearly got me in trouble with the missus!!

chris looks like you bets gonna pay off

Think this is Tigers to give away now!

drinks on chris !!!!  lol

Obviously you don't have to share.. But I'm curious, how much you won on him?

drinks on chris !!!!  lol

nice.. well done fella

Chris, this comment was posted on my other favorite site, chiptalk.net.....http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/general-topics/50370-us-open-pet-peeves.html

I just love this one.... 

Excerpt below:   

My son and I were at the Northern Trust Open this year at Riviera. Watching some nice play on Saturday morning and some guy standing next to us at a par 4 tee box yelled out the ole "Get in the hole!!" after Mickelson tee'd off.

My son (Age17) just turned his head to him (Like eveyone else).. and said clamly, "It's a Par 4... Act like you've been to a golf tourney before today, you douche." Everyone around us, including myself starting laughing like crazy. The guy just walked off... It probably helped that my son towered over the guy.