Least favorite tour player.......and why

[Headhammer]

22 hours ago, chupac78 said:

Patrick Reed

#nuffsaid 

 

[Headhammer]

For me it was Cantlay for his demeanor and excruciatingly slow play, but Wyndham Clark as far surpassed him as the jerk du jour!

[BrianL99]

1 hour ago, Siamese Moose said:

You should talk to some of the rules officials or Tour admin people from Jack's time. They're far from complimentary. 

I avoided mentioning his name, as I figured I'd get pummeled.   I have 2 friends that worked for him.  One for 20+ years and another for 15+ years.    The words usually used to describe him, were arrogant, obnoxious, difficult and of course ... "all knowing and never in doubt".

[billpierce]

20 hours ago, Big moose said:

Patrick Reed for obvious reasons, and Patrick cantly and Brian Harmon because they are the slowest players I have ever watched. If they are ever in the same pairing they will probably be two holes behind. 

Seems like we get a strong bottom dweller grouping:

Cantlay

Reed

Phil

Rory

Maybe we can create a survey

 

[ClarkWGriswoldIII]

Brooks Koepka.  I'm not a Bryson fan by any stretch of the imagination but the way Koepka handled that whole deal, essentially encouraging the drunken a-hole spectators to get on Bryson, made me lose all respect for the guy.

I'm also not a Spieth fan.  Just a little too much whining for my taste.

Sergio is another one up high on my list.

 

 

[JMD95]

Sergio García - for pretty much the same reason you don't like Hatton.

Bryson - This has been more media driven than anything he has actually done.

Ian Poulter - Been to a few tournaments he was in and saw him be pretty rude to people. Rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe I just saw a him on bad days. 

P. Cantlay - Was at a Pro-Am on a Tuesday or Wednesday before the tournament started and he really never talked with the people he was assigned to play with while other golfers were talking to them the whole time and cutting up. The people playing with him that day were probably expecting to have fun and pick the brain of a PGA pro and he just seemed closed off. I get he was prepping and focusing in for a tournament, and maybe he warmed up to them later while I wasn't watching. 

Like and dislike Billy Horschel - I hate the gators, but go West Ham

Cam Smith - Couldn't tell you why. I just always root against him.

Ironically there are a lot of LIV players here which honestly has nothing to do with it. It just makes me less likely to turn on a LIV event to watch people I don't like play.

 

[tony@CIC]

Four way tie: Bryson, Rahmbo, Garcia and Smith. Not sure there's enough space here for comments so take it for what it is, but it's not that they're LIV - I hated them as Tour players.  

[GaDawg]

1. Tiger Woods - The media loves him, especially The Golf Channel

2. Rory Mcllory - Cry Baby

[BIG STU]

On 4/25/2024 at 10:41 AM, smartak said:

Mine has definitely been Rory. I know people love him, but his holier than though attitude, his whining about everything, his outspoken and flip flop stance on LIV, once his buddy Rahm went there, and his quitting the PGA board and I just heard yesterday he may be going back just grates on me. 
He flip flops more than politicians

Well Said!! Same for me for the same reasons

[ballhawk]

On 4/26/2024 at 8:03 AM, Headhammer said:

 

[jolter1]

There are a few golfers that I would say get "under my skin" but the only one who I am starting to dislike would be Justin Thomas. For some reason either whether it is how he whines about LIV or other things, I just thought he was better than that.  Then again it could just be me and just tired about the whole money and so called "feud" issue.

[Golfjopa]

On 4/25/2024 at 10:46 AM, DaddyManX said:

I also agree with TW. Can’t stand him. He’s a great golfer. Everybody knows it. But he’s not even in the tournament and that’s all they wanna talk about Tiger this Tiger that. If he is in the tournament they make him a featured group so you see every shot he takes. He can be 15 shots out of the lead on Sunday and you’ll see every shot he hits. I want to see guys that are in the running. Then if he doesn’t make the cut they want to show his highlights from Thursday and Friday. Then the part I love is he shoots 5 to 10 over par on a given day and he magically withdraws because of the flu or injury. Kind of ironic to me. Maybe it’s the medias fault because they are going to show what’s gonna make money but I just can’t stand him. 

This. Exactly. I HATE the way the media has a tigasm anytime they get the chance to mention Tiger. Yes, he is a great golfer, if not the GOAT then certainly in the team picture (personally I have Hogan or Nicklaus as the GOAT but TW is absolutely one of the Top 3 GOATs). I stopped watching golf because NBC and Johnny Miller would focus solely on TW and ignore everything else going on (yes I know this was years ago but I still don't watch golf because of it).

I remember watching some tournament where TW wasn't even in contention on Sunday. The leaders are on holes 8 or 9 or somewhere like that but TW is finishing his round and we got to watch TW and his caddie (Steve at the time) wait for the 18th green to clear and then talk over his approach shot for what felt like 5 minutes. They never cut away to see someone else's shot - the camera stayed on TW for MINUTES! And to Johnny Miller's eyes, if TW hits a bad shot, it is because he got a bad bounce but if anybody else hits a bad shot, they succumbed to the pressure. 

For current players, I agree with choices of Cantlay (slow play, whiner), Koepka (he is such a huge a-hole he made me like DeChambeau just to spite him), Patrick Reed (cheater), and Talor Gooch (huge whiny baby). You can add Sergio to this list too.

I want to like Rory but he makes it difficult. Well, I did actually like Rory until he was such a jerk about the whole Liv golf thing and then immediately flip-flopped as soon as Rahm goes to Liv. I still say all the PGA tour had to do was to tell the golfers "Sure, as long as you play 15 PGA events a year (which is I believe a PGA Tour requirement), do what ever you want with the other 37 weeks of the year" and the whole Liv thing would have died in infancy, but instead, the PGA fought it and gave Liv thousands of hours of media coverage for free. What a dumb-dumb Jay Monahan was and is about the whole thing.

I've been the hugest Phil fan for years and years but these last two or three years - geez, Phil, get over yourself dude! You had a decent point about the PGA Tour owning the rights to your shots and you can't even do anything with those pictures or that coverage without paying for it but NOBODY below the PGA tour player level gives a crap about that! All we see is you are making million$ and million$ every year and complaining about being treated unfairly - do you even realize how stupid and greedy that makes you look? Shut the heck up already! So now I no longer consider myself a Phil fan (but I do still like his wife).

Edited 13 hours ago by Golfjopa