Web.com Player Lambasts Nick Faldo On Twitter For Taking Valuable Spot in RBC Field
Web.com golfer Josh Broadaway is royally pissed off with Sir Nick Faldo for what he perceives as
taking the place of a real player in the RBC Heritage field; so much so that he took to Twitter to mock Faldo's 6 over round and tell him to "get back in the booth"
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I've heard everything there is to hear about Nick Faldo, he really does divide opinion, but I have to say he was my golfing hero growing up and I'd have him before Bruce Critchley as an announcer any day. There's also the small matter of his being a six time Major Champion. Josh Broadaway however wasn't thinking Majors when he tweeted...
My own tuppence worth is that Broadaway has a point but in singling out Faldo he is hitting out at the wrong target. It's the tournament organizers who invite past champions back to play in the event, and Faldo having won in 1984 accepted the invite.
Maybe Faldo sees playing as a chance to mix with some of the younger players on Tour (God knows he didn't mix much in his own day), get that feeling of being out on the course again, experience the way the courses are being set up in 2014, get the lines on the greens and the kinds of shots required. After being slated earlier this year by Hank Haney for doing "next to no research" compared to Brandel Chamblee, possibly Faldo sees that being out there is his way of being a better announcer.
Of course Broadaway sees it differently. Every old codger that plays an event takes away another spot from a young struggling professional who needs the money, to earn the points that will keep them on Tour and with a living for the next 12 months. In this case the first alternate for the RBC Heritage was Hudson Swafford who had to show up in Hilton Head, watch Faldo and the rest tee off and leave. That must have been very tough. We've all seen in Jordan Spieth that a Web.com player can progress to the very top of the game rapidly given the right break.
There's no right and wrong here. Broadaway's anger is understandable if possibly misdirected. It's a matter for event organizers who plays, not the past champions. All they did was win the damn thing!
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I've heard everything there is to hear about Nick Faldo, he really does divide opinion, but I have to say he was my golfing hero growing up and I'd have him before Bruce Critchley as an announcer any day. There's also the small matter of his being a six time Major Champion. Josh Broadaway however wasn't thinking Majors when he tweeted...
My own tuppence worth is that Broadaway has a point but in singling out Faldo he is hitting out at the wrong target. It's the tournament organizers who invite past champions back to play in the event, and Faldo having won in 1984 accepted the invite.
Maybe Faldo sees playing as a chance to mix with some of the younger players on Tour (God knows he didn't mix much in his own day), get that feeling of being out on the course again, experience the way the courses are being set up in 2014, get the lines on the greens and the kinds of shots required. After being slated earlier this year by Hank Haney for doing "next to no research" compared to Brandel Chamblee, possibly Faldo sees that being out there is his way of being a better announcer.
Of course Broadaway sees it differently. Every old codger that plays an event takes away another spot from a young struggling professional who needs the money, to earn the points that will keep them on Tour and with a living for the next 12 months. In this case the first alternate for the RBC Heritage was Hudson Swafford who had to show up in Hilton Head, watch Faldo and the rest tee off and leave. That must have been very tough. We've all seen in Jordan Spieth that a Web.com player can progress to the very top of the game rapidly given the right break.
There's no right and wrong here. Broadaway's anger is understandable if possibly misdirected. It's a matter for event organizers who plays, not the past champions. All they did was win the damn thing!
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