Iain Carter

Regular special guest on the Chipping Forecast golf pod. Broadcaster, writer, speaker, BBC Sport Golf Correspondent, instagram @iaincartergolf

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@perrymar1969 @NUCLRGOLF I thought it was fine. Looked to me like he was just looking for similar clumps of grass to see how well his club would go through them. At the time I thought it was very clever shot prep.

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@TonytheTyke You’re going mad 🤣

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@BeanMallard @JakeWatson_TV Ha! That’s a tough call!

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@JakeWatson_TV Ask the Rangers fans! And we didn’t care much for that style of play while winning the Championship.

[Flushing It @flushingitgolf]

On Friday, Sports Illustrated released their entire golf crew. That sucks.
Not only because incredibly talented and experienced journalists like Bob Harig are now (temporarily) out of work. But one of the largest sports media empires is cutting virtually their entire coverage of the sport we all love.

Storytelling is the greatest asset a sport has to drive engagement and fan interest. If there are less reporters at the events and fans have to rely on questions from tour employees, media who are financially linked to the tour they cover, or media who are represented by the same agencies as the players, then output is inevitably going to be sanitised.

Professional golf is already boring when it compares to other sports. The legendary characters of Arnie, Seve, Chi Chi etc are long gone and now the vast majority are media trained robots who offer very little in the way of a story unless it’s pulled out of them by a willing journalist. That’s only going to get worse the more great writers become unemployed.

I haven’t been in the golf media game for long, but I have learned one very important lesson. Authentic storytelling is paramount to the success of the sport and elevating stars.

I’d like to wish every single one of the great journalists that was released by SI all the best for the future and I hope they land in another important role within the sport as soon as possible.

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@GingertabsT @LCFC Let’s agree to differ, have to save energy to get my head round having shelled out for a League One season ticket. Well done everyone.

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Leicester’s women relegated from the WSL - so that’s three relegations in two seasons for the club. Will anyone be held accountable for such dismal results across the whole club? Sadly I think we know the answer.

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@GingertabsT @LCFC Criticism should never be hate imo. But on every metric it is very hard not to be critical of how @LCFC has performed in the last three seasons - paying high wages to low performing players.

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@GingertabsT You think I’m wrong. I respect that. I may well be, but as a fan I’m entitled to an opinion, as you are. But don’t deny me my right to express mine because I’m a golf journalist. That’s just absurd.

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@GingertabsT I’ll stick to what I like on here thanks.

[Brian Keogh @IrishGolfDesk]

Congrats @gregallenRTE on a thoroughly deserved award. 👏

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@SamMartinFPL @FosseHub After Pep takes his place in the KP dugout?

[Oliver Wilson @Oliver_Wilson]

That’s the @PGAChampionship done ✔️

I really enjoyed @AroniminkGC probably more so from this side of the ropes. It was refreshing to see a slightly different test to a normal PGA which many players certainly didn’t adapt to.

There were 299 three-putts in the first two rounds alone. For context, The Masters this year had 190 over all four rounds. That’s a crazy stat!

It may well be something we see more of in course setups of the future, rather than just growing the rough to boring lengths that eliminates creativity, I certainly hope so anyway.

Hole locations being cut on steeper gradients asks a tougher question and makes players way more edgy in my opinion. When you’re nervy and you can’t feel your hands there’s nothing harder than trying to hole a left to right slider!

Now the dry conditions helped and there is a balance of course, but Aronimink brought back the importance of angles with their wild greens & cambered fairways that tested every area of the game as a Major should.

It exposed more of the world’s best and you could argue it allowed a fairer test instead of the typical bomb and gouge.

Aaron was the well rounded winner the course deserved!

I’m so pleased for him and his team. Six under par on his last 10 holes, when everything was on the line was exceptional golf!

He answered the unique questions the course asked better than anyone, and it produced a winner every bit as distinctive as the test itself.

Thanks to the @5liveSport team of @iaincartergolf @jamesgregg7 @KDownesSport & the team back home.

See you at The Open!

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@CharlesRTel Said the same thing on way out of the ground

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@RawlingJohn @Deano230 Only because I learned everything off you

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@RawlingJohn @Deano230 I suspect the “very” is there to emphasise the point being made.

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@PNEBenHD You think Leicester would have won yesterday if there was anything riding on it??

[Gerrie Byrne @gerriebyrnescot]

Well done to our @SportJournLancs Y2s on a special edition of Adelphi Sportsday in partnership with @EWBlindGolf. Give us a share @_benparsons @iaincartergolf

https://t.co/rQXrPlFMMo

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@RobTannerLCFC I wasn’t there. Please do not say that I was @LCFC