BREAKING: What Rick Shiels JUST Shot at OPEN Qualifying! *SHOCKING* 

No, they are not ALL good. You only have to be scratch, and I've seen some truly terrible scratch players. Some of the scores were abysmal and a good player would never shoot that badly, even on a bad day.

You are playing the course! So who else is there is irrelevant.

@@garycornwell2045 It isn't irrelevant if the majority are MILES better than you are and in order to qualify you need to shoot lower. You aren't playing the course in a Strokeplay event. You are playing to have a score lower than your competitors.

@@sandersson2813 you don't know what score you need however history in these events suggests 12 over might not cut it.

@@garycornwell2045 Agreed 12+ is horrendous, and if you shoot that it doesn't matter who else is in the field. I'll agree on that, but if you have a decent round it really does matter because for instance the regional round has a lot more ordinary players than final qualifying thus if you shoot level par in Regional you will stand a good chance of making it through, if you shoot level par in Final Qualifying it's irrelevant as you'll be nowhere near such is the higher calibre of player. If you're going to shoot 12+ or as Pete has done come nowhere near to qualifying on any of his many attempts you might as well set fire to your entry fee or put some bets on with it instead.

His chipping seriously makes me think whether he spent his pro days outside of chipping area.

He’s a poor golfer and should just stick to RU-vid

@@tonythaiger93 Big difference between Golf Professional and Professional Golfer.

unlucky it got windy when he teed it up but i do wonder what he could do if he got a proper fitting from Ian at TXG/Club Champion in Toronto.

Finch is a far better player than Rick, and Rick's score came from a couple bad holes really, Finch just had a poor round in general

Playing A Piss Easy Scoring Golf Course With Favourable Weather Condition's. Yup! Nine Over Great round from an 8 - Handicap Golfer. RICK!!!!! 🙈👍🏻

I expected a bad score. He's never done well in Regional Qualifying. Never been remotely close to qualifying. He's up against proper players, not Mars Bar Salesmen Club Pro's.

​@@sandersson2813 Wow. You really are a hater. Who hurt you?

@@winstonsmith11 Are you American by any chance? It's perfectly reasonable to be realistic without being "hateful". Why is it peoppe can't accept another point of view without denigrating it as "hate". I was stating my opinion based on evidence of consistent failure at this level with seemingly no improvement year on year. There's only so many times you can say "just a bad day" before it falls on deaf ears. These guys demonstrably are not good enough technically or mentally to qualify for The Open. Occasionally one of them MIGHT make it through to Final Qualifying, but perhaps you don't realise the chasm between these guys and those genuinely capable of qualifying for a Major Championship.

@@winstonsmith11 he is right though. He didn't say anything that wasn't true. Pete doesn't have the mental ability to play under pressure. And to be honest, on his own videos he barely catches a fairway. Love his videos but honesty is honesty.

He isn't good enough, never had been and doesn't have the minerals. Has a "bad round" in this every year, whilst bog standard club golfers are making the cut.

​@@sandersson2813he's definitely good enough in ability. Mentally he's beyond amature.

Delusional youtuber

@@rhysbevan5544 He's not good enough, as he repeatedly demonstrates, just as I'm not good enough, and you're not good enough. I know people who have made it through to Final Qualification, but that's it, they simply can't get any further. The absolute best these RU-vidrs can hope for is Final Qualifying.

@@rhysbevan5544 He's nowhere near good enough. He doesn't consistently put in good scores anywhere under pressure. Shoots in the 80's far too often.

Clearly what I meant lol but thanks

Heat in UK isn't an excuse at all. It's not Death Valley.

What did you mate?

@@Monkeypole 80, terrible. 6x3 putts...

Andy Carter is, and he almost proved it...almost!

@@SteveFromStockport Up to what level? The absolute best any of these RU-vidrs could do is to possibly sneak into Final Qualification but get anhiliated by the quality of player who can outscore them by 15 shots over two rounds. No RU-vid golfer in the Rick/Pete/Andy mould will EVER qualify for The Open. It's as pointless a quest as that American kid in the UK trying to have a bogey free round off a handicap of 12. It's not happening.

@@sandersson2813 I play off 12 and have had bogey free rounds. Do double bogeys count?

@@christopherhughes497 😀😀😀😀 Bravo

...and he actually is! I was disappointed that Rick was allocated to Caldy, when Peter Finch, Andy Carter and James Robinson were at Hesketh, which is where I went. Let me tell you, they are all really affable guys, who will share themselves with the spectators...very unlike the tour pros!

Played well against Justin Rose just can't keep momentum for 18 holes

I totally agree. I have been saying the same thing for months as the comments in his RU-vid videos are getting more negative by the day. He needs to do exactly what the “DOD King” does, call out the haters, show up to their course and spank them live on camera. I don’t think some people grasp that he plays from the tips on some of the hardest courses in the world. He’s not playing on some local rinky-dink course from the white tees.

Open qualifying results are probably live and certainly posted on the Open website by the end of the day and therefore available to anyone immediately.

Back injury didn’t even tee it up

@YoYoZamolo oh no way that's gutting

You can slow down the playback speed lol

Scotty didn't miss the cut

@@travistemple7526 well, he wasn't in contention. Tournament Golf is hard was my point.

😂 actually gotten that once before at a course

You’d have a hard time breaking 120 in an Open qualifying course setup.

lets see you film every shot and post it online for endless amount of critics and then see how you do 🙄

@@leebaxtertrading okay bet.

Appreciate you bro!

Pretty impressive....... The guy calls himself a pro Golfer. 81 isn't impressive.

@@mattkelly245 When has Rick Shiels called himself a pro golfer? I've NEVER thought of him as that. He's a professional RU-vid golfer in the sense that he makes a living playing golf on the internet but he's not a pro. He has a whole series built on sometimes Breaking 75. If a pro ever didn't break 75 at a muni, it'd be a disaster.

@@iamjacquesbarjonI think you misunderstand what a pro golfer is. Most pros are club pros / teaching professionals which is a qualification and Rick was this. Many club pros and teaching professionals would not break par when they play although likely could at times. Tour pros make a living actually playing golf and their golf games are on a completely different level to a regular pro

@@mattkelly245You do 81 at an Open qualifier and then we’ll see what’s not impressive 😂😂. Chill out baby boy. I promise you he’s better than you

@iitstre_4550 Considering I'm a Scratch player I would be very disappointed with an 81.

I also played , the greens were firm but they weren’t slow at all ⛳️⛳️👍👍

Bad workmen blames his tools. 7 qualified and scored well, so why didn't Pete? Andy Carter was only +1.

He needs to spend about 50k on a psychologist and a hypnotist. His mentals have always been horrible.

To that point, I wouldn’t say disappointed in his game. His game is incredible right now. The course got the best of him is all

Seems to catch a bad round every year in qualifying, wonder why?

With no pressure.

Horvat and the bryan bros, actually would have made the cut, 2 rounds not one

@@simonhuss9619 Sheer speculation. If they're so good, why didn't they try?

More chance of Jesus finding Lord Lucan.

Finally gonna have an office/studio! Haha not a big deal

Kwon and Dalke i honestly say should qualifying with very little trouble. Have you seen Kwon’s recent stuff? He shot 9 under at Barnbougle’s hard course. If he keeps playing the way he is right now, I wouldn’t be surprised if he won the qualifier next year. He’s COOKING right now! And Brad is Brad, dude has like 5 bad rounds a year 😂

There all legit scratch to + hdcp and would wipe the floor with the uk offerings

Rick Shiels yes. Peter Finch shot better than Luke Kwon, Grant Horvat and Micah Morris at the Myrtle Beach qualifier not long ago

Dalke made the US Open in 2017 as the NCAA champion I believe.

⁠@@iitstre_4550Qualifying with very little trouble, is not something anyone not prequalified can manage.

He’s at best a good country club player. Probably wouldn’t even win his own club championship

He is not a 5 handicapper. 10 is more accurate. That 81 is his absolute best IMO.

He's a 1 or 2 by his own admission.

​@@sandersson2813 Yes, handicaps are generally misunderstood by most people. It factors in course rating and it is not an AVERAGE, but the number represents a good round (the USGA handicap throws out your 10 worst scores straightaway). To say Rick is a 10 handicap is foolish...low single digits I can buy. I'm a 15 and if I were playing Rick, would ask for a stroke on the 10 toughest holes at a minimun.

I don’t think he does. At times though, he does engage in bold crazy talk in reference to his game.