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Golf Thread

Glad to have opened up your eyes to Moe, he's my favorite person in golf. His fireside interview with Jack Kuykendall is very inspiring and something I can watch over and over again, you should check it out!

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Gazza Dazzla said:
Big Phil taking sly digs at Tom Watson in the press room, bit nasty that, although I think Watson was a terrible captain, he's still a legend and deserves the respect that comes with that.
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Fat Phil's comments:

“We had a great formula in ’08. I don’t know why we strayed,” Mickelson said. “I don’t know why we don’t go back. What Zinger did was great.” In a quite extraordinary scene and in front of Watson, he expanded on that point. “There were two things that allow us to play our best I think that Paul Azinger did, and one was he got everybody invested in the process. He got everybody invested in who they were going to play with, who the picks were going to be, who was going to be in their [practice session] pod, when they would play, and they had a great leader for each pod.

“In my case, we had Ray Floyd, and we hung out together and we were all invested in each other’s play. We were invested in picking Hunter Mahan that week; Anthony Kim and myself and Justin Leonard were in a pod, and we were involved on having Hunter be our guy to fill our pod. So we were invested in the process.

“The other thing that Paul did really well was he had a great game plan for us, you know, how we were going to go about doing this. How we were going to go about playing together; golf ball, format, what we were going to do, if so-and-so is playing well, if so-and-so is not playing well, we had a real game plan. Those two things helped us bring out our best golf.

“We all do the best that we can and we’re all trying our hardest and I’m just looking back at what gave us the most success. Because we use that same process in the Presidents Cup and we do really well. Unfortunately, we have strayed from a winning formula in 2008 for the last three Ryder Cups, and we need to consider maybe getting back to that formula that helped us play our best.”

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/sep/28/phil-mickelson-tom-watson-ryder-cup
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What a load of gibberish about investing. Basically he didn't get the input he felt he was entitled and didn't like it. I find it hard to believe he was dropped for both matches on Saturday for golfing reasons so it makes me think he was undermining Watson and the team. He then played well on Sunday because he felt he had something to prove. It was about him rather than the team.

I hope he gets a chance to be a Ryder Cup captain because with that attitude he will be really bad.

P.S. Whales live in pods so I can see why Michelson feels affinity for pods.
 
The yanks were never realy in it at all, it was a breeze for Europe. They played fantastic and you could see the togetherness and unity they have.

Phil's comments just reek of sour grapes. He is well known for his ego. The truth is that Europe have better players.
 
If we win the next couple Ryder Cups it be Europe against the Rest of the World before long ,lol.......

If we got the players, can't see why they can't use the same formula each time,in chosing the team and the preperations,if it ain't broke no need to fix it as they say...
 
The criticism of Watson is rather pathetic because the result was so one-sided. No tactics were going to make up five points. Better play might. If they had lost be a single point, then some criticism might have merit.
 
Is there any stats to show how close it was, or not so close. I mean total scorecard counts or something. Because until towards the end of the second day it was still pretty close. Did Europe just edge each match or when you take a step back were they actually much better than the US.
 
Flannerz said:
Probably further than you hit it! :D
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T'was a tight call. It was my 3rd hopeless tee shot in a row and I just blacked out for a sec.

Pretty annoying when you're hitting irons very well, but can't get the damn thing off tee. Feel like kicking my woods out from the bag and just tee off with a 4 iron.
Watching the links on tv now, both Rory and Schwartzel with 300+ yards off tee with an iron...different game the links methinks. I'm on no roll at my course .
 
All golfers should read Bob Rottelas books. 'Golf is not a game of perfect' and 'putting out of your mind'. He has others but those are the best.
 
Flannerz said:
Why is it when you tee off with an iron to play safe you always scuff it?!
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That's why I choose to ditch my driver and 3w in tomorrow's tournie: playing an iron off tee isn't playing it safe when it's the only option you have.

Think I mentioned this earlier, but I played 9 holes 3 over par with just a 6,8i and PW plus putter a few weeks ago. Forced to play smart and easy.

As for tomorrow, my starting hole is a 525m par 5 dogleg left with OOB down the right off tee and trees to the left. The safe play is a 180-200m layup, the awesome play is a 230m carry over the trees.

But, knowing myself, there will be at least a 3w in the bag tomorrow

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Eriktheviking said:
All golfers should read Bob Rottelas books. 'Golf is not a game of perfect' and 'putting out of your mind'. He has others but those are the best.
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Is it basically don't judge your shots, just observe and move on?
I've read the inner game of golf, and I believe that was the jist of it.

Also read Hogan's 5 lessons a while back, which completely ruined my swing. I spent the entire winter honing my Hogan swing indoors, really thinking I had something good going on. Come spring, shanked two balls off the first tee and walked off after 9 holes, having lost 10 balls and scored 2 stableford points.

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Eriktheviking said:
All golfers should read Bob Rottelas books. 'Golf is not a game of perfect' and 'putting out of your mind'. He has others but those are the best.
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I dont know why amateurs get the hump when they hit a bad shot, no point, plenty of others in the round to hit well, just enjoy the fact you're out playing a great game in the fresh air
 
Good to see Harrington doing well, won me a lot of money in his prime, another golfer who tinkered with his game too much when he didnt need to and fell off the face of the golfing earth
 
Hah, 83 strokes today in windy conditions. Four strokes better than my hcp and 2nd place with 133 players in the field. Happy days :)

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