Posts by Merfal

One of the differences is that professional athletes have been in sports and athletics their whole lives. When they were youths they developed the fine motor skills and fine sports skills that are best developed at certain windows...

I talked to a rep at the PGA show who said something similar to me, except he said they were trying to reduce driver spin. I have talked to a few other guys I play with about the ball and they had mostly the same things to say about...

I have been playing them since they came out and I like them for the most part. I have found that I can only play one for about 6 holes before it is cut up bad enough to be a practice ball. Also, it spins quite a bit more than the last...

Quote: Originally Posted by Shorty  Malcolm Gladwell is known as a "guru for the brain dead". Not hard to see why.       It takes someone really smart to throw around insults...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Shorty  Talk about a meaningless and completely invented "statistic". Whoever plucked this number out of the air is a fool.  

And 10,000 hours of practice to be world class, not just good.    Quote: Originally Posted by iacas    Look, the 10,000 hours thing doesn't even apply to golfers as a whole. Trying to apply...

The point I'm making is that a long putter is an advantage if it takes less practice to become equally efficient as a person who has put in more practice with a traditional putter. And maybe it would take you that long to get good...

It takes an average of ten years/10,000 of dedicated practice to be world class at something. The best putters on tour with normal putters likely have this mass of hours built up. What about the best long putter players on tour; how...

I agree 100% with what Tiger Woods had to say. I believe that a putter anchored to the body should be banned in competitive play.

I shot a 77 on a very soggy but nice Elk Run in Seattle yesterday. It was nice to play on a green course in the winter, although by the time I was finished I was hating myself for walking because of the hills.