Posts by allin

I said 1 in 100, but if it's an unfamiliar course it would be 2 or 3 in 100. The first time you play a course or a hole position you haven't seen before you can over think it or just get fooled. Usually for me if I miss one of these it...

Quote:Originally Posted by bigoak Would be fun to watch today's top 50 hitting a balata rubber ball with "wooden" woods and steel shafts, true blade irons without peripheral weighting, and a bullseye putter.  especially fun to see...

There are two problems with the population has grown therefore there are more talented golfers now idea. It assumes the percentage of the total population playing golf has remained stable or increased. It also assumes that superior...

Quote:Originally Posted by mchepp I will probably take some heat for this, but I think Tiger has attracted a higher quality athlete to golf. In the 50's, the best aside, the athleticism was not as required as today. I think today's...

Quote:Originally Posted by mck I think the physical requirements make team sports like football and basketball have smaller talent pools.  A seven-footer is competing against other seven-footers for that center position--the height...

Quote:Originally Posted by mck I think the physical requirements make team sports like football and basketball have smaller talent pools.  A seven-footer is competing against other seven-footers for that center position--the height...

01 IQuote:Originally Posted by zipazoid I think a lot of this whole debate is generational preference. When I was 23, I thought the top players of that era - Nicklaus, Watson, Ballesteros - were soooo much better than the previous...

Quote:Originally Posted by iacas Jack Nicklaus doesn't favor his own generation. He says there are many, many more players capable of winning majors nowadays. He says in his time half the guys were club pros and rabbits and so on....

IQuote:Originally Posted by brocks But that's sort of the point. It's impossible to compare the innate talent of players of different generations, but you don't have to think about it very long to see that even if the talent level...

The real problem with these comparisons is that the comparison really should be based on would today's players without the equipment and training advances or would past players with modern equipment and training be competitive. With...