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He's been working on increasing his speed and is the third longest hitter on tour currently. Min Woo Lee: The secret to optimizing the driver swing from a talented Despite his slender build, Min Woo Lee is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour. With extensive tournament experience, he shares simple yet...

I've been thinking about buying a hitting mat for home indoors use. I currently only got a small patch of some mat I bought years ago and stand on a wooden platform. It'd be nice having a mat to stand on and hit from. After some searching, I see Fiberbuilt often being praised. Not sure if I can get hold of it easily here, and buying internationally can get expensive for a mat that's already quite pricey (~$800). The Wittek Quattro is also usually favorably mentioned, and at half the price (~$400) of the Fiberbuilt. Anyone have experince with this mat? Any other suggestions?

He’s off the course, but at least he’s found love again with Vanessa Trump. No doubt what his type is.

This weather is curing my winter depression rapidly. “Dugnad” today. A Norwegian word for community or voluntary work. Many clubs has one in spring and one in autumn where everyone is invited to help with various tasks on the course to prepare it for the season or winter. Lots of trees and branches were cleared today. Opening in March is not unlikely at this rate. 15 C and sunny could be mid summer.

It's often a battle between muscle memory and willpower. It's easy to do something once when you focus on it, but doing it long enough for muscle memory to change is the tough part. That's why I've sometimes used physical objects to achieve something, where the object force me to do what I aim to do, without having to think about it and use willpower all the time. Humans are very good at programming ourselves and creating habits, but it takes time to change that programming.

Be happy Tiger is not playing. 😄 Not that he gets as much attention lately as before, but focus on him has ground a lot of gears through the years.

It is obviously highly individual, but the fact that Tiger was the best had a drive perhaps unparallelled in golf, he may have pushed further than other players did when faced with multiple injuries. If you don't see a lot of players struggling with major injuries year after year, over a decade, it's perhaps because the lesser known players called it quits a long time ago.

We've had the shortest winter I can remember. Only 4-5 weeks of cold and snow, half of them with snow not even covering the ground. The norm is winter temperatures and snow from November-Deccember to April. Today we've had a month without freezing temperatures and the snow has rained away. Hoping for a record early opening of courses.

I'd forgotten about that one. It was still 2019 though, but the 19-20 season.

He's been done for a long time now. 2019 was the last hurrah.

Tiger Woods commits to The Genesis Invitational - PGA TOUR Will mark first official PGA TOUR start of season after injury-plagued 2024

Tiger’s walking at the PNC and people say he’s not limping.

Even if you calculated inflation, I would never use earnings for this purpose. The purses has grown a lot the past thirty years and inflation won’t explain most of that. As an example, Tiger won $1m at the Masters in 2001 and Scottie won $3.6m in 2024. Adjusted for inflation, $1m in 2001 is $1.7m today. Wins, including majors and maybe significance of won events along with the most important SG data is what I would use to rank the best seasons, as Erik already has said. Top 10-15 seems reasonable, without having done any numerical comparisons. Datagolf has touched on the topic of peak Tiger vs Scottie: Newsletter No. 56 Letzig's Latest archive.

What’s the statistic for the years they’ve been using this format where they start under par? How often does the leader end up winning?

The players that went out in the middle of the field today got the worst conditions and many of them struggled. Quite different from the conditions the later groups faced.