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  1. Between the times the matches have been shown and the fractured nature of the matches because of the weather, this has been the worst Ryder Cup I've seen. I just can't get into it. They either need to move the matches up a month or two when it's in Europe, or move it to a different country.
  2. It gets old being right all the time. This place is an absolute dog path. You know, I wouldn't have a problem with the tournament being here if they would just come out and admit that they're playing it there because it's so old and the "home of golf" and not because it's a good golf course. Other than those two factors, there is absolutely nothing that separates it from the dog path ten minutes from my house.
  3. Not the ones that are set up for major championships. The scores at the US Open are well documented, but even at the PGA, the last five winning sores are -8,-3,-8,-18,-4. So basically one low score and a bunch of scores that indicate a hard golf course. At Augusta, which is what you'd probably call the second easiest major in terms of scoring, you've got -16,-12,-8,+1,-7. You've got some scores there that show you that Augusta has some teeth...when the weather is bad, you get scores like the one from a few years ago. I'm guessing you will probably see some changes to the course to toughen it up a bit after this year's tournament.
  4. Care to explain? The golf course ranges from being pretty tough when the wind blows strongly (oh wow, like every other course in the damn world) to an absolute joke when the weather doesn't cooperate. That doesn't sound like the mark of a great golf course to me.
  5. I'm sorry, but this golf course is a joke.
  6. Thanks. Let me address this question to everybody: Was that really so hard? I'm not spending half an hour or whatever it would have taken to read that article. Unlike many of you, I can't just sit at my computer all day at work with nothing better to do. Phil is a really good golfer....but not great in the grand scheme of golf's history. If that's Tiger's biggest rival, then it only supports that I have already claimed. Gary Player found a way to win despite Jack's success and dominance....so did Trevino and Watson. Phil hasn't found a way to do this.
  7. Nope. Just give me like a 3 or 4 sentence recap of what it says.
  8. Dude, I'm not reading all that. Sum it up for me....either that or show me where I can buy the cliffs notes for that article.
  9. Trevino, Player and Watson took about 10 majors from Jack. How many guys have sacked up on Sunday and stolen one from Tiger? 0. I also don't dispute that golfers are better now than they ever have been. I said that a couple posts ago. That's irrelevant though. 20 years from now, the best golfer will be so good that he'd have mopped the floor with Tiger....and the natural progression continues. Also, scoring averages are absolutely meaningless. You are pitting the golfer against the course there and almost all the great courses are clamoring to keep up with advances in technology etc, and they're always a step behind. Courses are also 100x better maintained ever before which means when you hit the ball in the fairway you actually get a good lie, and you get a much truer roll on the greens. Bobby Jones could have been god incarnate swinging a golf club, but who do you think is going to shoot lower scores? Jones with hickory shafts, golf balls that weren't even all perfectly round and playing on courses that probably looked like your back yard, or Tiger? I mean really, that question answers itself. The fact that nobody has more than 3 has nothing to do with Tiger at all. There have been plenty of majors where he wasn't even realistically in contention...and how many times did one of let's say "the big 3" win? Not often. They don't step up on Sunday, period. You can't argue about that. The fact that Tiger has been playing for 11 years professionally and just this past Monday was the first time somebody really pushed him for a long, long time, is pretty sad. On any given day, there are probably 50 golfers who can play every bit as good as Tiger. Why is that day never on the Sunday of a major? The thing that differentiates Tiger from everybody else is not shots he's able to hit....it's how often and consistently he can do it. Why players who are already playing well - otherwise they would be irrelevant come Sunday - can never finish the job on Sunday is not a question I can answer. But what I can say is this: it wasn't a problem for the contemporaries of Jack and many other great golfers.
  10. That's the end all and be all of your "Tiger's the greatest" argument? He played through an injury? I guess that makes Ben Hogan god himself.
  11. The fact that no other player who is Tiger's contemporary has more than 3 majors is fairly telling of what I said earlier. Watson had 8, Player had 9 and Trevino had 6. I'm not comparing Phil, Vijay etc. to Tiger, I'm comparing them to the competition that Nicklaus had and it's really not even close in terms of their historic greatness. None of Tiger's competitors will go down as all-time greats. Period. By the way, I'm not saying that if you had a time machine and put Mickelson back in 1972 that he wouldn't have been a dominant player. As time goes on, golfers get better, so that's an irrelevant argument. I try to judge players relative to their peers. Tiger's peers basically all suck. Tiger, as dominant as he is, still leaves a lot of majors out there to be won; he doesn't win them all. And the fact that nobody from his generation has won more than 3 more than proves my point.
  12. By far? What a load of crap. Tiger is one of the all-time greats, no doubt about it, but you're lying to yourself if you really believe he hasn't greatly benefited from the fact that his generation has no other really good players. The only player even close to him in terms of skill has absolutely no heart and is extremely psychologically frail (Mickelson) and the other guys at the top aren't really close in terms of skill. Nicklaus had Trevino, Watson, and Player. Hogan had Snead and Nelson. Even Jones had his own boredom with the game to deal with which caused him to retire so early. It's saying a lot when you're beating everybody so badly that there is no reason to play anymore. If Jones had played until he was 40 (he got sick when he was 46 or 48, I believe), he would probably have had 30 majors, a number which Tiger isn't going to catch.
  13. I was just curious to know what you guys do when you have a put that is on the side of a slope and you put your ball down in front of the coin to line it up....and you get the line just where you want it but the ball then rolls a bit to the side because of the slope. How do you get the ball to stay still so that the ball stays lined up properly? This happened yesterday on a green and I had to probably replace the ball 5 times before it would stay still and I still wasn't 100 comfortable with the line because of how many times I had to change it.
  14. That's possible, but I don't know. I do try to play the ball far up in my stance but that's so I can easily stay behind the ball and hit up into it...and I used to have big shoulder problems in terms of aiming them left but I usually am pretty conscious of where they are as well. I don't know. Maybe it was just one of those days where you can't hit it right no matter what you do.
  15. Today was the single worst driving round I can remember in recent golfing history for me. Basically I was hitting the ball wayyyyyy off the toe of the golf club to the point where i was almost missing the face of the club. This was more pronounced with my woods than with other clubs, primarily with my driver. It's strange because stuff like that I can usually attribute (to be honest missing it that bad is really unusual for me, but most of my problems stem from weight transfer) to lack of weight transfer on the back swing but I made a special note of transferring my weight today after the first or second hold to no real avail. The strange thing is that I actually hit some decent iron shots today as well as a few nice wedges. I also had a few of the same results with those nearly missing the grooves of the club entirely on a couple shots. I'm just curious to know what might be causing this and how to fix it if it ever happens to you guys. Thanks.
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