Golf Digest - My Shot: Geoff Ogilvy

[nevets88]

http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2014-12/my-shot-geoff-ogilvy Yep, I know these snobs. There are some on this forum I won't name names - some because I forget their handles. Membership collector guy I'm talking to you. :-) Sorry to go negative nabob but there's lots of more interesting positive thoughts in the piece. [QUOTE]SPEAKING OF GOLF SNOBS, I've identified four sub-species so far. The first is The Membership Collector . He belongs to several clubs, all of them expensive, exclusive and always on the tip of his tongue. The second is The Traditionalist . He raves about 6,000-yard seaside courses (preferably in Scotland), plays them with wooden woods and insists golf was better before they invented the bunker rake. Then there's Mr. Big & New . Buys a new driver every six months, has 40 Scotty Cameron putters, drives brand-new cars to courses that are 7,500 yards. Loves huge clubhouses with wine cellars. Then there's The History Guy . That's me. Always talking about old players, old courses, the history of majors and so on. Knows not only about architects, but when and where they were born. IT'S OBVIOUS that narrow driving zones, extreme length and dense grass don't suit me. I dislike them. So how did I win the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot on one of the most penal setups in golf? Well, nobody hit a lot of fairways. On a course that is supposed to reward pure ball-striking and tremendous driving accuracy, the opposite happened, more or less. I wound up lumped in with everyone else. The penal setups are how Phil Mickelson, far from a precision player, has finished runner-up six times. In 2006, it came down to who was best from 100 yards and in. For that week, it was me.[/QUOTE]

[MrFlipper]

That was well worth the click.

Interesting comment about Oosthuizen. He's one guy I like to watch and hope something of his swing seeps into my swing, too bad our ability to imitate lessens as we get older.

To me, everything about Ogilvy says "good guy". Seems like a good dude to have a beer with.

Thanks for posting it.

[Lihu]

http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2014-12/my-shot-geoff-ogilvy

Yep, I know these snobs. There are some on this forum I won't name names - some because I forget their handles. Membership collector guy I'm talking to you.

Sorry to go negative nabob but there's lots of more interesting positive thoughts in the piece.

I think many people fall into one or two of these categories, and are not really golf snobs. A snob is someone who looks down upon other people for not doing what they are able to do.

For instance, I know one golfer on this site who has owned a new set of irons every month, and multiple putters etc. He just wants to find something suitable for his game.

The traditionalists are definitely not snobs, they certainly do not expect everyone to use old style clubs or play only links style courses. They just want to play the game the way older generations played it.

[turtleback]

I think many people fall into one or two of these categories, and are not really golf snobs. A snob is someone who looks down upon other people for not doing what they are able to do.

For instance, I know one golfer on this site who has owned a new set of irons every month, and multiple putters etc. He just wants to find something suitable for his game.

The traditionalists are definitely not snobs, they certainly do not expect everyone to use old style clubs or play only links style courses. They just want to play the game the way older generations played it.

The snobs are the ones who look down on people because they do not met their expectations.  Like the person who made the list of golf snobs, who thereby showed themselves to be the true snob.

[nevets88]

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THE SHORT SHOT from a tight lie—the type I played from in front of Winged Foot's 18th in 2006—is causing all kinds of havoc. There are more cases of pitching yips, brought on by that very type of shot, than ever before. There's a very good player on tour, whom I don't care to identify, who has as bad a case of the pitching yips as I've ever seen. He's in a very dark place mentally and has become a master of disguising this weakness. He'll hit his ball to some extraordinarily difficult places to avoid hitting the 30-yard pitch from a tight lie. He's making a very good living, but sooner or later he'll face a 30-yard shot over a bunker on national TV when it really counts. He'll lay the sod over it three times in a row. And then you'll know who it is I'm talking about.

Anyone guess who this is?

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ALMOST EVERY TOUR PLAYER has a certain amount of "hang on" in their swing. I'm talking about a little bit of restraint in their release through impact, to prevent the ball from curving too much one way or the other. There are only two exceptions: Rory McIlroy and Angel Caberera. Rory holds absolutely nothing back, and his natural draw is a wonder. Angel, when he's on song, hits the most beautiful fade I've ever seen.