As Young Players Surge, Birdie Becomes the New Par [NYT]

[nevets88]

The gym rat pack? That's so retrograde. What 20 something knows who Dean, Frank and Sammy are?  Did you not see the viral video of pizza rat? What about, flatbelly foursomes?

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Bannister’s breakthrough prompted his competitors to look at what was possible in a new light. Similarly, Day is forcing the other players to visualize birdies on holes where they used to see only pars. At this month’s BMW Championship, Brandt Snedeker arrived at the 225-yard par-3 sixth hole in the final round, noted the back-left pin location and aimed his tee shot for the middle of the green to take out of play trouble to the left.

“I made par, I got done, and I started watching the television coverage,” Snedeker said, “and every guy is knocking it to 6 feet with his tee shot on that hole. And I’m going, I don’t know how they’re doing that because if you miss it left, it’s an automatic bogey.”

The Gym Rat Pack — a group of golfers in their 20s that includes the world No. 1, Day, as well as Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy — is playing at such a high level right now, “there’s not a pin you can hide on the tour from them,” said Snedeker, who is 34.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/sports/golf/as-young-golfers-surge-65-becomes-the-new-69.html?ref=golf&_r=0

[Lihu]

Seems like there are a lot of kids who break par on my home course a lot. . .