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Luke Donald - E Y. E. Yang - E D. A. Points - E

Matt Kuchar -9 Miguel Angel Jimenez -9 Thorbjorn Oleson -9 Thorbjorn Thorbjorn Olesen

If Tiger wins after all this, it won't have an asterisk next to it, it'll have an exclamation point.

Why would he withdraw, he accepted the results by the rules committee. Lets not let be prideful goats. Play the game.

He moved the ball a yard and took two extra strokes. That's a fair result for most reasonable people.

Keegan Bradley -13 Nicholas coelsaerts (sp?) -13 Karl Petterson -13

The best thing you can do is find someone who doesn't plan to vote and try to get them to!

The birther argument is so ridiculous. He's an American, get over it.

To Adam: The theory behind low carb diets is that, because the body burns carbs before it burns fat, if there are few carbs available to burn the body will burn fat for energy instead. This is of course in direct contrast to calorie counter diets, but it sounds like you've got your mind made up already!

I am so inconsistent with the driver. I am hoping to find a good book that will guide my practice time at the tee. Do you have any recommendations?

I've got a 3 iron/hybrid that I use on narrow and short holes, especially if there is OB to the right and/or I have lost my faith in my driver & 3w. If you practice it enough and can rely on it more than your bigger sticks, feel free to use it - avoid the trees however possible!

Have you considered moving the ball forward in your stance to hit it shorter, and back in the stance to hit it farther? Or do you feel this adds unnecessary variability to your game?

The problem with this logic is that the learner doesn't know whether or not they are making the correct motions unless they see the result of their actions born out in the ball flight. They would essentially be repeating movement after movement, ingraining a skill with no knowledge of whether it, once ingrained, will lead to success. You can easily imagine someone spending a month working on a swing path using this golf net, only to find upon reemerging onto a golf course, that he has automatized a wild hook. How is that helpful?

If you are practicing but can't see the result of your swing, you are getting no feedback, and have no way of knowing which swings were successful and which were not. You have no way of diagnosing your errors and no good way of experimenting with corrections (because testing those corrections requires you see your new results to determine if the corrections worked or not). If you practice without receiving feedback, all you are doing is ingraining your current swing. You are not making real changes - you are not improving. You are just swinging. Consider it exercise, not practice.

If it is due to a steep swing he probably experiences a lot of tops and chunks also. I am under the impression a push results from an in-to-out swing and a square clubface (relative to the swing line, not the target). If what I believe is correct, it seems like you should focus on swinging more out-to-in (but not excessively so). Try taking three practice swings. In the first, swing normally, in to out. Then have a swing that intentionally goes out to in, the typical slice swing. Then on your final swing, split the difference. Hope that helps at all.

The tips he gave you, you could have found them on your own in a golf book, for example, I'm assuming? What is the benefit of paying for an instructor when you could have looked the corrections up in a book? I don't mean to demean your action, despite how it sounds. I am interested is all. Thanks for answering!

This is just an extension of the anger some people have at slow pace. Walk slower, breathe deeper, calm down.

Do you believe that you couldn't discover the fixes this coach suggested to you by yourself?

What is a 13 handicap, about an 85 peak? That's impressive, I can't even break 100.

Sports psychology recognizes three distinct types of goals: Outcome Goals: Goals that take competition or comparison with others as a criteria, such as "I want to win my league tournament" or , "I want to beat my friends this weekend". Performance Goals: Goals that take self-referenced performance criteria that are not dependent upon comparison with others, such as "I want to break 100", or "I want to lose less than two balls on the course today". Process Goals: Goals that emphasize the actions or strategies needed to meet Outcome or Performance goals, such as "I want to follow my pre-shot routine for every shot", or "I want to make sure I follow through on all my shots". A review of ten different studies found that in nine of those studies, setting a combination of all three types of goals lead to better results than using just one of the goal types individually. For more information, see Eccles & Feltovich, (2009). DOI: 10.1002/piq.20014

What the ^&*$ is fluffing?

In essence that's 16 penalty strokes, so unless you play the rest of your round only 12 over par(ish) there's no way you're breaking a hundred. Those rare instances that I go a round without losing a ball I am fighting the 100 line.

The title explains it all. I'll be sitting in the fairway (who am I kidding, the rough) from about 50-80 yards out, and I reach for one of my Maxfli Revolution wedges (52, 56, 60*). The problem is, I primarily use them for touchy pitches, and I don't have much practice hitting them full, like a short iron. It also seems like those times when I do try to hit them full, they aren't (read: I'm not) very accurate, nor does the ball fly a predictable distance. Does anyone else have trouble with full wedge shots? Why is it that I can hit my 3 iron better than my gap wedge? Is it wrong to think a wedge upgrade might help the situation? Thanks for your help! Still searching, lostmyballs

1) Keegan Bradley -9 2) Rory McIlroy -9 3) Brandt Snedeker - 9

Noticing the giant list of "don't pick these people for 2nd, 3rd choice", I'd like to edit my selection but won't actually "Edit" it for fear of someone saying I did so after tourny began! So scratch the above post: Keegan Bradley -12 Sang-Moon Bae -11 Mark Wilson -11 Got it?