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It's a blind selection: both Captains submit their list independently so they don't know who each player will be up against beforehand. Tom Watson had no way of knowing that Fowler would play McIlroy, other than trying to second guess McGinley's order of play. Other thoughts: Garcia and Poulter each had two or three moments of brilliance in their matches on Friday (SG) and Saturday (both), but they were really poor otherwise before Sunday. If McIroy had been paired with another player for those matches, there's a good chance he would have scored another point or two. But Sergio and Poults did have those moments of brilliance, so McGinley's 'mistake' in selecting the pairs is ignored. By and large, the US pairings which failed didn't have those 'redemptive' moments and Watson's captaincy looks worse in hindsight because the US lost, whilst everything McGinley did looks like genius. I'm not saying Watson got everything right, but I think some of the criticism is too harsh. I also have to say that Phil Mickelson was totally wrong to act as he did: completely classless.

But from the look of that hospitality stand, a very high Ceiling...

So, what's the Separation Value of learning to play shots from the roof of a stand?

£159 inc VAT in the UK direct from Game Golf. And £199 on Amazon...

From the user forum, I don' think they sell additional sets, but they will replace individual broken tags.

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I appreciate it's not a book explicitly about technique, but it does do a good job of summarising the basics. The trouble with the 5SK videos site is that there are a number of videos and there isn't a narrative explaining how they fit together. The book does that, so if you chose say the two videos which you consider best to reflect each of the 5 keys and linked to them, I think that would be enough. I'm not sure you'd need to create new ones. Similarly for the drills -- I suspect you've already published good videos for additional drills somewhere on this site, so for me something like the following would suffice: "As variety from the Powder the Face driving drill, you might also like to try: " I think much of the value will come from you having selected the links explicitly to mesh with the text, rather than in new material. Hope that makes sense.

Not at all, Phil and I certainly don't mean it to be taken as an unlimited demand. The book does mention several times that there is additional material available on the website. I'm just curious what it is and Erik has asked what I'd like to see first. I don't see much or any of the material as needing to be new: in most cases the link would simply be to an existing video which is probably already on this site somewhere, but perhaps not always easy to find. E.g. on the section of Pitching, the website would point to the thread 'Quickie pitching video' and a couple of useful videos from that thread. That's it. Yes of course there'll be some work involved, but I don't think it's anything more than what is promised in the book or in Erik's post above. The idea in the last part of my post (videos of the decision making process) is as much an idea for the DVDs -- it's probably already been thought of. The book represents an attempt (a very good attempt) to set down a whole body of knowledge and work in a logical and accessible way: I think the website can (and is intend intended to) supplement that nicely.

Thanks for the reply. I would like to see more drills first -- no problems with the ones in the book, but it would be good to have a few more to choose from at some point. Eventually, it would be useful to have a video(s) linked to every relevant part of the book. For example: you read the section on Key #1, you go to the relevant web page and there's a video drill or two and perhaps a link to a relevant thread on this forum. I appreciate there are other parts on this site and the web where this information is available, but it's easy to get lost because you're looking in many different areas, and sometimes it's buried in 30-page long threads. I think it would be valuable to have your explicit links: then reading the book (and the upcoming video) becomes the focus with further learning guided through the web site. Of course, I realise that this isn't going to happen overnight! Beyond the drills, I think it might be useful to have a couple of videos on dynamic game management. Perhaps take us down a hole or two, overlay the different shot zone and discus club selection as you go along. Mvmac's post of his latest round on Game Golf (the way in which each shot is displayed on the hole by hole graphics) was really useful -- if you could overlay shot zones on something like that display, it could be a powerful visual supplement to the book. Thanks again

Still working my way through the book and taking notes, and learning some interesting and useful drills. However, the book keeps pointing me back to the website http://lowestscorewins.com for more drills / information. I'm a registered member, but all I can see on the members' page are 2 articles on Shot Zones and 11 user comments. Everything else is 'coming soon'. Assuming I've got the right page, when will the additional content be available please? Thanks

Well, they've just had Andrew Coltart interview his brother-in-law Lee Westwood, which isn't quite as close as siblings, but it's still keeping it in the family...

In cricket, a bowler who threw the ball would be banned -- you're not allowed to straighten the arm. And bowling underarm will get you universally despised although it's not illegal ... in a famous international a few years ago, New Zealand wanted 6 to win from the last ball (and 6 is the maximum you can score -- ball has got to be hit over the boundary without bouncing -- same as a home run?). So the Australian captain told the bowler to bowl the last ball underarm, rolling it all along the floor, making a six impossible. Not strictly illegal, but definitely not cricket...

American football's OK. Of course, it would be improved by getting rid of all that padding and the forward passing, and making every player play the entire match instead of going off for a rest every five minutes, and changing its name to rugby, but still, it's OK, especially if you record it and skip through the adverts and intervals and changeovers and wotnot. Basketball: well, I'm sure it's fun to play, but... Well, I watched a couple of NBA games recently and they were really boring : the jokes were rubbish, not like the Harlem Globetrotters I used to watch as a lad. The trouble with basketball is there are too many points -- Team A scores, then Team B scores, then Team A scores, then... Occasionally, there's a variation and Team A scores twice on the run, but still, there's not nearly enough variety in the sport for me to watch. Baseball's not too bad -- who could really object to watching grown men playing rounders in their pyjamas? Of course, all three are vasty preferable to football. So, to sum up: you'll all be a lot happier if you dropped all US-grown sports (and football) and started watching rugby and cricket instead. You know it makes sense. ;-)

And it still won't matter. In the end, par is only a quick way to keep tabs on the relative scores during a round -- the winner will still be the golfer who played the course in the fewest strokes over four rounds. If there are 3 players with the same score over the last couple of holes on the Sunday, then that will be just as exciting whether they're on -20 or -2.