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Williamevanl

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  1. Rory McIlroy (-14) Tiger Woods (-12) Keegan Bradley (-11)
  2. Just one of the multiple personalities from the other site he has done this on. I'm not sure if that's unique enough to figure out who it actually is. http://www.operationsports.com/forums/ncaa-football/544565-new-guy-here.html
  3. Lol research, it's actually this guy: http://www.youtube.com/user/mackattack14 *maybe* Some more time and we should have his real name and address, lol...
  4. Oh geez, ok so someone else before you posted your message on this site posted a near exact comment containing your trademark 'God Bless' and pretended to be you but this is the real you and not the person that posted that on the other site... (as well as other fake characters with the same trade mark and style of name dropping, strange details and pretending to be someone else?) I think you are done here 'Webb'.
  5. and sometimes he's other people on the same site: Hey guys, how are ya? I'm new here, just signed up last night. I currently an a Wide Receiver at the University of North Carolina (#86, sophomore, from Sanford, NC).(But I am a gamer at heart) We can't wait to get the season started with the new coach Larry Fedora. Even with the postseason 1 year ban, we are gonna work our butts off to put UNC in the national spotlight. The team greatly appreciates all the fan support through the good times and bad. Any of ya'll are welcomes to reply and talk about UNC football, football in general, or anything you like. God Bless http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Vkldfm-7W9cJ:www.operationsports.com/forums/golf/544756-webb-simpson-here.html+webb+simpson+plays+tiger+woods+game&cd;=1&hl;=en&ct;=clnk≷=us (one of the users responded to this with: how many personalities do you actually have? Because I have seen at least three different ones. ) *me* I haven't found the third character yet but who cares, you guys are unbelievably gullible!
  6. Its extra funny because this guy does this on other sites as well: Webb Simpson here Hey guys, I am a new member of this forum and thought I'd let you know I signed up. My name is Webb Simpson , I am currently a member of the PGA Tour. I have a great wife and a beautiful child. I have joined Operation Sports because gaming a always been a hobby of mine. I've played NCAA football fro the Bill Walsh days and got stuck to it since I was a young child. I was born in Raliegh, NC, attended Wake Forest University, but currently live in Charlotte, NC. I have jut gotten into the Tiger Woods series the past couple of years and find it to be quite fun. (The only problem is that I'm not in the game lol). So this thread is open for nay dissuasion regarding golf, Tiger Woods 12-13, or whatever you want to ask me. I am always open to discussions with my fans. Thanks God Bless
  7. There's a lot of name dropping going on in this thread... :) So which was it: your mothers fathers name or just a name your parents liked and why on earth didn't you mention your real name?
  8. "The names come from the first, middle and last names of his mother’s father, James Fred Webb. Simpson jokes that his parents “as much as they loved me, wanted to confuse me, so when I go get my license or go through an airport, everybody thinks I’m a terrorist because my tickets are always booked Webb Simpson, but my first name is James.” ^ real Webb Simpson In before hilarity ensues... :)
  9. Oh and this has been done half a dozen times before with the same result but one of my favorites was the ending quote by the "my green jacket guy" who stalled out right around where Dan currently is. "But after 250 rounds? And weeks on the range, with topdrawer coaching? All that visualisation? Yes, I improved a lot. But then you meet some boytjie who never practises and slams it around to a score in the mid-70s once a week. That is called sporting ability. Talent. You need that stuff. And that’s where I really start to feel ill. Because if I had ability like that and worked as hard as I did, I’d be in plus figures by now." -Richard ("My Green Jacket") **no kidding**
  10. I said this Dan earlier on: If scratch golf were a mile, getting down to the 90's would be the first 20 feet. Shooting in the 80's would be the next 100 feet. Shooting in the 70's on a regular basis would be 500 feet and shooting around even par regularly would be the remaining 4660 feet. *tour pro +5-+7 level skill >10 miles with this analogy :)* 100's|90's|||||80's|||||||||^DanHere||||||||||||||||70's||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Scratch ----> 5 pages of | ->>> Tour Pro People that think 8 is good considering he's only spent 2 straight years of practicing aren't considering a number of things such as diminishing returns on practice ie. how much more difficult the path becomes the lower you get, The above illustrates it, you could also do this with a histogram, something like: Do you guys really see that as good performance? I think that puts golf and practice in perspective guys spending a couple hours a week practicing trying to get better, it will only take you 28 YEARS! to get the amount of practice that Dan has had and he's an 8! 3000 hours of practice and he's barely escaped the first standard deviation outside of the average handicap.
  11. I've been following Dan almost this entire time. I've said a number of things from the beginning. Practice won't continually make you better and ultimately it can make you worse. ie your handicap will trend up at times maybe never to return back in the right direction at some point. Additional clubs (following the 3 hybrid) won't drastically better your score(in the short term), it might not help at all. He'll probably get around a 3 handicap ultimately... Dan has stated publicly that he would be a 3 or less by 7000 (3000 hours in) I believe his handicap is actually going to trend up soon as his performance has seemed to worsen over the last month. (which isn't unexpected) In one of his recent vids a swing coach says, "yep Dan looks swings like a 10 handicapper which is about where I'd expect him to be" I think people lose site of the fact that he has already practiced a crazy amount of time, far more than most will in their entire lifetime. It seems particularly strange to me that people think this proves something so far getting to an 8 in a couple of years. 3,000 hours is like practicing every other day, two hours a day for 8.2 years. Consider one of your golfing buddies taking off a couple of years of work to practice golf 8 hours a day every day only to get to an 8 handicap! He would be considered a 'good' golfer by the 15 handicappers from men's league.. well done sir. Dan needed to be within a 1-3 handi within two years. People who think otherwise likely aren't considering the asymptotic learning curve. Couple last thoughts: I've also told Dan that a pro ultimately hits every shot better than he does, proper shaft lean, trajectory smash factor, AoA... he might have spent this entire time with a pw in his hand and not have the ability of a pro with just that one club. Do you think if Dan had done this with darts (as an example) he would gravitate to the best dart player in the world, of course not he'd hit a wall (lol) where he couldn't get any better. What are you going to do at that point scream at him to 'just be more accurate'? A good dart throwing technique could only get you so far (I'd imagine). I know almost nothing about darts but I remember seeing a special once where the showed that the best archers/dart/target shooters in the world have a strange ability to silence brainwaves, eliminating natural tremor resulting in their unusual ability to be the best. The equivalent to that ^ for golf I believe is the ability to relax everything, follow a proper tempo and repeat, repeat, repeat. I'm naturally a nervy guy, with terrible rhythm and spastic nervous system. The slightest thing and my heart races, my hands shake it's ridiculous. That just my genes though as my dad and my son are the same way, it's clearly not conducive to a smooth, equal tempo swing so I recognize that as a weakness (genetically) that I have. On the other hand I have tons of energy and a fast metabolism so good and bad. /rant :)
  12. I'd like to run but I can't imagine doing something that requires so much work that doesn't change the way I look at all. :) I'm already pretty skinny, and even if I wasn't the amount of running it takes to burn off a cheeseburger is comical. It takes something like an hour of full speed running to burn off two cheeseburgers, that's crazy. After college I spent some time at my parents and their treadmill would calculate calories burned and I remember just trying to burn off the amount of calories from a few beers was nothing short of hysterical. Anyway... during the off season Octobober to April I spend 45 minutes - 1 hour, 3 days a week, t,th,sun benching, curling, perfect pushups, pullups, crunches, squats. Last year I focused on getting to as much weight as I could with at least 6-8 reps but I didn't really get to where I wanted to be So this year my focus is just killing myself with less weight until I feel like I'm going to throw up. Seems to be getting results a lot faster this way. My goal is to get to 200 lbs' (as in weigh 200 lbs), I'm 5 9' and currently 185 but the last 15 lb's will surely kill me.
  13. I've screwed up all kinds of things. I cracked our glass coffee table, took a huge chunk out of the carpet and I did exactly the same as the O.P when I moved in when I clipped the light fixture and shattered it all over the living room. Someone else posted a thread just like this a long time back and there were a bunch of good ones but one I'll always remember was the guy that said he was taking mini slowmotion practice swings with his putter that still had the cover on it with some kind of trailing rippon and it caught the sprinkler head in his apartment and in a matter of minutes the entire floor had several inches of murky water covering it.
  14. Lol, new generation of golfers. Hey, whats your best 'score' with a pw, and a 9 iron?
  15. That's interesting, I actually took note of where his backswing was equal with rorys. You can tell because we both started the sequence in the exact same spot. Check the first pic in my swing sequence and the still from your vid. I'm not sure how we ended up with different comparisons though. I've got more frames coming from the OP's swing then I do Rory's with vls media player with there downswings synched up. I see what it is, I don't have two off your rory frames, these: *above* it appears all media players are not created equal.
  16. The difference between a 300 yard carry swing and a normal swing at .03X : If you watch these videos side by side they aren't even in the same ball park. It's like the difference between a tee ball swing and a major league baseball swing...
  17. lol 300 yards. Somebody get these videos next to each other and in slowmo. Rory carries it 300 right?
  18. I voted cost too much and no good instructors. I'm too much of a 'golf geek' for trendy golf instuction ie "You need to shut the face more to get a draw" "You draw the ball naturally because you have such a strong release." Lol I played with a round with one of the top local instructors in the area and everytime I hit a loose shot he would say "That's that left side..." It drove me nuts, my friend and I crack up now and say it all the time but wth does that even mean? Worth mentioning though that I think my swing is actually in a recession at the moment. I'm a range rat and I hit balls nearly every day but I think working alone for so long has allowed some terrible habits. I notice now that I sway off the ball in the backswing (not sure when that started) My backswing has also got shorter and shorter probably as a natural reaction to hitting 1000's of balls a week and a subconscious effort to conserve energy. :) Anyway counter question... What would it really cost to get me from shooting 8-10 strokes over par to shooting scratch. How much would I have to spend? My guess is 1000's of dollars... I'm not sure that's a good investment and before someone says think about how much you spend on golf clubs or range balls, I get free range balls with my golf pass (that I get with tax return) and I'm playing and will continue to play the same clubs until they can no longer be repaired. (7 have broke :P)
  19. In my company league I generally average about 40 and frequently shoot 38 so my handicap has to be somewhere around 4-8 (they aren't keeping track this year) and I've never broken 80 although I did have to finish quad, bogey, bogey once to shoot an 80. I lost a ball just right of the fairway saddest day ever:(. I pretty consistently shoot high 30's low 40's, golf almost every day but everytime I play 18 I always shoot 80-84... On the flipside of that, I played with a legit 16 handicap the other day that shot a 78. He actually showed me his handicap card when I called BS. I looked up the odds of that happening and it was something like 1 in 37,000. Hmm, so with ESC, and using 9 hole rounds to calculate handicap whats the lowest handicap you could reasonably be and not have broke 80?
  20. No, I mean probably not. If your post had read: I have a real knack for hitting wedges super close and one putting than I would have said maybe. After practicing for several hours a day for years now (and nearing a 4 handicap) I finally realize what really matters most are the short shots. Everyone says that but it takes a really long time to really realize that. In league yesterday I hit 8 out of 9 greens in regulation (on shot to the fringe) and had 3 three putts and shot a 38. I've probably spent 2000 hours on the range doing the *fun stuff* hitting irons driver etc.. but at the end of the day the most important thing is that you need to be able to hit all kinds of ridiculous short game shots and make putts. The problem with the short game part is that it takes FOREVER there are so many situations that need practiced. You mentioned Dan the guys who is spending 10,000 hours practicing. I've been following that and commenting along the way. He will fail, at least as far as what he is trying to do he will fail. Dan could spend that much time on one aspect of the game I think and get to a near pro level but he certainly will not succeed at meeting pro standards in all aspects of the game. Honestly Dan might spend 3000 hours trying to figure out why he slices his driver so much. I've thought about this and I will have reached Dan's 10,000 hour mark when I'm 43 and I definitely will not be a pro golfer. :) BUT if you want proof I suggest you do this. Go play a course that is ~7000 yards and drop a ball dead center in the fairway 300 yards out on every hole *except par threes actually play those* and see what you score is. If it is the advantage you suspect it is you should have no problem shooting par or better. In reality you will still struggle to break 90...
  21. I recently decided to ditch my ridiculous push draw in favor of a very slight draw/straight and occasional fade. I feel like this has made my game more consisent lately. I no longer snap hook the driver left which was absolutely killing my game. I struggle with taking a full backswing on the course but not usually on the range or my backyard. It almost seems as if I hit the ball so much further (on occasion) than normal when I do get a full backswing that I don't feel comfortable doing it on the course. In this video my 8 went well over the green (not sure why) and I didn't even get a full backswing. Anyway, I'm feeling good about this direction so I thought I'd post a video to see what else I could work on. I actually holed out a 100 yard sand wedge on my very next approach shot. (never happened before) I wish I would have had the camera on for that shot. :) *sorry for the quality, taken on smart phone, not terrible though* and backyard swing:
  22. It seemed to me based on Johnny Miller's commentary that he would describe a hook that starts right and misses left as a pull hook and I'm assuming a shot that starts right hooks and still misses right would then be a push hook. This isn't the standard convention I'm familiar with, which is it? Additional info, they showed Rory's shot on protracer a number of times and he usually started the ball down the right side and curved it into the left rough and this was repeatedly called a pull hook.
  23. Hmm, see what you doing wrong is being a little to honest and you might also be playing by the rules on a real course. You don't want to do any of those things. You need to bend the rules a lot, play wide open munis and not count every stroke. You should be shooting in the 80's on no time, 'maybe even the 70's' :)
  24. Maybe faster than it's ever been... Great!
  25. This is awesome! This guy will fail miserably but what a cool experiment. I bet after all of this he might be a single digit handicap and that's a big might. Seriously watch the videos of his chipping and putting, he looks terrible. I think 10000 hours of just chipping and he might be able to chip at a near scratch level ability.
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