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#3,126
volfanbill said:
Sucks for Freddie, but I hope it just further shows that despite the glamour and fame of being a professional athlete, all athletes are people. People with serious problems, personal problems, lots of drama and the same stresses that Everyday Joe has. Save perhaps the whole financial stress thing.
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and Freddie, despite his popularity, is absolutely everyday Joe. He badly wants privacy and to just go about his own business.

I'm a huge fan and his swing amazes me. Ugly, crap pointed all over the place, but once he starts going forward, it is unbelievably beautiful. Looked like that final drive he barely even tried and he hit it 300 yards up an enormous hill. It's hard to appreciate how steep that hole is if you haven't been out there.
 
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#3,127
BigPapaVol said:
I think you're underestimating Tiger's wedge game. The difference is that under tension, when it gets tougher to get it close, Tiger can make the putts, Phil can't.

Regardless, Phil canned 3 huge putts on the final 3 holes yesterday for a win against a good field on a very respected course.
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I agree with that point 100%.
 
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#3,128
BigPapaVol said:
and Freddie, despite his popularity, is absolutely everyday Joe. He badly wants privacy and to just go about his own business.
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Couples' still playing top flight golf to this day is a testament to his work ethic. Getting good and staying good are entirely different animals...

He's long been a favorite of mine.
 
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#3,130
orange+white=heaven said:
Couples' still playing top flight golf to this day is a testament to his work ethic. Getting good and staying good are entirely different animals...

He's long been a favorite of mine.
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Couples' has the best swing tempo I have ever seen. I wish the guy could make a putt inside 4 feet though. He would have another Green Jacket or three if he could.
 
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#3,133
orange+white=heaven said:
Couples' still playing top flight golf to this day is a testament to his work ethic. Getting good and staying good are entirely different animals...

He's long been a favorite of mine.
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I think it's more about extreme talent. He can't work hard because his back won't let him. Better luck with that thing and we'd be talking about an all time great, IMO.

He's one of the few that just hits it on the button with every swing.
 
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#3,134
BigPapaVol said:
his driver was an absolute disaster today and his irons were mediocre until that shot at 16. Best ballstriker in the field was Boom Boom.[/QUOTE

As is the case several times a year. That little jab stroke on the short putts kills him. He also has a bad habit of moving his head on the short putts which, in effect, can create the bad stroke.

Don't tell I.E. though. He will argue it isn't too important to keep your head down and still
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truefan said:
BigPapaVol said:
his driver was an absolute disaster today and his irons were mediocre until that shot at 16. Best ballstriker in the field was Boom Boom.[/QUOTE

As is the case several times a year. That little jab stroke on the short putts kills him. He also has a bad habit of moving his head on the short putts which, in effect, can create the bad stroke.

Don't tell I.E. though. He will argue it isn't too important to keep your head down and still
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his putting confidence was destroyed from all of the excessive time away from the game. Lack of practice has simply let it keep going.
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truefan said:
BigPapaVol said:
his driver was an absolute disaster today and his irons were mediocre until that shot at 16. Best ballstriker in the field was Boom Boom.[/QUOTE

As is the case several times a year. That little jab stroke on the short putts kills him. He also has a bad habit of moving his head on the short putts which, in effect, can create the bad stroke.

Don't tell I.E. though. He will argue it isn't too important to keep your head down and still
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I just wish somebody could correct my head position when I get over the putt. I'm so right eye dominant that my head opens up causing my shoulders to open up. I honestly practice like I'm holding a phone up to my left ear with my shoulder. It squares me up and gets my right shoulder higher. (I said practice cause I got no clue on alignment but the stroke feels amazing.)

Freddie just simply jabs at short putts instead of stroking them with confidence. Anybody who watches can see that. I think McCord started to hit on it on 11 when he had the short look. He was talking about the long smooth practice strokes and then Freddie proceeded to take that short gag job to get into the hole. That is simply mental. If you don't think you can make, you guide it with all your might to try to get in the hole instead of just hitting it. McCord never really came back to it, probably because they cut away to tell us for the 83rd time that Stricker shot 61 62 77, but I thought he might go into it a little more. I know they have hit on it a lot in the past, but...
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ridethelightening said:
I just wish somebody could correct my head position when I get over the putt. I'm so right eye dominant that my head opens up causing my shoulders to open up. I honestly practice like I'm holding a phone up to my left ear with my shoulder. It squares me up and gets my right shoulder higher. (I said practice cause I got no clue on alignment but the stroke feels amazing.)
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you putt left hand low with the ball back in your stance some it should lower that left shoulder and raise that right one. Might even get your right eye over the ball.

Might be able to just have the loft adjusted so you can back the ball up and play it under your right eye and stroke from there.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
you putt left hand low with the ball back in your stance some it should lower that left shoulder and raise that right one. Might even get your right eye over the ball.

Might be able to just have the loft adjusted so you can back the ball up and play it under your right eye and stroke from there.
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I've tried it all, trust me. I putt good for a little while left hand low, but then it fails me, too. I'm not a bad putter, and I can get extremely streaky and make everything I look at, but I can also get mental and miss ones I shouldn't.

I agree with you on the ball placement, though. I tend to get it too far out on my left foot, and I am currently working hard to get it back farther. I just struggle with alignment when I move it back. It pushes me right, it seems.
 
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ridethelightening said:
I've tried it all, trust me. I putt good for a little while left hand low, but then it fails me, too. I'm not a bad putter, and I can get extremely streaky and make everything I look at, but I can also get mental and miss ones I shouldn't.

I agree with you on the ball placement, though. I tend to get it too far out on my left foot, and I am currently working hard to get it back farther. I just struggle with alignment when I move it back. It pushes me right, it seems.
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It is better to have it further forward in your stance than further back. Also, if you are playing it back, make sure you have a little shaft angle. It will roll the ball better for you.
 
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truefan said:
It is better to have it further forward in your stance than further back. Also, if you are playing it back, make sure you have a little shaft angle. It will roll the ball better for you.
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part of that right eye dominance thing was to move it back, but use a lofted putter (like 7 deg), so he can press the hands forward without going to flat.
 
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doozer said:
sad week for Boom Boom:

A sad end to a sad week for Couples | Tours & News | Golf.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Not long after another bruising defeat on one of his favorite courses, Fred Couples slowly made his way to the parking lot after a week at Riviera that was turbulent in so many ways.
He learned on Tuesday that his estranged wife, Thais Baker, died of breast cancer.

Then, the 49-year-old with graying hair and an achy back put himself in the final group for the first time in nearly three years and came to the 18th hole at Riviera within one shot of the lead.

"I just couldn't make another one at 18," he said.
Couples considered pulling out of the Northern Trust Open when he learned his wife - divorce proceedings have been ongoing for the last three years - died at their home in Santa Barbara about two hours to the north.

"There's not much I can say," Couples said of a complicated breakup. "I'm not really welcome up there. So I decided to play."
She was diagnosed with breast cancer a few weeks after they began dating, and they married in 1998. She had two children from a previous marriage, 18-year-old Gigi and Oliver, who just turned 16. Even after they broke up, Couples moved back in with his wife in March 2007, but the attempt at reconciliation lasted only six months.

"She was a very nice person," Couples said. "I think I'm a good guy, and I'm sure her friends think I'm a bad guy. That's irrelevant. We just get didn't get along that well. And we never got divorced."
He was aware that Baker's cancer had returned, and she took a turn for the worse at the end of last year. Couples said she continued to live in their sprawling estate.

"She wanted to die in the house, and that's what happened," he said. "She did everything she could to make it another month."

After he shot 65 on Saturday to get into the final group, Couples tried to say hello to Oliver at the end of his interview with CBS Sports, but the camera had turned away.

"It's going to be a struggle for the kids," Couples said. "I still text Oliver, which is fun. He jumps right on."
With that, he climbed into his car and headed off. Couples said he planned to take the next month off, and hoped to be allowed to help out with the kids, particularly the son.
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How do you drag out a divorce 3 years?
 
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#3,142
Does anybody else kind of feel sorry for Brendan Jones this week. He's not a very well known golfer to the average golf fan, but I've got a feeling he'll be well known after this week for all the wrong reasons. I've got a feeling Tiger will come out pretty strong in his first appearance.
 
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#3,145
LAVolfan said:
Does anybody else kind of feel sorry for Brendan Jones this week. He's not a very well known golfer to the average golf fan, but I've got a feeling he'll be well known after this week for all the wrong reasons. I've got a feeling Tiger will come out pretty strong in his first appearance.
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Not a bit, he is a pro golfer who is playing in a very good tournement. When you say the wrong reasons, are you talking about him losing to Tiger in the first round? If anything, this kind of publicity will help him (esp with the sponsors), IMO.
 
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truefan said:
As is the case several times a year. That little jab stroke on the short putts kills him. He also has a bad habit of moving his head on the short putts which, in effect, can create the bad stroke.

Don't tell I.E. though. He will argue it isn't too important to keep your head down and still
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I guess you're still beating everyone in your 100 mile radius fantasy world too.
 
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UT IE 95 said:
I guess you're still beating everyone in your 100 mile radius fantasy world too.
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It was 50 mile and the answer is YES. I am not going to argue with you about golf. You are so out of your league your're too stupid to realize it. It isn't worth my time
 
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