General Tour Talk

azgreg · 2021-02-20T23:52:55+00:00

Early chip of the year candidate.

Par4QC

darpar Even the guys from Poker Stars would get in on that. Most play golf and are quite good. migawd, imagine Hellmuth on the green. 😆

My thought was if they practice daily for say a couple hours, how much of that time is relegated to the most important part of the game? I don't see the putting 'stroke' being an ingrained movement, as the 'swing' is.

scotts33

Par4QC imagine Hellmuth on the green.

I played with Phil when he lived in Madison. No worries he doesn't have an athletic bone in his body.

johnnydoom

Whether he wins or not, I love watching Finau play. A guy twice as big as me hitting the ball twice as far as me with a backswing that almost looks about the same length as mine 🙁.

Par4QC

johnnydoom Yet, we do not hate him. I too love watching. Remember him and his brother from many years ago, when they were hitting over 400 yds.. He has come a long way since!

MartinD

Par4QC They do not practice the $1.4(or higher) putts! It is a different putt than a 2'er.

Wasn't it Trevino that said 'Pressure is playing a $100 match with $10 in your pocket'?

KCee

I'd like to think Finau will figure it out. He's so good that he's in contention regularly so at some point I'm thinking that he'll get pissed off at himself and be so determined to win that he will. Other players have seemed to turn the corner and do that so no reason he can't once he figures out what he needs to do. Or maybe Finau will finish 2nd so many times that he will break Jack's record?

sdandrea1

KCee Or maybe Finau will finish 2nd so many times that he will break Jack's record?

It's called "Fowler Finishing". 🤣

PA-PLAYA

I thought Homa's Houdini act on the first playoff hole (the short par4 10th with his drive appearing to be stymied up against the tree) was Seve-esque. Perhaps it was the camera angle, but it appeared to be an impossible situation to get his pitch anywhere on the green. Would've been a world class up-n-down to win it then and there.

Finau is streaky, but it does surprise me that he's only got one win, which was nearly 5 years ago.

Spuzz

Do you remember this?
Nothing has changed. You are who you are.
(and the Bears are actually who Dennis Green thought they'd be LOL)

https://www.deseret.com/2009/12/16/20359013/finau-can-t-hold-lead-in-big-break-final

Par4QC

Spuzz I do remember.
Where's Perez? 😲

garyt1957

Spuzz Didn't know he was on BB. I wish they'd either start that back up or show reruns, better than most of the crap they show now

Spuzz

garyt1957 better than most of the crap they show now

nah
it's like most PGA tour events.
lots of talk, little action.
It was fun as a novelty for the first couple of seasons, then blech.

Par4QC

garyt1957 You must have missed the reruns. iirc, sometime last fall. Used to be an archive on TGC website you could find such things.

bigshank

Spuzz Donatello was fucking hilarious! Pull the string tight!!

Par4QC

bigshank He went on to caddy on the PGA, for several players. Also was on BB7 Reunion; won a new car and $5K. He could beat himself to death, I'll say that much. Probably the reason he never made it.

fatshot

sdandrea1 I'm always rooting for Finau.......and keep getting disappointed. I won't stop, tho.

Walterjn that's ok. I've been rooting for Spieth.

Throw Ricky Fowler in there and you've got a threesome of "close but almost" losers!

candukid

azgreg
wonder what the retail cost of that WITB is....

azgreg

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