Okay, here is a place for the Golfers to talk about tournaments, clubs, swing help or thoughts.
Today is the Players Championship, which I think ought to be the 5th Major. Largest pot in the PGA. The daunting 17th, which seems to bring excitement every year. At least we will get to see Sergio blow up yet again.
Originally Posted by BWillie:
Scottie seems like a player that in 3 years will drop to relative obscurity after this obscene run ends. Similar to Koepka and never to be heard from again.
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
He's 25 years old, so I'm going to guess no on that.
Koepka is also top 20 in the world right now as it is.
If you look at the history of modern golf, most good but not great players do almost all of their winning and close contention in majors in about an 18 month span.
Harrington
Molinari
Nick Price
Mark O'Meara
Tom Lehman
Justin Leonard
Fred Couples
And honestly, guys like Spieth, McIlroy, and Koepka have followed a similar pattern. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
If you look at the history of modern golf, most good but not great players do almost all of their winning and close contention in majors in about an 18 month span.
Harrington
Molinari
Nick Price
Mark O'Meara
Tom Lehman
Justin Leonard
Fred Couples
And honestly, guys like Spieth, McIlroy, and Koepka have followed a similar pattern.
Other than Tiger Woods, nobody really wins majors at the rate that Spieth, Rory, and Koepka did for very long. Doesn't mean they are going to completely fall off the map (and those three haven't either even though Spieth is lost right now).
Scheffler obviously is on a hot streak and isn't going to win at this rate forever but he's also a huge talent (more so than Spieth or Koepka, I'd argue) and he's almost certainly not going anywhere for a while. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Other than Tiger Woods, nobody really wins majors at the rate that Spieth, Rory, and Koepka did for very long. Doesn't mean they are going to completely fall off the map (and those three haven't either even though Spieth is lost right now).
Scheffler obviously is on a hot streak and isn't going to win at this rate forever but he's also a huge talent (more so than Spieth or Koepka, I'd argue) and he's almost certainly not going anywhere for a while.
It's not even a rate, though. It is compressed into a short time frame and then it's over. You aren't going to see guys winning majors over 15+ year spans like Tiger, Phil, and Els anymore. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
It's not even a rate, though. It is compressed into a short time frame and then it's over. You aren't going to see guys winning majors over 15+ year spans like Tiger, Phil, and Els anymore.
Well Tiger and Phil at least are arguably two of the best 10 golfers ever. If another top 10 golfer ever talent-wise came along at some point, I'm not sure why that wouldn't happen. [Reply]
I watched that Jim Nance Interview documentary thing before the Masters it was pretty good. One thing I noticed that was very odd in my opinion when they were in the Butler Cabin to give tiger the green Jacket and maybe it was nothing. Nick Faldo was last year's chap and he is there to provide him with his jacket. In past Masters, I always see the coat rack with the jacket freshly pressed hanging and past winner takes off the rack and holds it for the new champ. Nick Faldo was seated the coat on the floor next to him. He drags it across the carpet and stands to place it over Tiger's shoulder then proceeds to rip him about his red shirt horribly clashing with the green Jacket.
It may have been nothing but seemed classless and odd. I always thought Faldo was a arrogant doofus anyway. [Reply]
Hard to say that a guy who birdied the 1st 2 holes choked, but Smith making bogey on the next 2 was close. Especially when Sheffler was struggling. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc:
Hard to say that a guy who birdied the 1st 2 holes choked, but Smith making bogey on the next 2 was close. Especially when Sheffler was struggling.
He's been choking since Scheffler chipped in on 3 IMO
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Smith gets to within 3 again and then dunks one in the water on 12. Scheffler isn't gonna have to do much to win this at all.