Tiger Woods

[Omeletpants]

Pressure... I know guys who play lights out all year and blow up on championship day.
I know guys who hit 10 four foot putts in a row till you put 20 bucks on it.
The world is full of great golfers... The VERY few that can handle pressure rise.
You can play along great... Hit a duff or miss a short putt... If it gets in your head... Done.
I imagine Omlette (long time golfer) would agree.
The toughest part is not playing great... It's moving forward when you're not.

Keeping it together on the course is one of the hardest things to do. Think about your favorite course and ask if you have pared every hole. The answer is probably yes. Now have you birdied every hole? If you played their enough the answer is probably yes. So why cant you shoot par? Keeping it together for 4 hours is crazy hard and often the difference in success and failure is a quarter of an inch on the face of a club or 2 yards on an errant drive. There is no reasonable and consistent answer why people lose it on a course

 

[Desperado34]

Keeping it together on the course is one of the hardest things to do. Think about your favorite course and ask if you have pared every hole. The answer is probably yes. Now have you birdied every hole? If you played their enough the answer is probably yes. So why cant you shoot par? Keeping it together for 4 hours is crazy hard and often the difference in success and failure is a quarter of an inch on the face of a club or 2 yards on an errant drive. There is no reasonable and consistent answer why people lose it on a course

Do you know anyone who played on the tour, and what was the life on tour?

I imagine it has to be awesome. Play golf for a living, travel around the world, essentially be a rock star. Golfers in their 20s have gotta be living the high life. Morgan Hoffman, Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth and Daniel Berger are some I can just name off the top of my head.

#golferlife

Bergers Gf is hot as **** and has a sickass boat. All at the age of 22.

 

[Omeletpants]

Do you know anyone who played on the tour, and what was the life on tour?

Dont know any tour players, but here is an interesting story about a player at our club. Guy grows up as a golf prodigy. Is a 3 time all-American in college. Plays in the Masters and on the Walker Cup team. His father owned a business and made the following deal with him: "play all the golf you want in college and all the amateur golf, but then you have to work for me in the family business." People that knew him in his prime say he would have been a top 20 money winner. But he honored his agreement

I think he really regretted that. He is very wealthy but he didnt live his dream. He wins the club championship every times he tries but he only tries ever couple of years because it means nothing to him. He is legendary in Illinois golf with people my age. I remember one day he hadnt played golf in 2 months and walked from his car to the course and set the course record with no warm up. I remember one 2 man tournamanet my buddy and I were leading the field the first day by 7 strokes, he was in second with his terrible partner. byt the 10th hole he had single handidly made up the difference then went on to beat us. Just an amazing player

 

[Monster]

Do you know anyone who played on the tour, and what was the life on tour?

I imagine it has to be awesome. Play golf for a living, travel around the world, essentially be a rock star. Golfers in their 20s have gotta be living the high life. Morgan Hoffman, Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth and Daniel Berger are some I can just name off the top of my head.

#golferlife

Saw Jordan's story online.
He dates the same girl from highschool, drives the same taho from college, is a member of the PGA bible study with Bubba and doesn't drink.

Wanna read fun shit... Read anything on John Daly... That guy rocked it for years.
Read a book (can't remember which, might be who's your caddy).
Anyway the guy asked on the course are you the longest on tour...
John dropped his pants (book quote was hung like a dinosaur)... And asked, you tell me.
He also lost lifetimes of money in Vegas....
He goes on the Champions tour this year... Should be fun.....

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

 

[Monster]

I was the golf chairman at our club and have played in a zillion tournaments and here is where I disagree with you. I disagree with the notion of drive for show put for dough excpet all but the greatest golfers. For the average player and even club champion, driving is more important. If you dont hit fairways you cant score. You are not scoring being behind a tree or obstructed. But hitting fairways means you have a reasonable chance to par and you can win most club championships shooting par

I think you might want to re-read my post Omlette cause I agree completely.
I was saying it's ok to take a lesser club to ensure you are on the short grass.
I see guys go to range and hit a bucket of drivers... But can't get a wedge airborne.
You can always tee off with an iron... But you can't pitch a driver.
I'd rather be 245 down the middle with a 5 wood than 285 in the trees.

 

[Desperado34]

Dont know any tour players, but here is an interesting story about a player at our club. Guy grows up as a golf prodigy. Is a 3 time all-American in college. Plays in the Masters and on the Walker Cup team. His father owned a business and made the following deal with him: "play all the golf you want in college and all the amateur golf, but then you have to work for me in the family business." People that knew him in his prime say he would have been a top 20 money winner. But he honored his agreement

I think he really regretted that. He is very wealthy but he didnt live his dream. He wins the club championship every times he tries but he only tries ever couple of years because it means nothing to him. He is legendary in Illinois golf with people my age. I remember one day he hadnt played golf in 2 months and walked from his car to the course and set the course record with no warm up. I remember one 2 man tournamanet my buddy and I were leading the field the first day by 7 strokes, he was in second with his terrible partner. byt the 10th hole he had single handidly made up the difference then went on to beat us. Just an amazing player

Wow. That kinda is sad. I'd have a hard time saying no to that life, especially if he loved golf that much.

It's insane how young some of the guys start off at. I know Fowler was just a driving range kid and started really young, no country club life for a kid who rode dirtbikes and left in the California country.

Speith seems like he'd be a great guy, very competitive and fiery, but overall a nice dude.

Have you read 'Slaying the Tiger' yet? I think I'm going to order it soon.

 

[brett05]

Dont know any tour players, but here is an interesting story about a player at our club. Guy grows up as a golf prodigy. Is a 3 time all-American in college. Plays in the Masters and on the Walker Cup team. His father owned a business and made the following deal with him: "play all the golf you want in college and all the amateur golf, but then you have to work for me in the family business." People that knew him in his prime say he would have been a top 20 money winner. But he honored his agreement

I think he really regretted that. He is very wealthy but he didnt live his dream. He wins the club championship every times he tries but he only tries ever couple of years because it means nothing to him. He is legendary in Illinois golf with people my age. I remember one day he hadnt played golf in 2 months and walked from his car to the course and set the course record with no warm up. I remember one 2 man tournamanet my buddy and I were leading the field the first day by 7 strokes, he was in second with his terrible partner. byt the 10th hole he had single handidly made up the difference then went on to beat us. Just an amazing player

Danny Edwards?

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Holy shit.

 

[Omeletpants]

Danny Edwards?

no...

 

[Desperado34]

Ommy you recommend anything for some of us beginner golfers? I love playing, just not good and debated about getting an instructor or a friend who is good at golf help me out.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

no...

Sorry that brett did not pick up on the subtlety of you not wanting to give a guy's name out on the website. Hopefully, he sends you a pm if he really must know the name of the guy.

 

[brett05]

Sorry that brett did not pick up on the subtlety of you not wanting to give a guy's name out on the website. Hopefully, he sends you a pm if he really must know the name of the guy.

He gave enough info to find the guy. Relax a bit will ya?

 

[Omeletpants]

Ommy you recommend anything for some of us beginner golfers? I love playing, just not good and debated about getting an instructor or a friend who is good at golf help me out.

One of the best things someone can do is to get a "playing lesson". That is where a professional teacher follows you around for 9 or 18 holes. A playing lesson will help you think your way around the course and help you develop a strategy for a round of golf.

Most bad scoring rounds are the result of doing stupid shit which gets you in even more trouble and frustration. A good pro in a teaching lesson shows you where to hit the ball, what risks are worth taking, where to aim, what club to use, how to approach the hazards on the course. I have been involved in a lot of course design with some very good course designers and one of their jobs is to trick the golfer or create illusions on the course. Ever notice that the tee boxes often don't point you down the fairway? Well, that's done on purpose to screw with your head. If you are 130 yards from the pin what is your strategty of hitting the green? A lot depends on the risks of missing a planned shot that might put you in a bunker. Or if there are no hazards would you rather be on the right side of the pin or the left? Right handed golfers should always be on the right side of the pin because it's easier for their minds to judge a right to left breaking putt. When Johnny Miller won the US Open he was on the right side of the pin on all 18 holes. Or how do you handle greens with "false fronts". Or when are you purposely hitting short of the pin? When do you drop down a club, say driver to 3 wood? How do you judge chipping length to roll proportions on chips? What are your strategies for hitting out of different kinds of bunkers? How do position yourself so that your not "short sided" on your shot to the green?

Then there is all the shit that happens in a competitive round of golf. I used to play tons of match play golf and the question is when do you play your opponent and when do you play the course? A good playing lesson can trim strokes and cut down on the frustration levels

 

[truthbedamned]

John Daly was as funny as shit. I installed the telephone switch for the 2002 Nec Invitational held at Sahalee golf course in Washington. So of course I had access to the entire course and on Thursdays practice round Daly had a 6 pack of beer with him and was telling jokes and smoking. He had more people following him from hole to hole than Tiger did. And yes Tiger was an uppity snoot. My trailer was directly across from the media tent and when Tiger went to be interviewed a Buick would back up to the media tent and he would disappear inside....do his media interview and climb right back into the Buick to leave. The other golfers usually just walked to the media tent. In fact I was cruising around after play on Saturday in my cart and a dude waved me down and asked me if I would give him a ride to the media tent. He stood in the back where we kept our tools and when we got there he thanksed us and went inside. We followed him and it turned out to be Mike Weir.

I was also working on getting a T1 turned up for CBS on Wednesday evening and was doing a splice in a can about 100 feet behind the range. All of a sudden I hear golf balls hitting the trees and dinging off the roof of the building I was working in. Turned around and saw Mickelson driving balls completely over a fence that was about 50 feet high at the end of the range. We drove back and talked with him and he signed my hat. He is a very nice guy. Actually everyone we met was nice and gave autographs except Tiger. But that's ok. He had his own personal practice balls and I swiped a few of them.

During the tournament we parked on the 1st hole and just stayed there. First group through someone overshot the green and everyone jumped out of the way to let the ball roll through and I can't remember who it was came up and was pissed and reminded us that spectators are considered part of the course and we didn't have to move. From that point on everyone stood their ground wen someone came in hot. I saw a bunch of people get hit. And the funny thing is the same people came to the first hole all three days until all the groups were through.

 

[Desperado34]

Thanks ommy; great advice

 

[Desperado34]

I'll get flamed or think I'm full of shit or a creepy liar on a message board , so continue on reading if you don't mind the usual toads chiming in..

But one of my good friends worked the Medinah event a few years ago as a bartender. He met woods(dick), I'm asking him now who the other cool golfers were but he loves Bubba Watson now lol. And my friend doesn't golf.. Like ever. He just got invited to bartend.

Said Bubba ordered a shitload of shots and looked at my bud and said "ya gonna do a shot with me?", friend said " no can't I'm working"

Guess Watson was like " this your fuckin career?"

Friend- " no.."

Bubba-" then who the **** cares? You're the only normal mother ****** in this place"

Lmao. Did shots with Watson and got tipped over $100 lmao.

Wish I was a pga pro. What a life hahaha

Edit: Webb Simpson was other cool guy

 

[Novak]

I'll get flamed or think I'm full of shit or a creepy liar on a message board , so continue on reading if you don't mind the usual toads chiming in..

But one of my good friends worked the Medinah event a few years ago as a bartender. He met woods(dick), I'm asking him now who the other cool golfers were but he loves Bubba Watson now lol. And my friend doesn't golf.. Like ever. He just got invited to bartend.

Said Bubba ordered a shitload of shots and looked at my bud and said "ya gonna do a shot with me?", friend said " no can't I'm working"

Guess Watson was like " this your fuckin career?"

Friend- " no.."

Bubba-" then who the **** cares? You're the only normal mother ****** in this place"

Lmao. Did shots with Watson and got tipped over $100 lmao.

Wish I was a pga pro. What a life hahaha

Edit: Webb Simpson was other cool guy

Lmao!

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I'll get flamed or think I'm full of shit or a creepy liar on a message board , so continue on reading if you don't mind the usual toads chiming in..

But one of my good friends worked the Medinah event a few years ago as a bartender. He met woods(dick), I'm asking him now who the other cool golfers were but he loves Bubba Watson now lol. And my friend doesn't golf.. Like ever. He just got invited to bartend.

Said Bubba ordered a shitload of shots and looked at my bud and said "ya gonna do a shot with me?", friend said " no can't I'm working"

Guess Watson was like " this your fuckin career?"

Friend- " no.."

Bubba-" then who the **** cares? You're the only normal mother ****** in this place"

Lmao. Did shots with Watson and got tipped over $100 lmao.

Wish I was a pga pro. What a life hahaha

Edit: Webb Simpson was other cool guy

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golftalkcentral/watson-goes-great-lengths-ensure-medication-legal/

“I always check it because that's the one thing – I've never been drunk in my life, I don't drink alcohol,” he explained. “I've never done a drug in my life, so that's the one thing I never want to be caught when people say I'm a cheater. Yeah, I go to lengths to make sure everything is legal.”

http://www.golfdigest.com/story/bubba-watson-masters-bill-fields

Although he doesn't drink, Watson called the adjustment to his new fame a Masters hangover. To get over it, he didn't need a milkshake and a cheeseburger but some straight talk from a pastor friend who suggested a bible verse that says in part, "for I have I learned to be content whatever the circumstances."

http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/m...watson-has-story-will-bring-you-and-him-tears

As he has learned to minimize the negativity-he credits his wife's steadying influence and being born again in 2004 with altering his perspective-Watson has made deep friendships, which explains why Aaron Baddeley, Ben Crane and Rickie Fowler followed the playoff on foot. (Like Watson, all are regulars at the Tour's Bible-study sessions.)

There was a bartender in the corner, but everybody was drinking soda-like Bubba, his friends and family are teetotalers.

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

lmao