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A Quick Video Lesson On Why You Don’t Mess With Golfers
December 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
I just popped my head into r/Golf, seeking some potential gift ideas for my avid golfer dad, when I happened upon this video.
I’d just like to see that these twerps got exactly what they deserved.
Video: Phil Mickelson’s Remarkable Lob Shot
September 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I’ve never been the biggest Phil Mickelson fan, but I can appreciate supreme, other-worldly skill even in athletes I don’t root for.
Mickelson’s remarkable lob shot certainly qualifies, and it is on impressive display in the video below.
Keegan Bradley’s PGA Championship win is what makes golf great
August 15, 2011 By 3 Comments
Keegan Bradley is just as good for golf as Tiger Woods is right now.
Granted, Bradley nor anyone else on the PGA Tour has the track record that Woods has, but that’s part of what made this weekend, and golf over the past few years, great.
Getting Tiger Out Of The Rough
August 12, 2011 By 6 Comments
Even the most genuinely talented human beings have flaws. We look at the most gifted performers in our culture as heroes and role models, but we forgive their personal shortcomings as long as they remain successful in the arenas in which they have become known to the world.
Often we ignore the possibility that it could be because of – not in spite of – these flaws that these people are able to claim their spots on the highest of pedestals in the first place. Addiction is strange; it can destroy, but it can also impart an unshakable confidence in its victim.
As you probably know, Tiger Woods last won a major championship over three years ago. Since that time, personally and professionally, his life has gone through total upheaval. He was forced to undergo reconstructive knee surgery after that thrilling 2008 U.S. Open win, returned 8 months later and played fairly well, but left golf again in November 2009 after a history of being unfaithful to his wife became public.
Since then, Tiger has lost several endorsements, parted with his swing coach, Hank Haney, and his caddy of 12 years, Steve Williams. Clearly, Tiger Woods has not been Tiger Woods, brand name and PGA winning machine, for the better part of the last three years.
Rory McIlroy’s U.S. Open Win Exhibits Golf’s New Era
June 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Rory McIlroy captured the first major title of his young career on Sunday at Congressional, and the way he won was where the real story lies.
Everyone remembered McIlroy as the one who completely collapsed at Augusta by shooting a final round of 80. He led heading into Sunday, but he could never find his swing and quickly fell down the leaderboard. He was the subject of the media leading up to the U.S. Open, and he knew he had to respond with a strong performance.
I think setting records en route to winning the U.S. Open at the age of 22 accomplished that goal.
US Open still good without him, but we’ll miss Tiger on Sunday
June 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
I watched a good chunk of the first round of the US Open, and I initially couldn’t help but wish that Tiger Woods was in the tournament. However, the more I watched, the more I liked what I was seeing.
When Tiger is in a major, or any tournament for that matter, the majority of the coverage focuses on him. Today, we still heard about him not being in the field, but the coverage was more spread out to all the possible storylines, not just one guy. As the afternoon went on, I became more and more interested in the tournament.
Tiger Woods is the Modern Day Mickey Mantle
May 13, 2011 By 6 Comments
Yesterday, Tiger Woods withdrew from The Players Championship after nine pathetic holes. Woods shot a front nine 42 before citing numerous leg maladies as the reasons for his withdrawal.
By itself, Tiger’s TPC failure is not a huge deal. The tournament is not a Major, nor did many people expect Tiger to compete anyway. He had barely swung a club since Sunday at Augusta.
In context, however, what happened yesterday just might have transformed a murmuring minority into a critical mass of doubters. It also might have signaled a shift in how we view the career of Tiger Woods moving forward and how we’ll someday view it looking back.
As I have spent some time this morning considering Tiger’s overall career, his recent struggles, and his potential for a return to form, there is one name, one memory that I keep coming back to.
Tiger Woods was once Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, and Jack Nicklaus all rolled into one. Now, in the wake of yet another lost weekend, Tiger seems like none of those sports icons. Rather, he seems like another still iconic but much more tragic figure:
Mickey Mantle.
Video: Charles Barkley shatters driver on 1st tee at Champions Tour Regions Tradition at Shoal Creek
May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Charles Barkley is one of the most entertaining and engaging sports personalities of my lifetime. There are a variety of reasons why this is the case, and it is unnecessary for me to expatiate because I’m sure that you agree with me.
In this post, I am going to focus on one of the more notoriously entertaining aspects of the Charles Barkley Experience: his putrid golf game, manifested so awfully with every herk, jerk, and duff produced by his flagrantly ugly swing.
And recently, on the 1st tee at the Champions Tour Regions Tradition at Shoal Creek, Barkley delivered one of the more ignominious moments of his mostly ignominious golfing “career”.
Video: “The Mumbai Masters” from ESPN’s E:60 reminds us of the majesty of sport
April 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ESPN deserves plenty of criticism for a variety of things, and they get plenty of it around these parts, but the network is the so-called “Worldwide Leader” because, in its heart of hearts, there is a genuine love for sport.
This can sometimes be difficult to see through the smoke of constant self-promotion but is most evident during ESPN’s consistently compelling show E:60. The latest example of this is a story called “Mumbai Masters: A look at how golf is played in Mumbai, India”.
PGA Tour golfer Kevin Na cards a 16…on one hole
April 15, 2011 By 4 Comments
When I go out and play golf, double digit scores on one hole are routine. But for PGA Tour golfers, they are a rarity. Not only are the pros much more adept at keeping their balls out of harm’s way in the first place, but they are remarkably good at getting out of trouble once they get into it.
So with that in mind, surely no professional golfer could ever card a score as high as, say, 16 on a single hole right?
Na.
Masters Recap: Charl Schwartzel’s amazing Sunday, Tiger’s surge, and Rory’s fade
April 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
Fortunately, they are still talking about the magnificent final round at the Masters yesterday — and not the brief controversy that flared up afterwards, when a female reporter was mistakenly denied access to the players locker room – which re-ignited some old controversies about Augusta National Golf Club and some of their long-standing policies.
Even for the casual fans that do not watch most of the PGA Tour season, the Masters is a perfect storm and often a must-see.
Masters: Saturday Tee Times and Pairings for Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson, et al – Plus TV Info and Quick Preview
April 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We don’t cover golf a ton here at MSF, but we usually do light up for the Majors. Even if you’re just a casual golf fan, which is what I consider myself to be, it is easy to get sucked into courses with the beauty and history of Augusta and stories like the comeback of a once colossal golfing force.
In this post, we will quickly run down all of the Masters Saturday tee times – for Tiger, Rory, Phil, and everyone else – as well as give you all the TV info you need, and then a quick preview for what you’re likely to see on Moving Day at Augusta.
Tiger Woods’ new swing mechanics under Sean Foley have him “jammed up” heading into Masters
April 1, 2011 By 5 Comments
I was a teaching golf professional for a little over a year – not long enough, admittedly. I was on my way to work at Kapalua when I met my wife and she found out a) how much money I made, and b) how much time single golf pros spend at the bar.
But even without ever having studied the golf swing, or having just a year of teaching experience, it is incredibly simple to look in, from the outside, and identify problems in the golf swing; and it doesn’t matter if it’s a weekend duffer or the greatest golfer of all time, Tiger Woods’ swing.
With Masters quickly approaching next week, Tiger has now been with new coach Sean Foley for the past 7 months. I’ll tell you and I’d tell Tiger that, without a shadow of a doubt, Foley is the wrong coach.
