Yep, Tiger is pretty awful in these public access events. He either says nothing or if he's hosting a clinic he spends most of the time recreating some impossible shot he made which is of no value to any amateur.the virus charity thing on CNN, Tiger and Manning vs Tom Brady and Mickelson, was it just me or did Tiger have his mic switched off for the whole thing? It was supposed to be a fun televised frolic for charity you aloof dickhead. The other 3 were all yapping non-stop, Mickelsen talking Brady through most of his upcoming shots, and there you were this grim reaper bolting around in your cart just trying to get it over with. What a soulless cockhead.
holy shit though, is that Medalist golf course hard. You stray off the fairway and instantly you are in goddamn Borneo.
had no idea about Mickelsen but he seems a real fun hustler type of dude. Hope he's trash talked Tiger in the past, "you sure you're black? Cos you seem more uptight than any white man I've ever met on a goddamn golf course."Lucky Phil always turns it on for the cameras or it would have been pretty miserable.
My home course has a gazillion bunkers, and when the pros play there, they can't understand why they've made it so hard for an average golfer. Most of the hazards for them are just aiming points to fly over. One told me he'd never seen a course so set up to fuck the members!Like how the fairway will have a wide open bulging area where the top players can softly land their majestic 300 yard drives in different areas, in order to choose their angle of approach to the green... yet from the tee there is 200 yards of tussock to just get to the fairway. Absolutely ZERO concession given to an average golfer. They may as well put a sign up "LOL, if you can't hit a ball 150 yards off the tee, and in the air, you may as well try throwing the fucking thing. You useless prick."
had no idea about Mickelsen but he seems a real fun hustler type of dude. Hope he's trash talked Tiger in the past, "you sure you're black? Cos you seem more uptight than any white man I've ever met on a goddamn golf course."
My home course has a gazillion bunkers, and when the pros play there, they can't understand why they've made it so hard for an average golfer. Most of the hazards for them are just aiming points to fly over. One told me he'd never seen a course so set up to fuck the members!
NO, I'm well aware of its siren call.You're forgetting that a significant element of golf is that it's meant to be frustrating and fuel self-loathing.
That's what keeps people playing week after week, year after year.
If it wasn't difficult and you didn't lose your touch pretty quickly after a break of playing then people would play far less frequently!
My home course has a gazillion bunkers, and when the pros play there, they can't understand why they've made it so hard for an average golfer.
Late last year I played Ko'olau on Oahu. Its unofficial slope rating is 158, and it was rated at one time the hardest course in the world, I believe. We weren't off the tips but it's mostly fairway, very little rough then Jurassic Park jungle (yes, they did film some of the jungle footage around there, apparently). Stunning but bloody hard.They moved some of the tees back for Phil and Tiger so that its unofficial slope rating put it as the second hardest course in the world.
The most frustrating thing as an amateur is seeing a reasonable shot being punished. Hitting the green in regulation on some of the sand belt courses in Melbourne only for your ball to trickle into some hell hole bunker just gets tiresome.
I was completely emancipated by the wind at Barnbougle in Tassie pre 'Rona. I'm convinced the ~100m par 3 7th on the Dunes would have been unplayable for any golfer in the world given the gale.Late last year I played Ko'olau on Oahu. Its unofficial slope rating is 158, and it was rated at one time the hardest course in the world, I believe. We weren't off the tips but it's mostly fairway, very little rough then Jurassic Park jungle (yes, they did film some of the jungle footage around there, apparently). Stunning but bloody hard.
Jesus, my stupid computer settings, my formal invite must've gone straight to my spam folder.Late last year I played Ko'olau on Oahu.
This reads as kind of racist but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt just this once.Its unofficial slope rating is 158
I was completely emancipated by the wind at Barnbougle in Tassie pre 'Rona. I'm convinced the ~100m par 3 7th on the Dunes would have been unplayable for any golfer in the world given the gale.
The worst about thing about playing in the wind with a few groups is that there's inevitably one bloke in another group who manages to make hay on the downwind holes and scrape his way through the rest of the holes. Then you get back to the clubhouse and have to hear the heroics of how he "just kept it low" and "took his medicine".
Weird. This Trevor guy turned up claiming he was invited. We got the guys who entertained Allenby to escort him away. Might want to check your Gunston-Tech Firewall.Jesus, my stupid computer settings, my formal invite must've gone straight to my spam folder.
This reads as kind of racist but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt just this once.