OT - PGA News and Notes

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Tiger is looking for a new swing coach. Back to Butch Harmon?

Woods splits with swing coach Foley after four years

 

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Tiger is looking for a new swing coach. Back to Butch Harmon?

Woods splits with swing coach Foley after four years

He needs someone who can find him a less violent/aggressive swing to keep healthy. If he can't stop getting injured, his quest for 18 is never going to add another single one. I still think he can get there (I think 15 or 16 is more likely at this point), but he has to drastically change the way he plays golf.

 

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He needs someone who can find him a less violent/aggressive swing to keep healthy. If he can't stop getting injured, his quest for 18 is never going to add another single one. I still think he can get there (I think 15 or 16 is more likely at this point), but he has to drastically change the way he plays golf.

His violent/aggressive swing is a HUGE part of what got him where he is. Without his power he has only one advantage (historically) and that's his putting. His putting has abandoned him to a degree. That's typical of a person of his age.

Tiger NEEDS to hit the ball long because he's never been hyper-accurate off the tee. I'm Tiger's age (almost to the day) and I know that length, or force, isn't the problem. Granted I'm just a good amateur but I've played at a pretty high level. The fact of the matter is that he can't hit the ball where he wants it to go. Period.

Maybe a new coach could rectify that. But his swing will have to be violent no matter what. That's the nature of good golf.

 

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Ryder Cup squads as they currently stand (Tom Watson still has three captain picks to make):

Team USA Team Europe

Bubba Watson Rory McIlroy
Rickie Fowler Henrik Stenson
Jim Furyk Victor Dubuisson
Jimmy Walker Jamie Donaldson
Phil Mickelson Sergio Garcia
Matt Kuchar Justin Rose
Jordan Spieth Martin Kaymer
Patrick Reed Thomas Bjorn
Zach Johnson Graeme McDowell
Captain's pick Ian Poulter
Captain's pick Stephen Gallacher
Captain's pick Lee Westwood

 

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Ryder Cup squads as they currently stand (Tom Watson still has three captain picks to make):

Team USA Team Europe

Bubba Watson Rory McIlroy
Rickie Fowler Henrik Stenson
Jim Furyk Victor Dubuisson
Jimmy Walker Jamie Donaldson
Phil Mickelson Sergio Garcia
Matt Kuchar Justin Rose
Jordan Spieth Martin Kaymer
Patrick Reed Thomas Bjorn
Zach Johnson Graeme McDowell
Captain's pick Ian Poulter
Captain's pick Stephen Gallacher
Captain's pick Lee Westwood

Who are your picks if you're Watson, Dash?

 

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Who are your picks if you're Watson, Dash?

I think you have to go with Hunter Mahan and Keegan Bradley with two of his three picks. As for the 3rd pick, I'd roll the dice with Billy Horschel, I like the cut of his jib.

 

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Also, I want to see FIGJAM hit more shots from the hospitality area (lol)

 

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I think you have to go with Hunter Mahan and Keegan Bradley with two of his three picks. As for the 3rd pick, I'd roll the dice with Billy Horschel, I like the cut of his jib.

I think Hunter is definitely your most consistent guy on there (and he's tight with Fowler and Bubba as well). And I love Bradley for his fire. Wasn't it he and Mickelson that were so good with each other the last go around?

I'm going to go with Brandt Snedeker on the last spot. He's had a pretty solid year and seems like a steady kind of guy.

 

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So we both have 3/4 of the Golf Boys crew.

Warning - this is done Baddeley.

 

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I'm going to go with Brandt Snedeker on the last spot. He's had a pretty solid year and seems like a steady kind of guy.

Yeah, when Snedeker gets the flat stick rolling, he can be deadly. I like the Snedeker pick over Horschel.

/And yes, it was the President's Cup, but Keegan and Phil seems to get along quite well.

 

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If you haven't seen this, the robot is hilarious...
"Tiger would be at home with his feet up by now."


PS - Apparently hitting things at washing machines makes people great at sports.

 

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As Meatloaf sang many moons ago, eloco, two outta three ain't bad...

Tom Watson has announced his three captain's picks for the 2014 Ryder Cup: Keegan Bradley, Hunter Mahan, and Webb Simpson.

 

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As Meatloaf sang many moons ago, eloco, two outta three ain't bad...

Tom Watson has announced his three captain's picks for the 2014 Ryder Cup: Keegan Bradley, Hunter Mahan, and Webb Simpson.

Aaaaah, we were so close! I thought about Webb Simpson and went with Snedeker instead.
Waaaaaaaat-son!!!

Can't wait for the Ryder Cup - it's the best even in golf by a mile.

 

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Aaaaah, we were so close! I thought about Webb Simpson and went with Snedeker instead.
Waaaaaaaat-son!!!

Can't wait for the Ryder Cup - it's the best event in golf by a mile.

With Webb in the mix, will we see the birdman?

 

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With Webb in the mix, will we see the birdman?

One can hope!

 

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I always wondered whatever happened to Anthony Kim, well he seems to be living a pretty good life down in Dallas.

"Another way of looking at it is that Kim is living the dream: retired at 29, without a care in the world. While his old rivals were grinding in recent weeks trying to make the Ryder Cup team, Kim headed to Belize on a whim. Those in a position to know say Kim is sound financially. He is still under contract with Nike, though company spokesperson Gretchen Wilhelm declined to discuss particulars. In April, Kim put his Xanadu in Dallas on the market for $2.2 million and has been staying with a girlfriend while he assesses his next move. He tools around town in a Rolls-Royce Ghost. It had been flossed out with custom rims, but recently he reinstalled the stock wheels. "He wants to be more incognito," his friend says, without irony. The standing Monday-night card game at a private residence atop the Ritz aside, Kim has increasingly become a recluse. A hostess at So & So's, where Kim is known as an extravagant tipper, says he hasn't been around since the spring. At his favorite strip club, Baby Dolls, the consensus was that Kim hadn't been there in months, and that he was missed. 'He always takes good care of the girls,' says one waitress."




https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/29-old-golf-phenom-disappeared-195600040.html

 

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Ted Bishop resigns as PGA president after sexist tweet toward Poulter. He didn't apologize

 

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Ted Bishop resigns as PGA president after sexist tweet toward Poulter. He didn't apologize

 

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Well shit!! I just can't figure out how ISIS is involved in THIS one.

 

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Maybe Poulter would have a golf major by now if they would let him hit from the ladies tee?