Americans seem determined to calibrate everything in their lives, simply to be able to say that their whatever is better than the other guy’s whatever. In this spirit, have Stimpmeters made us so obsessive about fast greens that the game has suffered? Frank Hannigan, former head of the USGA thinks so…….and so do I.
(Click here to read Frank Hannigan’s article on the Stimpmeter)
Found on http://www.popeofslope.com
We all know of Tiger’s appearance at an early age on Mike Douglas but he has nothing on Rory in this regard. Rory shows at a very early age-just after winning a the Under 10 World Championship-how to do the chores while practicing your craft. He has an entertainer’s stage presence and composure at a very early age.
(Click here to see the video of Rory chipping into mum’s washing machine)
June, 2011
Sally Jenkins wrote this piece after the second round of the Open and captured the sense of anticipation that a new star was on the rise. Her simple analysis of his lyric swing captures the character of this player and the comfortable confidence he brings to his game.
(Click here to read the article)
June 2011
Wayne DeFrancesco’s website is chock full of incredible swing analysis videos of top line tour pros. This one he did last fall of Rory based on footage from Rory’s huge win at Quail Hollow. As Wayne always does, the makes some very incisive observations about the construct of this swing.
Fall 2010
It is inevitable with golfers, when we reach the point where we run out of explanations for our shortcomings on the golf course we blame it on the whims of the golf gods. Rick Reilly takes this on in a funny op-ed piece from Sports Illustrated in 2007.
(Click here to read the article)
June, 2007
Ever wonder what it would be like to play an afternoon four-ball with a bunch of touring pros. John Hawkins describes this and a whole lot more in a fascinating article about Whisper Rock Golf Club in Scottsdale, home course to some of the most recognized players on both tours.
(Click here to read the article)
January, 2009
Tom Boswell’s insightful thoughts on Tom Watson’s remarkable performance at the 2009 British Open at Turnburry.
(Click here to read the article)
July, 2009
For the golf TV audience the tour is introducing a new golf stat called “Strokes Gained Putting” which tries to measure how many strokes a player gained on the field during a round through his putting performance. Once again, the average person has no way of keeping a statistic like this for himself, so it becomes something only institutional entities can track and purvey. Mike Agger explains the significance of this new statistic in the attached article.
(Click here to read the article)
August, 2010
This is the first of two articles by Mike Agger that focuses on how misleading the conventional statistics in golf are. Correctly the standard stats of Fairways Hit, Greens In Regulation, Putts Per Round do not give a clear indication of how a player is playing a particular round compared to the field. The problem is that the stats he talks about in this article and in the Dark Art of Putting are ones that a regular player cannot possibly keep by himself. They require such pervasive and thorough data collection and analysis they can only be done by an institutional source like the tour or a television broadcast company.
(Click here to read the article)
August, 2010
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