I find it absolutely amazing that Steve and Tiger where caught in a rain storm Friday at Riviera with NO UMBRELLA. By the time they made it into the house they were drenched from head to toe.
Professional caddies carry huge tour bags with everything from medical tape to contact lens solution in them. But they don’t carry umbrellas?
Perhaps Tiger will fire Stevie and hire me. I could use 10% of roughly 10 million bucks per year. I wouldn’t forget the umbrella.
My pop just got back from a trip to Antarctica. When I asked him what made him decide to go on a trip to Antarctica his answer was “it’s Summer there.” OK. Fair enough.
While looking at penguins and glaciers he ran across this neat golf course in the town called Ushuaia in Southern Argentina. This is near Cape Horn at the bottom of South America where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet. Latitude: 54° 47′ South. Longitude: 68° 20′ West.
Ushuaia golf course is the most Southern golf course in the world. You have views of glaciers from the course and apparently it’s a tough bugger because of the local winds.
Pop was able to snap a couple of pictures and snag me a sleeve of golf balls for my logo rack. I don’t think many golfers have one of these logo balls.
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When things go quiet over at my buddy Rich’s golf blog, eatgolf.com, you know something is brewing. You know he’s working on something cool and probably pulling some all nighters working on it.
Turns out Rich has been at Riviera attending the Nissan and taking “tons” of pics. He’s got a killer pic page of all the holes at Riviera now, but it took him some work getting them all taken. And if you’re wondering what amenities Riviera has, what the range is like, and even what the weather conditions are right now there, you can get that info on the page as well. Nice job Eat.
Eat, if you get a chance to stand on the tee when Tiger hits a drive, tell us if you’re able to get any oxygen or if his club speed sucks all the air out of your lungs.
In examining my golf game and trying to figure out where I can shave some strokes, I’ve concluded pitching and chipping are where I need the most work. My recent putting experiment more than validates the importance of getting the ball to within about 4 feet when I’m trying to get up and down.
The experiment was very simple. See how many putts in a row I can make from 4 feet and from 8 feet. The results are stunning.
8 foot putts
After making about 10 attempts, the highest number of 8 foot putts I made in a row was 6. I could try it by making 100 attempts regardless of how many in a row I made as well. Then I’d have an exact percentage of putts made. Perhaps next time I’ll do that.
4 foot putts
It didn’t even take me 10 attempts from 4 feet to make 29 in a row. And the 30th putt I missed because I was getting tired of bending over to putt.
Conclusion
The conclusion is that if I can get my chips to 4 feet I have 96% chance of getting up and down. If the chip is 8 feet out that percentage is reduced immensely.
The current poll will be closing soon. Get in your vote soon and watch for the new poll.
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