OT: Anyone just see that drive by DJ?
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Wonderful shot by a very talented player. However, points out that technology is making older courses obsolete. I agree with Jack Nicklaus that the ball should be made less lively to protect older courses.
Also, if technology keeps increasing the ability of players to hit it farther and farther, it will make it difficult to keep courses short enough to walk. I can see 8,000 yard courses in the not too distant future, which would be very hard to walk. I grew up as a caddy, and golf on a cart is no fun for me in addition to wasting an opportunity to get exercise.
Also, if technology keeps increasing the ability of players to hit it farther and farther, it will make it difficult to keep courses short enough to walk. I can see 8,000 yard courses in the not too distant future, which would be very hard to walk. I grew up as a caddy, and golf on a cart is no fun for me in addition to wasting an opportunity to get exercise.
I quit playing golf cold turkey over a decade ago...a much needed clean break for my stress/heart/nerves/wallet. It had become a far too significant pastime, and one I’d pursued to the neglect of the rest of my life. Haven’t really even followed the tour since then either. I honestly haven’t missed it, but after seeing that shot, damn if I don’t want to dig my clubs out of the basement and hit the links. Wow!
Don't disagree with your point about technology, Buck, but that hole is apparently over 400 yards long. A 400+ yard drive is just mind blowing. The dude was playing at sea level, not in Tahoe or Denver.
As I said it was a wonderful shot made with a gorgeous balanced swing. However, if Dustin Johnson was using the clubs and balls that Nicklaus used in his prime, Johnson couldn't have reached that green.
420+ to be exact. But...it was a trade winds week on Maui so that hole played downwind AND the last 80 of which is downhill so you can get a nice kick and roll and you'll be on the green (I saw someone a couple of years ago drive it THRU that green!). Typically, you'll see a number of 400+ yard drives on that hole. DJ hit it in the exact right place to get the kick and bounce he got and the roll to the hole. Now if only it had gone in.
CD: Was that the Plantation Course? I have played there a couple of times, and it is a great layout. The 19th hole (a Par 5) is a downhill dogleft left, and eminently reachable in two. A lot of fun to play.
Edit: The 19th Hole. LOL. Now THAT'S a Freudian slip. I meant the 18th hole, but I'm gonna leave it up at this point.
Edit: The 19th Hole. LOL. Now THAT'S a Freudian slip. I meant the 18th hole, but I'm gonna leave it up at this point.
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Wow. Has there ever been a pure talent for striking a golf ball like DJ? His size, strength and speed produce amazing angels and ball strikes. He has his faults, but in terms of just striking a ball he is in a league of his own.
I hit a ball about 4-5 times that far back in high school.
It was at the Glenview (IL) Naval Air Station golf course......once that ball hit that runway it just seemed to take off and bounce forever.
It was at the Glenview (IL) Naval Air Station golf course......once that ball hit that runway it just seemed to take off and bounce forever.
That's nothing compared to what Kim Jong Un's daddy could do....
One of golf’s greatest feats is to shoot one’s age.
So, imagine how spectacular a day Kim Jong-Il had back in 1994. The North Korean dictator, who died on Saturday of heart failure at age 69, scorched the 7,700-yard Pyongyang Golf Course in a stunning 38-under par, 34.
Now, before getting all bent out of shape that such a score is impossible or clearly the product of creative scorekeeping on the part of the “Dear Leader,” it’s important to note that witnesses attest to his great round.
According to reports, Kim, who was 52 at the time, carded no worse than a birdie on any hole at the country’s only golf club. He also had five holes-in-one in the round, which was witnessed by 17 armed bodyguards.
“He is an excellent golfer,” Park Young Man, the club professional, told the International Herald Tribune a couple of months after Kim’s historic round, which was widely-reported in North Korea’s state-controlled media.
Good thing for Tiger Woods and his contemporaries Kim spent his time serving his people because clearly he could have ruled the PGA Tour too.
One of golf’s greatest feats is to shoot one’s age.
So, imagine how spectacular a day Kim Jong-Il had back in 1994. The North Korean dictator, who died on Saturday of heart failure at age 69, scorched the 7,700-yard Pyongyang Golf Course in a stunning 38-under par, 34.
Now, before getting all bent out of shape that such a score is impossible or clearly the product of creative scorekeeping on the part of the “Dear Leader,” it’s important to note that witnesses attest to his great round.
According to reports, Kim, who was 52 at the time, carded no worse than a birdie on any hole at the country’s only golf club. He also had five holes-in-one in the round, which was witnessed by 17 armed bodyguards.
“He is an excellent golfer,” Park Young Man, the club professional, told the International Herald Tribune a couple of months after Kim’s historic round, which was widely-reported in North Korea’s state-controlled media.
Good thing for Tiger Woods and his contemporaries Kim spent his time serving his people because clearly he could have ruled the PGA Tour too.
See Jack Nicklaus at age 15.
See also Ben Hogan (very long, but not DJ long) who hit 34 greens in a row in the last round of the 1960 US Open. Unbelievable ball striking. https://www.golfdigest.com/story/the-six-worst-decisions-player
Bad putter at the end of his career.
+1000!!
"It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
The 19th hole is usually my best but if they make it to hard to reach I will have to stop golfing
Everyone ends up with a bad putter at the end of their career.....doesn’t matter if you play golf or if you don’t play golf!
