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Mickelson setting course management back for the average golfer
Apr 16th
Phil Mickelson’s miracle shot on 13 on Sunday will go down as one of the great shots of Masters history. It will also be a big setback for the average golfer.
There is no doubt that Phil Mickelson has an overload of talent. He has shown that over years pulling off incredible shots. But he has taken risks that have cost him tournaments, most notably the US Open at Winged Foot.
The problem isn’t that Phil tries those shots and sometimes pulls them off. The problem is that he influences golfers and they begin to think they can do the same. We’d all love to be able to strike the ball like Phil but even most golfers in the field at Augusta on Sunday would have laid up. With Phil’s talent he would have scored a birdie 80% of the time laying up, and he in fact scored a birdie.
Was it a heroic shot? Absolutely. Was it smart? Probably not. The par 5 13th had been giving up lots of birdies. Phil’s mistake is that he brought bogey into play. Luckily for him it didn’t turn out that way, but pine straw is not easy to hit out off. He could easily have ended up in the creek, pitching onto the green for an un-guaranteed par. The conservative route wouldn’t have brought bogey into play unless something disastrous had happened.
Review: The Floppy – Indoor Practice Golf Ball
Jan 3rd
Master the short game and you can score well even when your long game is off.
The Floppy is a soft indoor practice golf ball. It has a woven cover, a liner and a proprietary filling.
The Floppy Close Up
The videos on the homepage do a good job of showing what the floppy does and how it reacts when it bounces of windows. When I first saw the floppy on-line I thought it was going to be a bit like a hacky sack in the shape of a golf ball. But when you squeeze it, it instantly bounces back into shape. The quality of the woven cover is very good. I would imagine that a single ball could easily take thousands of hits. The sticker on the ball won’t last that long though. It pretty quickly got worn down so that the text was difficult to read. That does not affect it’s performance. Read the rest of this entry »
