Thursday, September 23, 2010
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Betting Odds To Win the 2010 Tour Championship Sept 20
Heading into the Tour Championship, the odds to win are substantially unchanged from what they were a week ago. Mickelson is favored for a win, with Stricker, Kuchar, Dustin Johnson, Casey and Furyk following. I’m convinced it’ll be either Kuchar or Johnson, since Phil really has not shown championship form in some months. A logical argument also can be made that Paul Casey is the best golfer on the planet at this moment, and thus should be favored in this event.
What a great irony it would be for Casey to win the Tour Championship and walk home ten million dollars richer after having been left off the European Ryder Cup Team.
Matt Kuchar,, on the other hand, is my personal favorite for the event. I’ve thought for some time now that he has all the makings of a superstar. He’s got the skill—and the charisma—to be the new face of the PGA Tour. If only he ... and others ... were to work as hard as Phil at winning over crowds.
I’m impressed that Dustin Johnson still has his game intact after two soul crushing losses at Majors this year. A lesser mind would be destroyed. But Johnson seems somehow made of different stuff. No one should surprised if Johnson would pull out a Tour Championship. Even ten Tour Championships wouldn’t add up to one Major (to the chagrin, I am sure, of the Tour), but it wouldn’t be a consolation prize.
Stricker, Furyk, Goosen and Els are others you can’t count out, but would not be nearly as interesting. And interesting is what the Tour needs right now.
Complete odds are below, courtesy of Bodog.Com, the world’s largest betting destination.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Golfweek’s Top College Golf Courses
Golfweek has its list of top college golf courses. Two of them are the University of Michigan Golf Course (number 12) and the University of Michigan’s Radrick Farms golf course (number 16). I’m surprised that Michigan State’s Forest Akers didn’t make the cut—it’s every bit as nice as Radrick Farms, although much more heavily played. Radrick is a semi-private course for University staff and alumni only, while Forest Akers is open just about everyone (as near as I can tell ... I just walked on one day with no tee time or credentials). Forest Akers is a bit more beaten up at any time than Radrick.
I’ve played four Big Ten courses—the two Michigan Courses, Forest Akers and Indiana University’s home course. The Ohio State University’s Scarlet is next on my list. What I’d really like to do is to play it on October 10 of this year on my way back from a football game in Morgantown, WV. I wonder if anyone out there can hook me up ...
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Pinemeadow ZR1 Mark II Irons
Pinemeadow Golf ZR 1 Mark II Irons
Pinemeadow says that its ZR1 Mark II Irons are designed to match the performance of Ping’s G15s at a fraction of the price:
The ZR1 Mark II iron set follows in the footsteps of its predecessors—being an ultra-forgiving iron for golfers of all skill levels. These clubs feature a deep cavity, lower center of gravity and lower back weight which combine for a high launch and oversize sweet spot.
The higher MOI reduces twisting of the face on miss-hits, resulting in a straighter shot. You will instantly notice better results in the accuracy of your iron play due to the fact that there is more room for error.
The design of these clubs feature a wide sole, deep dish cavity and elongated face. With a lower center of gravity, these irons yield a higher launch angle, softer shot and more forgiving play. If you are tired of playing an older set with out-dated technology, replace your irons with the our ZR1 Mark II set for an immediate difference.
They’re priced at $149 for the set. And they come with a 100%, 30 Day satisfaction guarantee as well as a one year warranty.
This wouldn’t be a bad way to get an extra set to keep at the cottage.
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Mental Mondays: Pick A Target
On every shot, be certain to pick a target. If you do not have a target, you can be absolutely sure that you will not hit it. Failing to aim at a specific location no doubt accounts for why—even on the widest fairways, and with the largest of greens—so many amateurs spray the ball wildly.
I once read a story in which Ben Hogan asked a caddy where he should aim on his tee shot. The caddy pointed out a couple of trees in the distance. “Aim for those trees,” he said. “Which one?” the Hawk asked.
Hogan knew that aiming in a general direction, rather than at a precise target, was asking for trouble. I’m surprised he didn’t ask “which branch.” The Hawk was nothing if not precise.
Imitate the Hawk by choosing a precise target on every shot. Don’t just aim “at the middle of the fairway” or “at the green.” If you’re a high handicapper, you’re already missing a lot of fairways and greens, so clearly aiming at them isn’t doing the job.
For full tee shots, pick a spot in the fairway defined by a shadow, or an off-colored patch of grass. Then pick a smaller portion of that area. Divide again if possible. That’s your target.
On approach shots, don’t automatically choose the flag as your target. If you actually land the ball on target, it’s going to release and roll to the back of the green away from the flag. And too often, the flag is in a sucker position.
Pay close attention to the next televised PGA Tour event. Notice how often the players land the ball in a spot away from the hole, only to have it roll to within inches. It’s no accident. They were aiming for that precise spot, knowing it would roll from there.
Just as with a shot from the tee box, on approach shots, you should choose as narrowly defined a target as possible. Pick a mark if possible; otherwise, focus on a spot and burn its location into your brain.
Picking a target is just as important around the green as it is from the tee box or fairway. It’s also a easier because you’re a lot closer. Aim for a dent, or even a recognizable blade of grass at the location where you want the ball to land and begin its roll toward the hole.
Having a precise target helps your game on several levels. First, it’s necessary for proper alignment. You need to set up with your clubface on a line with the target, and your feet and shoulders parallel to that. None of that is possible without a precise target.
Second, having a precise target forces you to think about your goal. You’re not just chunking the ball down the course. You want to place each shot with an eye to the one after that. It’s not enough to land your tee shot somewhere in the fairway. You want it on the fairway in a position that maximizes your chances on the next swing.
And finally, on a more metaphysical level, focusing on a precise location allows your subconscious to come into play. Your body will try to do what the brain wants.
The GolfBlogger’s Guide To Match Play
The Ryder Cup in two weeks, and with it the usual annual confusion of American golf fans over what terms like Halve, All Square, Dormie, 1-Up and scores like 3 and 2 or 5 and 4 mean.
American golf fans are used to what is known as “stroke play.” In stroke play, golfers play a set number of holes—and the number of holes is known from the beginning—and the player with the lowest combined total score wins.
Not so in Match Play. In that format, the golfers are pitted against each other in a mano-a-mano format. In match play, players are concerned—not with the field—but with beating the player they are playing with.
The most confusing part of Match Play is in the scoring. Each hole in a Match is a separate event, and is taken in isolation. The player who finishes the hole in the fewest strokes wins the hole. The player who wins the most holes out of eighteen wins the match.
The hole-by-hole format means that it’s possible (and probable) that one player will get far enough ahead that the other has no chance of winning. For example, if Tiger and Phil finish the 16th hole, and Woods has won three more than Phil, there is no need to continue. At best, Phil could win more holes, and still would be one hole down to Woods. So the match is called at 16. The final result would be Woods 3 and 2. That means that Woods won because he was up by three holes, with two holes left.
The scoring system in match play has some peculiar terminology. Match play results are reported by how many more (or fewer) holes a player has won, along with the number of holes left. Suppose that, after ten holes, Tiger has won six holes, and Phil has won four. The score is reported as Tiger being two up through 10. At the same time, Phil is two-down through 10. If both players have won the same number of holes, the score would be reported as “All Square Through 10.”
If a player wins 1-up, that means that the match has gone to 18 holes. The last hole was played either because the match was all square after 17, or because a player was only 1 up, and the other player could have made the match All Square on the final hole.
The term “Halve” is used when players tie on an individual hole. However, because tied holes are not counted in scoring an individual match, you’ll never see a score like Woods 3 1/2 Mickelson 1 1/2.
This also explains why there will often be a result where the holes just don’t add up. Tiger could win four holes, Phil win three and they could tie the other 11. If you just added up the number of holes won, it would look like they didn’t play a full match.
A “Dormie” is when one player is up by the exact number of holes left in the match. At this point, the best the opponent can do is to tie. So, if Woods and Mickelson were on the 16th tee, and Woods was 3-Up, the match is Dormie. The best Phil can do is to win the final three holes (16, 17 and 18) and make things All Square.
One seemingly strange score occurs when a player wins 5 and 3. On the surface, it looks as though the match should have ended with four holes to play, because one player was up by five. But what actually happened was that the match was Dormie with four to go. That is, Tiger was 4-Up on the 15th tee (four holes to go). At this point, Phil can Halve the match by winning the final four holes. But Tiger wins the 15th, and the match is over. Woods wins by five, with three to go, or 5 and 3.
Another interesting aspect of Match Play is that the players do not have finish every hole. Consider the following situation: Phil hits a hole-in-one on a par three. Tiger hits the green within inches of the cup, but the ball does not go in. At this point, there is no need for Woods to finish the hole, and he will concede to Mickelson. Even if Woods finishes with a birdie, he still has lost the hole. And there is no need to see if Woods can make the putt because unlike Stroke Play, the score does not carry over to the next hole.
Similarly, players often will “concede” a stroke. This usually happens on a short putt. For example, if Mickelson knows that Woods is going to make the tap-in, he might grant “gimmie.” The real question for that hole is whether Phil can make 12 footer to win the hole, or if he two putts for a halve.
There are also a couple of other major rules differences in Match Play. For example, in Stoke Play, if you play out of order, it’s just a breach of etiquette. But in Match Play, your opponent can force you to replay the shot.
The other major changes generally have to do with the penalty for breach of rules. In Stroke play, most of the penalties involve the addition of strokes. In Match Play, the rules violations generally involve the automatic loss of the hole.
For my money, match play is the most exciting form of golf. But you don’t see a lot of it on television because it’s unpredictable. Individual matches can end quite suddenly, because you don’t have to play all the holes to determine a winner. For that matter, you don’t even have to finish every hole. A network could schedule three hours for a match, only to have one player win the first ten holes. The match would be over, and the network still would have an hour of programming to fill.
Television also hates match play because each match is a one-and-done. The winner continues on, and the loser goes home. This means that it is entirely possible for the matches on the weekend—when television viewership is highest—to be devoid of the stars. In match play, one bad round means that you are done. In Stroke play, you can have a bad round and still come back the next day, have a good round and make the cut.
Sam Snead On Overswinging
My golf pro said earlier this summer that one of my major swing faults is that I take the club too far back. I’ve been working on a three quarters swing and thought that this Sam Snead video was pretty illustrative of the issue.
I’m not sure I’m ready to play in bare feet, though.
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