Masters week...Yes Sir!

• Footwedge

  ZWICK 4 PREZ;1140481 wrote:Would or could? Getting it inside 10 ft with a hook is more luck than skill. You can't control your run out on that shot. Most of them could get it that close, most wouldn't on any given shot.

  
  25% is only one out of four. I saw a few other players execute similar shots this weekend.
• Footwedge

  DeyDurkie5;1140447 wrote:Yeah, in a practice round almost everyone of them could. To hit that on the second playoff hole of the final day of the Masters is something to be applauding. That's what is being argued here, although not surprised you can't understand that.

  SMH. Um...I think I know what's being argued here, Dorkie.
• Footwedge

  Classyposter58;1140382 wrote:Ohh the play was horribly sloppy. Nobody really charged on Sunday, they all just fell apart except Bubba and Louis

  Yeah...3 players losing at 8 under par...real sloppy. The scoring was pretty good this year.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Hard to play that course on a Sunday and make a real move - usually that happens if there's rain involved during the tourney to slow the greens (see Tiger's huge run in 2005), it's a pretty unforgiving course in normal weather.
• Sonofanump

  I vote not douche and course is impossible to play under normal conditions.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Footwedge;1140731 wrote:25% is only one out of four. I saw a few other players execute similar shots this weekend.

  You saw a few other players draw it 30 yards from 155 yards out from the woods to 10 feet? I missed those.
  Rors cut was the only shot vaguely similar.
• Footwedge

  ZWICK 4 PREZ;1140796 wrote:You saw a few other players draw it 30 yards from 155 yards out from the woods to 10 feet? I missed those.
  Rors cut was the only shot vaguely similar.

  Hooding a wedge into an 8 and a half iron...inside outing the swing....on a lie that's better than a fairway...is not hard to do...period. Especially when the pin is in the middle back of the green. The topspin will allow the ball to roll after hitting the green. A green that size...the pros will hit it 75% of the time.
  
  What exactly is your problem here anyway? I said it was a good shot...and it was. Don't make it out to be anything more than that. As for great shots by Bubba....his approach on 15 and tee shot on 16 were better shots...and Bubba would attest to it. without either of those, obviously, he loses the tournament.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Footwedge;1141426 wrote:Hooding a wedge into an 8 and a half iron...inside outing the swing....on a lie that's better than a fairway...is not hard to do...period. Especially when the pin is in the middle back of the green. The topspin will allow the ball to roll after hitting the green. A green that size...the pros will hit it 75% of the time.
  
  What exactly is your problem here anyway? I said it was a good shot...and it was. Don't make it out to be anything more than that. As for great shots by Bubba....his approach on 15 and tee shot on 16 were better shots...and Bubba would attest to it. without either of those, obviously, he loses the tournament.

  Trampled on hardpanned pine straw is hardly better than the fairway.. its way more difficult of a shot. You mention the top spin like it's a good thing. It's practically impossible to control distance with top spin and that's my point. My point is you're guessing the right amount of hook and how much it's going to run out and how it's going to bounce when it lands.. 1/4 of pros aren't getting thsat to 10 feet. That's the point. It was a lot of luck getting it that close. Majority of the shots are going to roll off the back of the green.
• Footwedge

  ZWICK 4 PREZ;1141458 wrote:Trampled on hardpanned pine straw is hardly better than the fairway.. its way more difficult of a shot. You mention the top spin like it's a good thing. It's practically impossible to control distance with top spin and that's my point. My point is you're guessing the right amount of hook and how much it's going to run out and how it's going to bounce when it lands.. 1/4 of pros aren't getting thsat to 10 feet. That's the point. It was a lot of luck getting it that close. Majority of the shots are going to roll off the back of the green.

  Don't equate trampled straw to hard pan...ever. The pros will hit off trampled straw every time with a huge smile on their face. As for the top spin...yes it is a good thing...when the pin is in the back and the green is heavily sloped from back to front.
  
  You are not going to run through that green when the ball is climbing a virtual mountain. And yes, at least one out of 5 pro golfers will hit it to 15 feet or better on that hole, pin location and green layout...with a hooded wedge in hand off a great lie like that.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Footwedge;1141583 wrote:Don't equate trampled straw to hard pan...ever. The pros will hit off trampled straw every time with a huge smile on their face. As for the top spin...yes it is a good thing...when the pin is in the back and the green is heavily sloped from back to front.
  
  You are not going to run through that green when the ball is climbing a virtual mountain. And yes, at least one out of 5 pro golfers will hit it to 15 feet or better on that hole, pin location and green layout...with a hooded wedge in hand off a great lie like that.

  So that's why every other pro is gushing over the shot.. b/c most can do it? ok.
  B/c it's really easy to keep good footing on pinestraw and it's really easy to guess if it's going to be a flyer or you're going to hit it slightly fat and it goes 30 ft and its really easy to address it and make sure the ball doesn't move right? Come on man. Even Bubba admits it's a lucky shot.
• bases_loaded

  

  
• ernest_t_bass

  

  What the fuck!? That's insane.
• Laley23

  

  The only problem I have with that photo is that its just a drawing. Does the person who made it actually have the above angle of the flight. I mean, where the ball ended up and where he hit it from are insane regardless. But the actual flight might not have been like that.
• se-alum

  

  ernest_t_bass;1145905 wrote:What the fuck!? That's insane.

  Easy shot, just ask footwedge.
• karen lotz

  

  I'll probably hit that same shaped shot several times the first night of my golf league. Only difference is I swing right handed and I won't be trying to.
• bases_loaded

  

  Laley23;1145910 wrote:The only problem I have with that photo is that its just a drawing. Does the person who made it actually have the above angle of the flight. I mean, where the ball ended up and where he hit it from are insane regardless. But the actual flight might not have been like that.

  
  Just wanted to show all these pga pros we have what the terrain was like.
• wildcats20

  

  Not just current guys gushing over Bubba's shot....
  
  The GOAT:

  "When you're playing a hook it usually takes off. But that ball danced like it had a lot of backspin on it. I saw that ball hit the green and I said, 'Wow.' That was something. Not only did he play the shot, but he played the shot and ended up with control at the end of the shot -- which I thought was the amazing part. That will go down as one of the great shots ever played in the game.'' -- Jack Nicklaus on Bubba Watson's second shot to the second playoff hole at the Masters.

• Laley23

  

  wildcats20;1146989 wrote:Not just current guys gushing over Bubba's shot....
  
  The GOAT:

  Lies. Anyone on tour can do it.
• Sonofanump

  It is a real privilege to be on a message board with posters who have better golf knowledge and opinions than Jack Nicklaus.
• Heretic

  

  Sonofanump;1147099 wrote:It is a real privilege to be on a message board with posters who have better golf knowledge and opinions than Jack Nicklaus.

  Shit, on this site, we have tons of people better at everything than anyone else.
  
  The OC: aka -- The Most Influential People in the Multiverse.
  
  36s on the ACT, 4.05 40 times, state champs in every high school sport, etc. We rule!
• Footwedge

  se-alum;1145923 wrote:Easy shot, just ask footwedge.

  Not hard at all. hood your club, execute the shot...it's that simple.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Footwedge;1147399 wrote:Not hard at all. hood your club, execute the shot...it's that simple.

  LOL go out, hit that same shot, and post a video of it. Until then, shut the fuck up old man.
• chicago510

  

  DeyDurkie5;1147401 wrote:LOL go out, hit that same shot, and post a video of it. Until then, shut the fuck up old man.

  
  In the masters in a playoff with your opponent in far better position...that's what made it insanity.
• sherm03

  

  Footwedge;1147399 wrote:Not hard at all. hood your club, execute the shot...it's that simple.

  Simply "hooding your club" does not mean you will even come close to executing that shot.
• se-alum

  

  Footwedge;1147399 wrote:Not hard at all. hood your club, execute the shot...it's that simple.

  I mean, obviously it's just that easy. Why else would people who have covered the game for years talk for days about how difficult the shot was?