The driver wasn't the problem, it was his choice for the second shot. You need to stop thinking of golf the way it was played before the clubs and balls changed so much. Look at it like this. The last hole is 450 yards tee to middle of green. That means the front of the green is about 430 yards away. There looked to be some type of hill in the middle of the fairway that rose and then fell down to the front of the green (the swale where Ogilvy's ball came to rest when it backed up off the green). Now suppose I can fly my 3 iron 220 yards, my 4 wood 230 yards and my driver 280 yards. If I choose a 3 iron or 4 wood and miss the fairway I've now got a shot of approximately 200 yards out of deep rough. I don't have a club in my bag for that shot. If I hit my driver and it flies 280 yards then even if I'm in the rough I'm only 150 yards from the front of the green and all I have to do is gouge a wedge out of the rough and let it roll down the hill next to where Ogilvy's ball came to rest and as we all saw making par from that spot wasn't impossible.
Now, the execution of the drive was another thing, and the strategy on the second shot was certainly questionable. At that point he should have played for no worse than a tie; however, put me in the same spot and I'm hitting driver every time. They haven't made rough yet that I can't get out of with a wedge.
JH
"John Bigboote" <bigboote@yps.com> wrote in message news:129bsiis4ebr71d@corp.supernews.com...> "RKELC" <rkelc@snet.net> wrote in message> news:Aqllg.149206$F_3.49512@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...>> Choked.....>
"'Cup" is more like it. Par to win, bogey to tie, and he shoots a double.> Hits two fairways all day, and still takes out the driver on the 72nd hole> instead of the 4 wood. Simply fucking stoopid. His caddie should have> whacked him upside the head with that driver before letting him swing it. > I> like you, Phil, but jeezus, that was dumb.>
"I got to hand it to you, 'Cup. When you go down, you go down in flames!">
-jb>
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"gumboman" <noemail@noemail.com> wrote in message news:gKSdnYXwxbtJmQvZnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@giganews.com...> The driver wasn't the problem, it was his choice for the second shot. You> need to stop thinking of golf the way it was played before the clubs and> balls changed so much. Look at it like this. The last hole is 450 yards
to middle of green. That means the front of the green is about 430 yards> away. There looked to be some type of hill in the middle of the fairway
that> rose and then fell down to the front of the green (the swale where Ogilvy's> ball came to rest when it backed up off the green). Now suppose I can fly
3 iron 220 yards, my 4 wood 230 yards and my driver 280 yards. If I choose
3 iron or 4 wood and miss the fairway I've now got a shot of approximately> 200 yards out of deep rough. I don't have a club in my bag for that shot.
I hit my driver and it flies 280 yards then even if I'm in the rough I'm> only 150 yards from the front of the green and all I have to do is gouge a> wedge out of the rough and let it roll down the hill next to where
Ogilvy's> ball came to rest and as we all saw making par from that spot wasn't> impossible.
Jack, the idea is that if he had hit his 4 wood, he wouldn't have been *in* the rough. He hit two freaking fairways all day! God, his swing and the stats were all trying to tell him the same thing: Don't use the driver on this hole! 4 wood, 4 iron, two-putt, go home rich and happy and get laid.
"Take the drop, Roy!"
Hey, I'm a hack, and it was obvious to me. But more to the point, it was obvious to every guy in the booth and on the course. None of them could believe he pulled out his driver, and I'd venture that they know more about how the game is played than both of us put together. x3.
-jb
-- John Bigboote Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems "A Growing Excited Company"
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