adamscot89
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Hey folks just got back from the Tour Championship in ATL. Saw a lot of great golf and some interesting things...
The first thing I noticed about all the guys out there, they are AMAZING putters. I watched Ernie Els hit about 15 40-footers and not one of them was more than 6 inches off in distance and they were all within a couple feet, no short putts or blowing in 3 feet by. You would expect guys like Tiger and Ernie to be sinking putts on the practice green but when I saw Jerry Kelly dropping 10 footers like they were tap-ins I realized what I really needed to work on if I ever want to be at East Lake in September.
All the guys that I watched chipping were using an unusually strong grip, its like they grip the club for a chip and then turn their hands to the right 15 degrees, just thought it was interesting and tried it at the range today and it helped a lot. It was weird to get the feel down at first but i soon realized that it was a million times easier to perform the tour pitch with this grip because you can really feel the hinge of the left wrist and can control exactly when the club clips the ground.
What surprised me most about seeing the tee shots was the ballflight. Tiger and many of the other long hitters hit the ball pretty low. The ball took of low and just kept going out, it never rose and seemed like it never fell. This was the same with 3-woods which made it easier to understand how a 3-wood could go 320 yds (ballflight plus tour fairways rolling a 9 on the stimp).
On the fashion side their are a couple things that you have to pick up before you come on tour. Everyone with the exception of Tiger had Croc (as well as other exotic animals) skin belts of of all different colors. Even guys who aren't seen as fashion icons like Marino and Ernie had crocodile around their waists. I'm sure Tiger is saving up some extra cash for one, maybe now that he won the Fedex Cup he can afford one
. The next gotta have on tour is a croc skin scorecard holder, obviously I don't know how I have played golf for 13 years without one .
All in all the tournament was great and I loved watching and learning from the best in the world.
The first thing I noticed about all the guys out there, they are AMAZING putters. I watched Ernie Els hit about 15 40-footers and not one of them was more than 6 inches off in distance and they were all within a couple feet, no short putts or blowing in 3 feet by. You would expect guys like Tiger and Ernie to be sinking putts on the practice green but when I saw Jerry Kelly dropping 10 footers like they were tap-ins I realized what I really needed to work on if I ever want to be at East Lake in September.
All the guys that I watched chipping were using an unusually strong grip, its like they grip the club for a chip and then turn their hands to the right 15 degrees, just thought it was interesting and tried it at the range today and it helped a lot. It was weird to get the feel down at first but i soon realized that it was a million times easier to perform the tour pitch with this grip because you can really feel the hinge of the left wrist and can control exactly when the club clips the ground.
What surprised me most about seeing the tee shots was the ballflight. Tiger and many of the other long hitters hit the ball pretty low. The ball took of low and just kept going out, it never rose and seemed like it never fell. This was the same with 3-woods which made it easier to understand how a 3-wood could go 320 yds (ballflight plus tour fairways rolling a 9 on the stimp).
On the fashion side their are a couple things that you have to pick up before you come on tour. Everyone with the exception of Tiger had Croc (as well as other exotic animals) skin belts of of all different colors. Even guys who aren't seen as fashion icons like Marino and Ernie had crocodile around their waists. I'm sure Tiger is saving up some extra cash for one, maybe now that he won the Fedex Cup he can afford one
. The next gotta have on tour is a croc skin scorecard holder, obviously I don't know how I have played golf for 13 years without one .All in all the tournament was great and I loved watching and learning from the best in the world.
