What a GREAT win for golf!!!

[SteveT]

Yesterday on TGC, Brandel Chamblee said something to the effect that Masters champions like Bubba Watson and Phil Mickelson "did well and respected the game of golf".

The unspoken allusion was that Tiger Woods has failed the game of golf for obvious reasons. Tiger has torpedoed himself.

 

[dschultz6072]

Why great for golf? Not trying to be a kill joy. Good on the man. But when I hear "great for golf" I wonder "in what way".

Maybe it will prompt people to be less inclined to shoot for a "look" and rather just go out and hit some good shots instead.

Yesterday on TGC, Brandel Chamblee said something to the effect that Masters champions like Bubba Watson and Phil Mickelson "did well and respected the game of golf".

The unspoken allusion was that Tiger Woods has failed the game of golf for obvious reasons. Tiger has torpedoed himself.

I have liked Bubba for a long time, but he needs to clear the air about this whole mess:

Haha I love this video.

 

[Matt 4-L]

He has: "I want to apologize to everybody in the tournament," Watson said. "Everybody who heard it, whoever saw it, especially Steve and Shigeki and their caddies. I heard something and I took it out on them and shouldn't have done it. I apologize to the tournament, to anybody that's involved in this tournament, all the volunteers, all the caddies, the spectators, the kids that came out here. I'm not like Charles Barkley. I'd love to be a role model. I make mistakes. My mistake was I got angry today.

"Everything's good. He's not mad. He's looking at me like this is like his son, basically. I'm a lot younger, he took me aside and said, 'Look, be strong in what you're doing and make sure you don't do that.' I apologized to him as best I could."

 

[rogerdodger]

How ? I am surprised you ask. It would help to restore the true spirit of the game as well as it would help to create much better ballstrikers in the nearest future.

Cheers

What a ridiculous statement. Who are you to say what the true spirit of the game of golf is? What arrogance. Watson is a complete throwback to golfers in the fifties and sixties, other than the pink clubs. Unless you line every course with water on each side of the fairway, driving every tee shot in the fairway simply does not matter in the game and never has. Do you think Hogan hit every fairway? nonsense. If all you had to do was drive it in the fairway to play well, why didn't the two straightest drivers in history, Peete and Funk, ever win a major championship? What is great about how Bubba won is that all the Hogan admirers with their insistence that the swing must be mastered, that every shot is controlled and that a technique exists to accomplish it were shown the truth. A superior athlete with imagination and no fear can do pretty much what they want with a golf ball. Guys like Tiger screw around with their game so they can get consistency in ball flight. Bubba realizes that every shot may require a different flight and then he hits it. That is the spirit of golf. It is not a driving game and never has been.

 

[Dariusz J.]

What a ridiculous statement. Who are you to say what the true spirit of the game of golf is? What arrogance. Watson is a complete throwback to golfers in the fifties and sixties, other than the pink clubs. Unless you line every course with water on each side of the fairway, driving every tee shot in the fairway simply does not matter in the game and never has. Do you think Hogan hit every fairway? nonsense. If all you had to do was drive it in the fairway to play well, why didn't the two straightest drivers in history, Peete and Funk, ever win a major championship? What is great about how Bubba won is that all the Hogan admirers with their insistence that the swing must be mastered, that every shot is controlled and that a technique exists to accomplish it were shown the truth. A superior athlete with imagination and no fear can do pretty much what they want with a golf ball. Guys like Tiger screw around with their game so they can get consistency in ball flight. Bubba realizes that every shot may require a different flight and then he hits it. That is the spirit of golf. It is not a driving game and never has been.

Tell your sad jokes to Mickelson who has just lost his 4th Masters title thanks to such way of thinking.
You have your opinion, I have mine. True spirit of the game was always control, as old Scotts say, and I believe in that much more than in what you and you-like write.
Last but not least, spare me this jibberish about Hogan, please. I do not believe any single thing in this topic you think I believe in and mentioned above.

Cheers

 

[btp]

I have liked Bubba for a long time, but he needs to clear the air about this whole mess:

Haha I love this video.[/QUOTE]

Prior to the incident, Elkington told Bubba that he would be selling cars in two years. Bubba told the story on the golf cchannel yesterday. He also said that Elkington congratulated him after the Masters win.

 

[Brian Manzella]

from a technical perspective (even though Bubba figured out all this out himself intuitively), Bubba can shape shots so easily because his arms are separated/free from his body- the complete opposite of some schools of thought that teach synchronization/"togetherness" of arms and body.

I'm glad it's now more acceptable to swing:
upright
with a strong grip
steep shaft on backswing
across the line
club past parallel
"out of sync" (yeah right)
free hip turn
swinging on toes and "unclean" finish
hard
without a coach

Great post Leo!

Well, I should be rather sad that a ball whooper playing with pink driver won such a classic major. I should say he did not deserve it after hacking his drive so much out of fairway from time to time...

Just totally disagree with EVERY PART of that comment.

Yes there are things that an instructor would change but I sure hope nobody does. Perfection ain't always perfect.

I've always wanted to be the guy, that guys like Bubba, asked questions to, with no fear of me saying some BS like, "You need to be more connected."

IMO, every shot wide off the fairway should be severely punished - exactly the way what happened to Mickelson. Now imagine how great golf would be if such things happen everyday. Severe mistake of the tee -- severe punishment.

I've played dozens of courses like that.

I have always been a decent driver of the ball, and I think this philosophy takes ALL THE SKILL out of STROKE PLAY golf.

You keep talking about the old Scotts.....they played MATCH PLAY.

I was just thinking how much this would help the game of golf!!!

It would kill it.

Just like what would happen if folks thought Bubba's swing was the epitome of what not to do.

... it would help to create much better ballstrikers in the nearest future.

Totally disagree.

Ah, this is what you meant...I express my opinion totally independently on impact on new possible golfers. In this case -- sure, the easier the game the better.

I have NO IDEA what kind of player you are, but by looking at your swing, you look as though you could shoot 85 from the tips at English Turn if the wind didn't blow too hard.

What do you think you'd shoot on Monday morning after the Masters from the tips???

Threedigits.

Why great for golf? Not trying to be a kill joy. Good on the man. But when I hear "great for golf" I wonder "in what way".

Not boring.

Fans fav.

Good swing—not overly restricted for no good scientific reason.

Good interview.

Dresses well.

Yesterday on TGC, Brandel Chamblee said something to the effect that Masters champions like Bubba Watson and Phil Mickelson "did well and respected the game of golf".

The unspoken allusion was that Tiger Woods has failed the game of golf for obvious reasons. Tiger has torpedoed himself.

Brandel,

How much would your salary be if there was no Tiger?

No offense.

I have liked Bubba for a long time, but he needs to clear the air about this whole mess:

Haha I love this video.

Not a fan of people walking while I'm hitting either.

As far as the "selling cars" comment.....Whoa!

 

[gmbtempe]

He has: "I want to apologize to everybody in the tournament," Watson said. "Everybody who heard it, whoever saw it, especially Steve and Shigeki and their caddies. I heard something and I took it out on them and shouldn't have done it. I apologize to the tournament, to anybody that's involved in this tournament, all the volunteers, all the caddies, the spectators, the kids that came out here. I'm not like Charles Barkley. I'd love to be a role model. I make mistakes. My mistake was I got angry today.

"Everything's good. He's not mad. He's looking at me like this is like his son, basically. I'm a lot younger, he took me aside and said, 'Look, be strong in what you're doing and make sure you don't do that.' I apologized to him as best I could."

classy comments, had not seen that.

 

[Dariusz J.]

Just totally disagree with EVERY PART of that comment.

Not fair, since you quoted only the first part of my comment that I made in a rather sarcastic way. This time it is the first time someone did not get my sarcasm, after hundreds times of reverse situation when I did not get it.

I've played dozens of courses like that.
I have always been a decent driver of the ball, and I think this philosophy takes ALL THE SKILL out of STROKE PLAY golf.
You keep talking about the old Scotts.....they played MATCH PLAY.

Care to elaborate further ? I think totally opposite statement is true -- in a matchplay one can risk to lose control to gain something (because one can easily win back one or two holes); OTOH, one triple too much can cost you a title, as we could observe.

I have NO IDEA what kind of player you are, but by looking at your swing, you look as though you could shoot 85 from the tips at English Turn if the wind didn't blow too hard.
What do you think you'd shoot on Monday morning after the Masters from the tips???
Threedigits.

Thank you. And it is probably very true that I'll have a better score on a tough narrow demanding course that rewards good shots than on such Augusta that demands great putting skills. However, 85 from the tips could be tough to do if I had not a good day around and on greens.

Cheers

 

[bryan@nobackswing.com]

Brian coming strong. great stuff, especially this one.

I've always wanted to be the guy, that guys like Bubba, asked questions to, with no fear of me saying some BS like, "You need to be more connected."

 

[jpvegas1]

Here is a link to an aerial view of the path of Bubba's shot.

Bubba Watson's caddie shows the exact path of that Masters winning shot - CBSSports

 

[natep]

^^Awesome.

 

[jpvegas1]

Thanks for posting the picture. I could just get the link.

 

[SteveT]

^^Awesome.

.... and he plays with a {{{PINK}}} PING g20 driver too ... go figure...

 

[Matt 4-L]

That was closer to a 70 yard hook not a 40 yard hook. I got on google earth and measured it, it is 40 yards from the tip of the bunker to the front edge of the green, who else has a 70 yard hook shot with a wedge in their bag, not me!