yes, it's only 477 from the whites,
but there was wind in our face,
gusting up to 3-club wind.
I hit one of my patented wind-cheater drives,
maybe 30 ft up in the air was all,
with just a touch of fade
to fight against the wind
quartering against us from the right . . .
I'd guess 260 with the roll down a couple of tiers,
next to the giant old native pecan tree
that guards the inside of the dogleg . . .
those trees are common on this course --
bushy as shrubs,
you got to go around, over, or under 'em, you can't go thru 'em. . .
then off a down-hill, side-hill, hanging lie,
busted my 7wood, pushed just a smidge,
but my natural-hook, hook-lie, hook-wind
all guided it away from the copse of trees
that guard the green on the right,
so that my ball rolled all the away across the green,
front-to-back,
to 15 ft from the back pin,
just off the fringe in the patchy rough
between two mounds.
I could see the line like it was stenciled in the grass,
it broke 3 feet left-to-right
then swerved back left at the cup
-- nothing but cup --
i didn't make another putt all day
7 3-jacks, plus another 2 missed-birdies
so here is the latest tally,
with my marker, Mr Science still setting the pace.
i *say* that my only goal in life left now is to shoot my age,
but an albatross would be nice, too.
but as i also say,
i thought trying for more eagles would get me more birdies,
but instead i get more double-bogeys . . .
i'm not sure what would happen
if i tried for albatrossi . . . 8^D . . .
The tour player who has taken the greatest advantage, so far, is Bryson DeChambeau, who has said that putting with the flagstick in the hole is “statistically proven to be a benefit in 99 per cent of situations.” He won last weekend, in Dubai.
New Yorker: New Golf Rules
Houston Memorial Update / Houston Open 2020
memorial is a classic design, by Bredemus, who also did the Colonial CC, and a list of his courses is a thing to inspire wonder & delight (including the late, lamented, z-boaz in Ft Worth), but the layout does not easily allow for expansion to modern pro distances, IMVHO, so with all the issues over and above that . . .
IMVHO, again,
a return to the TPC Woodlands, a von Hagge / Devlin design, would be better.
Rajat Mittal, an aerodynamics expert and professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, used Newton’s second law of motion and computational modeling to predict the trajectory of a golf shot in a variety of wind conditions. The results of the study, published in the June 2017 edition of Sports Engineering, the journal of the International Sports Engineering Association, found that the tree canopies (up to 30 meters, about 98 feet, high) around the 12th hole at Augusta National affect the average wind speed along the flight path of the ball.
A series of simulations with eight wind patterns and various wind speeds showed that a headwind at No. 12 created the largest uncertainty in the landing spot of the ball, and that winds from the northwest and southwest could cause a perfectly struck ball to be pushed up to 12 feet off line. The study also revealed that tossing grass to gauge the wind at the tee produced little correlation to the wind at the green, and it debunked another long-held belief.
“At least from a mathematical point of view and from our analysis, there is nothing one can learn from the 11th green that can be applied to the 12th hole,” Mittal said in a telephone interview.
Too much information and overthinking, he concluded, are counterproductive.
THE GOROKE GOLF CLUB IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. PHOTO: TRISTAN FOSTER
What the heck was Justin Rose doing
on the 1st replay hole looking at his putt?
holding one finger up at the putt?
psycho-babble?
measurement?
hindu chant?
i am so happy for SER-GI-O!
mr science explains . . .
I didn't see it, but the new green-reading technique is called
aimpoint. http://www.aimpointgolf.com/ The idea is that no matter
where you are around the hole, there is a single point on the green at
which you need to aim the putt (where it would go if it were straight).
So, if that point is a foot north of 12 oçlock, then from 3:00 or 9:00
you play 1 foot of break, from 3 feet above the hole you hit it 2 feet,
and from 3 feet below the hole you hit it 4 feet. Finding that point is
complex, but in aimpoint express you guess the slope of the green in
degrees, and if it's 1 degree you hold up 1 finger so that the hole is
on one side of your finger, and you hit the ball at a point on the other
side. If you think it's 2 degrees, you hold up 2 fingers, etc. On fast
greens you can't have more than about 2 degrees of slope at the pin, or
the ball won't stop.
oh-oh-ohhhhhhhhh....
A group of golfers in Buckeye recently had to take cover — not from flying golf balls, but stray bullets — and police said it’s becoming a common problem.
The Buckeye Police Department has received several calls regarding shooting toward the new Victory at Verrado Golf Course, north of Indian School Road between Verrado Way and Tuthill Road, according to a post on the department’s Facebook page.
During a recent incident, several golfers had to take shelter behind a bathroom to avoid being shot.
Four people found shooting toward the golf course face endangerment and weapon-related charges, and their guns were seized.
Police have received several reports of people shooting in the desert area along Tuthill between Missouri and Maryland avenues into a 20-foot berm facing the golf course, the post states.
Tuthill Road and the fifth hole at the golf course are less than 400 feet apart, and signs are posted in the area stating no trespassing, no shooting and no hunting is allowed.
I read the news today, oh, boy . . . ..
