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    That was a riveting tournament

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    Post  FamousDavis Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:22 am

    I can't recall when I've watched a more exciting tournament. The leaderboard was filled with swashbuckling names like:

    Svaboda
    Thresh
    Overton

    I haven't read who the winner was, but I guess soon we'll know.
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    Post  Mongrel Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:29 am

    The finish was pretty special for me. Keegan Bradley did not win. Paul Casey failed to finish in the top 10 so he does not get into Charlotte this week. The big Polish guy who looks like a longshoreman played pretty well. The winner was a 22 year old Korean whose last name is not Kim. He was under control. In the zone. Unflappable. I like him a lot at the U.S. Open this year. And the British Open this year. He is the next young Big Thing. Trust me on this.
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    Post  Poe4soul Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:46 pm

    Mongrel wrote:The finish was pretty special for me. Keegan Bradley did not win. Paul Casey failed to finish in the top 10 so he does not get into Charlotte this week. The big Polish guy who looks like a longshoreman played pretty well. The winner was a 22 year old Korean whose last name is not Kim. He was under control. In the zone. Unflappable. I like him a lot at the U.S. Open this year. And the British Open this year. He is the next young Big Thing. Trust me on this.

    And much more enjoyable to watch than any of the other terret/adhd, 50 pre and post swing rehearsal players like Walker, Keegan, et. al.

    I always like watching golf when the wind is blowing hard. It really separates the shot makers from the robots.

    I especially like watching golf when Tiger is not present or is present but golfing poorly.

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    Post  Mongrel Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:07 pm

    I also enjoy watching the best play in high wind. Just to see all those pitches and chips from funky lies from locations none of them would be in under calm conditions. The types of locations I'm in all the time since I rarely hit greens in regulation. It helps me a lot more to watch those scrambling shots than to watch five to 30 foot putts for birdies for hours on end.
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    Post  FamousDavis Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:20 pm

    Poe4soul wrote:
    Mongrel wrote:The finish was pretty special for me. Keegan Bradley did not win. Paul Casey failed to finish in the top 10 so he does not get into Charlotte this week. The big Polish guy who looks like a longshoreman played pretty well. The winner was a 22 year old Korean whose last name is not Kim. He was under control. In the zone. Unflappable. I like him a lot at the U.S. Open this year. And the British Open this year. He is the next young Big Thing. Trust me on this.

    And much more enjoyable to watch than any of the other terret/adhd, 50 pre and post swing rehearsal players like Walker, Keegan, et. al.

    I always like watching golf when the wind is blowing hard.  It really separates the shot makers from the robots.

    I especially like watching golf when Tiger is not present or is present but golfing poorly.


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    Post  jmtbkr Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:05 pm

    Mongrel wrote:I also enjoy watching the best play in high wind. Just to see all those pitches and chips from funky lies from locations none of them would be in under calm conditions. The types of locations I'm in all the time since I rarely hit greens in regulation. It helps me a lot more to watch those scrambling shots than to watch five to 30 foot putts for birdies for hours on end.

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    Post  Pky6471 Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:36 pm

    I also like this young gun from korea... He was in total control last Sunday

    ... and watch out for Lydia Ko. At 17, she already proves that she could walk all over M.Wie with 2 Canadian Women Champ Titles , and the win last weekend

    Coincident? Both Ko and Noh use the big fat a$$ Super Stroke Grip like mine  Laughing Laughing Laughing 
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    Post  Mongrel Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:59 pm

    I like Lydia Ko too. I like her look with the glasses. She could be 17 or 40. I have always empathized with pro golfers who wear glasses since I have to wear them. I really liked Tom Kite until he got contacts or Lasik or whatever the fook he did.
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    Post  Horseballs Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:19 am

    Mongrel wrote:I like Lydia Ko too. I like her look with the glasses. She could be 17 or 40. I have always empathized with pro golfers who wear glasses since I have to wear them. I really liked Tom Kite until he got contacts or Lasik or whatever the fook he did.
    Getting Lasik was one of the best things I've ever done. I dealt with glasses from about 4th grade to 7th grade, then contacts/glasses till I was about 32. Contacts (at least the kind that were available when I had to wear them) have to be bad for your eyes. I remember having irritation/conjunctivitis all the time. Scratched corneas were a part of life, and losing a contact while skiing, biking, anything was a major pain in the asss.
    I never felt comfortable wearing glasses. It didn't seem natural to view the world through glass an inch from my face.
    8 years after Lasik, everything is still good, though I've been told I will likely need reading glasses at some point in the future.
    Didn't Tiger get Lasik a long time ago? I have a feeling Ko will do it as well.
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    Post  Mongrel Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:59 am

    When I went home to Pennsylvania during boot camp leave in 1968, I went to a local eye doc and got a set of contacts made. Back then, the hard contacts were state of the art. I wore them a total of one hour and then went back to glasses. A decade or so later, I read about early experiments with radial keratotomy wherein incisions are made to the eyeball to get it into focus. Of course these experiments were done by the Russians on real live human subjects and the failure rate was pretty high. This has always stuck in my memory and crops up whenever I long for glasses-free waking hours. In the near future I will need surgery on my cataracts and am told that my vision may improve fairly substantially. If I go blind or nearly so, I will find a way to kill the person who operated.
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    Post  Pky6471 Wed Apr 30, 2014 4:41 pm

    Mongrel wrote:When I went home to Pennsylvania during boot camp leave in 1968, I went to a local eye doc and got a set of contacts made. Back then, the hard contacts were state of the art. I wore them a total of one hour and then went back to glasses. A decade or so later, I read about early experiments with radial keratotomy wherein incisions are made to the eyeball to get it into focus. Of course these experiments were done by the Russians on real live human subjects and the failure rate was pretty high. This has always stuck in my memory and crops up whenever I long for glasses-free waking hours. In the near future I will need surgery on my cataracts and am told that my vision may improve fairly substantially. If I go blind or nearly so, I will find a way to kill the person who operated.

    Mongrel : I got 2 eyes done with cataracts... Operation was only 10 minutes at most, but 90 min prep because they had to add eye drops until they dilated large enough for surgery. They help minimizing the glares while driving at night, but in my case, I would not say "improve fairly substantially"

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