The 2009 Players' Championship

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orange+white=heaven

orange+white=heaven

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By the middle of the day sunday I'll be burnt out on Johnny Miller, but that's a small price to pay for the pleasure of enjoying one of the great weeks in golf.

'Live From' coverage early on by Golf Channel has really enhanced my ability to immerse myself in these big events, the week starts tomorrow now.


My early pick... Ian Poulter.
 
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I like Boo. Played great yesterday and is a ball hitter. Putting sucks, but look at last year's champ.
 
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orange+white=heaven said:
I'm cool if Boo pulls it off for sure...
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Boo and O'Hair are both unbelievable ball strikers. I would expect a good week from both. Have to like Ogilvy in almost any tournament. He's got absurd game and hits it into the stratosphere. Wind murders him because he doesn't hit many knock-downs and such, but he can flat play.

Mickelson also has it tuned in reasonably well. Tiger's driver is abysmal, so this will be tough for him unless they take the rough down like Quail Hollow did. I'm starting to think we are going to see many more tourneys with lowered rough because it lets the guys who are long, crooked and deadly from short have a chance and gets the TV ratings up. We're seeing many courses that now suit Phil, Tiger and the like. Had Quail Hollow played like it did the first few years on the rota, those guys would have struggled to make the cut.
 
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Did Tiger's putting routine look different to you this weekend? I thought his feet weren't as wide and his 'last look' was quicker...

He's usually a robot over the putter.
 
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orange+white=heaven said:
Did Tiger's putting routine look different to you this weekend? I thought his feet weren't as wide and his 'last look' was quicker...

He's usually a robot over the putter.
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really didn't notice. I hope it was, because he's a horrendously slow player. I'm an Angel Cabrera fan now because he's ready to hit about the time his partner's ball lands.
 
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Leave the driver at home Tigs. He was hitting the 3 wood well over 300 coming in.

Orange+white, I didn't notice anything with his putter but his swing had a much quicker tempo to it. He his obviously not confident with his swing and it sounds like he might be loosing confidence in flatten me out Haney. We shall see. I wouldn't classify him as a favorite at TPC because they actually make you hit fairways.

All that said, you don't take a year off and return to form in 2 months.
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Bpv, are you going down? My gf looked at tickets and they are extremely reasonable for the whole week package. I am going to make that one a priority in the future, just couldn't this year.
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ridethelightening said:
Bpv, are you going down? My gf looked at tickets and they are extremely reasonable for the whole week package. I am going to make that one a priority in the future, just couldn't this year.
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no. Would love to, but have burned many golf chips from the family of late. Next stop is likely Bethpage, but even that one is still up in the air.
 
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Tiger hasn't hit his driver straight since he finally abandoned the 975D and he's hitting every other club in his bag crisp and pure. From the sound of things he's more upset with Nike than anything else. I noticed a lot of Nike guys have gone back to last year's Sumos.
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So its Nike's fault that he is flat, shut, and gets stuck behind the ball?

I always knew it was the clubs fault.

(No offense to bill, I was just saying if Tiger is blaming the driver, he may want to review the tape.)
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ridethelightening said:
So its Nike's fault that he is flat, shut, and gets stuck behind the ball?

I always knew it was the clubs fault.

(No offense to bill, I was just saying if Tiger is blaming the driver, he may want to review the tape.)
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It's the only club he can't swing at the moment
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volfanbill said:
It's the only club he can't swing at the moment
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Because he doesn't get the other clubs in as bad of a position as he does the driver. Me and bpv argued this months ago and I was confusing what he was saying, but we both agreed that he gets the driver in a bad position at the top. Its not only ugly but ineffective. He is shut and flat and all he can do is old on to it which leads to the block. If he fires away at it like he did on 10 yesterday, he hits it left. I actually thought that was his best swing of the day with the driver. His positions looked better, at least.
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Agreed, but he's never hit the big drivers straight. Ever. He's absurdly long with them but even before Haney he couldn't hit them. It took me forever to find a big driver I liked and even today I can't stand the feel of probably 90% of them.
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Tiger hasn't looked the same with the Driver since he ditched the Cobra.
 
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volfanbill said:
Agreed, but he's never hit the big drivers straight. Ever. He's absurdly long with them but even before Haney he couldn't hit them. It took me forever to find a big driver I liked and even today I can't stand the feel of probably 90% of them.
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I agree wholeheartedly about the big headed driver. I don't think Tiger hits as big of a head as some of the others, but he might. I am much more a fan of the smaller headed driver, myself.
 
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GAVol said:
Tiger hasn't looked the same with the Driver since he ditched the Cobra.
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When Butch had him rolling in Y2K, he was the best driver in the game. This new thing Haney has him doing is ugly as hell and crooked off the tee.
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BigPapaVol said:
When Butch had him rolling in Y2K, he was the best driver in the game. This new thing Haney has him doing is ugly as hell and crooked off the tee.
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and that was with a smaller driver.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
When Butch had him rolling in Y2K, he was the best driver in the game. This new thing Haney has him doing is ugly as hell and crooked off the tee.
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It was never going to last, but I miss the old school Tiger swinging wide, steep and insanely hard with a steel shaft.
 
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GAVol said:
It was never going to last, but I miss the old school Tiger swinging wide, steep and insanely hard with a steel shaft.
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that thing was only 43 inches. It was basically today's 3 wood with lower loft.

I thought his swing under Butch was absolutely as pure as it gets. He was awfully quick so it never looked smooth like an Elkington, Els or Goosen, but it was pure in almost every position. He took it away just a hair outside, but it still looked right even at that point. Now, the thing is just hideous.
 
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volfanbill said:
and that was with a smaller driver.
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I really think it's more about the swing than the head. The length of shaft is probably more a culprit than the actual head.

If you'll recall the end of the 07 season, when he basically won everything he entered, he was a driving clinic out there.
 
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