Wednesday, July 21, 2010

A battle to break 100

I currently have two friends of mine who have recently picked up the game and starting at the same time have placed a wager to break a 100 first. The stipulation is they have to be witnesses of the score and ruling of any score must be accepted by any 3rd party.

The names I use for my friends will be anonymous but for battling purposes I will use Tiger and Phil as references. The background for each player is below:

Tiger: typically shoots around 110's for a course with an avg of 70 rating with a slope of 130. Easier courses he has chances of breaking a 100, and more difficult courses the score increases. Tiger is stubborn in his ways and will constantly stick to a club (ie. driver) that is not working on that day and continues to use it. Tiger is a pretty decent iron player with needing work on his short game and putting. Length is a problem for him, he mostly swings with his upper body only.

Phil: also shoots around in the 110's for the same slope and rating. Phil used to be stubborn but nowadays is a little more self aware of what to do and not to do. Phil's biggest problem is shot selection and bad habits. Phil gets pretty good distances with his clubs when contact is made but is too inconsistent at this point. Again putting and the short game are big issues but have seen improvements. With other high handicappers your mindset is just to get contact on your club and to hit the ball solid. HH's have no visualization on what your ball is going to do and where it may go. The high handicapper just has an idea of how far he may hit the club and is happy to land somewhere where they aimed.

As for athletic backgrounds both Phil and Tiger are fairly athletic with Tiger probably being the "better" athlete. I will continue to update you on the trials and tribulations of Phil and Tiger and hope to post there bitter feud on video.

2 comments:

  1. Very nice article! I actually enjoyed reading it. I am picturing Pete & Sang with your Tiger/Phil analogies. Hopefully by the end of the golf season one is going to break 100. My bet is on ......

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  2. Oh Tiger will break a 100 first...I bet the HOUSE on it!

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