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Anybody watching the golf? Who do you think is going to win? I fancy Mickelson to do it. He's not playing too badly, and he's been there in so many majors that he's got the game and the experience to perform on the last day.
But what a course! Not a great length, not a links, but a course for the thinking golfer just the same.
But what a course! Not a great length, not a links, but a course for the thinking golfer just the same.
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Yes, Daisy, 'thinking'. There are courses where hitting the ball a long way and being able to pitch and putt will do.Most American courses are like that, the players playing what's called target golf. The fairways are pretty level and the greens are fairly soft and receptive. The great courses never give you a level stance in the fairways, and, for example, the holes are arranged so that when you want have to make the ball fly right to left in the air, the ground lies so that it will fly the opposite way. Every hole presents new problems. That's a course for the thinking golfer; it requires strategy as well as great skill.
Yes, DTC. We amateurs don't realise just how good these pros are, since we only see them playing other pros. Years ago, 4 members of the British Ryder Cup team visited my local course, for a charity exhibition. In their first round they scored 70, 69 etc, just under par That was their first sight of the course. On their second sight of it they shot 63, 64, 65 and 65! The 63, by Dave Thomas, was the lowest score ever recorded there by anyone, amateur or pro. It does help if you can reach the longest par 5 with a drive and an 8 iron and put your second a foot from the cup,as he did, but there's a bit more to it than that, methinks.
Talking of lefties, just discovered that of the three men to win majors, playing left-handed; Mike Weir, Bob (later Sir Bob) Charles, and Phil Mickelson; only one, Charles, was left-handed. The other two are naturally right-handed. Isn't that extraordinary? It used to be that left- handers would play right-handed, because they started as caddies or very young and they didn't have access to left-handed clubs.
