Expony Golf Thread

50's PONY · Post by **50's PONY** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:40 pm

Dear Fordto Tolbert,
Take a look at the picture of Charlie I just put up on the Heritage Hall website.
http://www.athletichistory.com/web.default.aspx

expony18 · Post by **expony18** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:09 pm

82 today with two double bogeys... i have a good feeling i will break 80 tomorrow

KnuckleStang · Post by **KnuckleStang** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:16 pm

If all goes well domestically between now and then, knuckleheads are teeing off at Van Cortlandt in the Bronx tomorrow morning. Looking forward to breaking 100 for the first time! so effing close...

expony18 · Post by **expony18** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:23 pm

KnuckleStang wrote:If all goes well domestically between now and then, knuckleheads are teeing off at Van Cortlandt in the Bronx tomorrow morning. Looking forward to breaking 100 for the first time! so effing close...

we should get a tee time next time you're in town

KnuckleStang · Post by **KnuckleStang** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:43 pm

expony18 wrote:
KnuckleStang wrote:If all goes well domestically between now and then, knuckleheads are teeing off at Van Cortlandt in the Bronx tomorrow morning. Looking forward to breaking 100 for the first time! so effing close...
we should get a tee time next time you're in town

Sounds good, as long as you don't mind if Mike brings a Poland Spring bottle of bourbon with him, he's an ex-hockey player, he claims it helps him not overthink his swing.

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:48 pm

I still can't handle that linky thingy, but if you will go to http://dsl.sbc.yahoo.com there is an article in today's headlines on how to improve your golf score. Basically just says to think the hole is large.

I think that sentence has about 3 TWSS in it.

KnuckleStang · Post by **KnuckleStang** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:43 pm

"Looking up is the greatest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake that caused the bad shot. When I tell a student to keep his eye on the ball, it is usually something to give him something to think about that won't do any harm. I've known only 3 or 4 top players who say they actually see the ball when they hit it. Even Ben Hogan told me he loses sight of the ball 'somewhere in his downswing.'" ~ Harvey Penick

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:57 pm

KnuckleStang wrote:"Looking up is the greatest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake that caused the bad shot. When I tell a student to keep his eye on the ball, it is usually something to give him something to think about that won't do any harm. I've known only 3 or 4 top players who say they actually see the ball when they hit it. Even Ben Hogan told me he loses sight of the ball 'somewhere in his downswing.'" ~ Harvey Penick

Years ago my former father in law arranged for Harvey Penick to give me as many free lessons as I wanted as a swap out for Penick using my FIL's condo in Acapulco. I was always too busy to take advantage and never got around to it. Big mistake. I coulda been a contender!!!

expony18 · Post by **expony18** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:39 pm

KnuckleStang wrote:"Looking up is the greatest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake that caused the bad shot. When I tell a student to keep his eye on the ball, it is usually something to give him something to think about that won't do any harm. I've known only 3 or 4 top players who say they actually see the ball when they hit it. Even Ben Hogan told me he loses sight of the ball 'somewhere in his downswing.'" ~ Harvey Penick

that's an interesting quote... and probably one of the things I've been working on more then anything. as a former baseball player my dad used to always tell stories about Ted Williams ability to watch the ball make contact with bat; however, that seems unlikely

''The human eye simply is incapable of tracking a fastball over the entire path of 60 feet 6 inches,'' Dr. Bahill said. ''For one segment of its trajectory, the last 10 feet or so, the ball is going too fast.'' Mr. Ryan's fastball, for instance, has been clocked at more than 100 miles an hour.

''We hypothesize that the best imaginable athlete could not track the ball closer than 5 feet from the plate, at which point it is moving three times faster than the fastest human could track,'' Dr. Bahill reported. ''This finding runs contrary to one of the most often repeated axioms of batting instructors - 'Keep your eye on the ball' - and makes it difficult to account for the widely reported claim that Ted Williams could sometimes see the ball hit his bat.''

''If Ted Williams were indeed able to do this, it could only be possible if he made an anticipatory saccade that put his eye ahead of the ball and then let the ball catch up to his eye,'' he added.

anyways, i played again today and shot an 83 in las colinas (including a triple bogey, 2 double bogeys, and a pair of torn shorts). I'm supposed to play tomorrow at noon but I think I will probably spend a few hours at the range and putting green...