Golf Fans - Watching Re-Play of 1996 Players Champ.

[-Olen-]

Trying to drown out the cacophony of dog barking from the 2 pounder and the 160 pounder, and debating which one of us is taking the bullet from this chamber first . . .

anyway -- the leaderboard is as follows (with about an hour to go in the replay - IIRC, Fred Couples wins):

Fred Couples
Tommy Tolles
Colin Montgomery
Fuzzy Zoeller
Kenny Perry
Tom Lehman
Rocco Mediate

Tolles is the only one on the leaderboard that has something close a conventional golf swing (Montgomery is second). The rest of these guys have quirky, home-made swings. If Jim Furyk could have figured out how to have gotten onto the leaderboard, this would have been the funkiest looking last round / stretch run in final round history.

 

[i am herdman]

Trying to drown out the cacophony of dog barking from the 2 pounder and the 160 pounder, and debating which one of us is taking the bullet from this chamber first . . .

anyway -- the leaderboard is as follows (with about an hour to go in the replay - IIRC, Fred Couples wins):

Fred Couples
Tommy Tolles
Colin Montgomery
Fuzzy Zoeller
Kenny Perry
Tom Lehman
Rocco Mediate

Tolles is the only one on the leaderboard that has something close a conventional golf swing (Montgomery is second). The rest of these guys have quirky, home-made swings. If Jim Furyk could have figured out how to have gotten onto the leaderboard, this would have been the funkiest looking last round / stretch run in final round history.

I have never heard of Fred Couples golf swing as being labeled unconventional or quirky. He and Ernie Els have two of the smoothest swings ever.

 

[HerdFan76]

Sorry to hijack your thread, but what's your 160 lbs dog? My Bullmastiff walks around at 150, with a fighting weight of 145 or so. He rarely barks and is pretty much the most indifferent being I've ever met in my life, taking after me of course.

 

[HerdFan76]

Hell, you already answered in another thread. I'm on track now, haha.

 

[-Olen-]

I have never heard of Fred Couples golf swing as being labeled unconventional or quirky. He and Ernie Els have two of the smoothest swings ever.

No disputing that Couples has the best tempo and one of the smoothest swings start-to-finish in golf. Els and Tom Purtzer have (fundamentally) two of the best text-book swings over the last 30 years. But Couples' old swing was not conventional in any way - Couples had one of the strongest left-hand grips in golf (3+ knuckles facing out). He started the club way outside the line with his arms/shoulders, has one of the widest shoulder turns, and had the club pointed way right, before firing his hips and getting ahead of his hands/shoulders. If you've ever tried to mimic this swing you know how hard it is to duplicate -- it is just a funky swing to mimic (but not as funky as Furyk's).

 

[-Olen-]

Sorry to hijack your thread, but what's your 160 lbs dog? My Bullmastiff walks around at 150, with a fighting weight of 145 or so. He rarely barks and is pretty much the most indifferent being I've ever met in my life, taking after me of course.

I am (over) estimating his weight -- he's probably closer to 130-140; I've been around a couple of (huge) mastiffs before and he's no where near the size of a mastiff. However, he's thick. Lovable oaf too.