OK I started a group in ESPN Best Ball Majors. It's Skybox duffers. Email me for the password. We've played this format before. You've got $50 and you put together a team. I think under the rules of our group, you can change players after every round. Stay in the fairway :lol:
I'm going to be traveling back to NYC for Easter on Wed. afternoon. If you belatedly decide to get into the game you can always get the password from Dr. O'Keefe who knows the password but hasn't joined yet. And remember, if you don't win it's because of your caddie. :lol:
I'm in now. FWIW the system gives your team a default name but that can be changed. Q: How do I change my entry name? A: You can change your entry name by clicking on the "Edit Game Settings" link on your entry page. You can change your entry name as often as you'd like.
Martin Kaymer skipped one in on the par 3 16th. The players traditionally try to skip the ball over the pond in front of the green. Kaymer skipped his right into the hole. Vijay Signh did it back in 2009. Pure luck shot of course, but I'm amazed that they can skip the ball across the water at all. I know balls do skip when they hit the water sometimes, I'm just amazed they can do it on demand. But then of course they are pro's! <iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5r18ka23UU" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Terry, Many years ago, I was playing golf with a client banker at Crooked Stick in Indy. He was a big, strong guy who consistently shot in the high 70s, low 80s. A unique feature of his game was low line drives off the tee. At a par 3 with water in front. he hit a skipper and it trickled up to about a foot or so from the hole. It was pure luck, but it was the most awesome golf shot I've ever seen in person. As I recall, he made the putt.
Went to the Wed. practice session and Par 3 contest 2 years ago. Watched them on 16. It was fun. The best at it landed the first skip about 3/4 of the way across. Some guys just couldn't do it and others were amazingly good. Almost saw a hole in one but can't remember who it was. Somebody's won't be ruined, seeing as how the winner of the Par 3 has never won the tournament. Some guys skip the Par 3 but not as many as I thought. They all seem to have a ball...letting their kids caddy and putt form them. It's fun to see the pros so relaxed. Here is my son Jeremy hitting into the 15th hole. (Actually anybody who knows Jeremy would immediately recognize this as a faked pose...Jeremy would NEVER lay up on a par 5.) 8)
Cool pictures Stu. I don't think I've ever talked to a person who went to the Masters who didn't say how great it was.
Henrik Stenson really blew it today. He was 5 under going to the 18th and took and 8 to finish 1 under. Yikes...thought I was the only one who could blow a great round on the last hole....have done it many a time! :cry:
I thought the shot that Bill Haas hit to win the FedEx Cup last year out of the lake was maybe the greatest shot I ever saw. Then Bubba is over in the pine straw with no shot, then they start talking about hooking a wedge 30 or 40 yards...yikes. Then Bubba just steps up and hits it, talk about money, I now think that's the greatest shot I've ever seen hit. I'm really happy for Bubba, he's the most fun player to watch..swinging from his heels off the tee. If he were a better putter he'd have won in regulation. Phil....why, why, why? What made him think that hitting a right handed shot out of the bamboo would be better than going back and hitting from the tee? If not for that he wins, that was as bad a mistake as hitting driver on 18th at winged foot. Which of course he says he'd do again. Congrats to the Commish for his come from behind win over gipper in our Masters Contest. Drinks on him!
Great finish to the Masters and one of the more exciting finishes that I can recall. A number of players could have pulled off the win, down the strectch of the last six holes. Doc, thanks for making me look better than I was in the Best Ball Tournament. :wink: I think the Maloy family put us to shame! :roll: