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Conference 7.286::golf

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Created:Tue Feb 15 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2129
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388.0. "THE NEXT MR. 59" by MAMTS1::KVENEZIO () Mon Sep 12 1988 11:56

    With Ken Green shooting 61 on Saturday and all the other low scores
    being shot these past few years ( even in the majors ), do you think
    there will be another 59 shot sometime soon?
    
    Any guess on who it may be?
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388.1No favoritesMAMTS1::KVENEZIOMon Sep 12 1988 12:2927
    I'll kick this topic off by voting yes it will happen. It may even
    happen this coming season. My reasons are three fold:
    
    1. The Talent
    2. Course Conditioning
    3. Equipment
    
    Foremost, the talent. These guys can flat out play some golf. Somedays
    their play reminds me of a dart game with their ability to move
    the ball with pinpoint accuracy and for great distances.
    Secondly, more and more you turn on the tube and listen to the
    commentators talk about the conditioning of courses contributing
    to the low scores. It has got to be getting alot better. When a
    pro can "nip" it clean from ideal conditions week after week they
    will knock it closer and closer.
    Thirdly, I have to believe the equipment today is a benifit to todays
    player ( all levels ). The ball is livelier and the hitting distances
    are greater. It almost seems the par 5s are always being reached
    in two and the longest par 4s are being reached with mid to short
    irons.
    I have no favorite to score 59 next. It will probably be a relative
    unknown 3rd or 4th year polyester clone 180th on the money list.
    I think anyone on tour is capable of accomplishing it. He will then
    produce a video so that we can all duplicate it at the local muni.
    
    Don't drink and drive.... Don't even putt.
    Ken
388.2GWYNED::DENNINGMon Sep 12 1988 15:385
    What a depressing thought
    
    A Friend of Al Geiberger's
388.3You gotta hit the greensNOVA::PALPaul LemaireFri Sep 16 1988 11:0113
    If you really want to know if and when someone will duplicate or
    improve on a score of 59, look at the stats for 'greens hit in regulation'.

    I got some insight into how Mr. 59 accomplished the feat when I had the
    pleasure of keeping stats for his group on the first day of this year's
    Seniors' Classic.  Al Geiberger hit all 18 greens in regulation!  (He
    hit one of the par 5s in 2).  Combine that with a good day with the
    putter and you have a record score.

    That performance had Al at 4 under, one stroke behind the leader.
    I couldn't make it back to Nashawtuck on Saturday or Sunday but I could
    tell from the newspapers that Big Al wasn't as consistent on those days.
    No matter, I was still inspired.
388.4It takes a great playerGWYNED::DENNINGFri Sep 16 1988 12:2111
    Al's problem during the classic was his putting. Al missed a bunch
    of 5,6,7,8,9 foot Birdie putts. It was unfortunate because the rest of
    his game was really on. We spent some time on the putting green
    on Saturday night and he was even having a rough time there. 

    It goes in spurts. He was putting well in Kentucky I was told (68
    in the first round) but he had to withdraw due to the death of his
    son, Matthew
    
    Don