McCall St. Brewer
Well-Known Member
I was watching the PGA yesterday and Y.E. Yang made a chip from the fringe of the green to make an eagle, and I wondered "how the heck do they do that kind of thing so often?"
I've never been any good at golf- to me it's an amazingly hard sport.
The only thing I can compare making long shots to is basketball, a sport that I was sort of good at. Now, I can stand out there and make a few three point shots. But the rim in basketball is actually pretty big- much bigger than it looks on television, and it's quite a bit larger than a basketball is, too.
A golf ball and a golf cup are both very, very small, though, and you are hitting a small hard ball with a hard metal club.
When good golfers make long chips and long putts how much of it is skill and how much is luck?
I've never been any good at golf- to me it's an amazingly hard sport.
The only thing I can compare making long shots to is basketball, a sport that I was sort of good at. Now, I can stand out there and make a few three point shots. But the rim in basketball is actually pretty big- much bigger than it looks on television, and it's quite a bit larger than a basketball is, too.
A golf ball and a golf cup are both very, very small, though, and you are hitting a small hard ball with a hard metal club.
When good golfers make long chips and long putts how much of it is skill and how much is luck?