These Guys are Good

Kurn · #1 06-19-08, 10:09 PM

The title is the old tag line from PGA commercials.

I heard this on sports radio this morning. No idea when it happened or how accurate, but here goes.

Vijay and Phil played a practice round where they switched bags. Phil played righty and Vijay played lefty.

They both shot in the 70's.

As Gus would say - sick.

GTDawg · #2 06-19-08, 10:58 PM

Vijay Singh said in an interview a while ago that he was "about a 6 handicap" left-handed.

And, I've seen Phil Mickleson play a few holes in a practice round right-handed. I would say he is probably close to single digit handicap right-handed.

I'm surprised both of them were able to shoot in the 70s. (Some random course from decent tees, maybe). But, I wouldn't be totally surprised if I saw a story about it.

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The more sick thing is watching people skip golf balls across the pond in front of the 16th green at Augusta. There is some level of body control that allows people to be that perfect with a golf swing and it just isn't fair.

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I would like to say though...I've been playing a lot recently and I am working on recovering my handicap from a few years ago. I got it down to 7 or so right now and I think I can get it back down to 3 or so over the next month.

The plan is to be at or near scratch by the end of the year. Maybe I'll play some mini-tours in Florida and win enough money to go to Q-school....

Dodoubled · #3 06-20-08, 12:52 AM

I would argue that you're already one of the best golfers on this forum -- and if your track holds up, maybe even the best. Anyone else out there toying with scratch? Or even low-level single digits, for that matter?
Best of luck with all of that.

As for Mickelson, I had read somewhere a while ago that he's actually a right-handed guy who just plays left-handed. Sure enough, our friends at Wikky confirmed that.

Talking Poker · #4 06-20-08, 01:22 AM

Defendant is an excellent golfer, as I recall. He hasn't been around for a while though. PM him and maybe you can get him to come post in this thread.

Kurn · #5 06-20-08, 08:05 AM

As for Mickelson, I had read somewhere a while ago that he's actually a right-handed guy who just plays left-handed. Sure enough, our friends at Wikky confirmed that.

I've heard that too.

Makes me think of Mickey Lolich, a lefty who pitched from '62 -'79 mostly with the Tigers. The story was that he was actually right handed, but broke his right arm when he was 12 and taught himself to pitch lefty so he could keep playing with his friends and just stuckwith it.

I've also heard that the only thing Michael Vick does left handed is throw a football but I'm not confident in the source and besides, Vick won't be throwing many passes for a while.

Kurn · #6 06-20-08, 08:09 AM

The more sick thing is watching people skip golf balls across the pond in front of the 16th green at Augusta. There is some level of body control that allows people to be that perfect with a golf swing and it just isn't fair.

The other thing they talked about on the show yesterday was how you can go to any tournament and watch any group of tour pros and they all drive the ball 300+ and straight, they all can hit a 5 iron 230 to a spot in the fairway, they can all drop 50 balls in a practice bunker and blast 50 of 50 into a 2 foot circle around the pin and Tiger can still pwn them even with a bad leg.