| Myrtle Beach Golf Trip 2003 |
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| Articles: Tips, Strategy, Interviews and Observations |
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| Wooly (The Gear) on who's hot and who's not. Although Wooly is admittedly playing his cards close to his chest, I did manage to glean some snippets of information as to who he thinks are the challengers this week. On Himself: Mark remains adamant that his broken, hanging together by a thread, back is "not that bad". He still believes that he will be competitive, although less so than before the injury. Mark, it's called self denial. On Stogie his Pops: "My Dad is really steady". There you have it from the horse mouth, Pops Wooly is Mark's tip for the week. On Mike: "I must admit I like my chances against a 13 handicapper who can't break 90. Then again I'm not convinced that you will play like that when you get to Myrtle" On Nick: "With Nick, his problem is his chili dipping, with Myrtle's soft fairways that could be a real problem." On someone he refused to name: "I think you will be surprised with how badly some people will play. I'm not naming names right now as it will make them pissed, but I expect some people to blow up in a big way." |
| Munday - Weir Startling Similarities: There seems to be a Canadian presence in the world of golf right now. The PGA tour has Master's winner Mike Weir and our own BDA Tour has Rich Munday. Apart from the obvious Canadian link I decided to dig deeper to see if there were any other similarities between these two Kanooks. Here are my astonishing findings: They both believe Wayne Gretzki to be the greatest Canadian sportsman who ever lived; they both had newspaper rounds as children; neither of them live in Canada; since winning the Master's Weir has not played a competitive round of golf nor has Munday; they both love it when it snows at Christmas; both believe in the Sasquach, neither has fully grasped the French language; both dream of world peace; both had Honda Civics as their first cars; both enjoy maple syrup on their waffles; neither saw a beaver close up until their mid 20's; both think playing golf in space would be really cool; neither has any idea how a refrigerator works but both know it keeps the Molsen cool; neither of them average drives over 290 yards; both believe Ruben will win American Idol; both are scared shitless of Gators and finally both are tight arsed Candians. Coincidences ? .........You decide. |
| Big Boys hit the Ball Further Take a look at the PGA Tour Driving stats and it soon becomes obvious that pounds equates to yards. Big hitters include; Daly, Singh, Mickleson, Cabera, Beam, all of whom are extra large in the girth, whereas the short hitters include Weir, Faxon, Langer and Leneord, the scrawny guys of the Tour. So if you want to hit the Big Dog deep ignore all the new clubs and advice about swing planes and instead start piling on the pounds. Take myself for example, 3 months ago I weighed about 185lbs I'm now topping 225lbs and I've gained on average 30 yards to my tee shots. So how will this play out at Myrtle ? well, don't expect Chuck to ever hit the ball more than 150 yards, not unless he goes on a 4000 calorie a day diet. As for Nick, lets just say we don't expect him to need much more than a wedge into most of the long par 4's, as for the par 5's a drive and a 5 iron should just about do it. |
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