Tiger Woods and the Magic Touch of Golf, Part I

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Published: November 30, 2010

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Michael Jordan may have sank three-pointers and split seas of seven-foot defenders with the ease of a paper boy handling his route, but I bet he couldn’t hit a golf-ball from 15-feet through densely thick grass with the precise backspin to make it stop on command within inches of the hole.

The truth is, what athletes can do—leaping massive hurdles, dunking basketballs from the free-throw line, pummeling baseballs to the opposite field, making diving catches in the end-zone—is simply remarkable and beyond the average player’s grasp.

Golfers deserve a special nod within the mystifying realm of sports. But admit it, on at least one occasion, you’ve scoffed at golf: whether as a sport not aerobic enough or because it involves a stable, unmoving ball, or simply because it’s played primarily by a bunch of rich, country-club, white guys, you have hated on it.

But the children’s idiom, “Never judge a book by its cover,” has never been as apparent, as valuable, and as true than within ‘the short game’ of golf—involving anything and everything on, and around, the putting green.

With the exception of few sports, golf challenges competitors with brand new, grueling conditions week in and week out. Kind of like Ron Artest’s ridiculous hair-style variety, green speed and slope ranges across the golf spectrum. Some days golfers encounter sluggishly slow and flat greens, but then just days later are thrown into undulating putting surfaces as quick as a table-top.

Speed and scale of greens are just a piece of this punishing puzzle. When golfers don’t hit the green, it’s not like when a quarterback overthrows a receiver and gets another opportunity to make a first down or when a pitcher hurls a wild pitch, but has the chance to bounce back.

Instead, golfers miss the green and its kind of like anything is possible, but not in...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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