Date Written: April 28, 2008
Ryan Moore has the weirdest swing I've ever seen. It's beyond, "homemade." Maybe he's really from some other planet? Do they play golf on Mars? His "action" makes Jim Furyk's "loop-de-loop" takeaway look conventional by comparison. At least Furyk has his feet aimed at the target at address. Ryan's almost "perpendicular" left. His set-up makes me wonder if he has ever suffered from the dreaded disease called, "double cross." You know that shot. The one where you aim left to hit a fade and then cross over and actually hook it out-of-bounds? How Ryan finally "gets" to the ball from the top is a minor physical miracle and how he replicates this action is equally astounding. If I had to bet, I'd put my money on someone else every time. That said, he's finished twice, four times on tour and he more than held his own before bowing to Adam Scott in a four-hole playoff at the Lord Byron Open. Way-to-technical, Peter Kostis, with his slow-action, Konica-Bizhub-Bullshit swing analyzer, had the good sense not to criticize Ryan's unique action. He did a fairly good job of explaining the swing-angle adjustments that he has to make to get square to the ball at the bottom.One last comment on Ryan Moore's fashion choices: join Jesper and Shingo and shitcan the dippy chapeau.
Me and Cropper didn't do too well in the Oasis Best Ball in Twin Falls this past weekend. If they had a category for oldest players in the field, we would have won. As it was, we finished in the middle of the pack of 40 teams in the championship division. I'll just keep fooling myself with the explanation that it's still early in the season and my game has yet to round into form.
A bunch of Cink's and Oberholser's this week in The Wachovia. I read somewhere that Oberholser's entire body needs repair and he only played The Masters because it's what it is...The Masters. He's going to quit playing for awhile, until he's healed. And sure enough, he's a No Show and five of us are out of luck this week. How am I ever going to get out of the basement?
Toughest courses on tour???? Click on the link if you think it's Augusta:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-bonk26apr26,1,333384.story
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