Posted on 04/29/2019 11:51:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
“How straight is the shot?”
For a carry of about 270 yards, that’s a swing speed of about 113 mph, which is PGA Tour caliber.
Only a non golfing Googlerite would attempt to make a correction here that a Double Eagle is an "Albatross". I've never heard it and it's never been used on any PGA tournament coverage since it is such a ridiculous term.
They might as well call a shot into a water hazard a "Turtle shot" or a "Fish Splash".............
You heard it here first.........LOL!
Louis Oosthuizen made one the Masters a few years back..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZoUJZ0yDTA
Hardest shot in golf.
He said he had a tailwind.
In the youtube video link I posted the announcer I think it’s Jim Nance...calls it a double eagle then albatross.
“He said he had a tailwind.”
:)
Your keyword there was AVERAGE. Rush said he had the wind behind him. And maybe the fairways were amenable to roll that day. Maybe he caught a cart path. Who knows, but it’s not at all out of the realm of probability.
And I enjoyed hearing about it!!! Good for you and thanks Rush!
did you ever see him on the Golf Channel's "Haney Project"? That was great but it didn't even compare to when Charles Barkley was Haney's failed project.........LOL!
did you ever see him on the Golf Channel’s “Haney Project”?
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No. Was he any good?
I know Barkley is a basket case. I’ve seen the spasm he calls a golf swing.
It was the week before last that I watched the Long Drive hitting championship on the Golf Channel and the woman who won it hit a drive of 413 yards..............LOL!
Granted, there's a major difference between athletes at this venue and those who compete on the PGA tour.
But to address your comment, yes, the women are now hitting long.........
Eagle equals two under par for a hole or a hole in one on a par three.
That is one of the quirks in golf terms. Double eagle in math terms
would be 2x2 or four under. But in gold it doesn’t mean that.
It wasn't about whether or not Rush was good but rather that he enlisted Haney to help with his golf game and it was televised.
Like most reality shows, it was just entertainment and from beginning to end, Rush did show some improvement.
One has to consider tho, Rush's number one passion is rightfully golf and he has gone to every extreme to improve his game.......And I admire him for it.
And he now has access via money and political connections to golf virtually every course he chooses to play. Most notable connection being President Trump.........How great is that?
I don't know how I was going to get to sleep tonight had you not provided me with that critical information........Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!!
You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed my typo.
Anyway watch out for the albatross.
been playing golf since I was 16 -(53 years) and it was albatross then...
hope you don’t go ballistic about a condor.
Albatross isn’t exactly unknown in the golf world for sure.... Maybe
unknown to some but that is the way things are. None of us know all things.
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http://www.scottishgolfhistory.org/origin-of-golf-terms/bogey/#albatross
Albatross is the term for three under par and is a continuation of the
birdie and eagle theme, but is in fact a British term. Ab Smith said his
group used the phrase ‘double eagle’ for three under (see Birdie above),
which is still the term most Americans and the name for their Double Eagle
Club (membership by invitation only).
Three under par is a very rare score and an albatross is a very rare bird.
The exact origin is unclear but the first known reference in 1929 indicates
that it had been in use for some time before then. John G Ridland, who
scored an ‘albatross’ in India in 1934, theorized that it was the introduction
of steel shafted clubs in 1920s which made this score common enough to
necessitate a name for it.
Me too, and it was always a double eagle.........oh well, who really cares.
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