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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
In case you are not familiar with the 16th hole practice round tradition at Augusta, that was exactly what he wanted to do.
Watch: Jon Rahm's spectacular skip-shot ace at Augusta
If you ever get the chance to attend a practice round at Augusta National, walk — don’t run — down to the 16th green, where you can sit and watch the world’s best try to skip their shots across the pond. If they’re lucky, they can get a couple skips. If they’re really lucky, they can bounce it up onto the green. And if they’re ridiculously, this-could-be-a-sign lucky, they do this:
Yes, that’s Jon Rahm, one of the favorites (+1000) at this year’s Masters, just casually slapping a ball across the surface of the water, up onto the green, around a bend, and right into a cup 170 yards away.
The Augusta Chronicle, the authority on all things Masters, believes that Lee Trevino began the skip-shot tradition back in the mid-1980s, which, considering Trevino’s style, seems about right. Vijay Singh aced his skip in 2009, and Martin Kaymer did the same thing in 2012.
It’s now mandatory for every player circulating through the 16th on a practice round to attempt a skip, or incur the wrath of patrons shouting “SKIP!” all around them.
Even without patrons in attendance, Rahm bowed to the pressure of the moment ... and seized it.
Entire article: https://sports.yahoo.com/watch-jon-rahms-spectacular-skipshot-ace-at-16-190435454.html
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Gary’s backswing is quite impressive for an 85-year-old. Too bad Jack’s back ain’t got his back. Still the greatest.
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Shit, I'd take the whole swing.
Gary is probably still doing his 100's of crunches and whatever else he does, I imagine.
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That's a special sweet spot for me. Columbus and South Africa. 
Gary has his back because he has been a fitness fanatic the last 50 years. He and Mandela shared a habit: 200 pushups and sit-ups every morning.
Gary has his back because he has been a fitness fanatic the last 50 years. He and Mandela shared a habit: 200 pushups and sit-ups every morning.
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That's a special sweet spot for me. Columbus and South Africa.
Gary has his back because he has been a fitness fanatic the last 50 years. He and Mandela shared a habit: 200 pushups and sit-ups every morning.
I think it is (was) more like 1000 situps.
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Gary did about 1250, I think, but Madiba was 200 http://theguycancook.com/blog/2012/03/30/what-nelson-mandela-can-teach-us-about-fitness/
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I'm wrong, Player does more still... https://garyplayer.com/gary-player-...en at home in South,hours working on his farm.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Round 3: Dustin Johnson kicked ass today, shoots -7, and puts together 3 rounds of 65, 70, 65: -16. He's 4 up over 3 guys (Im, Ancer, and Smith) that I never heard of.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Cameron Smith first to shoot four rounds in the 60s, ties for second
Cameron Smith became the first golfer in the 84-year history of the Masters to shoot four rounds in the 60s at Augusta National Golf Club, and he still got lapped by five strokes by Dustin Johnson.
That about sums up how Johnson played, but also reflects how the 27-year-old Australian native put up a valiant fight, cutting Johnson’s lead to as little as two strokes before Johnson pulled away to finish at tournament-record 20-under-par 268. Smith closed in 3-under 69 to go along with earlier rounds of 67-68-69 to finish tied for second with South Korea’s Sungjae Im and earn his place in the tournament record books.
“That’s pretty cool. I didn’t realize until you told me,” Smith told CBS’s Amanda Balionis.
Once Smith had a moment to let his scoring achievement sink in, he concluded that it would have been even cooler to do so and win.
“I’d take 15 under around here the rest of my career and I might win a couple,” said Smith, whose 72-hole aggregate score actually would have won all but five of 84 Masters (and forced a playoff with Patrick Reed in 2018).
Entire article: https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2020/11/15/masters-cameron-smith-first-shoot-four-rounds-60s/
What are the odds that a guy in the Masters shoots 4 rounds in the 60s (and he's the first ever to do it) and finished 5 stokes behind the winner?
Cameron Smith became the first golfer in the 84-year history of the Masters to shoot four rounds in the 60s at Augusta National Golf Club, and he still got lapped by five strokes by Dustin Johnson.
That about sums up how Johnson played, but also reflects how the 27-year-old Australian native put up a valiant fight, cutting Johnson’s lead to as little as two strokes before Johnson pulled away to finish at tournament-record 20-under-par 268. Smith closed in 3-under 69 to go along with earlier rounds of 67-68-69 to finish tied for second with South Korea’s Sungjae Im and earn his place in the tournament record books.
“That’s pretty cool. I didn’t realize until you told me,” Smith told CBS’s Amanda Balionis.
Once Smith had a moment to let his scoring achievement sink in, he concluded that it would have been even cooler to do so and win.
“I’d take 15 under around here the rest of my career and I might win a couple,” said Smith, whose 72-hole aggregate score actually would have won all but five of 84 Masters (and forced a playoff with Patrick Reed in 2018).
Entire article: https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2020/11/15/masters-cameron-smith-first-shoot-four-rounds-60s/
What are the odds that a guy in the Masters shoots 4 rounds in the 60s (and he's the first ever to do it) and finished 5 stokes behind the winner?
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