Golf All-Skills team

[JTrout]

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Toms couldn't have been put in the fairway woods slot? He's hit a few pretty good ones.

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Yep. Shoulda put him there. Although that 4-wood at PGA was headed for trouble if it hadn't found the pin!

Bit of useless info on Toms:
At LSU, he carried a horseshoe in his bag that he said had been blessed by some voodoo witchdoctor lady in New Orleans. Said he didn't really believe it, but wasn't taking any chances! Thing must have weighed 3 lbs. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

Playing in a practice rd. in Milwaukee- Toms, Mike Heinen, Sonny Skinner and myself. We slip off #10, Toms hits weak drive in left rough, about 200 out.
Sonny says we need to get a game, and whoever hits it closest to the hole is his partner [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] We agree.
Toms holes it! Heinen and I are 1 down.
Same round, Heinen holes 4-iron for d.eagle. We win dinner.

[JTG51]

"Long Irons - Sam Snead"

Isn't Jack Nicklaus widly considered the best long iron player ever?

[JTG51]

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i'm too lazy to think of my choices for everything else, but I know that I'd choose


pitching/chipping - MICKELSON

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I'll take Tiger over Mickelson around the greens any day of the week.

[andyfox]

I saw Nicklaus hitting one-irons at a clinic once. Unbelievable. I didn't see Snead play until he was in his mid-fifties, but he still hit great long irons. I'd rank Nicklaus above him, but you'd really have to ask players who saw them both in their prime. Aren't too many around now: I'd be curious what Byron Nelson thinks.

[JTG51]

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I saw Nicklaus hitting one-irons at a clinic once. Unbelievable. I didn't see Snead play until he was in his mid-fifties, but he still hit great long irons. I'd rank Nicklaus above him, but you'd really have to ask players who saw them both in their prime. Aren't too many around now: I'd be curious what Byron Nelson thinks.

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I'd also be curious what Nicklaus thinks. He wrote a little bit about his long iron play, but didn't give any comparison to Snead.

One other thing I found interesting in the story was that he said until recently he would have picked Arnold Palmer as the best putter ever. I didn't even know Palmer was considered a great putter.

[HDPM]

No I don't think Palmer was. He found a way to get the ball in the hole. Casper was regarded as the putter in that era I think.

[HDPM]

Would be interested to see where Runyan would rank for pitching and chipping. Taking out Snead in the PGA and winning as much as he did hitting it as short as he did was remarkable. He was short by any standard in any era and got it up and down from anywhere all the time.

Casper not mentioned at all in putting. (I mentioned him briefly above) Maybe because Tiger is mentioned by Jack and properly so.

Trevino not getting mentioned for driving or irons of any kind. Surprising, although Hogan is hard to argue with obviously, etc... Trevino had control of the golf ball all the way through the bag really.

[JTG51]

"Trevino not getting mentioned for driving or irons of any kind. Surprising, although Hogan is hard to argue with obviously, etc... Trevino had control of the golf ball all the way through the bag really. "

Trevino was mentioned in the Golf Digest story. It sounded like he was second to Hogan in driving in Nicklaus' opinion.

If I remember correctly, control was the exact word Nicklaus used.

[HDPM]

and I didn't even read the article yet, just the posts.... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Loved watching Trevino hit the ball.

[TobDog]

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Putting - Ben Crane

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WTF? is that supposed to be funny?

George Low, end of thread!