Topics discussed during the hour-long show:
THE CURRENT STATE OF TIGER WOODS’ PUTTING
LOOKING AHEAD IN WOODS’ GAME IN 2012
THE LONG-PUTTER DEBATE – ANALYSTS PICK THEIR SIDES
EUROPE’S BIG THREE – LUKE DONALD, LEE WESTWOOD AND RORY MCILROY
THE NEW PROPOSED PGA TOUR SCHEDULE FOR 2013 – CHAMBLEE WEIGHS IN WITH HIS THOUGHTS
THE 2012 PGA TOUR SEASON THUSFAR – WHAT MAKES WINNING AND CLOSING ON SUNDAY SO DIFFICULT
PHIL MICKELSON’S RESURGENCE IN 2012
THE FUTURE OF THE LPGA TOUR – YANI TSENG AND LEXI THOMPSON
PREDICTIONS ON SATURDAY’S QUARTERFINAL MATCHES AT THE WGC-ACCENTURE MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
HIGHLIGHTS:
LOOKING AHEAD ON TIGER WOODS’ GOLF CAREER
HICKS: “Let’s look ahead for Tiger. Could not help but look at the most recent Golf Magazine, and you had an interview in there where you thought Tiger would win 30 or 40 more times in the rest of his career, and you had his major championship total ending exactly on Jack’s at 18. You want to clarify anything there?”
MILLER: “That was a best-case scenario. Nick alluded to this, every golfer has two careers. You have the young career and then you have the second career and he’s in the second career. So the bottom line is, I thought after watching him in Australia at The Presidents Cup, and also seeing him perform the way he did at Sherwood and watching him putt pretty good in both places – and he hit it unbelievable good, very graceful. I was thinking, wow, this second career could be really good. He could win 30 or 40 tournaments, and he could win two, three or four Majors. But I actually wrote in my book, I Call the Shots, back about eight years ago, that he would not break Jack’s record, which at the time everybody thought I was smoking something.”
CHAMBLEE: “I didn’t believe that.”
MILLER: “The bottom line is, I don’t think he’s going even tie his record, a best case scenario. So it’s a tough road to hoe. And like you say, he’s lost his mojo or psyche or power. He had power over everybody and he’s lost that.”
LONG PUTTER DEBATE
FALDO: “It’s called a golf swing, not a golf anchor. If the amateurs – for the enjoyment of the game, let them do whatever they like. But for professionals, I think we should start looking at all our rules, or quite a few on the equipment, like the size of the driver face.”
CHAMBLEE: “I am all for two sets of rules for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is eliminating the long putter in the professional ranks and allows – to Nick’s point – to provide a forum which allows you to actually control the motion of the putter without nerves or feel or touch actually affecting the motion….So they could make the game simultaneously more interesting at the professional level, more interesting for us to call it and more fun for the recreational golfer if they would do this.”
ON PHIL MICKELSON
MILLER: “He is the ultimate guy to commentate because he does some of the craziest stuff, ever. Remember Winged Foot, the last hole, the 72nd hole. Come on, you don’t have to hit the driver you know. But he does all those things, so sometimes we make fun of him or we say he’s crazy, but that’s what makes Phil fun.”
CHAMBLEE: “He’s so much fun to watch play golf, and he’s a reminder that the more complicated you make this game, the harder it is to play it. Simple as you can make this game, the easier it is to play it.”
ON YANI TSENG
FALDO: “I met Yani, she helped me launch my Faldo Series in Hong Kong when she was 16, 17. At that time I played with her, I never witnessed a girl have the strike, the fizz…”
MILLER: “Did she outdrive you?” (Laughter)
FALDO: “The strike, fizz and the trajectory. I’ve never seen a girl have that quality. So to go on, it’s not surprising and she’s obviously mega inspired, because she has the ability to survive the pressure and play the majors, winning five majors, the best record of anybody.”
ON LEXI THOMPSON
CHAMBLEE: The last United States lady to be Player of the Year was Beth Daniel, 1994. They are getting out-worked by Lorena Ochoa, Annika Sorenstam, Karrie Webb, they are getting out-worked. If Lexi Thompson can avoid pitfalls, she has all of the talent to be just as good, if not better, than Beth Daniel was, which is saying a lot because that’s a talented woman.”
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