Still think he might've been the most underrated top player ever. Sometimes you can't control the things that happen around you. If you think about it, it's not hard to figure out that the odds would dictate that _somebody_ in the history of the game was going to be every bit as talented as any top player, and yet circumstances would conspire to keep him from being known as being as good as he was. It was bound to happen to somebody.
People tend to remember him only for Mize, Gamez, the '96 collapse (never as impossible as the sportswriters made it sound going into the final round...how stupid was it for them to talk like it wasn't possible for him to shoot 73 while playing not all that badly, and Faldo or somebody to shoot 65 or 66?). It's too bad, because at his best, for that brief time, he was capable of reaching the kind of golf that Hogan, Nelson, Snead, Nicklaus, and Woods, et al. played at their best.
That was something, wasn't it? That, and the '93 Open, the final round of which still sticks out in my mind as the most flawless final round in a major I've ever seen. He looked like he was taking the club back about 60%, and he was just thumping it. Totally counterintuitive, but true.
Waste of time/space, plse delete
WeAndWeR1 3 months ago
Still think he might've been the most underrated top player ever. Sometimes you can't control the things that happen around you. If you think about it, it's not hard to figure out that the odds would dictate that _somebody_ in the history of the game was going to be every bit as talented as any top player, and yet circumstances would conspire to keep him from being known as being as good as he was. It was bound to happen to somebody.
emncaity 7 months ago
People tend to remember him only for Mize, Gamez, the '96 collapse (never as impossible as the sportswriters made it sound going into the final round...how stupid was it for them to talk like it wasn't possible for him to shoot 73 while playing not all that badly, and Faldo or somebody to shoot 65 or 66?). It's too bad, because at his best, for that brief time, he was capable of reaching the kind of golf that Hogan, Nelson, Snead, Nicklaus, and Woods, et al. played at their best.
emncaity 7 months ago
That was something, wasn't it? That, and the '93 Open, the final round of which still sticks out in my mind as the most flawless final round in a major I've ever seen. He looked like he was taking the club back about 60%, and he was just thumping it. Totally counterintuitive, but true.
emncaity 7 months ago