usa1950
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- Jul 15, 2007
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Goodness Gracious.....
I played in a brand spanking new pair of shoes yesterday (Nike... uggh) I won with a long drive at a work outing recently. They aren't bad, very comfy, except I putted the worst I have putted in about 10 years.... at least the worst that I can remember. I must have had 4 of 5 three putts, and made no birdies, despite hitting 8 greens in a row at one point. I had 6 birdie tries inside 20 feet, and 3 inside 12 feet. Missed em all.....:real angry: I often play 18 without a single three putt.
Well, I had played in a pair of Foot Joy Classics which I got from Calvin Peete (actually "got" means I took them out of a garbage can at the Nashville Senior PGA Tour event about 12 years ago.) every round I have played for more than 10 years. Peete came off the 18th green at this particular Tour Stop... immediately took his shoes off, said something along the lines of "these suck" and dropped them in the garbage can.
I heard him, went over, and picked them out, and the were brand new FJ's... with C. Peete written in ink inside the shoe. I put them on, and well, we are the same size. An interesting "ho" as you call it around here. Free ho... gotta love those.
Yesterday, my stroke was AWFUL. My practice strokes were awful as well. I usually like to feel the sole of the putter ever so slightly brush the grass, and am an above average putter, usually.
But with these new shoes, I was stubbing the putter behind the ball, or sometimes not even coming close to my normal stroke, and hitting them "thin" without a brush of the grass. Reads were decent, speed was bad early, but great late in the round.
It was all about the path of the putterhead.
I compared the soles of the two shoes when I got back to the car, and, lo and behold, the new Nikes have a MUCH thicker sole than my old FJ's.
So I was measureably "taller" when over the ball? About a 1/2 inch to 3/4? Admittedly, I did not know what was going on, probalby overcompensated after my initial putting woes (including a three putt for a par after driving one green on a par 4). I was never comfortable at all, really, for teh eintre day.
Could it be the freaking shoes?
Am I insane?
Stupid game.
I did manage to par 9 of 11 at one stretch, but neve made a putt longer than 5 feet all day.
I played in a brand spanking new pair of shoes yesterday (Nike... uggh) I won with a long drive at a work outing recently. They aren't bad, very comfy, except I putted the worst I have putted in about 10 years.... at least the worst that I can remember. I must have had 4 of 5 three putts, and made no birdies, despite hitting 8 greens in a row at one point. I had 6 birdie tries inside 20 feet, and 3 inside 12 feet. Missed em all.....:real angry: I often play 18 without a single three putt.
Well, I had played in a pair of Foot Joy Classics which I got from Calvin Peete (actually "got" means I took them out of a garbage can at the Nashville Senior PGA Tour event about 12 years ago.) every round I have played for more than 10 years. Peete came off the 18th green at this particular Tour Stop... immediately took his shoes off, said something along the lines of "these suck" and dropped them in the garbage can.
I heard him, went over, and picked them out, and the were brand new FJ's... with C. Peete written in ink inside the shoe. I put them on, and well, we are the same size. An interesting "ho" as you call it around here. Free ho... gotta love those.
Yesterday, my stroke was AWFUL. My practice strokes were awful as well. I usually like to feel the sole of the putter ever so slightly brush the grass, and am an above average putter, usually.
But with these new shoes, I was stubbing the putter behind the ball, or sometimes not even coming close to my normal stroke, and hitting them "thin" without a brush of the grass. Reads were decent, speed was bad early, but great late in the round.
It was all about the path of the putterhead.
I compared the soles of the two shoes when I got back to the car, and, lo and behold, the new Nikes have a MUCH thicker sole than my old FJ's.
So I was measureably "taller" when over the ball? About a 1/2 inch to 3/4? Admittedly, I did not know what was going on, probalby overcompensated after my initial putting woes (including a three putt for a par after driving one green on a par 4). I was never comfortable at all, really, for teh eintre day.
Could it be the freaking shoes?
Am I insane?
Stupid game.
I did manage to par 9 of 11 at one stretch, but neve made a putt longer than 5 feet all day.