Sandy
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- Aug 29, 2006
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also hasnt his competition got a lot harder recently?
That was my immediate thought with his comments - when he burst onto the scene he was radically different to everyone else out there in the way he played, and it was so intimidating to play against him he could blast players away while still making mistakes in his game plan. Ten years on and the strategy and techniques he used to do this have been pulled apart, learned and passed on to every up and coming tour pro so his way of playing becomes the norm. So while he may well be making less mistakes than ever now, the standard of the field behind him has generally improved to a point where the mistakes he makes cost him more dearly than before.
It's kind of me and my 22 handicap playing against 30 'cappers and beating them every time despite my own mistakes, then me dropping to 15, making a lot less mistakes but losing more regularly because I'm playing 17 'cappers - my own game is much improved, but I'm nowhere near as successful as I was before...