Phil Mickelson's Daily Golf Tip...

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

This is old school Phil, but he's done it a bunch...

[mav]

Oh, that's nothing. I do it all the time. Now if Phil was any good, he would have been able to make it in the hole.

[Mike.357]

i can't do that

[Guest jackdm3]

He faced one direction and it went in another. All I can think of is the penalty of billiards/pool where you don't strike the ball, but you scoop/push it. Temporarily holding it on the face of the club. Other than a tremendous amount of English/top spin/bottom spin/whatever spin, I don't know how it's a fair shot.

[Mike.357]

he is not cheating Jack, He hits the ball with such a manner that the spin pulls it backwards.

I've worked with a couple of guys who could do it.

[Guest jackdm3]

Well, I DID say "a tremendous amount of spin." In what way is it pulled backwards? Awesome display of a vortex into the near-ether.

[Oh Shoot]

... Other than a tremendous amount of English/top spin/bottom spin/whatever spin, I don't know how it's a fair shot.

Look at club face at address, actually slightly more than horiz, with huge swing with actual back loft, generating tremendous spin. Of course it's legal.

Matter of fact, there's no rule in golf saying a ball has to come off a club in a certain length of time, just that it can't be contacted more than once per swing.

Very few pros hit a straight ball very often.

They have their overall fade/draw/straight tendencies, but work pretty much every shot for max benefit depending on variety of factors.

- OS

[mav]

In all seriousness, I have seen Phil demonstrate that shot a couple of times. It is quite amazing. I have been sitting in that kind of lie a bunch of times. Typically, I would be in the bunker or at the end of the green. I carry a 60 Titleist Vokey wedge, and it is my most difficult club in the bag especially if I haven't been playing that much.

[Oh Shoot]

In all seriousness, I have seen Phil demonstrate that shot a couple of times. It is quite amazing. I have been sitting in that kind of lie a bunch of times. Typically, I would be in the bunker or at the end of the green. I carry a 60 Titleist Vokey wedge, and it is my most difficult club in the bag especially if I haven't been playing that much.

Well, note that AFAIK Phil has never hit that shot in actual pro round.

A major diff with pros is that most of the time their misses don't end up in a worst case scenario place, like ours.

- OS

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

Well, note that AFAIK Phil has never hit that shot in actual pro round.

A major diff with pros is that most of the time their misses don't end up in a worst case scenario place, like ours.

- OS

Pebble Beach 2004, AT&T Pro-Am, 3rd Hole I believe...

It's the only time he has ever done it. I heard him talking about it with a reporter.

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Edited October 14, 2010 by Glock23ForMe