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Conference 7.286::golf

Title:Welcome to the Golf Notes Conference!
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Created:Tue Feb 15 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2129
Total number of notes:21499

538.0. "Doral Open" by ASABET::FENTON () Tue Feb 28 1989 16:17

    What happened to Calcavechia Sunday?  I was beginning to think he
    had nerves of iron or should I say graphite!!!  Too bad his drive 
    went so far right.  
    
    Glasson gave him a lot of opportunities to come back too!  Anybody
    hear any dialog on the Doral Open?  

    
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538.1"MONEY IS AS MONEY DOES"OURVAX::GLASSTue Feb 28 1989 17:5610
    Hi,
    Mark shot a 41 on the back nine while Bill was at 38! Not the greatest
    golf and a wonder that they were not beaten by Don P.!
    
    Well, just consider that the four(4) days netted Mark ~$63K and
    put him over $400K for the year to date.
    
    The moral is "GOLF IS A GAME OF AVERAGES AND EVEN PROS MAKE MISTAKES
    AND STILL WIN MONEY"!!!!!!!!!
    TOM
538.2Swing slow ... Nah!LEVERS::KALLUNKITue Feb 28 1989 19:5911
    What do you think?  Does Mark Calcavechia come out of his shoes,
    or what? It's so funny hearing the commentators biting their tongues
    everytime they slo-mo Marks swing... the silence is deafening. The
    way he's eating up the circuit we all may see more empty golf shoes
    at the tee area !!  ;)
    
    Anybody out there from New England climbing the walls yet? I find
    it torture to watch people play in such great green weather...
    Good thing is, the season is just around the corner  (I hope).
    
    	Walt
538.3Cabin FeverASABET::FENTONWed Mar 01 1989 10:568
    
    Yeh, poor guy. All that winning must get to ya after a while.  An
    official musta told Mark to loose one or they were going to check
    him for steroids!   I've been watching the tour every weekend and
    I'll totally agree that it is torture.....I wanted to go so bad
    when it was sixty in January.....got to Stow at one and couldn't
    go out 'til three.  So I went down the road and hit all the balls
    I had into the woods.  
538.4that's raw power in that swing!!MAMIE::GORDONThu Mar 02 1989 15:316
    re: .2
    	Yeh, outa his shoes alright...as good as he is I bet within
    the next 5 years he'll learn, as Davis Love III has, that the control
    of all that power will get him more wins...in fact he seems to me
    to be a better course manager than Norman who still hasn't fulfilled
    his potential
538.5The guy is out-of control!!! Winning that is!!!SA1794::WELLSPEAKHe's old...and his skin is cold...Thu Mar 02 1989 15:4910
    	If Davis Love III has learned to control all that raw power,
    how come I haven't seen him finish in the top 5 of any tournament
    this year, never mind win 2 of them?  I think Calcaveccia has great
    control over his power game.  He seems to know when to power the
    shot, and when to finess the shot, not to mention he's a very good
    putter.  He has all the tools to well surpass Curtis Stranges PGA
    record for earnings in a season.  And with his youth, he should
    become the tours leading career money winner within the next 5 to
    7 years.  
                                                     Beak
538.6lights on - no one home!!MAMIE::GORDONThu Mar 02 1989 17:517
    re: .5
    Note I said Love had learned to control his power I did not
    say he knew how to manage the course..there is a BIG DIFFERENCE
    Every guy out there can hit a ball and make the numbers...the
    ones that excell are the ones that KNOW HOW TO MANAGE THE GAME
    AROUND A COURSE ...that's is the reason Hogan and Nicklaus were
    great and Nicklaus even says that in one of his books..!!
538.7Too Hot to HandleDIXIE1::WESTCLGator GolferTue Mar 07 1989 20:084
    Watch Mark fade over the next two years, al la Corey Pavin and others
    with unusual swings.  He'll continue to win during this time, but
    that swing will not endure.
    
538.8Beg to differHBO::BLAISDELLTax tax here...tax tax thereWed Mar 08 1989 10:598
    
    re. .8     That's what they all said about Arnold Palmer.  ;^)
    
        Calkacchevechhia..er..ah...oh forget it, may have a "quick"
      swing, but it isn't unusual. He definitely needs to change
      his name though!