Man, how awesome would it be if the final pairing on Sunday was Tiger Woods and Tom Watson?
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Jazz
It would be fascinating, in part because of the generational dichotomy and also because Watson is a priggish fellow who has been vocal about Tiger’s on-and off-course failings. (I saw Tiger tip his cap after a good shot yesterday. Looked horribly unnatural, like if Barry Bonds had smiled at the fans or something).
Speaking of golf, and following the earlier tweet about whether Hayward’s shot would have been 150,000X more amazing than Gibson’s home run, was thinking today about the relative probability of Hayward making his shot and Larry Mize making that crazy chip from 45 yards off the green at the ’87 Masters. Gotta think Hayward makes that shot more often than Mize makes that chip.
Then I was thinking about Bob Tway holing it from that hideously deep bunker at the ’86 PGA, again, that’s a shot that Tway likely makes less frequently than Hayward his half-court heave. Now, in fairness, Mize or Tway only needed to get up and down to extend those tournaments, though just an up and down for either player would have been a tall order indeed. Considering that an up and down would leave each with a 50% chance of winning (i.e. extended a playoff), then their overall chance of winning those tournaments, heading into each chip, was probably reasonably similar to Butler’s chance of winning the national championship, as Hayward prepared to release his shot.
What’s weird is that if Mize and Tway failed, as they should have (and Hayward obviously did), Greg Norman would have been teeing it up at the ’87 US Open with a chance to win a Shark Slam. Amazing how his career was so set back by the two luckiest shots in modern sports history, and how easily we seem to forget…
Casey
That would register as a 7.3 on the International Awesomeness Comparative Scale.
For reference, a 1.0 is doing your taxes, and a 10.0 is global thermonuclear sex.
Man, how awesome would it be if the final pairing on Sunday was Tiger Woods and Tom Watson?
It would be fascinating, in part because of the generational dichotomy and also because Watson is a priggish fellow who has been vocal about Tiger’s on-and off-course failings. (I saw Tiger tip his cap after a good shot yesterday. Looked horribly unnatural, like if Barry Bonds had smiled at the fans or something).
Speaking of golf, and following the earlier tweet about whether Hayward’s shot would have been 150,000X more amazing than Gibson’s home run, was thinking today about the relative probability of Hayward making his shot and Larry Mize making that crazy chip from 45 yards off the green at the ’87 Masters. Gotta think Hayward makes that shot more often than Mize makes that chip.
Then I was thinking about Bob Tway holing it from that hideously deep bunker at the ’86 PGA, again, that’s a shot that Tway likely makes less frequently than Hayward his half-court heave. Now, in fairness, Mize or Tway only needed to get up and down to extend those tournaments, though just an up and down for either player would have been a tall order indeed. Considering that an up and down would leave each with a 50% chance of winning (i.e. extended a playoff), then their overall chance of winning those tournaments, heading into each chip, was probably reasonably similar to Butler’s chance of winning the national championship, as Hayward prepared to release his shot.
What’s weird is that if Mize and Tway failed, as they should have (and Hayward obviously did), Greg Norman would have been teeing it up at the ’87 US Open with a chance to win a Shark Slam. Amazing how his career was so set back by the two luckiest shots in modern sports history, and how easily we seem to forget…
That would register as a 7.3 on the International Awesomeness Comparative Scale.
For reference, a 1.0 is doing your taxes, and a 10.0 is global thermonuclear sex.