Favorite Tour Picture

[dlygrisse]

Jeebus, how about the 1981 Ryder Cup team...

 

This is a ridiculously awesome team...all time imho...

 

https://en.m.wikiped.../1981_Ryder_Cup

 

-Chris

So is Lieitzke the only one on that team that didn't win a major? Holy...

[iBanesto]

Young Seve during the 1980 Masters. He was 23 yrs old and won by 4 strokes.

 

[Golf Puff]

Two of my all time favorites

 

The King & The Great one

 

 

I still laugh at Gleason every time I see him say “First, you address the ball. Hello Ball.”

I laugh every time

 

-Chris

My twin brother usually pulls this line out 5 or 6 times a season, I laugh each time as well. We had our 'Nick at Nite' stretch back in middle school watching all the old great programs.

 

Seems to me that Art Carney was actually the one who said, "Hello, ball!" while the two were trying to learn about golf in the kitchen. The baseball-like swing that followed, after, "GO!", wiped out all of the shelves! Hillarious!

[The General]

these shoes, whoa!!!

[playa]

This one too. The golf he played to win Turnberry in '86 was as good as it can by played.

 

 

What a year that could have been!!! the saturday slam.Insanely high level of golf just couldnt close on the other 3.

 

Right?!? People remember him for that collapse at Augusta in '96, but they forget how good he was at the height of his powers. For a decade his A game was close to untouchable.

 

Norman was an even greater sportsman by the way he dealt with the aftermath of his 1996 Masters collapse.

 

I've always thought that shirt was uglier than the choke.

[bscinstnct]

[Boney]

[...] The golf he played to win Turnberry in '86 was as good as it can by played.

 

Nice! Here's a higher-res version, if anyone's interested, and one from a few seconds later:

 

 

[Christosterone]

Norman’s reverse c was a work of art...one of the best swings to ever walk this planet...

Spare me any Augusta stories or “he wasn’t nice to me” stuff...

Norman’s golf swing was a glorious move.

 

-Chris

[iBanesto]

Ben Hogan.

 

Amazing attendance.

 

 

[Darth Putter]

Forrest Fezler in his most famous moment.

 

The 1974 Southern Open winner passed away today at age 69.

 

[playa]

Norman’s reverse c was a work of art...one of the best swings to ever walk this planet...

Spare me any Augusta stories or “he wasn’t nice to me” stuff...

Norman’s golf swing was a glorious move.

 

-Chris

I've been lucky enough to have seen Norman live, and back in the 80s during his prime. His athletic move through the ball was incomparable. And the larger than life way he strode down the fairways, he just oozed charisma. His critics can say what they like about the choking and his ego and him being an a** hat, but in his day nobody was in any doubt that he was the star of the show.

[norge5]

I went through this whole thread this evening. Awesome stuff. It's too bad that the future generations will never be as cool as the old days.

[Kenny Lee Puckett]

Ben Hogan.

 

Amazing attendance.

 

 

 

edit: FWIW the bottom photo is not Hogan but Jack Fleck going about defeating him in '55 U.S. Open playoff at Olympic Club, and to my eye that's the 18th green he is putting on. at any rate you stumbled across a photo of one of the most improbable stories/outcomes in the history of golf, very worthy of this thread. ;)

 

 

a photo of them together at that Monday playoff. Jack has the same garb on in the other photo.

[norge5]

I love all the old pictures of men wearing suits to sporting events. Where did it all go wrong?

[Christosterone]

I love all the old pictures of men wearing suits to sporting events. Where did it all go wrong?

 

The year was 1980 and the logo below began popping up everywhere....

Skynet became self aware shortly after and our world became what it is...

 

-Chris

[Kenny Lee Puckett]

I love all the old pictures of men wearing suits to sporting events. Where did it all go wrong?

my father to this day swears it was the early 60's, and because of John F. Kennedy's fashion sense, that for the first time American men made the move towards "casual" and "business casual" out in public or in the workplace..

[iBanesto]

Ben Hogan.

 

Amazing attendance.

 

 

 

edit: FWIW the bottom photo is not Hogan but Jack Fleck going about defeating him in '55 U.S. Open playoff at Olympic Club, and to my eye that's the 18th green he is putting on. at any rate you stumbled across a photo of one of the most improbable stories/outcomes in the history of golf, very worthy of this thread. ;)

 

 

a photo of them together at that Monday playoff. Jack has the same garb on in the other photo.

 

Thank you for the correction.

 

It is a great photo.

 

It is not only Tiger who brought people to watch the game.

[SBH9458]

[...] The golf he played to win Turnberry in '86 was as good as it can by played.

 

Nice! Here's a higher-res version, if anyone's interested, and one from a few seconds later:

 

 

 

Awesome pics....great swing, no doubt.

 

[iBanesto]

Sam Snead.

 

Look at that position at the top!

 

[iBanesto]

[...] The golf he played to win Turnberry in '86 was as good as it can by played.

 

Nice! Here's a higher-res version, if anyone's interested, and one from a few seconds later:

 

 

 

Nick Price.

[ChillyDipper]

Ben Hogan.

 

Amazing attendance.

 

 

 

edit: FWIW the bottom photo is not Hogan but Jack Fleck going about defeating him in '55 U.S. Open playoff at Olympic Club, and to my eye that's the 18th green he is putting on. at any rate you stumbled across a photo of one of the most improbable stories/outcomes in the history of golf, very worthy of this thread. ;)

 

 

a photo of them together at that Monday playoff. Jack has the same garb on in the other photo.

 

Thank you for the correction.

 

It is a great photo.

 

It is not only Tiger who brought people to watch the game.

 

 

Also, it's not only Tiger who likes baggy, pleated khakis.

[augustgolf]

Sam Snead.

 

Look at that position at the top!

 

And never out of balance

[No Gimmes]

[imakaveli]

I love all the old pictures of men wearing suits to sporting events. Where did it all go wrong?

 

Just do it.

[Boney]

It is not only Tiger who brought people to watch the game.

Also, it's not only Tiger who likes baggy, pleated khakis.

 

I'll wager those are woolen trousers, not khakis.

[iBanesto]

“Don’t let the bad shots get to you. Don’t let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners." - Paul Runyan.

 

 

Paul Runyan and Sam Snead at the 1938 PGA Championship. Runyan defeated Snead 8&7.

 

- 1934 and 1938 PGA Championship champion

- 29 PGA Tour wins

- 1934 PGA Tour leading money winner

- 20 major top 10 finishes

 

Happy holidays to everyone.

[ChillyDipper]

It is not only Tiger who brought people to watch the game.

Also, it's not only Tiger who likes baggy, pleated khakis.

 

I'll wager those are woolen trousers, not khakis.

 

you're probably right, but it made the joke easier to say khakis.

[norge5]

Sam Snead.

 

Look at that position at the top!

 

Great picture. And he's choking down on the driver.

[emncaity]

Nick Price.

 

At his best, an insanely good striker. People who saw both him and Hogan said it was often similar to watch them fire off one solid, controlled shot after another.

[emncaity]

Typical end of day conversation with Boo and Mrs. Weekley.

 

How was your day, Boo? Followed by the sound of the snaps on his suspenders..................

Snap, snap……….“ain’t gonna be gentle like last time”

 

 

 

 

Savage, and yet possibly accurate.