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Your golf fantasy....a genie gives you one wish, which these would you take?


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Single here, take the two fiddy, pay off mortgage, have more time to practice, try and achieve the 280 straight down the middle every time on my own (that one was tempting)

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Couldn’t decide. I mean what if you hated Augusta after playing it.

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I'm going to Augusta

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Results are interesting! People like cash and appreciate the power of one putting, for sure.

Surprised no one chose the US Open Qualifying. 1982, I tried -- had no legit reason to be there, punching way above my weight class -- you had to be scratch or a "professional" -- I wasn't scratch but was in the PGA Apprenticeship program, so that counted. 36 holes in one day, walking, of course, Atlanta Athletic Club, 7200 yards, host to lots of majors, of course. With persimmon and the old balata ball, that's like 7500 today.

For the 28 holes which were par 4's and par 5's (of the 36) I addressed the ball, looking at the top of my 1959 MacGregor driver and the name "Tommy Armour" -- and about 20 feet away was his grandson, Tommy Armour III ... a young gun on the PGA Tour, who'd later set 72 hole record, 254, Valero Open, my playing partner. I did NOT qualify, by a long shot. But a GREAT experience. It was on the Monday after the Atlanta Classic, so it was the Local Qualifying location loaded with all the PGA players who weren't exempt, just finishing that week's tour stop. I was 21, before the round, warming up with all these guys who'd won in the 1970's (when I watched them on tv as a teenager) ...Homero Blancus, Rod Curl, Mason Rudolph, Forrest Fezler, etc. The low qualifier was a 22-year-old Georgia Tech grad named Larry Size. Heady stuff.

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FWIW, if I was granted a one putt on every green then I would certainly be getting the best GPS device that I could find with the best mapping to THE CENTER of the green. Unless you are close enough that a hole out is a reasonable possibility, that # is what you need (at least on the greens that most of us play).

But I am still taking the monthly rounds at ANGC just to be known as the only guy on the planet with the power to get them to open the course in the summer.

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I'll loop for Tom Watson thank you very much. Heck I'd settle for caddying for him for a single tournament: 2009 Open Championship!

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It was between the 1-putt, Masters tix, playing Augusta, and cash.

Looking at the value of everything, compared to $250k

Masters tix - I’m young enough, and assuming the tournament doesn’t go anywhere, I’d easily make up the $250k option, even accounting for NPV of the 250

Play Augusta - similar time above, but would make up the money even faster. I could easily get 6 people a month to grease me $500+ each to go play Augusta

1-putt everything - as has been mentioned before, with this option there’s a chance at making the Tour and making way more than $250k. Even if that didn’t work, I would win way more than that in bets and smaller tournaments. Worst case, I’d be some sideshow trick shot artist with a massive YouTube channel and get paid to 1-putt all over the country. So this one easily has the most potential to eclipse $250k.

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One putt everything, I'll get Bryson big, top 5 player, masters invites, fame and money, who's that guy? Oh, he's the one who makes the putts, ALL of them! The Green GOAT, how does he do it? he's got a system, publish an instruction book, make even more money, start designing and selling putters, like, who wouldn't use my putter? $250k? Pfft, its like $250MM by the second year, I might even talk nike into getting into equipment manufacturing, I'll take a royalty on that. Green GOAT clothing line, etc, etc.

 

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You collect $250,000, tax free, one lump sum payment. (Have to tell your spouse).

i'd take the cash, because it's cash. i thought about one putting every green, but when you take 4 shots to get there......

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I could easily go debt free and mortgage free and have money left over to live my son through his last 2 years of college and his Masters .

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It’s a tough choice between the $250k and the 1 putt. $250k sounds wonderful right now. Al debt paid off, then easy street. But, 1 putt for life and as others mentioned, I could make far more than $250k.

 

with the rest of my game as it is right now, and the lack of time I have to practice, I think I’d have to go for the $250k and pay off all debts and pay off the rest of the kids college tuition.

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100% the 1 putt. The next choice was the money, but figure if I one putted every single time on the green I could definitely score well enough to win multiple tour events.

So at that point I could play Augusta anytime I wanted free, a long with every other course in the world, and id have a lot more than 250,000.00 from the tournament winnings, and every other option would come no matter what.

If I just hit every GIR id shoot 52-54 on par 70-72, and thats not accounting for if I make a short par 4 in off the tee, or a par 5 in 2. Could potentially shoot below 50 if you hit every GIR, along with 5 pars in 2.

But realistically if you could even just hit 1/2 GIRs you could regularly shoot in the low 60s so long as you could keep the ball in play, and average well below 70 for sure. You'd still make a lot of pars not hitting a GIR.

Would quickly eclipse every single golf record out there in existence. Making every other option a complete given and guarantee.

 

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For all those taking the one-putt option, do you have any concerns the game would become boring and suck all the joy out of it for you? One of the things I love about golf is that every round is different, every shot is different, etc. If I knew that all I had to do was get the ball anywhere on the green, I think I'd become bored quickly and lose interest.

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Nope, because i'd be on my 250 foot yacht looking at all the green jackets i've accumulated. kidding, sorta, but the thing I enjoy most about the game is hitting pure iron shots, working on wedges, strategy off the tee, being outside, scenery, hanging out with friends, the game would never be boring just because I 1 putt everything. Because it still would take skill and practice to be able to be able to hit a lot of GIR.

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One putting every green would make a lot of people the #1 player in the world. Good point about removing the fun from the game, but I'd sacrifice that to make tens of millions of dollars a year playing on Tour. I hate putting anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal for me.....

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Yes 330 and straight would certainly change the thought a little. But I still choose the one putt. Because 3 putts can still happen, missing greens will still happen. But the one putt for even mid-handicappers almost guarantees even to below par rounds.

im almost want to go play for fun and pretend I’ve been granted this wish, just to see how I could do with my current game. My guess is could pretty easily shoot low-mid 60s with average GIR numbers.

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