Favorite Tour Picture

[dlygrisse]

39 minutes ago, Christosterone said:

Weiskopf circa 1973…

Even Jack was in awe of his swing…

it was a move rarely equalled in golf history imho

 

plus he wore fully bespoke clothes like Jack, Johnny, Floyd and the other 70s icons..the long sleeve at The Open [he won] was friggin awesome

 

-chris

 

 

D.J. level talent.  Too bad he drank too much and really lacked the self confidence to dominate.  His quote about what Jack was thinking at the Masters says it all.  Being from Ohio he idolized Jack.  I will say I enjoy playing his courses more than Jack's.  Tremendous talent, great architect, good career that could have been much better.  

[iBanesto]

@Christosterone@dlygrisse

 

Watch this video of Elkington talking about Nicklaus' mentality.

 

He also talks about Weiskopf and Trevino's "weaker" mind set.

 

https://www.secretgolf.com/videos/vintage-vault/mental-game/mental-game--steve-elkington/nicklaus-never-blamed-himself-

[Hawkeye77]

9 hours ago, Christosterone said:

Weiskopf circa 1973…

Even Jack was in awe of his swing…

it was a move rarely equalled in golf history imho

 

plus he wore fully bespoke clothes like Jack, Johnny, Floyd and the other 70s icons..the long sleeve at The Open [he won] was friggin awesome

 

-chris

 

 

Lyrical!

[dlygrisse]

11 hours ago, iBanesto said:

@Christosterone@dlygrisse

 

Watch this video of Elkington talking about Nicklaus' mentality.

 

He also talks about Weiskopf and Trevino's "weaker" mind set.

 

https://www.secretgolf.com/videos/vintage-vault/mental-game/mental-game--steve-elkington/nicklaus-never-blamed-himself-

Jack was famous for never remembering bad shots.  He erased them from his memory.  When sports writers would ask him about a bad shot he wouldn’t know what they were talking about, but he could recall great shots years later.  Jack was his own sports psychologist. 

[iBanesto]

11 hours ago, dlygrisse said:

Jack was famous for never remembering bad shots.  He erased them from his memory.  When sports writers would ask him about a bad shot he wouldn’t know what they were talking about, but he could recall great shots years later.  Jack was his own sports psychologist. 

 

It's amazing isn't it?!

 

I loved how Nicklaus said he couldn't could have practiced harder than he did.

 

 

Edited December 29, 2021 by iBanesto

[iBanesto]

Larry Nelson.

 

Arguably one of the most underrated player of all time.

• 3 major wins
• 10 PGA Tour wins
• 4 Japanese Tour wins
• 19 Champions Tour wins
• 8 top 10 finishes in majors
• 3 Ryder Cup teams
• Served in Vietnam
• Started golf at 21 years of age

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dlygrisse]

17 hours ago, iBanesto said:

Larry Nelson.

 

Arguably one of the most underrated player of all time.

• 3 major wins
• 10 PGA Tour wins
• 4 Japanese Tour wins
• 19 Champions Tour wins
• 8 top 10 finishes in majors
• 3 Ryder Cup teams
• Served in Vietnam
• Started golf at 21 years of age

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And an Amana cap wearer!

[Nels55]

17 hours ago, iBanesto said:

Larry Nelson.

 

Arguably one of the most underrated player of all time.

• 3 major wins
• 10 PGA Tour wins
• 4 Japanese Tour wins
• 19 Champions Tour wins
• 8 top 10 finishes in majors
• 3 Ryder Cup teams
• Served in Vietnam
• Started golf at 21 years of age

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My favorite Larry Nelson story is the time that a reporter asked him about the intense pressure of playing in the US Open.  Nelson replied something something to the effect that playing golf was not pressure, pressure was walking the point in Viet Nam.

[jmcm87]

[jmcm87]

In close second. Jarmo...

 

[jmcm87]

On 12/22/2021 at 8:33 AM, mat562 said:

It looks good on you, though... 😗

 

Ah, young Billy F. At this point I'm not sure he knew what he was in for. 

[iBanesto]

4 hours ago, jmcm87 said:

 

Hogan with a Lacoste polo.

 

Nice.

[Soloman1]

Players were paid the princely sum of $50 per week to wear the Amana hat. My how things have changed…

[iBanesto]

I like this photo for some reason.

 

[jmcm87]

Found this beauty on the gram this morning. It's probably somewhere in the last 82 pages, but it's worth revisiting. Left to right: Hogan, Snead, Middlecoff and Nelson. Imagine that strolling up to your fourball scramble tourney....

[iBanesto]

Underrated player: Bruce Lietzke

• 13 PGA Tour wins
• 7 top 10 majors finishes including a 2nd place at the 1991 PGA Championship
• 7 Champions Tour wins including the 2003 US Senior Open
• 1 Ryder Cup team
• Great ball striker for someone who hardly practiced
• Great swing with the inside takeaway and slight over the top downswing for that butter fade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 12, 2022 by iBanesto

[Christosterone]

1 hour ago, iBanesto said:

Underrated player: Bruce Lietzke

• 13 PGA Tour wins
• 7 top 10 majors finishes including a 2nd place at the 1991 PGA Championship
• 7 Champions Tour wins including the 2003 US Senior Open
• 1 Ryder Cup team
• Great ball striker for someone who hardly practiced
• Great swing with the inside takeaway and slight over the top downswing for that butter fade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

out freaking standard post…

thank you…pics are badass and Crenshaw is so awesome…

Wouldn’t mind him joining jack, Tom and Gary one day on the first tee

 

-chris

Edited January 12, 2022 by Christosterone

[iBanesto]

Crenshaw was one of the best dressed players.

 

Classic style with some bold colours.

 

 

 

 

 

[Christosterone]

Thomas Pieters chalked up a win for team old school…

he has a beautiful move and between him and Niemann, I like the chances of a reverse c major in 2022…

 

Anyhow, his swing is spectacular and like a merger of Sean O’Hair and Vijay…

 

total feel player with a Tom Kite kind of thought process on the range..

very cool video of his thinking below when hitting range balls…

 

 

[Boney]

On 1/9/2022 at 7:58 AM, jmcm87 said:

Found this beauty on the gram this morning. It's probably somewhere in the last 82 pages, but it's worth revisiting. Left to right: Hogan, Snead, Middlecoff and Nelson. Imagine that strolling up to your fourball scramble tourney....

Nice. An even better version:

Edited January 25, 2022 by Boney

[iBanesto]

Arguably Belgium's greatest golfer: Flory Van Donck.

• 60 wins in Europe prior to the establishment of the European Tour
• 1960 World Cup Individual winner (beating the likes of Thomson, Nagle, De Vicenzo, Locke, Player, Palmer and Snead)
• 2 second place finishes at the Open Championship
• 9 top ten finishes in the Open Championship
• 1953 Harry Vardon Trophy (European Order of Merit)

 

[How good is the 1st photo?!]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 25, 2022 by iBanesto

[Christosterone]

5 hours ago, iBanesto said:

Arguably Belgium's greatest golfer: Flory Van Donck.

• 60 wins in Europe prior to the establishment of the European Tour
• 1960 World Cup Individual winner (beating the likes of Thomson, Nagle, De Vicenzo, Locke, Player, Palmer and Snead)
• 2 second place finishes at the Open Championship
• 9 top ten finishes in the Open Championship
• 1953 Harry Vardon Trophy (European Order of Merit)

 

[How good is the 1st photo?!]

 

 

 

 

 

 

i love your posts…

consider me a fan

 

-chris

[iBanesto]

4 hours ago, Christosterone said:

i love your posts…

consider me a fan

 

-chris

 

Thanks!

 

Always happy to show old school photos of forgotten players.

[Boney]

A photo of Gene Sarazen hitting an explosion shot you may have seen before. But this is a nice high-resolution image.

[Christosterone]

10 minutes ago, Boney said:

A photo of Gene Sarazen hitting an explosion shot you may have seen before. But this is a nice high-resolution image.

that’s awesome….haven’t seen it

i kinda wish bunkers were still like that…with patches of grass growing randomly…

making them truly a hazard to be avoided

 

very cool pic..thank u

 

-chris

 

 

[Christosterone]

David Graham of Australia had a Brooks Koepka like run in 1979-1981

For y’all who don’t know his swing, it was cool: imagine a flat, layed off Aaron Badeley backswing with a massive crash into a crazy release of his right hand identical to Vijay…

 

he was awesome…very cool swing

 

 

[iBanesto]

8 hours ago, Christosterone said:

David Graham of Australia had a Brooks Koepka like run in 1979-1981

For y’all who don’t know his swing, it was cool: imagine a flat, layed off Aaron Badeley backswing with a massive crash into a crazy release of his right hand identical to Vijay…

 

he was awesome…very cool swing

 

 

 

Great photos of an underrated David Graham.

 

He was known to practice till his hands bled.

[iBanesto]

Underrated player: Jay Haas

• 9 PGA Tour wins
• 18 Champions Tour wins
• 16 top 10 finishes in majors including 9 top 5 finishes
• 3 Ryder Cup teams (1983, 1995 and 2004)
• 2 Presidents Cup teams (1994 and 2003)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 13, 2022 by iBanesto

[mat562]

Always comforting to look at a player's backswing over the decades as I get older myself. Often it gets shorter, but in the case of players for whom it doesn't, you can see the expression on their face change from determination to discomfort.

[Hawkeye77]

Don't need the best thread on wrx getting lost in all the drama - and thinking of golf history and some issues between players and tours over the years and how they were handled, I think of this guy as a . . . . leader who embodied what the terms means!

 

Edit:  lol, no idea that would come out as basically a thumbnail, sorry Seve!

 

 

Edited February 22, 2022 by Hawkeye77