Re: Raincoats

--- Omlor@aol.com wrote:
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> In this case, I admire the young man's drive for
> perfection, without the need
> for money to motivate him, without anything but the
> desire to be the best
> that ever has been. There is a simplicity and
> purity in the love (perhaps the
> obsession) that makes me smile.

i might add there is a great deal of his father's
obsession in this.

 
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> That being said, of course it is the unlikely that
> produces the most
> passionate moments -- Nicklaus sinking the putt on
> 17 at Augusta in '86 to make his
> final major win his most stirring, for instance.

this was my first golf experience. alongside my older
brother (who was rooting for norman--winner of the
saturday grand slam).

 
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> Your last scenario is a bit of a problem. I don't
> think the comparisons are
> really possible (or very meaningful) because of the
> technology changes, the
> differences in courses, and even the difference in
> conditioning. I think
> there's no question that no one else ever had the
> pure raw talent of Jones or the
> quiet discipline of Hogan or the steely
> concentration of Nicklaus, but I think
> this young man has something else and something that
> we will remember for just
> as long a time.

i agree this is a problem. and hence why i fall back
on the position that these 4 are pretty much neck and
neck.

 
> But yes, I too would like to see serious challenges
> emerge -- if only to make
> the power and the dominance, when it comes, an even
> greater accomplishment.
> And it will happen. There are several young men, in
> their late teens now,
> that will push Mr. Woods in ways he has not yet
> experienced. I have seen them
> play in college tournaments and as amateurs and
> things are going to be very
> interesting when the new generation of golfers
> arrives on the professional scene.
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i hope you are right above challengers coming up.
that's my main complaint about the tiger era (so far):
no authentic challengers. jones had hagen and
sarazen; hogan had snead and nelson; nicklaus had
palmer, player, trevino and watson. none of the
players in tiger's fields holds a candle to any of the
aforementioned challengers.

and, no, daniel, that wasn't me at the first tee :)

kim

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Received on Mon Jun 16 13:42:25 2003