I love this.
A guy I’ve known for 25 years shot his first under par round of golf today.
1 under 71.
At 69 years old.
He’s been playing his whole life, and after all these years, the game gave him another moment he’ll never forget.
Greatest game there is!
@graspinggolf@LouStagner Pretty sure Lou wishing him the best too. Just questioning the investment from the LIV side - saying he would not expect an ROI. Good for any other players, just questioning the business strategy. #golf
I walked down the range to watch Ludvig Aberg hit balls. I had to see him up close.
It was April of 2023 and we were at the NCAA regionals in Oklahoma. I just wanted to watch his swing up close as it was obvious he was going to be an incredible player on the PGA Tour.
Just 5 short month later Ludvig would play in the Ryder Cup. He is an ELITE world class player. Currently sits at 18th in the world rankings and has been as high as 4th.
Back in April of 2023, unless you are one of the very few fans that follow college golf, you had absolutely no clue who Ludvig was. You likely never saw him hit a single shot.
And that is the problem LIV has with signing top amateurs.
As far as college/amateur golf goes, very few fans have any idea who the top players are.
This is not to say these amateurs are not world class players. On the contrary. They are very much indeed world class players.
The issue is that college and amateur golf does not have anything close to what other college sports have with respect to audience.
For example, college football and college basketball have MASSIVE followings. So many fans know exactly who the top college players are before they make it to the professional ranks.
In golf, not so much.
So, while players like Michael LaSasso are absolutely WORLD CLASS talents, most golf fans will have absolutely no idea who they are, and their signing will draw no new fans to LIV.
Former @MLB player John Vander Wal nailed it on his @facebook post!
#shegone
The game is in an awful state.
I scouted professionally for two organizations over a ten-year period, and a lot of what we’re seeing today is being misunderstood or flat-out misrepresented.
First, velocity. Pitchers are not throwing significantly harder across the board. The perceived jump in velocity is primarily the result of technology and measurement changes — specifically where the device picks the baseball up out of the hand. As radar and tracking systems moved closer and closer to release, the readings increased. The arm didn’t change — the measurement did.
Now hitting.
We’ve reached a point where “gurus” who never played the game at a high level are applying golf swing principles to baseball, largely because golf embraced analytics to identify the most efficient swing paths. The problem is that a baseball bat is not a golf club.
In golf, you dump the club to get it on plane.
In baseball, you cannot lose the barrel on the back side and still stay on plane consistently.
Yet the tech community began preaching backside barrel dump as the answer. Front offices filled with non-baseball “propeller head” GMs bought into the presentations, and this philosophy was pushed aggressively through the minor leagues. I saw this coming as early as 2014.
The result?
Hitters now dump the barrel in an attempt to get on plane, but they:
• Struggle to stay inside the baseball
• Lose adjustability
• Operate with slower effective bat speed
On the pitching side, it’s no better.
Pitchers are taught max effort on every pitch. Starters rarely exceed 90 pitches or five innings, work almost exclusively to either arm side or glove side, and live in deep counts. Relievers are almost universally max effort, arm-side only.
The consequence is obvious:
• Poor command
• Inconsistent control
• Little ability to sequence or adjust
Despite all the technology, pitching command and overall feel are as bad as I’ve ever seen at the big-league level.
More data didn’t make the game smarter.
It just made it louder — and in many cases, worse.
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@TuckerCarlson Thank goodness only invested 50 mins into this nonsense. That is where we are led to believe that this guy is an expert in counter intelligence but does NOT know Joe Lombardo never left his post as Sherriff and is now Governor of Nevada. @TuckerCarlson you're better than this
The 2017 Las Vegas massacre was by far the deadliest mass shooting in American history. The official explanation for it makes no sense. Ian Carroll explains what we know for sure.
(0:00) What Was the Las Vegas Shooting?
(10:43) The Active Shooter at McCarran Airport
(16:40) The Suspicious Deaths of Witnesses
(18:49) The Independent Journalists Dedicated to This Story
(25:30) What Was Stephen Paddock's Motive?
(27:59) Were There Multiple Shooters?
(34:37) What Happened to Jose Campos?
(41:25) Was Stephen Paddock Dead Before the Shooting Started?
(46:09) Why Is This Story Being Censored?
(50:52) Who Tampered With the Locks?
(56:47) Who Actually Was Stephen Paddock?
(1:05:18) How Did America Change After the Shooting?
(1:11:40) Was Saudi Arabia Involved?
(1:32:43) The Assassination Attempt on Mohammed bin Salman
(1:38:16) Why Were There Helicopters in the Area?
(1:47:18) The Shootings in the Helicopter Hangars
(1:51:02) Donald Trump's Visit to Saudi Arabia
(1:53:36) Was This a Diversion?
(1:58:53) Has the Hotel Ever Released Surveillance Footage?
(2:00:30) Has Anyone Ever Questioned the Saudi Government?
(2:03:45) Where Was the SWAT Team?
(2:06:26) Have Any Victims Been Questioned?
(2:11:01) The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
(2:21:39) Mass Formation Psychosis
(2:25:12) Where Did Ian Carroll Come From?
(2:35:22) Ian's Next Research Project
@bhadley16@zaclambert And finally, after one game of the Morgan Scalley Era, we can take a deep breath and look fwd to a great recruiting period and spring practice. GO UTES!!!
@bhadley16@zaclambert And then 30 mins of football later, in the middle of Q3, Nebraska was stuck on 167 yds of total offensive and still only had thay same 14 pts. No one knows if what type of success Coach Scalley will have. All we can do is root like heck for him.
I understand Kyle can do whatever he wants, he has a right to name whoever he feels will help him succeed as best he can in his new position.
But damn, as an Utah fan, it feels like betrayal, stabbed in the back, deceit.. from the one man who stood for Utah for 20+ years.