It's as if the golfing gods read this blog! Maybe they do, and if they are browsing this, can they please eliminate my slice that appears when I try to go big off the tee, thanks. The deities of the links delivered two great story lines to us last weekend. The best thing about the results of the tournaments at Quail Hollow and the Nagoya Golf Club was the total lack of hand rails for an increasingly lazy and crippled press corps. They were forced to write about something meaty, exciting and fresh and mercifully bereft of the usual Tiger and Phil narrative.
As much as I would like to try and explain Rory McIlroy's spectacular return to form, I think the nice people over at the 'From The Rough' blog have that one covered. I'd rather focus on the video game like scoring that took place on the Wago course during the final round of the The Crowns event last Sunday. 18-year-old Ryo Ishikawa won the JPGA Tour event by five strokes with a course record in the final round. The teenager took a miserly 58 strokes (that's fifty eight!) to complete his round and in doing so, record the lowest score in the history of global tour golf.
18-year-old Ishikawa is as unreal as his final round score last Sunday
The number of strokes is almost impossible to comprehend for so may reasons. And here are just a few:
1. Ishikawa was 12 under par after sixteen holes on the Par 70 Wago course. I can't remember the last scramble where four of us got to -12!
2. He had a 15 foot putt for birdie on the final hole for a potential 57. If that final effort had found the whole, I think my head may have have fallen off.
3. He only hit 6 of 14 fairways during the round! How do you shoot a once-in-a-lifetime score while being as wayward off the tee as Bill Clinton?
4. He missed 4 greens in regulation.
5. He used his putter 20 times.
6. He improved his third round score by 13 strokes. I have managed that from round to round too but 105 down to 92 doesn't quite have the same ring to it!
7. 61 players made the cut, 43 of them could not break par in the final round.
This was Ishikawa's 7th win on the JPGA Tour. While it could be argued that the depth of the Japanese Tour isn't comparable to even the Nationwide Tour, he left the likes of Shigeki Murayama, Craig Parry and Shingo Katayama in his wake.
Sadly, by the time Tiger Woods addressed the media at his press conference on Monday, this was all forgotten and we were back to the inevitably tedious coverage of professional golf as we know it.
As much as I would like to try and explain Rory McIlroy's spectacular return to form, I think the nice people over at the 'From The Rough' blog have that one covered. I'd rather focus on the video game like scoring that took place on the Wago course during the final round of the The Crowns event last Sunday. 18-year-old Ryo Ishikawa won the JPGA Tour event by five strokes with a course record in the final round. The teenager took a miserly 58 strokes (that's fifty eight!) to complete his round and in doing so, record the lowest score in the history of global tour golf.
18-year-old Ishikawa is as unreal as his final round score last SundayThe number of strokes is almost impossible to comprehend for so may reasons. And here are just a few:
1. Ishikawa was 12 under par after sixteen holes on the Par 70 Wago course. I can't remember the last scramble where four of us got to -12!
2. He had a 15 foot putt for birdie on the final hole for a potential 57. If that final effort had found the whole, I think my head may have have fallen off.
3. He only hit 6 of 14 fairways during the round! How do you shoot a once-in-a-lifetime score while being as wayward off the tee as Bill Clinton?
4. He missed 4 greens in regulation.
5. He used his putter 20 times.
6. He improved his third round score by 13 strokes. I have managed that from round to round too but 105 down to 92 doesn't quite have the same ring to it!
7. 61 players made the cut, 43 of them could not break par in the final round.
This was Ishikawa's 7th win on the JPGA Tour. While it could be argued that the depth of the Japanese Tour isn't comparable to even the Nationwide Tour, he left the likes of Shigeki Murayama, Craig Parry and Shingo Katayama in his wake.
Sadly, by the time Tiger Woods addressed the media at his press conference on Monday, this was all forgotten and we were back to the inevitably tedious coverage of professional golf as we know it.
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