Lining up approach shots

[CrapHacker]

There's been a fair comment about caddies lining up their pros putts. And mention of them doing it on approach shots as well, on the ladies tour.

Hopefully today has shown the stupidity of that as an idea.

Horsey ( a great hope for the future, maybe ) does it.

Which, apart from being a bad omen for the future, showed today how rediculous it is. All that lining up just left him looking ( imho that is ) stiff and unrelaxed. And if you can't hit a green with a wedge, then concentrating on the nth of a fraction of a degree when lining up is just a total waste of time.

Just relax and hit the damn thing.


What do you think ?

 

[Imurg]

I'm with you CrapH

Watched Horsey yesterday and almost laughed when he got lined up by his caddie and a few times missed greens with a SW.
As you say, if you can't hit the thing where you want to, then what's the point of being that precise when lining up.

Poor play from an otherwise promising young player.

 

[Robobum]

I agree with you that lining up by caddies should be outlawed 100%.

He should still have to line it up himself but don't forget that Horsey will be aiming for a specific area on the green and so his margins of error are much smaller than ours.

 

[Imurg]

But he should still be able to hit a green with a SW. Even just get it on the green.

 

[CrapHacker]

Yes it wasn't that the angle was tight or anything. He was just so stiff and tense, that he made a pathetic swing, and a terrible contact.

 

[theeaglehunter]

I was at Wentworth today and the only player who I really noticed with his caddy lining him up was Marcus Brier. I'm sure there were others but he was the only one that took a length of time long enough to notice.

Oh and it was a poor shot as well.

 

[mono217]

Id love to see the tour pros with out a caddy.

 

[viscount17]

nothing wrong with the caddy giving him the information (wind, distance and target and hazard info - eg green slopes left-to-right) but that's it. thereafter step away.