Lucas Glover - The Yips

[MendieGK]

Wow,is all i have to say.

Did anyone else see how bad his putting is? on one 3ft putt, he cant have taken the club back more than 2inches before hitting it!

 

[One Planer]

I don't think it's the yips, just the pressure of the situation.

I recall the putt your reference above and, personally, feel the scoreboard pressure got to him a little.

 

[MendieGK]

I don't think it's the yips, just the pressure of the situation.

I recall the putt your reference above and, personally, feel the scoreboard pressure got to him a little.

He was already out of the tournament......

Its well known he has been having major putting issues

 

[pokerjoke]

Wow,is all i have to say.

Did anyone else see how bad his putting is? on one 3ft putt, he cant have taken the club back more than 2inches before hitting it!

For a 3ft putt on super fast greens I wouldn't take it back more than 2".
I didn't see the putt your on about though.

 

[MendieGK]

For a 3ft putt on super fast greens I wouldn't take it back more than 2".
I didn't see the putt your on about though.

maybe i havent done it justice, put it this way, the commentators talked about it for a few minutes and also about his putting woes. a number of times they said 'we wont say the dreaded Y word, but.....'

I cant find the video on youtube but i will keep looking

 

[jp5]

Not just the putting that Glover was having a shocker at yesterday!

https://vine.co/v/OU1K9B5e5hw

 

[One Planer]

He was already out of the tournament......

Its well known he has been having major putting issues

Look at Kevin Na a few seasons back.

That was painful to watch. That was more a case of the yips than Glover as Na couldn't even take the club away!

Glovers putts per GIR over the 4 days was 1.853 hardly suggests the Yips.

Also, his putting over various distances:

Putting from 3' 95.31%

Putting from 4' 69.23%

Putting from 5' 77.78%

Putting from 6' 53.85%

Putting from 7' 56.00%

Putting from 8' 52.63%

Putting from 9' 63.64%

Putting from 10' 50.00%

That's not too shabby at all.

 

[pokerjoke]

Not just the putting that Glover was having a shocker at yesterday!

https://vine.co/v/OU1K9B5e5hw

Blinking heck he does it loads of times too did he get picked up on it?.

 

[davemc1]

I can only assume the people defending him havnt actually seen the putt. It was terrible! Saying it was 3 foot was generous, looked a hell of a lot less. I think the real bad one was on 16 or 17. Then he missed a short one on 18 and nearly the one coming back. His head had well gone by then tho. Faldo was suggesting changing to a claw grip, definitely needs work however he moves forward.

*all this is from memory, and I'd had a few :cheers:

 

[Ethan]

Not just the putting that Glover was having a shocker at yesterday!

https://vine.co/v/OU1K9B5e5hw

Whoops. Ball clearly moved and it is hard to believe he didn't see it.

 

[MendieGK]

I can only assume the people defending him havnt actually seen the putt. It was terrible! Saying it was 3 foot was generous, looked a hell of a lot less. I think the real bad one was on 16 or 17. Then he missed a short one on 18 and nearly the one coming back. His head had well gone by then tho. Faldo was suggesting changing to a claw grip, definitely needs work however he moves forward.

*all this is from memory, and I'd had a few :cheers:

I'm so pleased someone has backed me up, felt like a right fool!!!

 

[road2ruin]

I'm so pleased someone has backed me up, felt like a right fool!!!

Nope, I saw it as well. For me it wasn't just the lack of a backswing it was that it was all done at lightspeed!!

 

[pendodave]

Putting badly isn't the same as the yips.

I seem to remember that he had a few things go wrong yesterday, though as I wasn't really concentrating on him, it's hard to remember the specifics.

It seemed to me that he had gone into a 'heads gone' tailspin and that he wasn't really concentrating on anything properly. Just seemed to want to get off the course.

Those greens are not nice to putt on if your concentration has gone - quick, grainy and slopey. Easy to look a bit of a fool.

 

[FairwayDodger]

Putting has been his achilles heel for a while. He was talking about it after his round on either Friday or Saturday (not sure which) and said that he'd been putting well and that was the difference that got him back in contention. Missed a few shockers yesterday though, he may have spoken too soon!

 

[chillicon]

I saw some of last nights golf and the putt he missed on 17 in particular was classic yips. He was ~6 shots off the lead by then so not in the mix. He nearly missed the hole from under 2ft with a quick jerky stab at the ball.

He did have a massive stroke of luck on the last with his ball bouncing in and out of the water.

 

[LanDog]

He looked uncomfortable over the ball for sure, Kevin Na had the driver yips which are I think the worse because people do genuinely struggle to swing the club, Peter Lawrie struggled big time with his driver, he said that he didn't even know where the ball was gonna go when he hit it.

Glover's stroke looked really jabby and not rehearsed, really awkward to watch

 

[Foxholer]

I saw some of last nights golf and the putt he missed on 17 in particular was classic yips. He was ~6 shots off the lead by then so not in the mix. He nearly missed the hole from under 2ft with a quick jerky stab at the ball.

He did have a massive stroke of luck on the last with his ball bouncing in and out of the water.

Gave a Duck a heck of a fright too! That missed putt got a collective groan from commentators, but wasn't yippy - to me. Seems he just had a bad day on the Greens (and elsewhere).

 

[chillicon]

Gave a Duck a heck of a fright too! That missed putt got a collective groan from commentators, but wasn't yippy - to me. Seems he just had a bad day on the Greens (and elsewhere).

The putt on the 17 was a lot worse than the one on 18.

You are right about the duck though.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Also, his putting over various distances:

Putting from 3' 95.31%

Putting from 4' 69.23%

Putting from 5' 77.78%

Putting from 6' 53.85%

Putting from 7' 56.00%

Putting from 8' 52.63%

Putting from 9' 63.64%

Putting from 10' 50.00%

That's not too shabby at all.

Actually I think those stats are pretty shabby. Don't know how they compare to the rest of the field but 53% from 6ft? Missing 3 out of every 10 from 4ft? I remember a couple of seasons ago Harrington holed something ridiculous like 3 million putts from 6ft and in without missing.

 

[Mark_Aged_42]

Actually I think those stats are pretty shabby. Don't know how they compare to the rest of the field but 53% from 6ft? Missing 3 out of every 10 from 4ft? I remember a couple of seasons ago Harrington holed something ridiculous like 3 million putts from 6ft and in without missing.

Think that was Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuke.