JohnnyDee
Tour Winner
Used to love the really old Shell's Wonderful World of Golf shows that Sky showed back in the late 90s and early noughties.
Not quite so keen on the 10-15 year old ones with younger versions of Phil, Ernie and Jose etc. I'm talking about the ones showing matches from the 60s &70s. Really packed full of nostalgia and reminded me of when I was a nipper watching the golf with my Dad. Names like Tony Lima, Julius Boros and of course young Nicklaus, Palmer & Player etc.
One thing that stood out a mile was how the greens were so much slower then. Players used to give the ball one heck of a rap on the longer putts. It amazed me to see it hurtling along but then suddenly come to an almost abrupt halt as if it had hit a patch of treacle or something.
Ah, fond memories.
This is the kind of thing I'm on about and before anyone starts. No I wasn't around when these were first broadcast!!
[video=youtube;qFeIrrn7w6A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeIrrn7w6A[/video]
Not quite so keen on the 10-15 year old ones with younger versions of Phil, Ernie and Jose etc. I'm talking about the ones showing matches from the 60s &70s. Really packed full of nostalgia and reminded me of when I was a nipper watching the golf with my Dad. Names like Tony Lima, Julius Boros and of course young Nicklaus, Palmer & Player etc.
One thing that stood out a mile was how the greens were so much slower then. Players used to give the ball one heck of a rap on the longer putts. It amazed me to see it hurtling along but then suddenly come to an almost abrupt halt as if it had hit a patch of treacle or something.
Ah, fond memories.
This is the kind of thing I'm on about and before anyone starts. No I wasn't around when these were first broadcast!!
[video=youtube;qFeIrrn7w6A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeIrrn7w6A[/video]
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