Wow. This thread should be in the landfill. Psychoanalyzing from a distance has been proven near impossible. And yet, this thread exists.
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I niced your post. I assumed, with the lol at the end, that you were kidding.
Got to use those emojis! :hfive:
I respect the man's talent, but dismissing the possibility of Paul's ego getting in his way as though you personally know him like a brother... That's just hero worship. Lots of really good athletes have played with apparent injuries.... And also, you know, played well.
You are right. Reading exactly what he wrote and based on his entire history as a competitor I assumed too much. I don't know him.
You are more right. Paul McBeth has weak mental fortitude and a fragile ego.
It would have been a classy move to congratulate the winner, yes.
Still a better theory than Innova/the Duvalls designed the USDGC course to penalize Paul for going to Discraft.
Maybe I haven't been following this close enough, but someone actually suggested this?
Maybe I haven't been following this close enough, but someone actually suggested this?
Whilst McBeth is not the best in any one category, what makes him so hard to beat is he is good in all of them. It would be very hard to design a course just to handicap him.
This being the premier event of the year, I do expect the staff to balance the course from year to year to keep it competitive, that is different
I agree with you, it sounds silly.
True. I was mostly referring to the back end of the event. Especially round 4. Paul missed cash by 5 shots. I understand the conditions, and maybe he was babying his ankle somewhat extra - but if Paul is trying his damnedest to grind out a cash he's not going to be taking an early 656 stretch (on holes he'd done okay on hurt the days prior) and then ramping up a 600' water carry attempt the next hole. He didn't play like Paul trying to just play competitive while hurt.after round 1:
after round 2:
(both quotes from Paul's instagram)
neither of those say "I'm RELAXING, taking it easy, and I'm ok with that!" to me
Maybe I haven't been following this close enough, but someone actually suggested this?
Whilst McBeth is not the best in any one category, what makes him so hard to beat is he is good in all of them. It would be very hard to design a course just to handicap him.
This being the premier event of the year, I do expect the staff to balance the course from year to year to keep it competitive; this is a horse of a different color.
I agree with you, it sounds silly.
This really isn't the time or place for this argument but Udisc has Paul's 2019 rankings as 1st in the following stats: Fairway Hits, Parked, C1 in Reg, C2 in Reg, and Birdie %.
He is the best off the tee.
There are 3 types of lies: Lies, damn lies and statistics.
Left me rephrase my statement so it is more clear. In any one skill, Paul is not the best, but what makes him so tough to beat is that he is good at all of them( ok, other than I don't think he can throw with his off hand)
Any of those stats that you threw up, they are a combination of many skills.
If there is a single skill that he is close to being the best at, that is mental focus. We have seen that slip a few times this year though.
I actually don't have Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or any other mass social media platforms.
Wait...we can follow, block, like, add photos, etc, right here @ DGCR. So...... lol...
His official PR statement was, well missing a real public relations proof editor.
I worked for this lady who used to come barging into my office and yell at me after I would send an email, and the reason she was yelling at me was always because of what she thought I was really trying to imply or manipulate or whatever with what I wrote. It was never about anything I directly wrote in an email. She was always reading a bunch of stuff into what I wrote and then getting mad over what she imagined I was doing. I was always floored by all the crazy stuff she could imagine was going on. She didn't last long; she crashed and burned after she imagined that everyone who sent her an email was plotting against her.
tl;dr: Sometimes people actually tell the truth. :|