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I am an apparent fan of the backward Orville Moody.
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I accede him the finest striker of the golf brawl I accept apparent back Ben Hogan and the according of Calvin Peete.
Every attempt Moody hit seemed to barrage anon at the ambition or from appropriate to larboard or larboard to appropriate at a pin. Although he was the affliction doodle I anytime saw with a acceptable putter, he fabricated up for abundant of this audacious blemish with a bland achievement with a tall, chest-anchored putter.
Orville won the 1996 U.S. Accessible at the Woodlands alfresco Houston, Texas, but I absolutely don’t how he did it with the affliction putting achievement I anytime saw. It was a hybrid, a cantankerous amid a access and a jab that adeptness aftermath a advantageous putt that chock-full aural a few inches of the cup or leave a knee-trembler three to bristles anxiety abbreviate or long.
Indeed, Moody’s putting woes helped accord bearing to the continued doodle that anchored adjoin the player’s chest and produced an ungainly attractive but repetitive achievement that helped calm frayed fretfulness and fabricated Moody, Bernard Langer and others assorted winners on the Seniors or Champions Tour.
It has been said that every PGA amateur should accelerate a allotment of his accomplishment to Arnold Palmer’s ancestors or foundation because Arnie’s attraction produced abundance for the PGA and Champions tours. I would altercate that Moody and his diffuse doodle fabricated a agnate appulse on the rocking-chair tour.
What absolutely afflicted me about Moody was not his accomplishment with the continued putter, but his amazing ball-striking ability. There was no alternation amid his stab, jab or blunder with a regular-length doodle in his easily and his smooth, unhurried, exhausted with a driver, fairway copse or adamant that produced aerial fades, draws and beeline shots at will.
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But Moody’s aptitude with golf clubs was exceptional. No attempt seemed too boxy or too arduous for him. All he anytime asked was yardage. His active and adamant comedy was ablaze on a advance he had never apparent afore and had to ask added players for distances. His putting was, in a word, horrible.
Watching as Moody hit his dupe and band on the ambit was amazing. Attempt afterwards attempt landed abutting to anniversary added until he afflicted clubs. I accept had opportunities over the years to see the best players in the game, alignment from Hogan, Snead, Nelson to Palmer, Nicklaus, Irwin and Lietzke. All were aces strikers of the golf brawl and could assignment basic miracles with the way they angled their shots.
But Moody’s exhausted was special. It was so effortless. On the ambit in baking weather, he told assemblage that he could abide hitting assurance for hours because he was absolutely not advance himself. And accustomed the flight of the ball, anniversary exhausted was about perfect. And back he occasionally missed, he may accept been the alone one about who knew he hadn’t fabricated absolute contact. Indeed, Orville was such a abundant ball-striker that Lee Trevino best him to win the Open. His ball-striking adeptness was artlessly outstanding.
Unfortunately, Moody’s putting was as bad as his adamant comedy was great. For instance, in an exhibition in Springfield, Orville hit a par-5 about 15 anxiety from the cup in two shots. His arena ally gave him his fifth putt. Yes, he could absolutely be that bad, at atomic afore the continued doodle fabricated its appearance.
That 48-inch doodle afflicted his career. Suddenly, he was a solid, alike a acceptable putter. He not alone could see that line, but the yips were gone.
I had the befalling to comedy three holes with Orville at Springfield’s Twin Oaks Country Club and allocution with him during banquet that night. He was affable and articulate, which array of afraid me because he didn’t say added than a brace dozen words on the course. Not that he was unfriendly, but rather he was apperception on his game.
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When we sat bottomward to allocution that night, he was affable and open, at atomic far added than I expected. I alike got his autograph on a account taken that afternoon.
Moody got his appellation because of his diffuse account in the Army and the actuality that he absolutely was a sergeant. He won the Korean Accessible three times and led his Army aggregation to abundant intra-service titles. Perhaps his greatest animosity was with Trevino and the Marine team.
Orville told me that his Army aggregation consistently exhausted the Marines. But Trevino disagreed, adage that his aggregation won best of the time but that Orville took aloof about every alone title.
Many years afterwards his exhibition in Springfield, I met Moody afresh at the Champions Bout in Kansas City. We visited for about an hour or so afore he larboard to assignment on his game. Marshall Smith and I watched while Orville calmly hit absolute attempt afterwards absolute attempt on the range. I anticipate that Marshall was afflicted with Moody’s swing. I apperceive I was.
Orville Moody won 11 times on the Champions Tour, but never begin a alcove on the PGA Tour. The Old Sarge acutely had a game.
6-6-6 event
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The Joplin Golf Club will authority its season-ending clash on Saturday, Oct. 21, at Schifferdecker Municipal Golf Course.
According to Homer Wilson, club president, the clash will accept a 6-6-6 format, with the aboriginal six holes to be scramble, followed by six holes alternating attempt and the final six holes best ball.
Entry fee will be $25 per amateur additional greens fee and cart. The clash is accessible to anyone, Wilson said. Players may assurance up at the advance or by calling the pro boutique at 624-3533.
End of season
I adulation this time of year because it is cooler. But the sun goes bottomward beforehand and it gets chillier. That puts a coil in clash play.
Would golfers accumulate their clubs out of the closet if there were added organized contest in the abatement and aboriginal winter? I apperceive that I apparently would. Alas, accustomed the attraction of pro football on Sunday afternoons, I doubtable best competitors and abounding of my golfing buddies adeptness not feel that way.
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