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Mike Sweeney

The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« on: June 18, 2009, 04:30:59 PM »
It had to be in Maine at least.

Please see Mr Moore's back 9 card, specifically holes 14 and 15. The combination gets him into the Maine Amateur!

http://www.ghintpp.com/mesga/tpponlinescoring/StrokeCard.aspx?id=4&archive=stroke&pid=95

Mr Moore, did you buy ??  :D

Carl Nichols

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Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2009, 05:19:08 PM »
how did he make the 9?

Patrick_Mucci

Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2009, 05:30:35 PM »
Mike,

That's not even close.

Ran had me 5 down after seven holes at Plainfield.

When I rolled in a 40 footer on # 15 he was dormied.

I still remember the expression on his face and it makes me smile as I type this ;D

Way to hang in there Michael.

Bill_McBride

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Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2009, 05:36:03 PM »
how did he make the 9?

Carl, it's a lot easier to make a 9 than an ace!  I've had one ace in my career but countless nines!

Mike_Cirba

Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2009, 05:58:33 PM »
He just missed that putt for the 8!

Nice going, Michael!

Philippe Binette

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Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2009, 06:11:29 PM »
I have it...

Kyle Franz at Western Gailes against me....

crazy round, hail storm on the 3rd green... then dead calm for 1 hour.

I'm 6up on the 10th green, two putts to tie the hole... and then it unfolds... I 3-putt. The wind literraly picks up to 25mph
Kyle win the 11th - 5 down
Kyle win the 12th - 4 down
Kyle hit it in the gorse on 13th... then par with de 2nd ball, I doubled bogey = kyle 4 down
Kyle win 14 to 16 - and goes 1 down
tie at 17th - Kyle 1 down
holes a 25 footer to tie - match All Square

he played around +3 on the back nine with with going up to 30 mph, hats of to him

Carl Nichols

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Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2009, 09:56:15 PM »
how did he make the 9?

Carl, it's a lot easier to make a 9 than an ace!  I've had one ace in my career but countless nines!

Very true!  But sometimes you get bad breaks, sometimes you hit one OB, and sometimes you just can't explain it but you ended up making a big number .... just curious which kind preceded the 1!

Bill_McBride

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Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2009, 10:06:46 PM »
how did he make the 9?

Carl, it's a lot easier to make a 9 than an ace!  I've had one ace in my career but countless nines!

Very true!  But sometimes you get bad breaks, sometimes you hit one OB, and sometimes you just can't explain it but you ended up making a big number .... just curious which kind preceded the 1!

That's like the old question, how did you four putt?  "I miss, I miss, I miss, I make!"

Brad Tufts

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Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2009, 11:20:45 PM »
Congrats Michael!!

I always thought one could not accurately card a "phone number" on the back nine without a 9 and and 1!

Where's the tourney proper?
So I jump ship in Hong Kong....

Pete_Pittock

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Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2009, 02:27:31 AM »
Last weekend on of my clubmates scored three straight ones. Unfortunately he had to force them into two holes on the scorecard.
On the second hole his score had to count as one of the two net scores on the hole. He had an 11. The next hole was an ace.

Michael Moore

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Re: The greatest comback in Amateur competition history ???
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2009, 12:47:25 AM »
First of all, thanks for the love, and second of all, it's great to live in a state where homes are affordable, automobile traffic is negligible, the beaches are close at hand, and 78 gets you in. I guess that's why they call it the amateur. Now, on to the fan mail.

"Did you buy?"

To assuage the ace karma gods and my lingering guilt from the Incident at Bald Peak, I bought drinks for my playing partners, my caddie, and a number of familiar faces at the bar. I still consider this tradition to be odious and vulgar, as several of my colleagues today inquired "how much did it cost?" rather than "how nicely did you mash the ball off the sweet spot?".

"How did he make the nine?"

This is a funny question, because when I called Sweeney I was like "You're not going to believe this one. I was on cruise control, and all of a sudden I made a nine, and then I stepped up to the next tee, crunched one, and the ball is just hanging in the air above the flagstick, and we couldn't see it land, and then DeSmith drove up to the green" and Sweeney's like "wait, how did you make a nine?"

Three iron to the middle of the fairway, semi-shanked the nine-iron behind the pond fronting the green, skulled one to the hillside behind the green, skulled one all the way back across the green to a point six inches into the hazard with a big old reed drasticly restricting my backswing, whiffed, advanced the ball three inches, advanced the ball two feet and finally out of the hazard, chipped up and took two putts. It's amazing how quickly the brain melts down and the strokes accumulate in these situations. It seems to happen every year.

"Where's the tourney proper?"

Martindale, in Auburn. Nine by Alex Chisolm (whose nine in Sanford is beautiful) in 1921, nine later by Phil Wogan. Never seen it. Known for quirk and fine conditions, an excellent combination in my book. Not too long and not too short. Can't get there from here.

Tune in to www.mesga.org on July 7 and follow Mr. Moore in his first major !!
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