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Padraig Dooley

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Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« on: January 09, 2008, 05:48:46 AM »
Have a look at this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl_Nny8TwNM


The question is, how many great courses must Mike do before this clip is forgotten?

« Last Edit: January 09, 2008, 06:27:56 AM by Padraig Dooley »
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Philippe Binette

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2008, 08:38:43 AM »
How many penalty shot is this?...

Let's see: if he was putting for a par 4

This is not a double touch, this is changing on purpose the flight or roll of a ball (2 strokes)

Getting hit by our own ball (2 strokes)

so the other putt must have been for a 9.

I don't know if I'm right.
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Norbert P

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2008, 02:28:02 PM »
 Sorry Mike to bump this up again but I have to say, you showed great commitment and athletic form in your diving save attempt.  Perhaps learned in rugby?
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Joel_Stewart

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2008, 02:32:22 PM »
This is another example of a topic that has been covered and covered and discussed and discussed.  

I will admit its a classic.

Ran:   Perhaps you should eliminate "The next fifty" and start an all time top 50 posts section.
« Last Edit: January 09, 2008, 02:32:39 PM by Joel_Stewart »
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Mike_Clayton

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2008, 02:59:12 PM »
The only saving grace was it was on one of the great short par fours in golf - the 14th at NSWGC.

Philippe.

I was putting for a birdie in the first round of the Australian PGA. I  feared your secnario - ball hits me,ball hits club,I move the ball - but it was only a one shot penaly for 'ball at rest moved'

I met an R and A guy who does a lot of rules seminars for them and this is on the tape he shows.He does some in Russia and his comment was ' it's almost impossible to make a Russian laugh but this always does it'
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CHrisB

Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2008, 03:03:29 PM »
Mike,
When something that bizarre happens I guess all you can really do is have a sense of humor about it, and it looks like you do.

What score did you have to record on the hole?
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Mike_Clayton

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2008, 03:05:56 PM »
Chris,

5 - drive,wedge, putt,one penalty,replace the ball,tap-in.
The guys I was playing with were laughing so hard they three putted as well.
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Chris Kane

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2008, 03:11:05 PM »
Mike,

Did you blame your caddie at the time?  :P
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Kevin Pallier

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2008, 06:59:48 PM »
Mike

They probably 3 putted also because you altered the green on their putting lines with your "swan dive"

You give the Aussies a bad rep team with those "butter" fingers as well  ;D
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2008, 08:43:55 PM »
Mike, in your repertoire you have one of the all time greatest golf bloopers, but you still have a ways to go to catch up with the quantity of Woody Austin's gaffs.... but you probably aren't really trying all that hard!   ;) ;D 8)
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Mike_Clayton

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2008, 11:44:35 PM »
R.J.

Anyone can fall backwards into a lake or break a putter over their head.
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Jim Nugent

Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2008, 03:06:23 AM »
Mike, that was a pretty complex series of moves.  How many years of practice did it take you to perfect them?  

(Don't try to tell me you are a natural!)
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Chris Kane

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2008, 03:25:45 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caht2r9_rQU

I prefer this one: same video but with a different title!
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Matthew Hunt

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2008, 11:38:00 AM »
Quote from: Jim Nugent on January 10, 2008, 03:06:23 AM
Mike, that was a pretty complex series of moves.  How many years of practice did it take you to perfect them?  

(Don't try to tell me you are a natural!)

They teach Aussies to fumble 4 hours a day from the age of 2 ;D
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2008, 02:01:12 PM »
Matt, that is a real corker, you must be Irish to deliver that one so well!   ;D ;D ;D
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Matthew Hunt

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2008, 02:35:46 PM »
Quote from: RJ_Daley on January 10, 2008, 02:01:12 PM
Matt, that is a real corker, you must be Irish to deliver that one so well!   ;D ;D ;D

Well, thank you ;)

As everyone knows we Irish will 'rip out' the Aussies at any sport(esp. Rugby :D).
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Tony_Muldoon

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2008, 05:23:00 PM »
Padraig you seemed such a nice guy when we met, imagine bringing this up here ;)

Well as I'm becoming one of the old timers around here I can only say that this has been discussed before and as then I refer you to another side of Mike Clayton.

The thread below contains one of those GCA moments that make this site so great.  

Scroll past the pictures to Chris Kane's comment and then down to Mike joining in.

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forums2/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=22527



(I like to think of Mike as a formative influence on a certain someone - imagine how he might have turned out if he hadn't once worked for a man with a sense of humour).
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Padraig Dooley

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #17 on: January 10, 2008, 07:42:05 PM »
Tony, you know all guys like me have an evil streak somewhere  ;).

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Jeff_Mingay

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2008, 09:39:26 AM »
Mike,

I hadn't heard the part about your playing companions three-putting because they were laughing so hard!

That's funny  :)
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Tony Ristola

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Re:Slightly OT - Mike Clayton
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2008, 10:09:07 AM »
Too funny.

OT Aussie natives fighting on the golf course:
http://www.maniacworld.com/Kangaroo-vs-Kangaroo.html
« Last Edit: January 11, 2008, 10:09:40 AM by Tony Ristola »
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