I was going to pick Ballesteros. There was something about that fiery Lithuanian...
that made me laugh.
i saw Stewart get it up and down out of a creek behind the green on the par 3 6th at the Southern Hills PGA in 84 (maybe)....a beautiful flop shot out of the shallow water...and hole a 10 footer for an easy par. right when those Phil Rodgers Cobra wedges came out and Payne was playing Cobras. but, i agree those NFL get ups were an atrocity (ahem, Ben Curtis).
i'd say (in person) a younger Freddie Couples (though i'm not a huge fan) had a nice back and through. buddy of mine and fellow junior golfer carried the signboard for Couples group in that same PGA at Southern Hills and he shot some sick number like 63 that final day out of contention. my buddy still gushes it was the most effortless thing of golfing beauty he's ever seen. he was talking about the last time i saw him at the club where he belongs.
Byron Nelson might that Texan ya'll was thinkin' about.
i'm talking about the actual golf swing.
on the complete slobbery aesthetic side, there are some younger Korean women players that are easy on my eyes, at least. if you say aesthetic it sounds philosophical and not base. right?
#6 at Southern Hills: the shade and gentle slopes of the land (a Maxwell trademark in Oklahoma) belies the real slopes of the hole and putting surface. note how small the flag is in the visual. and everything looks so easy and wide open to scale. and the creek curls and creeps up right behind the green--photo courtesy of Chris Clouser on this self-same site.
