Dick Daley, again I'm not sure what the CNS guys may have been thinking, but I can ask. Again, I didn't even think about the question b/c I saw that ball come out of the woods, zoom left, bounce take a Nancy Pelosi-esque left lurch, and grab a chair like a golf writer who just got a new Dan Jenkins book to read:) I didn't think I missed anything. My friend kind of exposed himself when he said "You ought to write this article to put pressure on the Old Boys Network" at ANGC to get blimp coverage. I told him sorry, but that's not my type of story.
Jay, you are telling the story from 'your' perspective. I have to assume by your account that you were facing Bubba, somewhere on the opposite side of the FW and 10 green looking back, thus your 'perception' of a 'Nancy Pelosi-esque left lurch'. But, the fact is, that from the actual player's perspective, which is the only true and relevant perspective, the ball zoomed out of the woods on a left hand player's hook flight, zooming right (not left). It was a quick seating table for one, however. Too many writers get there perspective mixed up these days and ascribe metaphors that aren't correct, but use the opportunity to inject their non sequitur and irrelevant to the issue at hand political inclinations. You'd do better to say, 'the ball came out of the woods, and hooked harder than a $2 Naples working girl, with 6 clients waiting, and two hours before she had to get home and make her man and kids a quick pasta puntanesca.' M'capisci?
In that second aerial, I have to believe the witness, Jeff, and it seems quite logical that Bubba was standing on the pine straw, right where the sunlight shows an area half in sunlight and half shaded from the light, near the pop-up box X. That would make the yardage just what Bubba and caddie (and Jeff) say it was. That still has the ball flight hooking some 30-40 yards with a 9I, and would be out of this world good. Rich says it would take a million attempts. All I need at that same yardage with a 4-5I is one lucky swing of a blade-stance wide open right hander slice (but I'd never get a rapid preferred seating like that, even with a nice tip to the matri'd). I'm not saying that swing would come on my first or hundreth swing, but certainly not a million... If I had to hook it that far as a lefty player, maybe 10,000 attempts, but still no table on the dance floor....