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Originally Posted by mucksandgravs
The WF golf coach must be licking his chops right now. Not only is this kid a superior talent, but he's also getting a ton of great experience to prepare him for college golf, especially today vs Olsen.
Yeah, and Cameron Young the high school senior to be is a Wake commit. Good stuff coming from them.
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Originally Posted by stadler
Olsen is tough. I played with him 2-3 times this year in college. He's solid tee to green and a great putter. Tough draw today, that's just part of the US Am sometimes though. Nice run ship, nothing to be disappointed about making 16s.
Of all the kids I’ve seen along this little two month run he was by far the most impressive in my opinion. Obviously I understand I saw him on an above normal day, but his swing and putting stroke seemed very solid. He did make a few strategic errors IMO on 8 and 11 hitting driver where there really wasn’t any room, but he’ll figure that out….or OSU will hire me to teach them.
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Originally Posted by ntanygd760
Watching on tv these greens look pretty brutal
There is just enough pitch to the greens that if you get above the hole in certain areas it is almost impossible. The 4’ putt Will had on 11 was a great example. He really needed to simply touch that ball and trust the line would be right. He gunned it a tad and had longer coming back.
It’s funny, had you told us in June he would finish 3rd in Stroke play at The Am and lose in the round of 16 we would have been pretty pleased. It just really felt like he was going to roll again this week as the week progressed. He just didn’t have it Thursday afternoon and I felt so ****ty and cloudy headed I couldn’t find the right words to get him in gear like I could at the Junior.
#4 was pretty bad on my part too. It was 173 to carry the water and 183 stick. He hit 7 iron in the morning and it landed hole high and released to 40’ coming back. It really was all you could hope for. When we got 2 down through 3 he walked onto the tee and said he really felt it was an 8 and I challenged that for a second but he was adamant. I knew that it would take a perfect 8 and that it was a 60-70% chance he’d carry it and be right. Even still though he likely has 10-20’ and that’s just not worth the risk. I should have pushed back harder and taken the time to get him to accept the 7 iron and 20-40’ result.
He carried the water by a foot and it hoped back in the lake to go 3 down through 4. He did hit it to 2’ on next hole from 100 and made a 15’ on 6 so it didn’t affect his mind, but it definitely gave a hole away needlessly. You just can’t afford that at that level.
Oh well, we both learned a little for down the road.
I think he’ll get a spot in the Byron Nelson since they gave one to Speith and Scheffler when they won the Junior. I hope so, I’d love to caddie in that.
I’ll post more of the stats this week when I have more time.