Lanny Is Putting Everyone On Blast Today!

[williamsnrb]

I've been watching coverage of the Quicken Loans tournament on the Golf Channel for the last 10 minutes and Lanny has said that the following players have basically had disappointing careers: Rickie Fowler, Kevin Na, Kyle Stanley, CHIII, currently Keegan, etc. He has literally not said one positive thing about a player today. Hahaha

[sekrah]

Must have read that thread on here about him and hit a nerve.

[DLiver]

Yes he is very hard to listen to--so full of himself, and with the attitude that only his way of doings things has any merit. Tedious for sure.

[Dpavs]

He had 21 wins over 19 years and only one major. I don't think most of the golfing world is really going to listen too closely to what to Lanny Wadkins has to say. It's not a bad career but it sure isn't astounding either. Perhaps he is jaded now for some reason though.

 

That said I think what he awkwardly trying to say is a lot of these guys are having the careers so far that many expected them to have when they came on the scene. Unfortunately he may be overly attributing this to a lack of drive and not taking into account a good number of other factors.

[nochct1]

Reminds me of the boss who is getting towards the end of his career and still wants everything done the way he did it in the 80s.

People will listen out of respect, but then they just laugh behind his back.

[williamsnrb]

I'm not knocking him, really. He's usually fine IMO, but it was just funny earlier when he took it upon himself to point out the career disappointment of literally five guys in a row. :)

[KYMAR]

Wait, he said Fowler, Na, Stanely, Chucky Three sticks, and Keegan haven't met expectations?

 

 

I wonder where he comes up with this stuff.

[dlygrisse]

Reminds me of the boss who is getting towards the end of his career and still wants everything done the way he did it in the 80s.

People will listen out of respect, but then they just laugh behind his back.

Lanny was always known for being cocky and outspoken even when he was young. He really liked to trash talk during the Ryder Cups

 

He was always a great ball striker but a bad putter. Ironically a lot of people always considered him an underachiever during his prime.

[golfheaven69]

Lanny has an extremely high opinion of one person. Himself.

[PGArox]

Lanny's career was typified by two or three-year bursts of fine play followed by a couple down or quiet years. He wasn't very consistent.

 

Lanny went winless in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986 and 1989. I wonder if he wasn't trying very hard in those years, or lacked a killer instinct ... you know, like Rickie Fowler. :)

[RoryGenius]

It's quite probable that players who win millions for a handful of high-place finishes lose motivation quicker than their equivalents in the old days. So he could well be right.

[Jasonic]

He's jealous they make more money than he did.

[williamsnrb]

Wait, he said Fowler, Na, Stanely, Chucky Three sticks, and Keegan haven't met expectations?

 

 

I wonder where he comes up with this stuff.

 

Ha... I am not saying that he was necessarily wrong. I just thought it was funny that he felt the need to point out the inadequacies of five guys in a row for seemingly no reason.

[zoots]

He had 21 wins over 19 years and only one major. I don't think most of the golfing world is really going to listen too closely to what to Lanny Wadkins has to say. It's not a bad career but it sure isn't astounding either. Perhaps he is jaded now for some reason though.

 

That said I think what he awkwardly trying to say is a lot of these guys are having the careers so far that many expected them to have when they came on the scene. Unfortunately he may be overly attributing this to a lack of drive and not taking into account a good number of other factors.

 

 

Don't necessarily agree/disagree with Lanny, but being top 30 all time in wins and having a 20 year career on the PGA tour is quite a bit better than "not bad" IMO. Just to be out there 20 years is quite extraordinary and it's speculated that since the tour began, less than 10 percent of players win one or more events.

[mosesgolf]

Let's get Lanny and Dottie in the same booth together and see all the negative ions start to flow.

[Shilgy]

I've been watching coverage of the Quicken Loans tournament on the Golf Channel for the last 10 minutes and Lanny has said that the following players have basically had disappointing careers: Rickie Fowler, Kevin Na, Kyle Stanley, CHIII, currently Keegan, etc. He has literally not said one positive thing about a player today. Hahaha

So when Stanley or CH3 wins the playoff it'll still be disappointing? Because they beat another underachiever? Guess they can't all be roosters like Lanny.

[DLiver]

I think LW is correct about how the huge money on tour has blunted the competitiveness of some of the players. But Lanny seems bitter about it, and that's the problem.

[williamsnrb]

Let's get Lanny and Dottie in the same booth together and see all the negative ions start to flow.

 

Lol...could you imagine Lanny having all of the booth and Dottie doing all of the post-round interviews (big-leaguing players and belittling their wins to their faces)? Haha... I'd definitely watch, though.

 

I've been watching coverage of the Quicken Loans tournament on the Golf Channel for the last 10 minutes and Lanny has said that the following players have basically had disappointing careers: Rickie Fowler, Kevin Na, Kyle Stanley, CHIII, currently Keegan, etc. He has literally not said one positive thing about a player today. Hahaha

So when Stanley or CH3 wins the playoff it'll still be disappointing? Because they beat another underachiever? Guess they can't all be roosters like Lanny.

 

Lol... good point. By that logic, this win means nothing in Lanny's mind.

[MtlJeff]

I'm on my mobile, can someone post that Simpsons "Old man yells at cloud" captioned pic?

 

Always a classic for situations like this

[Darth Putter]

I would guess Charles Howell III would be the poster child for what Lanny's trying to say. Nearly 500 career starts at age 38, 17% of the time he's in the top 10 and he has two wins in his career. On the other hand, he's just crossed the $33,000,000 mark with his 16th career runner up finish. He's never in the chase for #1, but he also rarely worries about losing his card.

[Symeon Star-Eyes]

Besides Fowler, what exactly is he wrong about? None of those guys have done anything in years, so yea, their careers haven't lived up to expectations.

[mjen43]

Besides Fowler, what exactly is he wrong about? None of those guys have done anything in years, so yea, their careers haven't lived up to expectations.

 

What were the expectations for those guys though and were those expectations warranted? If people were expecting those listed players to be all time greats, they were sadly mistaken. None of them have any particularly amazing skillset that would allow them to dominate the competition over the span of a career.

[Ashley Schaeffer]

I would guess Charles Howell III would be the poster child for what Lanny's trying to say. Nearly 500 career starts at age 38, 17% of the time he's in the top 10 and he has two wins in his career. On the other hand, he's just crossed the $33,000,000 mark with his 16th career runner up finish. He's never in the chase for #1, but he also rarely worries about losing his card.

 

I wonder if Lanny would do his old man bitching routine if that was his career. I lose more and more respect for the "Legends" with each of their stupid comments. If you don't think it takes a will to be great to win $33 million on tour without ever losing your card over 500 starts, you've definitely asked your grandchild to "fix your computer" when the power was off.

[Shilgy]

Besides Fowler, what exactly is he wrong about? None of those guys have done anything in years, so yea, their careers haven't lived up to expectations.

Except maybe Chuckie which of these players every have us high expectations? No they have not had great careers. Did anyone really expect that group of players to be stars?

[golfgirlrobin]

I can't listen to him. It's a weird mixture of self aggrandizement and being dumb as a rock.

 

On Thursday, after Justin Thomas hacked it around in a hazard and had to take a drop to get out, Lanny felt the need to point out that Thomas still had to count the strokes he took in the hazard. He didn't say it in a joking way, either, he actually thought he needed to point it out.

 

After that I was just done with him. If I were one of the guys he criticized, I don't think his opinion would matter much to me.

[Roadking2003]

He had 21 wins over 19 years and only one major. I don't think most of the golfing world is really going to listen too closely to what to Lanny Wadkins has to say. It's not a bad career but it sure isn't astounding either. Perhaps he is jaded now for some reason though.

 

 

And yet he had more wins than all those guys COMBINED.

[Roadking2003]

Besides Fowler, what exactly is he wrong about? None of those guys have done anything in years, so yea, their careers haven't lived up to expectations.

 

True. None of them, including Fowler, will ever win as many as Lanny.

[DLiver]

I can't listen to him. It's a weird mixture of self aggrandizement and being dumb as a rock.

 

This

[Ashley Schaeffer]

I can't listen to him. It's a weird mixture of self aggrandizement and being dumb as a rock.

 

On Thursday, after Justin Thomas hacked it around in a hazard and had to take a drop to get out, Lanny felt the need to point out that Thomas still had to count the strokes he took in the hazard. He didn't say it in a joking way, either, he actually thought he needed to point it out.

 

After that I was just done with him. If I were one of the guys he criticized, I don't think his opinion would matter much to me.

 

Agreed. He's a bitter old weirdo.

[PGArox]

I think LW is correct about how the huge money on tour has blunted the competitiveness of some of the players.

 

I disagree. Athletic competitors are a unique lot. You really can't understand the mindset unless you've been there.

 

These guys have been driven for most of their lives by the thrill of the fight. They have spent endless hours working on their games, both physically and mentally, just for the thrill of competition.

 

No amount of money can blunt these instincts. Rather, it's the time and energy invested, both physically and emotionally, which is more likely to burn these guys out.