Champions Tour/Senior Tour "Chit Chat" Thread

[iBanesto]

GolfWRX's fan favourite is leading the tournament by 2 strokes going into the final round.

 

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[iBanesto]

[57charlie]

23 hours ago, iBanesto said:

GolfWRX's fan favourite is leading the tournament by 2 strokes going into the final round.

 

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It was wonderful to see "El Pato" win this tournament. He certainly took advantage of a last minute substitution when Hensby withdrew from the tournament. I still remember the class and true sportmanship he displayed to Adam Scott when Scott won his Masters in that 2013 playoff.

[Forged4ever]

21 hours ago, 57charlie said:

It was wonderful to see "El Pato" win this tournament. He certainly took advantage of a last minute substitution when Hensby withdrew from the tournament. I still remember the class and true sportmanship he displayed to Adam Scott when Scott won his Masters in that 2013 playoff.

He displayed the same Class & Sportsmanship when he was the only Man standing at Oakmont in '07. He displayed a sincere heartfelt handshake and congratz to both Jimmy Furyk & Tiger for their Play.

 

I'm glad that he got the monkey off of his back and is arriving at Augusta on a high!!

 

It's been a long road back...

 

Fairways & Greens 4ever My Friends👊

RP

Edited April 7 by Forged4ever

[JungleJimbo]

On 4/6/2025 at 8:10 AM, iBanesto said:

this was a nice "time machine" ... thanks @iBanestofor sharing

 

[iBanesto]

Congrats to Cabrera.

 

One of my favourite swings of all time. The rhythm and power all in one.

 

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[JungleJimbo]

 

 

[iBanesto]

When you think about it, Cabrera was out of the game for 3 years and he has come back to win again.

 

He was released in August 2023 and won on the European Senior Tour in June 2024. That is less than a year!

 

That is an amazing achievement when it is easier to lose your game completely than it is to find it again yet alone become a top senior tour professional.

 

 

[iBanesto]

What a swing.

 

Not talking about Freddie.

 

[Ghostwedge]

On 4/5/2025 at 7:10 PM, iBanesto said:

So back when metal woods were catching on I bought 4 brand new PowerBilt Citation persimmon drivers as the club course couldn't give them away it seemed. Still have two of them and take them to the range with me each spring and let  guys hit em. Once in awhile one gets out there 240-50 yds, most can't handle the steel shaft. Still the sweetest sound when hit on the screws. ; )

[Ghostwedge]

Related Master's question.....

Does Cabrera make the cut ?

Guy is still a player no doubt, but does his conditioning hold up ? 

[Forged4ever]

6 hours ago, Ghostwedge said:

Related Master's question.....

Does Cabrera make the cut ?

Guy is still a player no doubt, but does his conditioning hold up ? 

I got 💰💰 on Angel teein it up on Saturday and with the odds on him winning, I put a few down, lol

 

 Cheers🍻

RP

[JungleJimbo]

11 hours ago, iBanesto said:

What a swing.

 

Not talking about Freddie.

 

 

Not familiar with the name "Sam Reeves" ... is the "LEGEND" moniker = due to his career in the finance world/philanthropy, etc?

 

 

...Edit: article from Michael Bamberger.

Sam Reeves is a retired cotton merchant, bodysurfer, pro-am partner and one of golf's trusted old souls | FOX Sports 

 

 

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Sam Reeves is a retired cotton merchant, bodysurfer, pro-am partner and one of golf's trusted old souls

foxsports.com/stories/golf/sam-reeves-is-a-retired-cotton-merchant-bodysurfer-pro-am-partner-and-one-of-golfs-trusted-old-souls

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. GMT-4

Sports Illustrated, Michael Bamberger/Golf.com

 

I first heard about Sam Reeves 15 or 20 years ago. At Cypress Point, if good fortune got you there, a caddie might point out his magnificent house, between the course and the ocean. Someone would say that Tiger had just been to the Reeves house for dinner, or that Butch had given Fred a lesson there, in the backyard. In any given Pebble week, the guest list might include a range of Tour elites: Jim "Bones" Mackay, Jay Haas, Tim Finchem, and also Peyton Manning and Tom Brady and that whole crowd. I imagined the houselord as an industrialist of the old school, sniffing his port. Then I met him.

 

A mutual friend, Brian Roberts of Philadelphia, got us together, in South Florida, during the Honda tournament. Sam Reeves invited me to dinner with his wife and two of their younger friends.

 

He's 82 but he doesn't look or act it, and he's as slender as Hogan's Merion 1-iron. (He ordered moderately, in a rural Georgia accent, from both sides of the menu.) I learned that Sam and Betsy were married in 1958, at an historic church in downtown Asheville, N.C., and that their four daughters have traveled the world with their father, on work and mission trips both.

 

Reeves is in great shape in a variety of ways. He made his fortune as a cotton king, opening China to the American cotton trade in the wake of Nixon-Kissinger. At the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am this year, Sam and Nick Watney made the cut. If an older amateur has ever played all four rounds there—walking!—I'd like to hear about it.

 

We were a fivesome at a Juno Beach fish-house: Nick Watney and me on one side of our booth, Betsy and Sam on the other, Adam Scott in between them. (Our host has played golf or broken bread with 25 Masters winners, including Claude Harmon, Butch's father.) Sam wears his vitality as another man might wear cologne, and he packs more questions than answers, though he has plenty of both. Asking questions keeps you young, don't you think?

 

"Well, our friend Brian's getting his squash game in shape for the Maccabiah Games, isn't he?" Sam said.

 

"What's that?" Adam asked.

 

"The Jewish Olympics," Sam said. "They play them in Israel every four years." Not a well-known thing, but Sam's beat is the world.

One of his hobbies is bodysurfing, as it is for me, and a couple days later we met again, at a beach club, bathing suits on. Two and half hours later, though, we were still on the barren side of the dunes, the gray Atlantic yawning. Sam, who played golf at Chapel Hill in the 1950s, is a plus-4 conversationalist.

 

"I believe we all have a creator," Sam said. His eyes, bright blue, have a power source all their own. "We all seek to deepen our mental, physical, occupational and social lives. People the world over want what you and I want. They want dignity. They want to be valued." Beachside chitchat, Sam Reeves-style.

 

Adam Scott met Sam when the Australian was a 19-year-old amateur. "I learned how to be a human being from Sam," he told me. We were in a windowless room deep in the PGA National clubhouse. The 2013 Masters champ was sitting on a cargo box after insisting that I take the lone chair. "Sam's one of the biggest role models in my life."

 

In 2001, when Christy and Butch Harmon were married, Sam Reeves was the best man. "In personality, Sam and I are 180 degrees apart, but we love each other," Butch said. Butch, like Sam, has seen the world's dark underbellies. "Sam cares. It's not a bulls--- care. He actually cares." Butch and Christy, with rising emotion, talked about Sam's commitment to their son, a budding historian—and not a golfer—now preparing for grad school.

 

But with Sam, there's always the tug of the game. For his 70th birthday, he and Butch went to Scotland. The nastier the weather, the happier Sam was. He wrote in an e-mail, "Golf embraces character, perseverance, grit, courage, mental strength, timeliness, worldly disappointment, hope, faith, pain. And, yes, joy, accomplishment and satisfaction."

 

The intimate dinners held at the Reeves home during the Pebble Beach tournament are occasions where the players can breathe. One winter night, a decade or so ago, José María Olazábal talked about the unthinkable prospect of a life without golf, after a mysterious foot ailment caused him to miss all of 1996. But by April 1999, he and Greg Norman were in the day's final twosome on Masters Sunday.

 

"And I remember being on 13 green on Sunday with Greg," Olazábal said that night, as Butch recalled it. "He has a 20-footer for eagle, I have a 15-footer for birdie, the flowers are magnificent and I am thinking, "How lucky am I to be here?" And then Greg made the putt."

The room was still. Sam could not contain himself.

 

"But what did you do, Ollie? What did you do with that birdie putt?!”

 

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Edited April 8 by JungleJimbo

[JungleJimbo]

 

JWall "has no chill"

 

 

[iBanesto]

4 hours ago, JungleJimbo said:

 

JWall "has no chill"

 

 

 

Cabrera shares a couple of things in common with the world No. 1 Scheffler.

 

1. Masters Champion; and

2. [Guess].

 

[JungleJimbo]

39 minutes ago, iBanesto said:

 

Cabrera shares a couple of things in common with the world No. 1 Scheffler.

 

1. Masters Champion; and

2. [Guess].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 8 by JungleJimbo

[iBanesto]

Mitsubishi Electric Classic

• TPC Sugarloaf
• Duluth, Georgia • USA
• Apr 25 - 27, 2025

[Mr.Cleeks]

On 4/8/2025 at 7:04 AM, iBanesto said:

 

Cabrera shares a couple of things in common with the world No. 1 Scheffler.

 

1. Masters Champion; and

2. [Guess].

 

2-time major champions, right handed

[iBanesto]

1 minute ago, Mr.Cleeks said:

2-time major champions, right handed

 

[aenemated]

Ya know ... I quite admire Angel. And stoked to see him playing well. 

 

He did some awful stuff due to the bottle. And so did I (that doesn't include winning a couple majors) so I can sympathize. Unless you've been there, you don't entirely know what you're doing when in the depths. It's an unpleasant place and everything seems totally reasonable at the time.

 

The man did his time - and far more than he should have. 

[NailedIt]

Forgiveness is easier to ask for than to give. Angel has done his time for his crime and hopefully has learned a lesson. I for one am looking forward to him having a successful Champions Tour run and a second chance at the free world!. 

[iBanesto]

13th Champions Tour win for Jerry Kelly.

 

He went wire to wire.

 

Edited April 28 by iBanesto

[iBanesto]

3 hours ago, aenemated said:

Ya know ... I quite admire Angel. And stoked to see him playing well. 

 

He did some awful stuff due to the bottle. And so did I (that doesn't include winning a couple majors) so I can sympathize. Unless you've been there, you don't entirely know what you're doing when in the depths. It's an unpleasant place and everything seems totally reasonable at the time.

 

The man did his time - and far more than he should have. 

 

Agreed.

 

In one of my posts above, Cabrera was out of the game for 3 whole years.

 

Since he came back in 2024, he has won the European Senior Tour and Champions Tour. That is an amazing achievement as many people never find their game again after a very long break, yet alone play top level professional tour golf again.

 

 

[iBanesto]

Scott Hend wins the Barbados Legends Hosted By Ian Woosnam.

 

 

[Big Cat 3]

On 1/17/2025 at 9:14 PM, kamaaina1 said:

Zinger was making some real odd comments….

Zinger is one strange dude ... how he keeps getting hired to be on TV at any level is amazing. Guy is boring and not very smart, has a grade school vocabulary, and he was a very forgettable player. Networks do better.

[Big Cat 3]

On 4/7/2025 at 3:35 AM, iBanesto said:

Congrats to Cabrera.

 

One of my favourite swings of all time. The rhythm and power all in one.

 

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At the 1st Masters I attended ... Cabrera was playing with Couples on a cold, windy, Saturday morning. #15 was playing tough, right into the wind with pin placed in back left. Everyone was laying up, including Couples who was about 6 yds behind Cabrera in middle of fairway. But Cabrera grabbed a rescue club and laced a piercing draw to 6 feet (missed the eagle putt). Just an amazing golf shot .... what is funny, the two didn't share a word the complete round until that shot when Couples looked over said something like ' Wow great shot ' and Cabrera, with a huge smile, nodded. 

[Jim53]

9 hours ago, iBanesto said:

Scott Hend wins the Barbados Legends Hosted By Ian Woosnam.

 

 

The is so cool, that course is next door to a good friend's house up on the mountain. Just a beautiful spot and always breezy if not down right blowing. His house was there long before the Course and it is neat to see.

[Jim53]

15 minutes ago, Jim53 said:

The is so cool, that course is next door to a good friend's house up on the mountain. Just a beautiful spot and always breezy if not down right blowing. His house was there long before the Course and it is neat to see.

picture from his back porch, APE hill is off the to the right out of the picture.

Edited April 28 by Jim53

[Jim53]

If I ever get to retire, Barbados is where I would go if the wife kicks me out LOL.

[iBanesto]

13 hours ago, Jim53 said:

picture from his back porch, APE hill is off the to the right out of the picture.

 

Amazing. Lucky friend with that view to wake up to every morning.