Post by Richie3Jack on May 16, 2013 13:14:54 GMT -5
Keegan Bradley is perhaps my favorite golfer on Tour at this time. Ever since he's made the Tour his driving has been excellent. He also hits the ball high which allows him to fit into the modern day TPC courses that are so prevalent on Tour with all of the forced carries.
Keegan is also a sound putter and has a very good short game. The only thing that has held him back is his iron play. For his career, he's been an average iron player at best and often times, fairly mediocre with the irons.
He can still be ultra successful out there since he is so long and so effective off the tee that he's able to get his tee shots closer to the hole and from good position and good lies and that can make up for weak iron play. And if he misses with his irons, he has his deft short game and putting touch to clean up any mess that he may have caused.
As I have stated before, I think Bradley could be right in line with Tiger and Rory if his iron play can become better than average. Well, today it was as I have attached the numbers behind his -10 under 60 he shot at Las Colinas.
He actually didn't drive the ball all that great. He hit 2 fairway bunkers. Thankfully, the fairway bunkers at Las Colinas are not very penalizing. But, he did have an impeded shot on #18 and had to punch out which resulted in a bogey.
The killer metric here was the number of birdie putts inside 20 feet (14). That's flat out outstanding.
Keegan is also a sound putter and has a very good short game. The only thing that has held him back is his iron play. For his career, he's been an average iron player at best and often times, fairly mediocre with the irons.
He can still be ultra successful out there since he is so long and so effective off the tee that he's able to get his tee shots closer to the hole and from good position and good lies and that can make up for weak iron play. And if he misses with his irons, he has his deft short game and putting touch to clean up any mess that he may have caused.
As I have stated before, I think Bradley could be right in line with Tiger and Rory if his iron play can become better than average. Well, today it was as I have attached the numbers behind his -10 under 60 he shot at Las Colinas.
He actually didn't drive the ball all that great. He hit 2 fairway bunkers. Thankfully, the fairway bunkers at Las Colinas are not very penalizing. But, he did have an impeded shot on #18 and had to punch out which resulted in a bogey.
The killer metric here was the number of birdie putts inside 20 feet (14). That's flat out outstanding.
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