The Golfing Life » Arnold Palmer http://thegolfinglife.com East Tennessee's golf lifestyle blog Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:22:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Question of the week: dream foursome? http://thegolfinglife.com/2010/02/08/question-of-the-week-dream-foursome/ http://thegolfinglife.com/2010/02/08/question-of-the-week-dream-foursome/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:59:56 +0000 golfinglife http://thegolfinglife.com/?p=770 Fairways & Waterviews

]]> Did anyone see Phil Mickelson’s prediction of who would win the Super Bowl? He had two golf balls, one decorated with Colts logos and one with Saints logos. He said whatever teams ball he hit the farthest would win the Super Bowl, and he hit the Saints Bowl the farthest! Maybe we should rely on Phil to pick all the winners of sporting events from now on!

On to this weeks question. What is your dream foursome? Would you love to play with Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus? Or maybe Tom Watson, Greg Norman and Tiger Woods? Let us know in the comments below!

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]]> To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, Golf Magazine has assembled a list of the 20 greatest golfers of all time. Guess who’s not number 1? Tiger Woods, he made the cut at number 2. Tennessee National’s golf course designer, Greg Norman didn’t make the top 20, neither did Nick Faldo or Peter Thompson. Here’s an excerpt from the article at golf.com:

With 15 judges, 300 points was the maximum. Nicklaus, with 290 points, and Woods, with 283, came close. Bobby Jones collected 265. Almost every panelist put those three players at the top: Beyond that towering threesome only Ben Hogan, Snead and Palmer got a single Top 3 vote. Byron Nelson, Mickey Wright, Sorenstam, Young Tom Morris and Babe Didrikson Zaharais all received at least one 4th-place vote, but three of them finished outside the Top 10. Nicklaus’s rivals Lee Trevino — who tossed Jack a toy snake before their 1971 U.S. Open playoff — and Billy Casper snagged two of the last three spots.

Who missed the cut? Nick Faldo (34 points) with his six majors fell just short of No. 20 Casper with his three. Next came Peter Thomson (28), Greg Norman (27), Kathy Whitworth (26), James Braid and J.H. Taylor (tied at 16) and Phil Mickelson (15). Francis Ouimet rounded out the voting with a single point.

What do you think? Who is the greatest golfer of all time? Who’s missing from the list?

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