GOLFS BIG FOUR – 2015

Wow! What a golf season we just witnessed. All of you who are old enough (yes I’m about to date myself) surely remember The Big Three. Palmer, Player, and some guy called Nicklaus! That was an exciting time for golf. Arnie burst upon the seen and TV was there to capture his swash buckling antics! He was (and is) The King!  Then along came The Dark Knight and then Fat Jack. It became the perfect hero villain type set up for a short while. Ultimately the golfing public grew to love all three. Exciting golf, tremendous talents, golf was on the rise!

?We have gone through several generations of genius in our golf lifetime. After the Big Three we also had epic battles with the likes of Weiskopf, Miller and certainly Watson all versus Nicklaus. Let’s not forget Seve in there.

?Then along came a young phenom named Tiger Woods. He knocked us back on our heels. We surely had never seen anything exactly like Woods in his prime. We witnessed his massacres of the fields he destroyed. He won majors by double digits. He hit shots over, across, and around obstacles like he had the ball on a string! It was astounding. He made golf a game of the masses. Even if you never played a single shot in your life and unless you lived in a cave you knew who Tiger was. No need to add Woods just say Tiger and the world around you knew of whom you spoke!

?We never thought there would be life after Tiger. We all held onto him so tightly. Through divorce, through injury, we gasped hoping for the one last run, it hasn’t come ….We thought golf was over no Tiger, no fanfare, no bells and whistles. We were wrong, so very wrong. READ MORE

Tom Patri
TP GOLF SCHOOL
GOLF MAGAZINE TOP 100 TEACHER IN AMERICA
98' Met PGA Teacher of the Year
06' South Florida Teacher of the Year
81' NCAA II National Champion