UPT:

Actually Gary Kock said the famous "Better than most", in reply to Johnny Miller's question - how does that look?

Johnny then said, "how bout in".

But I'm not really picky.

lol !!!

well.   and here i always thought it was Johnny Miller.

i thought someone said,  Johnny, how does it look?

and i thought it was Johnny who coined the

"better than most"  phrase that we all love to quote.

lol !!!

thanks for the correction.  but do you mind my asking,

how do you know for sure.  

thanks.

:-)

It's true... I have also heard them talking about  it on  TGC...

Gammy,

thanks.   so it was Gary Koch who was answering Johnny Miller?

lol !!!

well.   see.   we can learn something new everyday.

:-)

I've watched the replay of that shot 100s of times and Gary Kock talks about it as his best moment as an analyst. He was stationed at 17th hole that day and Johhny asked, so how does it look right after Tiger hit the putt and the ball turned down the rise towards the lower level of the green. Gary responded: Johnny, it's better than most, better than most. Then as the ball was turning towards the hole, Johnny said how bout in. One of the most interesting points about it, was that Phil was playing with Tiger that day (3rd round), and he had just putted well past the hole.

 I'm sure that there is a video of it.

thanks!

and my apologies to Gary Koch.   :-)

i knew i heard Miller's name mentioned,

and for some reason i had it turned around.

and Gary Koch has coined a wonderful and
fun phrase which we all love to quote
regarding Tiger's putt that day on the 17th
hole. 

and of course, it was a loverly, "better than most"  putt.

:-)

and when Tiger talked about it in his video chat, he
said he was just trying to get it close to the hole.

:-)

The video is at  www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BBO6n7HR3o&feature=relmfu

Look at about the 3:10minute point on this as Gary describes it.

lol !!!

thank you so much for taking

the time to correct me and to

provide the you tube clip as

well.

much appreciated.

heard it from Gary, himself.

can't beat that.   not at all.

and Gary might have used

the words "better than most"

because as i understand it,

because of the placement of

the hole that day on the 17th,

so many golfers were missing

that putt pretty badly.

modern technology is fantastic!!!

thanks again.

:-)

UPT:

What's really cool about all these Tiger moments, the putt at Players 17th, the chip at 16th in 2005 Masters, the putt on 18 in 2008 US Open, and now the 2012 Memorial 16th, is each one just seemed to happen in slow motion. You could watch each one rolling towards the hole, great simple commentary, excitement building, then BAMM it goes in. Nobody does it better than Tiger.

yeah.  one of the things i like about those putts

are the little nuances of the line on which the ball

travels.   this one on Sunday did not have the

pronounced turns/curves of the better than most

putt, but it curved, very subtlely, right and left

before it got to the hole.

and i'm thinking.   does he actually see all that

when he putts, or ..............  what?!

lol !

beyond description !!!!

but it is splendid just the same!!!

:-)