Precisino or the magic of golf Sometimes that is not the strongest to win a race head to head. Sometimes it can do with a rebound traitor, even if I do not think the concept of luck in golf, and I rather think that you are to prepare the conditions for a bounce traitor will be helpful. And yesterday, in the waning light of Dubai, is something magical happened.
Miguel Ángel Jiménez said el mecánico (known for his passion for cars, but also for precision short game - hence the affectionate name of "Mister Precisino" affibbiatogli from Mario sleeve), 46 made recently, he defeated the third playoff hole Omega Dubai Desert Classic the much quoted Lee Westwood. Here's how I've lived those three holes.
the first (18, par 5 of 516 meters), the drive was Westwood miles, light years ahead of that of his opponent, who has "lay up with the drive, in the words of the sleeve. With the second Westwood arrived in the rough on the edge of the green, while Jimenez is not finished with the third in the water for no more than half a meter. But he did approach and putt, which the opponent has failed.
the second (always 18), Westwood was the drive - if possible - even longer than the previous year, while Jimenez ended up in deep rough, so he threw a timber of the third, ending up in the bunker. From there he made an exit ugly, but got a putt of 5 feet and 4 passes. Westwood has made a photocopy of the previous hole.
the third playoff hole (the 9th, a par 4 of 423 meters), the 3-wood in Westwood is in the center of the track, while the drive Jiménez is in the rough on the left. Both put the second into the rough - plagued - on board the green. But Jimenez is approach and putt, while Westwood fails. Race over.
Looking back on what I saw, I tried to draw conclusions. This episode can teach us something? In my opinion, yes (to me at least). Basically that leverage on its strengths, weaknesses aside, is a winning strategy (in golf as in life). Westwood can give safely to 40 meters Jiménez in the drive, not to mention that it can more easily put the ball in the middle of the fairway, but in the end you win races pitting the putt from 4 feet, making approach and putt. Not at all is said
drive for show, putt for dough .
was the lucky winner? The envious say yes of course (the approach to the first hole of playoff could easily end up in water, so to speak). But in my opinion often things happen by chance, be prepared is not everything, but it certainly helps (this is, incidentally, one of the basic concepts of petty
philosophy book I'm writing).
Golf is so exciting because it is a perfect metaphor for life, and what happened yesterday they have a (valid? Modest?) Test.