briggs8587:
Watch your replay again... have a close look Andy, then watch mine again... my replay is an aggressive dust cloud and a lot of it, indicating the club is making contact with the ground.
They are very very different in their appearance in the replays bud, but the best bit is they are on the same hole. A very visible difference.... and outcome.
Hold on a second Mr. Briggs before dismissing my last replay! LOL!
Your observation, very good btw, indeed shows my last replay on Oak 17 kicking up a few blades of grass while your shot looks like you hit an exploding golf ball!! You kicked up a ton of dirt sir!! (The fact the dirt is well to the right of where the ball was might be relevant or irrelevant. IDK could be just graphics and not affect the shot.)
I took your advice and took a close look. In fact I took a long, hard, close look at not just our two replays but all 5 replays posted here. Way back to Allen's replay on page 6 from the 24th. I compare all the "divots" from all 5 shots below.
Its important to note that both drives with low ball flight, #2 & #5 below, have quite different divots.
The divot from Allen's drive (#5) is identical to the divots from my normal flight drives (#3 & #4)
I'm still not sold on the "cloud of dust" divot being the answer. How can it be? When Allen's low drive showed a normal divot?
Briggs, can you post the links of the other flat drives you used for comparison?
Links to above replays:
1. Andy's tee shot on Oakmont 17 - Normal Flight
2. Briggs tee shot on Oakmont 17 - Low Flight
3. Andy's tee shot bumped off the tee at BPB 4 - Normal Flight
4. Andy's tee shot on BPB 4 - Normal Flight
5. Allen's tee shot on BPB 4 - Low Flight