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Listed below are comments made by somear between Wednesday, 15th July 2009 and Saturday, 18th July 2009.

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Gunning for Garcia 00:19am on 18 Jul 2009 powerfulKiki, I am not sure what about that statement has anything to do with my knowledge of golf. It is my opinion that any golfer, no matter what his rankings, can win a major. Look at the list of one time winners to validate. Any golfer can have his best tournament during a major. Timing is everything. I personnally think too much is placed on a major. There are some PGA tour events that have the same quality fields and winning one of those tournaments is sometimes harder.
Gunning for Garcia 10:41pm on 15 Jul 2009 The chips have been down for Padraig the last 5 tournaments where he has failed to make the cut! I agree he can be a good putter, however he is 136th on the pga putts per GIR this year.

I think Tiger WAS lucky to get into that playoff. That putt had a good a chance staying out as going in. Tiger doesn't always make them either. He just gives himself chances in every tournament.

We can't really compare anyone to Tiger - it is not his putts on the final hole that make him player he is - it is the hole in between that he has done amazing things just to stay in contention. Last years Arnie tournament he hit water during the 3rd round 18th hole. From 180 over water he sticks it to 15 feet and makes the putt.

" I love Garcia as a player but it's not because of luck that he's failed to win a major, it's because he's a very weak putter. "

He has had 6 top 10's at the Open. You don't get that from weak putting. He was half a roll away from winning one. If that had gone in would he suddenly become a great putter??
Gunning for Garcia 9:07pm on 15 Jul 2009 BMACO1981.. go watch the PGA back 9 again... he could be there all day and not make that many single putts from those distances. There was a putt on 15 that was in 3 putt range and he holed it. You call it inspired. I call it luck. Garcia hit the flag on 16, rolled 15 feet away. I call that unlucky.

Don't get me wrong - obviously Harrington is a great player but all victories came with luck on his side, or no luck on someone else part. And sure, that's golf...

Check out this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_men's_major_championships_winning_golfers
(Wikipedia search major champions if the link is removed)

Interesting to see so many 'great' players with only one major. I am not an huge advocate of you have to win a major or multiple to ge a great player, or go down in history as such. John Daly won 2 - one as a last minute qualifier. Anybody can win one, even 2. Daly and Cabrera can vouch for that...
Gunning for Garcia 7:07pm on 15 Jul 2009 why does the blog remove the dashes!
Gunning for Garcia 7:03pm on 15 Jul 2009 I have been to the Players Championship a number of times, and the player who I enjoy watching the most is Garcia. His ball striking is phenomenal. His driving is majestic, and for a relatively small guy he generates incredible power. I dont think he is a choker at all. Sure his putting is not his best part of his game, but if it were reversed his driving the weak part and putting the good part, giving equal results, he would not be deemed a choker. He was world number 2 for golds sake.

He is an outstanding player that truly needs a little luck. As one muppet said before, The more I practiced the luckier I got - well I only buy part of that. There are many I hit wonders in Golf who win majors by getting very lucky and others just not performing at the highest standards on that day. Curtis, Micheel, Hamilton, Beem, Lawrie What about Ogilvy!! He needed 25 players to fall apart, by various forms of golf suicide

Garcia missed an 8 footer to win the British open well struck putt that on another day would have fallen. People forget Harrington choked, when he pushed a drive and duffed his approach. He did well to even get up and down to force the playoff. At the PGA Harrington nailed putts on the back nine that are 1 in 10 chances. Even on 18 he drained a 25 footer, which the stats show are made 6% of the time (thank Bob Kostas for that figure!). Obviously you need to be in position, but man he got LUCKY..

The comment about Adam Scott was surely a joke. There are many players better than Adam who have not one a major. He recently purchased Leer Jet to meet the demands of his commercial interests, and since then has slipped to 43rd in the world. I think he should focus on the golf !! There are a group of women I have seen a few times at the Players following Adam they name themselves Scotties Hotties so its not all bad for Adam!

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