I found one sport where strength is bad.

[benchmonster]

300 yard drives are not average, or normal, but then neither are 300 plus benches. There are many who can do both tho.

I quit playing golf after law school, but could boom it out there pretty good when I played. I played with a guy back then who was a solid full club longer than Tiger Woods. We are talking John Daley long, or longer, but of course was not nearly as accurate as those guys.

I was commonly driving it 300+ yards and was getting Rhondstated by my buddy. (Blue Bayou)

I have known a lot of guys who drove it 300+ pretty consistently, but they were all in their 20's, very flexible, and pretty strong. I know without a doubt I could not go pick up my 975D right now and drive a ball that far, tho, but it is not cause I am "too strong" or "too big" it is because I have not picked up a club in 3 years.

The guy, whose name is escaping me at the moment, but who was a 3 or 4 time national long drive champion had like 18 inch arms, a 50 inch chest and a 400+ bench. And I have seen a former Mr. California in a long drive contest, so guys with big muscles can play golf too. It is just that most of them (like myself) choose not to.

B.

 

[fastgain]

Well, maybe it is just who I have played with before, but the top notch guys who hit it 280+ were few and far between, and I think they hit their sand wedge about 125 or so but they were deadly accurate with irons. Congratulations if you can bomb it and still have accuracy. Also, I dispute that every pro on the PGA Tour can hit it 300+. For instance, people like Loren Roberts and Corey Pavin hit it 260-70. Could they uncork it for 300+? Maybe, but I was thinking you meant 300+ with some semblance of consistency or accuracy.

The top people in long drive competitions hit it around 400. And I wasn't implying that all the tour pros could consistently hit over 300, that's why I said some of them would really have to go after it to hit it 300. I guess I was just gifted or lucky with my drives, I can hit it accurately and consistently 300-310; I don't claim to be anywhere near a good golfer, just a guy with a long, accurate drive. I have amazing flexibility and good rotational hip power. I don't claim to have developed either one on my own. My short game was never good enough to consistently get into the 70s.

 

[teen1216]

Well, then congratulations on your driving prowess as it is something I am working towards. =)

 

[RusPA81]

300 yard drives are not average, or normal, but then neither are 300 plus benches. There are many who can do both tho.

I quit playing golf after law school, but could boom it out there pretty good when I played. I played with a guy back then who was a solid full club longer than Tiger Woods. We are talking John Daley long, or longer, but of course was not nearly as accurate as those guys.

I was commonly driving it 300+ yards and was getting Rhondstated by my buddy. (Blue Bayou)

I have known a lot of guys who drove it 300+ pretty consistently, but they were all in their 20's, very flexible, and pretty strong. I know without a doubt I could not go pick up my 975D right now and drive a ball that far, tho, but it is not cause I am "too strong" or "too big" it is because I have not picked up a club in 3 years.

The guy, whose name is escaping me at the moment, but who was a 3 or 4 time national long drive champion had like 18 inch arms, a 50 inch chest and a 400+ bench. And I have seen a former Mr. California in a long drive contest, so guys with big muscles can play golf too. It is just that most of them (like myself) choose not to.

B.

Theres not many big guys in law school either. But soon I will have a long drive to match my bench. Maybe I can go pound for yard. That would be sweet.

 

[slobberknocker]

Golf is fun when you're drunk. Other than that, I get easily bored.

 

[coolcolj]

Shane Hamman plays golf, he can hit it

 

[Swolenpecs]

yea flexibility and relaxation are keys at golf. Wow i sucked when i first started. I swung as hard as i could using just my arms.

 

[Peckz]

Strength and drive range = key!!! Tiger woods took six month of golfing just to work out and he came back stronger and better than ever. Just look at the women golfers they have very bad range.

Take a bodybuilder and teach him how to golf and you have one mean driving machine.

 

[coolcolj]

Strength and drive range = key!!! Tiger woods took six month of golfing just to work out and he came back stronger and better than ever. Just look at the women golfers they have very bad range.

Take a bodybuilder and teach him how to golf and you have one mean driving machine.

actually an olympic weightlifter would be a better proposition

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golf/plus/2000/08/14/

Shane Hamman can hit the ball a ton, which isn't surprising considering that he can lift half a ton. What is surprising is how Hamman, a 28-year-old Olympic weightlifter who set the world record in the superheavyweight division for the squat (1,008 pounds), is able to swing a golf club around a body that's as wide as a phone booth. "I'm really flexible," says Hamman, whose tale of the tape reads as follows: height, 5'9"; weight, 360 pounds; chest, 62"; biceps, 22"; thighs, 35". "As part of my training I stretch so many times a day I never let myself get tight." He is so supple he can do a standing backflip and dunk a volleyball.

On the course Hamman turns fast enough to pound out 350\!yard drives but also battles a nasty slice. Thanks to a deft short game, he has whittled his handicap to 14. "A hundred twenty yards and in with my pitching wedge is my money shot," says Hamman, who has played golf for seven years.

 

[PlatnumKowboy]

Golf is fun when you're drunk. Other than that, I get easily bored. [/QUOTE

The golf carts are always good for a laugh or two also drunk or not.