Padraig Harrington hits a shot on the 10th hole at Quail Hollow Club last Friday.
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Would you rather shoot 70 or 71?
What about a 71 while you swing well, or swinging a 70 bad?
Padraig Harrington says he knows what the benefits would choose.
“Certainly, players will be happier to swing the club well and shoot 71,” he said, “then the club is poorly swinging and shooting 70.
“It’s not logical, but that’s the nature of the beast.”
Why? The idea is based on how players treat the form. Tuesday, prior to the senior PGA championship, the triple big winner was asked how he measured it, and the question led to a short back and forth over how, yes, a score card asks for only scores.
However, players are good for more than that, Harrington said.
“I think we get caught up as players who measure a form in how much control we have of our swing, he said:” While the reality should be how good we score and that is it. So I think if you score well, you make good decisions, you do things well and it has a kind of snowball in the right direction.
“If you are focused on that – yes, so it should be real – the shape must be based and that is it. But I think we as players are sucked to want to judge our game by how we think about our swing and how much control we are. But score is all that is really important at the end of the day.”
Still, Harrington said, players “be included in this game of Swing Ident.”
And what you ‘deserve to score’.
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“It’s what you have scored,” said Harrington. “So we are in that fall to always judge our score against what we think we deserve, which is not really relevant. It is what you have scored and that is it.”
Do players earn something?
No, Harrington said.
“That’s my point, you don’t do that,” he said. “But the longer you play it, the more you feel if you wave it right and you get well, you have some predictability in such things, what deserves there, but I think the fact is that you deserve nothing, and the score is all that counts at the end of the day.”
Harrington still had a scenario here.
“If you tried to learn a child and you asked the teenager how they played,” he said, “you would like to hear their score; you don’t want to hear:” I played well, but I had 36 putts, “but we still fall into that category to always justify us to play well.
“But at the end of the day the score is the score in Golf, and that’s it.”
Regarding other pros? Steve Stricker was also asked about the subject and was told about Harrington’s thoughts.
“I think form for me is how I get, how I feel about my swing at that moment, how the ball really goes,” Stricker said. “I think if I feel at ease to see my ball go in a certain direction and it goes in the same direction as I want it to go inside, I feel that I am in good shape. Whether I am getting great or not, at least, the ball does what I want to do, and I can feel good about it.
“But I can see where Harrington would say that scoring is the ultimate, and that’s it. You count it out and get a good score. But I like to see and feel good about what my swing is doing to feel that I am in good shape.”
