I was there and even though these GOAT's were past their prime, it was Jack V Arnie and there was definitely still a competitive fire burning in each of them . The late 80's and the 90's was a great time in Phurst. This was only a couple years or so after both Mr Palmer and Mr Nicklaus had built 2 great additions to golf in Phurst, Pinehurst Plantation and Pinehurst National. The Deuce was a different course then but back on the radar after having hosted the 91 and 92 Tour Championship as well as the 94 Senior Open - followed 5 years later with the 99 US Open. And now this week we have the 4th US Open to be played on Course 2 in the last 25 years. I think it is safe for us to continue to say that Pinehurst is the Golf Capital of the World.
@@PawPawGreg people complain now if something is not in 4K versus 1080p. I don't personally care but there is a threshold now where some things become tough to watch
You can watch these matches time and again and never get tired of them ,back to a time when they’re were nice people playing and nice people watching , the gallery’s now are booze and loud such a shame for a great game .
@@RipSizzla sad but true. Used to be amateur players would dress respectably, now with the sleeveless shirts guys are wearing we’ve been overrun by hillbillies.
I was born less than a mile from No.2. My father was a security guard at the old World Golf Hall of Fame. The 4th green was the first upon which I ever putted a golf ball at age 4. I went home and played the course after many years away from Pinehurst in 2014. I shot 88 from the blue tees. Old No.2 has teeth!
Thank you for uploading this and sharing it with us all jack! Please tell SHELL they need to start a 3rd edition of SHELLS Wonderful World of Golf! 1st match I'd love to see is any of today's players squared up at Pine Valley....that place was a beast back when they had Byron vs. Gene Littler there! Both the 1st you vs. Snead & 2nd edition of you vs tom watson at Pebble were both great matches I just watched the other night!
2 of the Greatest that could really putt thanks for alot inspiration and memories over the year's gentleman I've learned alot from y'all you played the greatest game on earth with great respect from me now that I'm 69 still playing too thank God for the great sport of golf
Fantastic and amazing Jack! You've always been my number one golf hero ever since I was a youngster in Florida. I saw you play a tournament there probably around the time this Pinehurst match happened. I got your autograph. I also met you with my dad when you were playing a practice round at Bink's Forest with your son caddying. I was only 9 but I'll always remember you said "What's your handicap, 3?" I didn't know what a handicap was, but was in awe of the time you took to have a picture with me. I also wrote a letter to you back then and was shocked to get a response and a signed picture of you hitting out of a bunker. Since my earliest days in golf I tried to emulate you in every aspect of the game. I watched 'Golf My Way' hundreds of times as a kid and practiced the swing in the house trying to copy every detail of your swing. It served me well. I won a lot of tournaments in Florida as a junior but tapered off after that. Those fundamentals have stuck with me though and it's astounding how much of the game goes back to the very basics. The difference between a bad shot and a great shot for me is usually proper alignment and head still and making sure my grip is sound. The golden bear still remains the greatest of all time in golf and in many other aspects of life, especially family. Well done Jack! You are an ideal example of the greatness of a western man, as is Mr. Palmer, a hero of mine right along side you 👏🤝🏻
Back when class and respect were valued... Man I quit golf before youtube... I come back, I can watch every shot of the greats as asmr falling asleep...
These two guys should have had their own sitcom. Their personalities compliment each other well. Very classy and a great example of good sportsmanship for young people to witness.
Jack has always had that keeping par focus. That's why he took his time putting. What incredible decisive pars he's done in so many games?! Beautiful birdie at the end👍
Good to see two gentlemen respecting each other. If Rory had the first 8 holes Arnold had he would have walked off the course and deleted his Facebook account.
Over here in Australia it Was Player and Thomson in the 50s /60s. Player won 7 or 8 Australian Opens and Thomson won 5 Opens with 3 in a row. American players started to come in the 70s
Both of these men helped to shape my love for this game. Both are consummate gentlemen, both have left a mark on this sport that no one could ever diminish and both were ambassadors who spread this game to all corners of the globe. I feel lucky just to have played a course with Arnold's name on it and Jack will always be #1 in my books, no matter who passes him in the record books. Only Tiger gets to breathe the same rare air as these two men, and that's talking strictly about the game...
That was a putting clinic by the Golden Bear! Crazy that on a 6700 course, at 55, still goes round in -4....wonder what his handicap would have been in his prime (if he had one). +6, +7?
There's a lot to love about the #2 course at Pinehurst, especially since in was so lovingly restored in 2010. One of my favorite Donald Ross designs incorporates the "inverted saucer" or domed greens characteristic. This assures that mediocre or poor iron approaches are never inadvertently rewarded.
I prefer no. 8. The turtleback green as a concept gets tiring for players, and viewers, unless I'm alone in my assessment. Perhaps it provides a number of short game options, however still too gimmicky for my taste. A one trick pony if you will. Pinehurst isn't that easy on the eyes, whereas it's Pinehurst no. 8, is more aesthetically pleasing, to my eye/taste anyways.
Mr.Nicklaus thank you for the paperback books on how to play golf at first i didn't get it but u were absolutely right I've found out the hard way lol 😂❤
Jack finished T6 in the 1998 Masters, two strokes better than defending champion Tiger Woods. Trevino never finished better than T10 in his career there.
@@sidecar7714 Trevino let the Masters get in his head. He actually claimed it didn't favor faders of the golf ball in spite of Jack being the greatest fader of the golf ball and winning 6 times.
@@jonburrows8602 It was more that Trevino couldn't hit the ball high. Augusta doesn't favour low ball hitters like him. Same reason Azinger always struggled there. Nicklaus could hit towering fades with his irons, which was perfect for Augusta.
Let's get this going again! Pine Valley as the first course course would be awesome. Augusta National would be a cool and different perspective. But I think the crown jewel would be Cypress Point Club or Seminole... I like the threesome versions but even a foursome would be a crowd pleaser.
This is what golf was all about. Normally a driver and long irons or woods for the 2nd shot on par 4s. Not driver then wedges like today. Required real skill and extreme precision on ballstriking!
Ahhhh ............ THERE IT IS.............. THE WORD............................... ENTERTAIN...................................... WHERE DID THAT GO IN SPORTS?
Different lofts on irons in those days you couldn't hit an eight iron 155, it had too much loft on it plus jack hiy everything high. Seven iron today can be low as 30° forty years ago a seven might be 40. Today 160 eight irons is normal. You wouldn't believe what eight irons looked like forty years ago, looked like a pitching wedge.
Jack, like Byron Nelson, didn't work all that hard on his game once he got on tour. Palmer did at first, but then let his business interests overwhelm him.
@adrian tunei Speaking of technology, i noticed that Arnold Palmer was using a persimmon driver while Jack Nicklaus drove with a metal driver. Despite being 11 years older, Arnold Palmer was still an awesome driver of the ball.
I have a couple anecdotes I'd like to share about Mr. Palmer. I'm now retired but in the early 90's I was still working at Martin Marietta's (later Lockheed Martin) Missile Systems in Orlando as an Aerospace Engineer. Our "Main Plant" was right around the corner from BayHill, and I was starting to get serious about golf and had been taking lessons from a well known local golf coach in Orlando (Mike Keymont). I then read a Golf Digest mag article about the top 5 golf instructors in America and number 4 was Mr. Dick Tidy, the director of golf instruction and the golf school at Bay Hill. Mr. Tidy had been #2 behind Arnie at Wake Forest and a lifelong friend. Bay Hill is a private club so i didn't even know if i could get lessons from Mr. Tidy but I picked up the phone and called and next thing I know I have six lessons scheduled. Mr. Tidy was great, and he taught me to hit the Palmer Draw. One day I am hitting driver on the range and I hit a bullet...Mr. Tidy growls..."We'll Take 18 and those and pitch back to the par 3's!!!" Anyway after my driver practice Mr. tidy said okay let's go up to Mr. Palmer's office to watch your video...I went, Wait, What? We are going to Mr. Palmer's office, is he going to be there? Mr. Tidy says nonchalantly, I don't know but that's where the video recorder is. So we walk up the stairs to the 2nd floor above the clubhouse and walk in and there is Mr. Palmer at his desk. I'm a grown man with two Engineering degrees working on some of America's blackest defense programs but I felt as nervous as a school girl. Dick asks Arnie if we can borrow his desk to use the video machine/monitor and Arnie gets up and says sure. then he comes around the desk and extend his hand and says, "So how is you game coming along?" like I was some tour player...what a great man and great human being he was! My second anecdote is shorter. It was about the same time, the early nineties and the Bay Hill Invitational was in play. Arnie had said before the tourney that he wasn't happy with where his game was and was really not interested in just being out there if he wasn't competitive but he relented and said he would play. It's Friday and Arnie is playing well and has a chance to make the cut. He has drawn a huge gallery and I am one of them and I'm watching Arnie and he has a very serious look on his face (you could tell he really wanted to make the cut). He leaves the 8th green and is walking to the 9th tee and he is eyes down and working...a crowd forms around him and one poor dope blocks his path on the cart path to the 9th tee...lol, without skipping a step Arnie gives him a perfect forearm shiver with those popeye like forearms and knocks the guy right off the cart path and almost puts him on his ass...it was great to see!!! Mr. Palmer ended up missing the cut but it was nice to see him playing with the bit in his mouth for the last time in a PGA Tournament.
Today's lofts on irons are at least two clubs longer than yesteryear and drivers are much longer , irons are made with a lower cog than long ago. So 144 p iron isn't a big deal, not even counting better shafts and golf balls. Before the PGA championship in 1964 jack hit his steel shaft persimmon head driver 345 yards with very little roll as it was flat. In 2017, 2019. Jacks 345 would've beat the winners in the Long drive tournament for players of the PGA. At age 58 he had a swing speed with driver at 118 mph. His 22 yr old swing would have b
Today's iron loft is at least two clubs longer so a 145 pitching wedge is not exceptional. Jack in the PGA long drive before championship was 345 yds. In 2017 and 2019 jacks 345 would win in those years. It was flat ground very little roll. Jacks swing mph at 58 yrs old was 118, 22 yr old jack would have been crazy fast
