Onside kicks in the NFL were already almost impossible to get, and now they've made it even harder with a rule change this year stating kicking teams can't have more than 5 players close together.
How about making it a little bit easier & realistic to recover one instead of making the odds even greater.....:>(
How about making it a little bit easier & realistic to recover one instead of making the odds even greater.....:>(
What a rule.
If your playing partner gives you a 4 on the scorecard he was keeping for you and you sign it after the round except you really made a 3 on the hole and lose The Masters because of it.
Fourty years later fellow Argentinian Angel Cabrera made up for his countryman Roberto Di Vicenzo's unbelievable gaffe at the 1968 Masters by winning the 2009 Masters yesterday.
On the 17th hole of the 1968 Masters final round, De Vicenzo made a birdie 3, but playing partner Tommy Aaron, who was keeping his opponent's scorecard, put down a 4. That alone shouldn't have destroyed his chances at the green jacket … as long as he had found and corrected the mistake prior to signing the scorecard. Instead, De Vicenzo got caught up in the hubbub and hullaballoo of the moment. He signed the incorrect scorecard, meaning he had to take the higher score at that hole, giving him a 66 rather than the 65 he actually shot. And giving the Masters title to Bob Goalby.
Obviously grief-stricken following the final decision, De Vicenzo was left uttering one of the most conspicuous comments in golf's storied history: "What a stupid I am to be wrong here."
That 4 at the 17th hole should have been recorded as a birdie 3.
"I can see how Roberto might feel I could have changed things by asking for a playoff," Goalby said years later. "But even if I had wanted to playoff doesn't mean there would have been one. I couldn't change the rules of golf or what they had decided."
Before crying for the man from Argentina, know that he often is considered a co-champion in some Augusta National circles. "After the tournament," wrote Golf Digest's Jaime Diaz, "chairman Clifford Roberts made a point of sending De Vicenzo a prize -- a sterling silver cigarette box engraved with the signatures of the previous winners -- the first and only time from 1954 to 1992 that it was given to anyone except the victor. More poignantly, a group of players surreptitiously sent him a custom tailored Augusta National green jacket with his name sewn into the lining. De Vicenzo has never worn the jacket."
A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, a man with more than 230 career professional victories, Roberto De Vicenzo is often remembered as the ultimate April Fool. Really, though, he was a victim of circumstance, the author of a poor decision at the worst possible time on golf's grandest stage.
Even 40 years later, the story sounds too impossible to be true.
Story from ESPN.com
If your playing partner gives you a 4 on the scorecard he was keeping for you and you sign it after the round except you really made a 3 on the hole and lose The Masters because of it.
Fourty years later fellow Argentinian Angel Cabrera made up for his countryman Roberto Di Vicenzo's unbelievable gaffe at the 1968 Masters by winning the 2009 Masters yesterday.
On the 17th hole of the 1968 Masters final round, De Vicenzo made a birdie 3, but playing partner Tommy Aaron, who was keeping his opponent's scorecard, put down a 4. That alone shouldn't have destroyed his chances at the green jacket … as long as he had found and corrected the mistake prior to signing the scorecard. Instead, De Vicenzo got caught up in the hubbub and hullaballoo of the moment. He signed the incorrect scorecard, meaning he had to take the higher score at that hole, giving him a 66 rather than the 65 he actually shot. And giving the Masters title to Bob Goalby.
Obviously grief-stricken following the final decision, De Vicenzo was left uttering one of the most conspicuous comments in golf's storied history: "What a stupid I am to be wrong here."
That 4 at the 17th hole should have been recorded as a birdie 3.
"I can see how Roberto might feel I could have changed things by asking for a playoff," Goalby said years later. "But even if I had wanted to playoff doesn't mean there would have been one. I couldn't change the rules of golf or what they had decided."
Before crying for the man from Argentina, know that he often is considered a co-champion in some Augusta National circles. "After the tournament," wrote Golf Digest's Jaime Diaz, "chairman Clifford Roberts made a point of sending De Vicenzo a prize -- a sterling silver cigarette box engraved with the signatures of the previous winners -- the first and only time from 1954 to 1992 that it was given to anyone except the victor. More poignantly, a group of players surreptitiously sent him a custom tailored Augusta National green jacket with his name sewn into the lining. De Vicenzo has never worn the jacket."
A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, a man with more than 230 career professional victories, Roberto De Vicenzo is often remembered as the ultimate April Fool. Really, though, he was a victim of circumstance, the author of a poor decision at the worst possible time on golf's grandest stage.
Even 40 years later, the story sounds too impossible to be true.
Story from ESPN.com
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