Tadashi70
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With so many team events on tap for THP in 2014. I am wondering what makes a good team. What does a twosome need to be effective? What are the tangibles and intangibles needed to be successful?
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For me it's communication & honesty. Be honest about the current state of your game so you and your partner can maximize what each of you do well. Be able to call the other off a shot if it doesn't make sense from a course management perspective. I think if you can communicate well then that will set up well to play off each other.
As a team if the freedom there is to discuss shots openly without the other person feeling attacked is huge in my opinion. I've played in non THP events where you just couldn't talk to a certain person because they knew everything & your opinion didn't matter. One of the worse golf experiences of my life.
This was something I felt like my teams did well at when in Lake Charles Invitational. Barberakb and I worked really well together in the Alternate Shot format. If we both hit great drives, I usually hit the approach because I was on with my irons that day, but he was putting better, so he would make the putts. We were both honest about what shots we had the most confidence in and we chose whose ball to play based on that. We had a really good time out there and played some damn good golf, too.
Its funny you say this. As I was scrolling through the answers I thought "I want a partner who beats his handicap by about 5 strokes." Just like in all other sports, winning (playing well) solves a whole lot of stuffSounds silly and simplistic, but just play good golf. You can put good friends on a team or you can put 2 really good players together on a team, but if both of those guys don't play well, the team will probably lose.
I know that assembling the teams for the first MC round was one of the first times I had deeply thought about this subject, and as soon as I convinced myself that one approach was best, I could talk myself 180 degrees in another direction. There were a list of things I considered at least in part (no particular order):
Venue and Yardage
Playing Format
Skill Level
Individual Strengths/Weaknesses
Skill Combinations of partners
Personalities and effect on partner
Experiences in similar scenarios
In an event like the Morgan Cup there is an additional element of straight-up (no handicaps) match play, so regardless of all the factors, the luck of the matchup draw trumps most of these.
The last idea he had was put the two nutts together.
Personalities and effects on partner...good and bad :act-up: