Seamus Power - PGA Tour Winner 2021/22

hawkwing

Great recovery on 17...

Missed cut by a shot.

Rikand

Pity he couldn't have made birdie on 15 after a perfect drive

OEP

He was poor this week

boardise

Missed cut was inevitable at some stage and might be a blessing in a way. I seem to remember that he was set to play 6 events in 7 weeks . Pretty demanding that -so an extra few days off might help and also enable him to fix whatever has slipped out of kilter.

Lad GAGA

Hopefully his confidence won't suffer from his last four rounds and he can get back up and running next week.

Speak Now

Was on wrong side of the draw as well, scoring was 1.5 shots worse on early/late.

blackwhite

Great to see his world ranking still actually improved after the weekend, going from 46 to 45. Guessing he had something very poor falling off

gypsy79

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118641149#Comment_118641149

He only had 39 scores in his record so had a free round

CMcsporty

Going out with CT Pan and Tway tomorrow 15:13 Irish time

strongest field he has played in his career

id imagine a T30 will move him inside Top 40 of rankings

strength of field rating at Riviera is 696, compared to 17 at the Barbasol when he won.

hawkwing

Crazy back 9 so far but still in the mix to make the cut

CMcsporty

70 is a good score around Riviera.

He was a little unlucky with the DB on 10 and then followed it up an Eagle on 11.

One of only 2 eagles on the 11th...I think

if he shoots another 70 he’s making the cut

Rikand

Seamie looks like he's going to clutch a miscut from the jaws of made cut

Dr. Bre

Power struggling

Panrich

That weekend meltdown at Pebble Beach seems to have sapped his confidence for now. He still has time to turn this round around and make the cut but he needs to stop making unforced errors.

hawkwing

Fighting back well now..

dublin49

needs 2 birdies to make cut,unlikely ,a rest might be for the best rather than scraping thru,

abff

Missed the cut by 2. He needed a 15 foot putt on the last to make the cut and raced it over 6 feet past the hole and missed the putt back. Better to go out like that rather than leaving his putt short.

Mantis Toboggan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118656219#Comment_118656219

Definitely the meltdown seems to have mentally scarred him, it was some run though in fairness and he made a fortune.

PokeHerKing

Hopefully this is just a little burnout following a stellar run and not that we've seen him peak.

Icemancometh

Putting seems to be off as well, plenty of 3 putts over the 2 days.

Lad GAGA

Yeah this is where he'll really find out where his game is at. As McGinley says he'll be playing against all the top players, week in week out, on some of the toughest courses so if his game isn't up to scratch he won't make cuts/finish in the top ten etc. I think if he had of made the cut this week it would have been a huge boost for him, a lot of big names struggled on that course. He wasn't far away, but that's two missed cuts in a row, he needs to make the cut next time or else he could start to struggle. Still early days and he is still in a great position on the tour, he just needs to try and cement all his good work over the last few months in the weeks ahead.

billy3sheets

That seems like a tough course for putting in particular.

Golfgraffix

Nice new Affiliation as the touring pro st the k ckub

Mantis Toboggan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118689989#Comment_118689989

What does that entail?

Is it just a sponsorship program for the advertising?

blackwhite

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118690580#Comment_118690580

He'll have to do a handful of promotional gigs a year for them - play a few rounds with customers/prizewinners etc.

abff

This will be an important week for Seamus. He needs to start picking up world ranking points if he is going to stay in the top 50. He has now reached 40 tournaments and his divisor will go up to 41 next week. This would drop him to 50th as things stand and he will almost certainly drop out of the top 50 if he doesn’t perform well either this week or next week in the Players Championship.

blue note

It's incredible how the stress never goes away regardless of where you are, isn't it? A year ago seamus power was probably stressed about keeping his card / keeping the show on the road. Now he's stressed about staying in the top 50 in the world to qualify for the biggest tournament in the world.

Lowry is now a major winner and while he's still fairly high in the world rankings he's probably stressed about not having won since his Open win.

McIlroy is still getting the odd win and certainly competing regularly for wins. And he's stressed I'm sure about getting anther major win. And if he does get one immediately the focus will turn to can he win the masters.

It really is relentless.

CMcsporty

Good points on how different pressures are impacting on different players.

I expect McIlroy will go very well this wk. Loves Bay Hill and zero pressure on him.

Power might struggle this wk if he doesn't start well. Hes never played it before and he might start looking at that Cut line early in Rnd 2.

I've a good feeling about Power this wk. His OTT game and putting should suit Bay Hill. If he starts well i would think pressure will be off and he could fin Top20

coylemj

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118713144#Comment_118713144

According to his entry on the OWGR rankings, he has 40 tournaments played but the bottom two are showing as weeks 6 and 8 in 2020, followed by week 25 in 2020. Given that this is week 9 and those last two will drop out, doesn't that mean he can play two more tournaments before he goes above 40?

abff

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118720916#Comment_118720916

In normal circumstances, tournaments played two or more years ago would drop out of the reckoning. However, the world rankings were frozen for 12 weeks in early 2020 and consequently tournaments played before the hiatus will not drop out of the reckoning until 12 weeks after they normally would.

This is week 9 of 2022 and week 6 of 2020 is 107 weeks ago, which means it would normally be excluded from the rankings by now. However, the 12 week hiatus means that is is treated as being only 95 weeks ago and therefore has a weighting of (104-95)/92 = .0978 and it will be another 9 weeks before that result falls out of the ranking calculation.

Mushy

Another struggle of a weekend it seem, hopefully he can pull some birdies out for rest of today and have a better day tomorrow

Mantis Toboggan

Lot of work to do, in fairness it's a tough track so was always going to be difficult.

abff

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118727953#Comment_118727953

Too many aquatic adventures. He needs to play out of his skin from here on in if he’s going to make the cut tomorrow.

joebloggs32

It seems that 3rd round at the AT&T has done some damage. He has not been the same player since.

Hopefully he can find his firm again soon.

bigtimecharlie

Won't be going to the masters if this trend continues.

Ottoman_1000

He looks a completely different player since that 3rd round meltdown a few weeks back. No club in his bag is working!!!

OEP

He has yet to prove himself in tournaments with a strong field on a difficult course. I've no doubt he can do it but his world ranking doesn't really reflect where he is at yet.

Motivator

Unfortunately a dip in form has come at the right wrong time for Seamus. He can’t get anything going and I think the Pebble Beach weekend fiasco has left it’s mark mentally. For those saying he has to prove himself in strong fields on better courses, he took apart Pebble Beach and set a scoring record for that event. It wasn’t the strongest field but the scoring was unbelievable. One bad round seems to have derailed him a bit.

This week is a right off, but if he can put in an under par round today and move on to Sawgrass in a better frame of mind then it’ll be something at least. He seems to like Sawgrass he has a top 35 finish there a couple of years ago with a hole in one on 3rd hole. He needs a made cut at the very minimum next week and probably needs more than that, maybe a top 30, to get top 50 in OWGR locked up.

CMcsporty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118728887#Comment_118728887

I dont know about that....a very harsh assessment he's playing some courses hes never played before. OWGR are a good indicator and allot in his golfing life is different than it ever was before.

He came a cropper yesterday was in his irons and tbf that hasnt and isnt his strength. Bay Hill exposed that. He lost 4.5 Shots to the field on approach to the green.

Other tracks will suit his game better...Sawgrass next week for example

OEP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118731289#Comment_118731289

Maybe a bit harsh if he has been playing courses he has never played before, but I think the point still stands about proving himself in strong fields on tougher courses - hopefully he can turn it around at The Players and prove me wrong. He has done alright there before

CMcsporty

Sure has... & that was a tough field btw.. T35th in 2019. Allot of Top50 golfers didnt make the cut that week. Lowry, Im, Xander, Leishman, Speith, Cantlay etc.

We have to be fair.. he has excelled. He's a much better player compared to 2019 (OWGR 432nd!!). He is worthy of his Top50 ranking.

OEP

I know, and I'm a huge fan of his. I've been following him since his egolf days and it's so impressive to see what he has achieved. But I guess I was just trying to take a bit of a cold hard look at things. Getting results between March and August is the real test of how good you are.

Xander10

+9 after ten holes today.

eagle eye

Well he's been struggling since the third day at Pebble beach.

If he had a coach he'd have it fixed by now. I think that's a situation he needs to sort out.

Motivator

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118732650#Comment_118732650

Well he himself will disagree with that statement. He’s had a few different coaches and the last, Nick Bradley, was a total spoofer who did more harm than good. In his own words, coaches complicate things that don’t need to be made complicated. I’ve said it before here and I’ll say it again, his caddie is a +5 or +6 golfer and is as good as any coach to him anyway. In reality a coach isn’t going to teach him how to play the shots he needs. The problem with Seamus is his head, the only man to remedy that was Bob Rotella. Maybe a trip to see Bob over the weekend might do the trick.

chasingbirdies

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118734700#Comment_118734700

I'm neutral on whether he needs a coach or not, that is a decision only Seamus can make , he has got to where he is without one so I would tend to agree with your point on mental game and more time with Rotella could be important, he could be forcing things at the moment after having such a good run and feeling the pressure on missing out on Augusta after putting himself in a great position to make it there.

But... please stop comparing his caddie to a golf coach, +5 handicap or not he is not a swing coach, yes he trained as a teaching pro for awhile but your logic of him being a good golfer = coach just doesn't add up, he's his caddie and friend and they have a superb partnership but he's not a coach and if Seamus is looking to him for coaching then he probably does need to think about getting a full time coach.

I really hope they get back on track next week at the players as it has been very exciting following the two for the past year or so

eagle eye

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118734700#Comment_118734700

Have a look at the top ten golfers in the world and tell me which ones don't have coaches?

kowloonkev

Here we go again with the boards' golf fans obsession with coaches. Not only do they know nothing about the ins and outs of the individual player's thinking, practice, preparation and mindset, but also, is there a more boring conversation than what a coach is or isn't doing?

When someone brings up coaches, you can just sense that person is annoyed with the player for not being in contention that weekend and so must have a desperate pop at them because they have nothing to watch on the telly.

eagle eye

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118739342#Comment_118739342

That's crap, I'm pointing out that everybody in the top ten has a coach. Therefore if you want to be in the top ten you should do what they're doing and get a coach.

Seamus hasn't recovered from when things went wrong on the Saturday in Pebble Beach. If he had a coach that might have been sorted on the Sunday and definitely would have been before his next tournament.

It's you that's clueless imo.

And I'm not bored, I just want to see Seamus Power become a top ten golfer.