Thank you, Michael Letzig, for demonstrating just how difficult golf can be. Yesterday, during the Buick Open PGA tour event, Michael hit a shot that I've replicated many times (too many times!) myself--a good old-fashioned full-on hook shank. This shaky YouTube video shows just how bad the shot was.
That clip, however, is quite dark and it's hard to spot the ball. So I snipped a bit of it out, and processed it with ScreenFlow and QuickTime Pro. The end result is this version, which makes it much easier to track the ball and see exactly where it wound up. Urgh.
The bad news for Michael is that, despite that shot (he saved par on the hole), he played well enough to...get paired with Tiger Woods in the final pairing for today's final round. Urgh.