Among all the hype over Happy Gilmore 2We bring you news to a real -life golf player who does not play the game like everyone else.
His name is Philippe Gariepy, and if this known ring can be because he played in a video From the 103rd Canada PGA championship that imposed internet abuse this week.
In pieces, Gariepy, a beloved 49-year-old professional from Sutton, Canada, approximately 90 minutes from Montreal, is a low shot on a stroke. Truly Low. Gariepy is 6-foot-4, but its layer is shorter than some taps. Are only 23 inches long. (Initial reports said Gariepy was using an 18 -inch layer, shorter than Golf rules allow).
“You can read much better when you are so low on Earth,” Gariepy golf.com told by phone on Wednesday. “And with such a short coercion. It is impossible to be.”
Over the years, Gariepy has had periods of Heebie-Jeebies. But he said this is not what pushed him into a puter of size. A tall learning professional, he made Switch nearly a decade back while playing a random round with a friend and his friend’s young daughter. Nothing was falling for Gariepy that day.
“So at one point, I asked the girl if I could use her putter, who was very small,” Gariepy said. Of course he drained Putt. Ascending to the mini-flow, he continued to bury “20 to 30 feet in the next four holes.”
That night, Gariepy cut off his Scotty Cameron at 21 inches. Later that season, using that putter, he advanced to a Play off of the US Open qualification, where he lost in a bird after he pulled out his offer.
In an era when the star legions – Bernhard LangerFred’s couples, Adam Scott, and in – were washing strokes with broomGariepy had hugged something closer to a length of a stick.
It turned out to be a very easy transition, though he demanded that him adjust his attitude.
“I tell people, you don’t want to bend over the putt just because it will hurt your back,” Gariepy said. “I take a wide stay and I use my feet. If you look at me, I’m basically colliding with the ball.”
In addition to the obligation of Gariepy to sit down, which gives him a good look at rest, there are other benefits for his sawing approach.
“The shorter the axis, the less rotation,” he said. “You have more control. Putter just goes back and straight.”
The biggest challenge, he said, may be distance control, especially in harsh greens. When placing surfaces are running slowly – as they are often at the beginning of the season in Canada – Gariepy throws his short bed for a long one.
“But in polished greens, it’s the short layer for me,” he said.
Gariepy no longer carries scotty 21 inches. “He had the neck of a plumbing and I had a tendency to withdraw it,” he said. Instead, Gariepy said, it is a cut version of a free model called a Broom Tour Star 1 with a winn syllable of ladies and a head Gariepy has leanned to 80-grade, the maximum angle of the legal lie for a box.
This is the Gariepy Flastick Gariepy used this week at the CLUB De Golf perpendicular, the host of the Canada PGA event, which contains a field of club professionals. The greens were quite quick during the round of Tuesday, and Gariepy treated them with courtesy. He finished the day in one under. However, on Wednesday, he left for a rough start and his putter was partly to blame. After leaving a poor bid on the edge at the PAR-5 opening, Gariepy managed to clean up by accident. . . and immersed.
“It was such a thick thing,” he said. “I’ve never done something like that before.”
Although Gariepy said his partners playing did not notice his gaffe, he reported himself, making a triple triple 8. He tried shooting a 83 for a two-day total that left three shots timid. None of which has poured Garipy into his deployment method.
Is the road a short way to go to everyone? Gariepy does not push him to his students.
“But I let them try my vase when they are curious,” he said. “Rarely works for them.”
With its benefits, it is vice versa.
“I sometimes suggest that they try it when complaining about their placement,” Gariepy said. “They try it. They make the blow right away without thinking and they usually say,” That’s not for me. “
For each of his or her. Gariepy is safe in his approach, for which he said he hopes to appear in the coming years in the old circuit. He thinks he can compete with the 50-plus group. Although his strong costumes are his pieces, the iron game and the accuracy outside. Gariepy also said he rolls the rock quite nicely. Except when he does not.
“On a good day, I feel like I can do anything,” he said. “But on a bad day, I can miss everyone.”
In this sense, he is like the rest of us.
