Who is Count Yogi?

Question

Tiger knows.....

Answer 1

Count Yogi was an enigmatic - some would say mysterious - golfer born in the early part of the 20th century who barnstormed the country playing exhibitions, conducting trick-shot shows, and occasionally playing real tournament golf (although not on the PGA Tour).

He was also, some claim, "the best golfer you've never heard of." A golfer who had "the secret" to playing better golf.

There's a golf instructor today who sells the Count Yogi way of playing golf. "Golf's greatest secret finally revealed," his Web site says. It also says Count Yogi is "the most imitated man in golf history."  Not sure if that's p[ossible given all the secrecy surrounding him.

Count Yogi was half-American Indian, and the PGA of America, shamefully, had a caucasians-only clause in its bylaws during this time in its history. Perhaps this clause was applied to Count Yogi.

Here's the real secret to golf instruction: there is no secret! It's pretty easy to grasp this concept with a little simple logic: If any of the alleged secrets in the history of golf swing instruction did what their proponents imply they do (and they all, to one degree or another, imply revolutionary results guaranteed to work for everyone), then they wouldn't be secrets! Everyone, including rival instructors and Tiger Woods, would be all over it.

Which isn't to say that any given "secret" doesn't have value; many of them surely do. They're just not really "secrets," and not revolutionary (or easy).

Answer 2

He was one incredible golfer. Here are some of the things he achieved...

Shot 26-29 for a 55 at Bunker Hill Golf Course, a regulation course, winning the 1934 Chicago golf championship. Included two back-to-back holes-in-one (187 and 347 yards) while playing with Al Espinosa and Terry McGovern

Also has shot scores of 55, 57, 58 and 59 in 18-hole rounds.

Shot a 59 in winning the best ball title at Greenview Country Club, Chicago.

Shot seven birdies in a row for a world tournament record (held for eighteen years) in the 1941 Chicago Open at Elmhurst Country Club.

Averaged 67 per round for 203 rounds of 18-hole golf in 1940, playing either right handed or left handed.

Played a 550-yard hole in two strokes in Corpus Christi, Texas, driving 453 yards and sinking the next shot with a wedge.

Shot par or under for 267 of 273 successive shows

Drives of 453, 450, 435 and 425 yards.

Fifty-five holes-in-one; nine of them on par-4 holes, two in succession (187 and 347 yards); one 416-yard hole-in-one

Fourteen putts for eighteen holes (score 29-29=58) on par-72 Wilson Golf Course, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, former scene of Los Angeles Open, 1951.

645-yard par-6 hole in 3; 59 on par-74 course, 1933.

Eight birdies and two eagles in succession in a 58 at Paw Paw Lakes Links, Michigan, 1939.

Played eighteen holes in fifty-seven minutes and 69 shots; fastest round (not cycling, but walking), mid-City Golf Course, Chicago, 1948.

31-32=63 course record at Bel Air Country Club, Los Angeles, 1948.

34-31=65 par-73 to win Metro Goldwyn Mayer's annual Open, 1949.

31-36=67 at Western Avenue Golf Course (Los Angeles) to win Universal International event, while in Hindu suit, 1949.

Seven wins and two runner-up positions in Pro-Ams, 1949.

31-32=63 on par-72 Grossinger, New York; broke record of Sam Snead, Lew Worsham and Lloyd Mangrum, 1952

Sixty-four with Jerry Zalkind at Glenbard Country Club, Chicago, March 31, (first day out on par-72 course, broke record of George Dawson, the great amateur vice-president of A. G. Spaulding), 1944.

Seven rounds of eighteen-hole golf from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Not running-just proving infallible mental routine; 69, 66, 67, 66, 67, 68, 67, Bunker Hill Country Club, 1940.

Seven birdies in succession at Golfmoor Country Club; broke Walter Hagen's record with 64, 1932

Sixty-four, Timber Trails (wooded fairways) to win Visking event, 1938.

Sixty-three, Elmhurst Country Club to win National Furniture Championship, 1939.

Sixty-five, Westward Ho Country Club to win National Tool and Die, 1939.

Sixty-nine or under almost every round of professional career.

Answer 3

Of course you realize that he most likely never did any of those things.