On the drive over to a 1-2 game the other night, Gene said that he wasn't going to play anything other than premium hands -- and he didn't -- even in a heads-up battle with the tightest poker player in Texas, he chose not to shove in $10 or $20 to protect his top-top."I just stuck to my gameplan," he reflected.
John Van de Velde stuck to his gameplan at the British Open's last hole in 1999. All he needed to win the tournament was a 7 on the hole. But he took out his driver on the teebox, and after about half-an-hour of the weirdest golf ever televised, he finished with an 8. All his trouble was caused by his failure to adjust to the situation -- the goal was to win, he needed to change his club and shot selection to play more conservatively and take advantage of his cushion.
And Gene should have played that hand more loosely. He should have been more pragmatic. But "pragmatic" is seldom used to describe people without cardsense-- even less often than French golfers.
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