Found this on the tube today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sw61V3oIQE Check out the boyish DL3, Mark O' Meara and others. He does put a hurt on that balata ball

WOW that is fast. Looks faster than anyone on tour I can think of now, actually...

Good vid...Davis looks so much smoother now and he still gets it out there pretty good too. He hit the green in two today on that 600+ yard par 5....

Mark O'Meara looked like a baby!!!

looking at that video, i'm thinking that o'meara could be rory mcilroys father

lol so true

Gotta love this vid, it was the center of a thread a while back, but it sure is sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzJpeb7vtCY

What a sweet swing and sweet sound!

Who's the narrator? Al Pacino? He sounds like he's straight outta the Godfather.

DL3...gotta go to the mattresses!

Great Video!!!

Why is Curtis so strange???

DL3 looks 16, Markie O' looks 19... WTF!? lol!!!

Great find!!!

pmsl that is fricken awesome, very funny stuff nice find

That's the way I remember them all back then. (I'm an OLD guy)

The only thing that is missing from that vid is Curtis saying "SonaFaBitch!"

LOL I was the OP on that one too!


Yeah, he was always grumpy on the course, but nice guy when I met him in person at the Canadian Open.

Thats is a GREAT!!!! Video, thanks for digging it up. He was using a RC85 Cleveland persimmon back then.

DL III was one of the last to switch from persimmon to Titanium, he could really rip it, as much talent as anyone, if he could have made a few clutch putts under pressure he would have won several more majors.

i remember following dl3 around pleasant valley. he carried a driver then a one iron. that was back in his ping days.
ya, he got into a little trouble now and then. man he can still hit it if he wants. the amazing thing is, he has no shoulders. look at him now. but he's always had one of the widest arks for a swing. with those long arms, he generates a lot of club spead.

Great video - both in terms of Love's driving and the youthful countenance of a few other players.

I can remember first seeing Love play in person at Troon in 1989. Up until that point, Greg Norman and Fred Couples were the longest players I'd seen with a driver but it was awesome to see him crack a few drives away and he very much lived up to all the rumours that I'd heard about him being monstrously powerful. In practice, he reached the 'unreachable' bunker on the right side of the 18th (the one that Norman later found in the playoff) with consumate ease with that RC85 driver of his. He was staggeringly long through the air and, comparatively speaking, carried the ball as far as anyone I've ever seen versus the rest of the field.

It's interesting that even at a relatively advanced age he still swings the club very similarly and is as long as ever with the new equipment despite being a player who has seen the rest of the field close the distance gap thanks to the modern balls and drivers.

Now to find similar videos of Bill Glasson and Andy Bean - another couple of players who could give it a ride.

It seems to me the longer drivers of the past few decades are keeping up pretty well. Fred Couples is still a long hitter, even with back problems. Greg Norman gets it way out there too, as does Daly, even though he's not that old. Kenny Perry and Vijay are still pretty long too.

I love watching DL III strike that ball. He's a real class act.

I didn't mean to say that Curtis was grumpy. But that word was his favorite expletive said with a VA drawl. I have always been a fan of Curtis.

Before Tiger, probably the most fined player in PGA tour history. I always liked him though, too bad his game seemed to leave him after the 2nd US Open win, maybe the best player in the world for a short stretch.

Perhaps grumpy was an improper descriptor, but he always burned with a certain intensity out there didn't he. Considering that 16 of his wins were in the 1980s, who was a better player on the PGA tour during that decade (Tom Watson maybe)?

Scary resemblance.....

Not many people switched that way, everyone went to the Pittsburgh Persimon, so to speak, before the titanium.
A classic individual he is; a swing, a game and a person I've always admired and I still think he can win.

The narrator sounded like Don Rickles.

That narrator was Bob Drum, longtime writer for the Pittsburgh Press. He did a profile every week for CBS golf telecasts called "The Drummer's Beat" back in the 1980's.

He was the man that "inspired" Arnold Palmer to shoot the famous 65 in the final round of the 1960 US Open at Cherry Hills. Palmer was talking to some sportswriters before the round and said something about shooting 65 and Drum basically told him that he was too far back and it would only be good if Hogan shot it. Palmer got mad, drove the first green and the rest was history.

Go to 1:15 to hear the most beautiful sound in golf. WHOO!

Great Video! Thx for sharing. DLIII has one of those swings you could watch all day

HA HA HA.....thanks for that! Good catch!

Drum is also the guy that came up with what we now call the Grand Slam. He had this dream of being considered the best golfwriter of the era the same way that Grantland Rice had been before him, and said that he needed to write about Palmer's quest for a slam the way Rice had written about Jones and the "Impregnable Quadrilateral".

So he talked with Palmer and started pushing the tournaments that Palmer wanted to win as the four major tournaments of the year, even though most players and fans at the time did not see them that way. More than Palmer or Hogan or any player, he's the one responsible for restoring the Open Championship to prominence, at the detriment of the Western Open which most players and fans of that era considered to be the real 4th major.

DL3 played Ping what? I have watched him my entire life and don't remember that!?

He played the Eye 2 briefly before he went to Hogan then Armour.

There was a period where Ping had a lot of the guys that became big names in the game, but it didn't last long. Nick Price was another guy that was a Ping staffer in the early 1980s.

Great video. Davis had all of the requirements to drive it far. He had great width with that wide arc and high hand set, plus great speed through the ball with incredible lag. In fact, if I remember correctly, somtime in the 90s he shortened his swing and worked to minimize the lag (late release) to gain more directional control and consistency.

He has had a very nice career but is one of the biggest under-achievers ever given his talent in my opinion.

Only in the US

Ahhh... the sound of persimmon whacking a balata ball. The sweetest sound in golf. I believe he actually lost distance when he switched to a metal driver. But that was also the period when he was working to gain more control and toned down his swing.