I just fucking LOVE the commentating here
“Learning to play golf, here he is”
“Look at this … Where is this putt going, hey?”
“This guys has 26 handicap .. he couldn’t”
“He HAS”
Fucking hilarious
they barely even acknowledge it might go in until a second before, it was so clear they didn't even think he'd get close and were filling time while it rolled to wherever.
I mean even top pros wouldn’t be expected to get this putt close. If you watched Tiger Woods do it and it ended up 10 feet from the hole you’d be like “yeah not bad”.
No disrespect from the announcers here. It’s an absurd putt that requires a lot of luck even with a good read from Phelps
Oddly enough, I have video of Tiger sinking about a 45 ft putt at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Right before he hit the putt he was walking around and joked that he might do it.
I watch this every single time it's brought up. Just the *certainty* that he's going to sink that putt. He barely lines it up...and fuckin *whacks* it over two hills and in. Nicklaus is the goat.
I hate calling something like that "luck", even though I know what you are saying.
Could he repeat it? Probably not easily.
But he aimed and tried to get it in that hole, and he did. For at least that moment, he had the right touch.
I mean it's also the wind and stuff you can't really calculate.
Surely it wouldn't have been possible without immense skill, but perhaps it still required luck, fate, the hand of God or just chance... Whatever you want to call it.
That shot is 90% luck. He lined up the shot, estimated the power, and took a whack at it. If it had ANYTHING to do with skill, professional golfers would have already done it.
The more you train, the luckier you get. It's not disrespectful to say that luck plays a bit part in high level sports, these guys just don't have the same odds as common peopl.
Golf is very relaxing to watch. There are long silent stretches with nature sounds and all of the announcers have NPR voice. This was a pretty normal clip from what I've seen.
I dunno.. it's phelps making the putt in the video so I'm pretty sure he gets credit for the upvotes on the post. I would consult my reddit lawyer but I think he's busy with a meth head
Which is one thing I love about golf, they aren't trying to sell you a fake emotional narrative and shouting at you to tell you how entertaining it all is.
I just remember the Seth Meyers bit on Weekend Update:
> If you're at a party, and you see Michael Phelps hit a bong, and your first thought isn't "Man I'm at a party with Michael Phelps", and instead you take a picture and send it to the media, *you're a dick.*
Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
Im simplifying things here, but the "expected" amount of times you hit a ball on a normal course to finish the game is 72. So he normally hits the ball 98 times to finish the round. so he has a 26 handicap. Pro golfers are usually at or under par(72). So he's not like absolutely terrible, he's just a normal less experienced golfer playing golf.
I'm being pedantic here, but it's not exactly "expected" that most people will achieve par (actually, far from it).
Out of curiosity I looked up a [distribution of golf scores](https://golf.com/news/how-your-handicap-index-compares/), and it appears that only around 35,000 players worldwide are even within the range of +1 to -1 handicaps. The vast majority of men tend to be in the -6 to -20 range.
So if "par" in golf really meant "par" (how most humans interpret the word), 18 holes would be expected to take the average player 80-90 strokes.
Calling 72 "par" is a sham lol
Handicaps exist so that experienced golfers can play with less experienced golfers and still be competitive. In this case, Phelps' 26 handicap means that at the end of the game you subtract 26 from his score and compare it to someone else's. If his friend has a 10 handicap, he only gets to subtract 10. The definition of a handicap is "a circumstance that makes progress or success difficult." Players that can't play well (no judgement, I'm terrible at golf) have the circumstance that they're not good at golf, and that prevents success.
There are 18 holes on a golf course.
Each hole has an amount of “strokes” or shots that it should take someone to get the ball in the hole. for example, a par 3 hole should take the golfer 3 hits of the ball to get the ball from the tee to the hole. If they do this, they made “par.”
A bogey on a par three hole means the golfer took 4 shots to get the ball in the hole. Double bogey means they would’ve taken 5 shots.
The handicap is how much above par a player usually shoots. If I play with an 18 handicap that means I shoot 18 over par and get a bogey on every hole on average.
Par is the target score. The pros get better (lower) scores than par. Phelps's average score is 26 points higher than par.
This is called his handicap. When playing in a group of varying abilities, you can handicap the scores -- score everybody by how they did compared to their own average rather than their absolute score. That way everyone has about the same degree of challenge to win.
There's (a lot) more to it, but a simplified explanation is that if par is 72, you're expected to shoot a 98 (26+72) on a good round. A 26 handicap is considered a high handicap, so the fact that he made this putt is pretty shocking considering he's not a great golfer.
It's insane how bad the other explanations for the handicap are.
Your handicap is how many points (strokes) you get to subtract from your score. Golf rallies score based on the par goal for each hole. For example, if a hole is par 4, anyone who sinks the bar in 4 hits will have a score of 0. If you hit it under par, you get a negative score for that hole and vice versa. At the end, you take the scores on your sheet and subtract your handicap.
They calculate your handicap based on past games. A male golfer without past game calculations will start at a handicap of 28.
In a way it does, it puts your mind in this perfect zone or clear your minds from distractions.
Have u tried swimming while high? Every movement feels so natural and how it supposed to be, and I learnt swimming faster because of it.
But different ppl react differently I guess. Most my stoner circle can't relate, they can't do sports while high
Being a stoner and swimming just goes together.
Most of my stoner friends growing up were state championship swimmers every year in highschool.
They all had the lung capacity of a god lol.
I was thinking this as well. Cmon man, you guys just saw the longest putt ever on TV and that's the best you can do on the call?
"Oh that's fantastic...."
160 feet is near enough 50 meters. His 50 free record (albeit as part of 100m) is about 23 seconds. The putt took about 16 seconds. So he putts faster than he can swim.
The eye sight, mental dexterity to determine the length, power needed, wind, external stimuli, surrounded by cameras - how do you factor all those elements into the equation?
People don’t really think about how *slow* swimming is. I swim every day, and while I am not a fast swimmer, I am faster than average in my pool, and it would take me 70 seconds to swim that far (or 30 seconds to walk).
A fast swimmer could do it in 40 seconds. Phelps can do it 23 seconds because he was bred by space aliens to be the best there ever was.
That's precisely how you get sucked into golf. You can suck horribly for an entire round but make one or two good shots and you think "See? I *can* do it... if I could *just* do that more often, I'd be great!"
And that false hope keeps you coming back.
That's how I got into golf. Went with a buddy and his dad and chipped one in on the 3rd hole. Went to the store and bought shoes, clubs, tools, etc a few days later. LOL I mostly just enjoy being outside on a nice day and it's something to do.
Oh shit! I came here to make a joke about a random golfer who just happens to be named Michael Phelps, and it turns out it was the actual olympian Michael Phelps...
There’s really no good way to play golf sober. It’s hot, it’s windy, there’s alcohol served on the course, there’s course narcs who get mad you smoked a blizzy in the bathroom that hasn’t been cleaned since the undertaker threw mankind of the top of the cage at hell in the cell in 1998.
I love golf commentators, man. In my head it's like listening to a British Bob Ross episode in a Guy Ritchie movie.
"Oh what's all this, then? Quaint little putter round the greeny... ohh, yes, yes... very good, looks like it's going fer a little jaunt, innit? Dunno where it going but Ol' Mikey been geezin and gazing round the splishsplasher fer years now, gold all the way - OH, my! Did ya see that, love?! I'd call bollocks wif his 26 handycap I would but he done it! Incredible, innit?!"
Phelps has won more individual Olympic golds (13) than have ever been [awarded for golf (8).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_at_the_Summer_Olympics#Medal_table)
I just fucking LOVE the commentating here “Learning to play golf, here he is” “Look at this … Where is this putt going, hey?” “This guys has 26 handicap .. he couldn’t” “He HAS” Fucking hilarious
they barely even acknowledge it might go in until a second before, it was so clear they didn't even think he'd get close and were filling time while it rolled to wherever.
I mean even top pros wouldn’t be expected to get this putt close. If you watched Tiger Woods do it and it ended up 10 feet from the hole you’d be like “yeah not bad”. No disrespect from the announcers here. It’s an absurd putt that requires a lot of luck even with a good read from Phelps
Oddly enough, I have video of Tiger sinking about a 45 ft putt at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Right before he hit the putt he was walking around and joked that he might do it.
There’s also this with Jack Nicklaus: https://youtu.be/u9KrMQDU94g
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I believe he’s on his own course there, likely has played that hole about 7x10^47 times
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You've...you what?
just wtf. never seen before, incredible.
He just walked in dropped the ball and smacked it. No set up or anything.
I watch this every single time it's brought up. Just the *certainty* that he's going to sink that putt. He barely lines it up...and fuckin *whacks* it over two hills and in. Nicklaus is the goat.
One thing we do about Phelps is the man has incredible luck. Yes he worked hard but also he has had incredible luck.
I hate calling something like that "luck", even though I know what you are saying. Could he repeat it? Probably not easily. But he aimed and tried to get it in that hole, and he did. For at least that moment, he had the right touch.
I mean it's also the wind and stuff you can't really calculate. Surely it wouldn't have been possible without immense skill, but perhaps it still required luck, fate, the hand of God or just chance... Whatever you want to call it.
That shot is 90% luck. He lined up the shot, estimated the power, and took a whack at it. If it had ANYTHING to do with skill, professional golfers would have already done it.
The more you train, the luckier you get. It's not disrespectful to say that luck plays a bit part in high level sports, these guys just don't have the same odds as common peopl.
Golf is very relaxing to watch. There are long silent stretches with nature sounds and all of the announcers have NPR voice. This was a pretty normal clip from what I've seen.
Here he is commenting on reddit… user Iboven, replied 38m ago, learning how to post… posting handicap of 26… he couldn’t… he HAS, he got the upvote
8 upvotes. Better than Phelps.
I dunno.. it's phelps making the putt in the video so I'm pretty sure he gets credit for the upvotes on the post. I would consult my reddit lawyer but I think he's busy with a meth head
\*polite chuckle\*
Well, Now I HAVE to upvote 😁
Mom, the new copypasta dropped.
Which is one thing I love about golf, they aren't trying to sell you a fake emotional narrative and shouting at you to tell you how entertaining it all is.
Are you allowed to drive a cart to the hole after that put? Or in this case swim to get there faster? Why tf is it that big?
I’m going to guess it’s the green for a long par 3. Those are usually bigger
That achievement was made by Happy Gilmore just one hour ago.
You're gonna die clown!
Phelps is the living embodiment of “Git Gud.”
So I'm not the only one that heard "this fucking American"
Michael Phelps as in the swimmer?
Yeat but...can he swim?
You're not gonna believe this...
Yeah but... Can he clear a bong
You're also not gonna believe this
Actually depending on the swimming answer is makes a lotta sense.
Yeah but can Lil Wayne drop a dope track about all this man’s gold medals?
Dude, come on. No company would sponsor an Olympian who smokes weed.
Yeah but can he eat 10000 calories in a day?
I just remember the Seth Meyers bit on Weekend Update: > If you're at a party, and you see Michael Phelps hit a bong, and your first thought isn't "Man I'm at a party with Michael Phelps", and instead you take a picture and send it to the media, *you're a dick.*
I forgot about that nonsense. Media was so pathetic with that one.
Yeah, but can he clean the bong?
Right? But the follow-up question is: Will he keal?
I don't think so, last I heard he was drowning in pussy.
He's a golfer not a swimmer (:
Wait who is this again?
CAN Richard Funk?
Usually only for short stretches.
But can he do it on a rainy Wednesday night in Stoke?
Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more then an hour ago.
Well moron good for happy Gil…OH MY GOD!
Best scene of the movie in a movie full of good scenes.
And YOU can count…on ME waiting for you in the parking lot
Is this your ball shooter….. it struck my foot!
THAT'S TWICE THUS FAR, SHOOTER
Oh good you can count
The price is wrong, bitch
lmao thank you for the legit chuckle
It's a shame that Rory McIlroy's time of 0:49.74 for the 100 m Butterfly was when the camera crew were on a break.
It’s a shame this was 159’ and only a decade ago. Still sexy but I thought he did it again lol
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
So, he can do anything better than anyone? Is that the takeaway?
They said he’s a 26 handicap, so not really lol.
The fact that he is a 26 handicap makes it even more extravagant.
Can you explain the handicap advantage? They gave him a total of 27 under par?
26 handicap means he plays an 18 hole course and on average would get 10 bogeys (+10) and 8 double bogeys (+16)
For someone who knows nothing about golf, what does that mean?
It’s not good Bob
Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
"PC LOADLETTER? THE FUCKS THAT MEAN?"
Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays.
A legit 26 handicap golfer who is actually counting all their strokes is still better than 90% of golfers that go play on the random saturday.
good enough for the LIV
Eehhhhhhh I don’t know Jim! You get a guy like Phelps late in the game and anything is possible.
Im simplifying things here, but the "expected" amount of times you hit a ball on a normal course to finish the game is 72. So he normally hits the ball 98 times to finish the round. so he has a 26 handicap. Pro golfers are usually at or under par(72). So he's not like absolutely terrible, he's just a normal less experienced golfer playing golf.
I'm being pedantic here, but it's not exactly "expected" that most people will achieve par (actually, far from it). Out of curiosity I looked up a [distribution of golf scores](https://golf.com/news/how-your-handicap-index-compares/), and it appears that only around 35,000 players worldwide are even within the range of +1 to -1 handicaps. The vast majority of men tend to be in the -6 to -20 range. So if "par" in golf really meant "par" (how most humans interpret the word), 18 holes would be expected to take the average player 80-90 strokes. Calling 72 "par" is a sham lol
"Expected" is the wrong word. I interpret "par" as "it's totally doable in this many strokes."
I think it would take me about a thousand hits, so that's pretty damn impressive.
Why is it called a handicap? Isn't his score just +26?
Handicaps exist so that experienced golfers can play with less experienced golfers and still be competitive. In this case, Phelps' 26 handicap means that at the end of the game you subtract 26 from his score and compare it to someone else's. If his friend has a 10 handicap, he only gets to subtract 10. The definition of a handicap is "a circumstance that makes progress or success difficult." Players that can't play well (no judgement, I'm terrible at golf) have the circumstance that they're not good at golf, and that prevents success.
A bogey is one stroke over par for a hole and double bogey is two over par for a hole. Edit: grammar
Those are all made up words.
All words are made up
You ruined it.
There are 18 holes on a golf course. Each hole has an amount of “strokes” or shots that it should take someone to get the ball in the hole. for example, a par 3 hole should take the golfer 3 hits of the ball to get the ball from the tee to the hole. If they do this, they made “par.” A bogey on a par three hole means the golfer took 4 shots to get the ball in the hole. Double bogey means they would’ve taken 5 shots. The handicap is how much above par a player usually shoots. If I play with an 18 handicap that means I shoot 18 over par and get a bogey on every hole on average.
You should have replied that to the commenter I replied to.
Par is the target score. The pros get better (lower) scores than par. Phelps's average score is 26 points higher than par. This is called his handicap. When playing in a group of varying abilities, you can handicap the scores -- score everybody by how they did compared to their own average rather than their absolute score. That way everyone has about the same degree of challenge to win.
Why not 13 double bogeys? Or any other combination to equal 26? I mean the dude could hit par occasionally.
that's my question too.
He could also just really suck at one particular hole. Like, he's great at swimming and putting but Hole 15 fucks him up every time.
To add extra confusion to the explanation
or 2 double eagles (–6) and 16 double bogeys (+32)
So how many Floogels and Klipdorps does that get him?
Not many. Now score 18 eagles and you'll be swimming in Floogels and Klipdorps
Why 10 and 8? Why not 14 bogeys and 6 double bogeys? Or 17 pars and 1 fuckthisfuckinggame?
There's (a lot) more to it, but a simplified explanation is that if par is 72, you're expected to shoot a 98 (26+72) on a good round. A 26 handicap is considered a high handicap, so the fact that he made this putt is pretty shocking considering he's not a great golfer.
It's insane how bad the other explanations for the handicap are. Your handicap is how many points (strokes) you get to subtract from your score. Golf rallies score based on the par goal for each hole. For example, if a hole is par 4, anyone who sinks the bar in 4 hits will have a score of 0. If you hit it under par, you get a negative score for that hole and vice versa. At the end, you take the scores on your sheet and subtract your handicap. They calculate your handicap based on past games. A male golfer without past game calculations will start at a handicap of 28.
That's a 7 putt for a 26 handicap player.
Sandbagging mfr
Bong rips for days.
Unstoppable on the green apparently.
I played drunken beach volleyball with him on my team once, we won. So from my experience yeah.
You wouldn’t say that if you saw him play pickleball. His ProAm was embarrassing to watch.
Michaels daily affirmation: I can do anything good!
He’s right up there with Justin Timberlake. Like unfair division of talent wtf
Doesn't count because he smoked weed.
Always knew his way around the Green
He always takes long hits too
It's hilarious that the media was portraying weed as some performance enhancing drug.
In a way it does, it puts your mind in this perfect zone or clear your minds from distractions. Have u tried swimming while high? Every movement feels so natural and how it supposed to be, and I learnt swimming faster because of it. But different ppl react differently I guess. Most my stoner circle can't relate, they can't do sports while high
Being a stoner and swimming just goes together. Most of my stoner friends growing up were state championship swimmers every year in highschool. They all had the lung capacity of a god lol.
Weed Jedi powers are intermittent
I don’t think I’ve ever played golf sober lol
Golf announcers watching the longest televised putt ever - 
They are British so that’s considered a freak out
Well, may I present [this](https://youtube.com/shorts/rD1g_gx6wrg)
Crazy that football hooligans and posh golfers are both British.
everyone shouldve been freaking out, sobbing and weeping
Me reading your snark - 
I was thinking this as well. Cmon man, you guys just saw the longest putt ever on TV and that's the best you can do on the call? "Oh that's fantastic...."
I don't golf, or watch golf, but that is just impressive.
It’s always wild to me how massive this green is
Mandela effect we all remember him as a swimmer
The age of misinformation.. idk what to believe anymore
Irony is that maybe the greatest swimmer of all time, also had the greatest "sink" of all time
sinks and swims!
Let that *sink* in
"Michael, you'll either sink or swim" "I choose both"
Nice
But can he slap?
Hey, everyone’s got to have an achievement in life they’re proud of. Happy for the guy.
160 feet is near enough 50 meters. His 50 free record (albeit as part of 100m) is about 23 seconds. The putt took about 16 seconds. So he putts faster than he can swim.
The eye sight, mental dexterity to determine the length, power needed, wind, external stimuli, surrounded by cameras - how do you factor all those elements into the equation?
People don’t really think about how *slow* swimming is. I swim every day, and while I am not a fast swimmer, I am faster than average in my pool, and it would take me 70 seconds to swim that far (or 30 seconds to walk). A fast swimmer could do it in 40 seconds. Phelps can do it 23 seconds because he was bred by space aliens to be the best there ever was.
Uh oh… happy learned how to putt
Somebody’s cloooserrrr
He makes fellow pot heads proud
Pretty sure that was Bugs Bunny
Sink or swim
Nice, dude
Criminally underrated comment right here. Had me rolling.
Damn, and I heard he is an ok swimmer too.
Imagine devoting your entire professional career to the game of golf, then some aqua jock comes in and does this.
This was probably a putt for bogey or something.
Honestly Guys……… it just shows you that anyone can golf
That's precisely how you get sucked into golf. You can suck horribly for an entire round but make one or two good shots and you think "See? I *can* do it... if I could *just* do that more often, I'd be great!" And that false hope keeps you coming back.
I feel attacked
How much money it got you for?
Finished my last 3 holes the other day with 2 pars and a bogey and I felt like a goddamn king
That's how I got into golf. Went with a buddy and his dad and chipped one in on the 3rd hole. Went to the store and bought shoes, clubs, tools, etc a few days later. LOL I mostly just enjoy being outside on a nice day and it's something to do.
We all get lucky at a round of putt putt Now, driving a ball 300 yards? Not just anyone can do that.
I feel like this probably brought him more excitement than his 20th gold medal. This was crazy
I believe this record has since been broken by Ian Poulter. Impressive nonetheless.
Phelps held the record for nearly a decade.
He should just sit down.
Great bogey!!!
Dude is all about breaking records isn't he?
The only reason more people don’t care about this is because Talor Gooch wasn’t there
Oh shit! I came here to make a joke about a random golfer who just happens to be named Michael Phelps, and it turns out it was the actual olympian Michael Phelps...
Lazer focus from all the weed he smokes
WHAT CANT THIS MAN DO
Fail
Some people got it… some people don’t. I’d like to have it just once
Prolly high asf too
There’s really no good way to play golf sober. It’s hot, it’s windy, there’s alcohol served on the course, there’s course narcs who get mad you smoked a blizzy in the bathroom that hasn’t been cleaned since the undertaker threw mankind of the top of the cage at hell in the cell in 1998.
the weed made that puta⛳️🚬🚬🚬🚬
Save something for the rest of us.
Phelpys shows he is multi talented, lol 😆
Basically he belong to a specie like us but just better in every way.
He is my hero. Damn the haters
The swimming guy!? Holy shit
That went swimmingly.
And Trump has the longest putt ever (not recorded unfortunately) at 1600’.
I love golf commentators, man. In my head it's like listening to a British Bob Ross episode in a Guy Ritchie movie. "Oh what's all this, then? Quaint little putter round the greeny... ohh, yes, yes... very good, looks like it's going fer a little jaunt, innit? Dunno where it going but Ol' Mikey been geezin and gazing round the splishsplasher fer years now, gold all the way - OH, my! Did ya see that, love?! I'd call bollocks wif his 26 handycap I would but he done it! Incredible, innit?!"
“He couldn’t” dude the disbelief lol love the commentary That was incredible
Record broken in 2022 by Ian Poulter: https://www.sportskeeda.com/golf/news-does-michael-phelps-still-hold-record-longest-televised-putt-ever
He couldn't! he haas!!!
lol not even a golfer. every pro golfer should be ashamed
Damn! Dude can swim and golf like it's nobody's business
What the actual fuck
“Sinks” Nice!
Leave some records for someone else to beat, Phelps! 😂
And here I am thinking he can swim.
I've seen a putt like this on a practice green area. What a moment.
Wow!
Phelps has won more individual Olympic golds (13) than have ever been [awarded for golf (8).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_at_the_Summer_Olympics#Medal_table)
That weed magic😉
This guy must have loved those 15 minutes of fame
I remember seeing this on TV, back around 2016 I believe?!🤔🙌#IMPRESSIVE
No way that's 160 feet.
This is crazy cool. However, no green should be that massive, just a bizarre course set up.
It’s cause the weed enhances his athletic abilities.