Sentences with phrase «best ball striking»

Brendan: Spieth is having arguably the best ball striking season of anyone in the world and coming off a win and nice long break.

This has been Spieth's best ball striking year in his career, but his putting has not been up to his own standards.

Not exact matches

To be fair he had one of his worst games of the season today, he was neither winning the ball, holding the ball, passing well or striking well.

So surprised was I at how good I was striking the ball that I broke my cardinal rule and devoted a half bucket to my driver simply to witness the seven balls that were smoked 330 yards to the end of the range into the high grass fronting the irrigation lake.

But it was still a mostly frustrating four days at Erin Hills, where Spieth struck the ball pretty well but could not make anything up on its perfect greens.

The numbers also show that Pavin is striking the ball well.

Today interested me, we pressed collectively and very well, forcing Stoke into mistake after mistake, but it was more than that, we saw Cazorla, Coquelin even Koscielny striking from far out, I think I counted 5 or 6 times where we just played the simple ball over the top looking for Walcott, it will be interesting to see if this was just a one off, desperate as we were to get a goal at home.

A weak pop up to RF and two k's swinging at breaking balls well out of the zone and another on a called strike.

Can't chuba akpom come from bench... i wud feel we shud give kid a chance... plus if we are to go 4 a «WC» striker we should first sell giroud... coz den he is of no use... coz wud prefer walcot any time coz of his pace and welbz coz he can hold up the ball in front «like» giroud plus he is a better runner nd confident his striking can only get better... 4 me giroud is of no use to dis team coz we are developing into more of a counter-attacking type wid help player like coq available... so better first get a DM which shud be our prime requirement....

Opened the scoring with a well - taken goal — although his shot was deflected, he showed excellent composure to control a loose ball and get a decent strike on target.

The 25 - year - old netted his first strike for England as he made a great connection on a loose ball just outside the box after good play on the left by Danny Rose.

He insisted that it be designed to feature a larger striking surface area to increase the sweet spot, as well as a stud system that gives greater control when dribbling and rolling the ball.

With a change in instructors and a retooled swing, Phil Mickelson is striking the ball better than ever, as evidenced by his impressive victory against the strongest field in the game at the Players

The pitch had a swinging - strike rate of 11.8 %, well below average for a put - away breaking ball.

He should have the ability to strike a ball cleanly almost every - time by now, but he's letting his endorphins get the better of him.

Soccer Camp program provides the opportunity for student athletes to become familiar with the St. Francis soccer program and to train in individual soccer techniques on the ball as well as striking and tactical awareness.

All season, Spieth's ball striking has been among, if not the best on Tour.

Well, they don't miss a ball, and they never strike out!»

While it is true that you don't want to see players just walking all over umpires, there's a better way to do that than giving a player the quick hook — especially when the player didn't verbally argue balls and strikes.

He'll need as good, if not better, ball striking on Friday and have to find something with the putter.

He took a touch to bring the ball to the proper height in front of him, before leathering a strike towards goal from well outside the box.

But his movement with the ball struck me as better.

Woods, who failed to parlay decent ball - striking into anything better than a 3 - over 75 score on Thursday at the PGA Championship, started out on track, with a par on his first hole, the par - 4 10th on the links - style course on Lake Michigan.

«Struck the ball really well, something that we've been working hard on,» Horschel said.

Marr, despite striking the ball well, was unable to convert any of three penalties in the first 25 minutes, with one striking an upright.

He's not struck the ball particularly well at the majors, although he did say that came together better than it has in a long time at The Open.

The program provides the opportunity for student athletes to become familiar with the St. Francis soccer program and to train in individual soccer techniques on the ball as well as striking and tactical awareness.

In high school I had a good breaking ball; I used to throw it for a strike with a 3 - 1 count.

Picking up the ball well inside his own half, Charlie Adam unleashed an almighty strike which sailed over Thibaut Courtois from well over 50 years, a picture - book effort.

Higuain is better than Welbeck in three areas: Holding the ball, finishing, striking the ball from short and long distance

«I'm hitting the ball great, which is what I've really been working on the past couple weeks, trying to get more consistent and better ball - striking, better control of it.»

He also strikes the ball cleanly, brings it out from the back well, and he can play on both the right and left.»

Another reason why the Arsenal man's was favoured could well be that his goal was boosted by the ball striking the underside of the bar, giving the goalkeeper much less chance of denying the goal, but United fans refuse to accept the decision.

Mike Davis (a.195 hitter, well below the Mendoza line and with more K's than hits that year) behind on the count a ball and two strikes with two outs and the bases empty... Eck, a strike away from the win, somehow finds a way to walk him.

Wesley Hoedt fires in a well - struck, left - footed shot from distance, but Petr Čech is again equal to it, flying to his right to push the ball wide.

Small physically, Manu is deceptively tough and as well as providing a killer through - ball for others, he isn't shy of shooting himself — his perfectly - placed strike won the final Manchester derby at Platt Lane in October 2014.

Vladislav Ignatjev sliced wide when Manuel Fernandes held the ball up well, Koke offering Guilherme a comfortable save from a curling 25 - yard strike at the other end.

He struck it well enough, and Bunn's hand was too weak to keep the ball out.

But back came Bournemouth and, with the game entering its final quarter of an hour, Forster made another good save to keep out Josh King's strike, with the ball rebounding out for a goal - kick off Callum Wilson.

There were chances to double the lead — the best of the bunch arrived on 57 minutes when Navas delivered an excellent ball to the back post only for Kevin De Bruyne to strike the bar.

Town's lead could well have been three heading into the interval, but despite magnificently dogged tenacity to win the ball back in the centre of the park from Jonathan Hogg and Aaron Mooy, Rajiv van La Parra couldn't make the most of a useful touch and struck tamely into the palms of Gomes between the sticks.

He didn't strike the ball particularly well, Bendtner, but the accuracy of the shot meant it snuck past Scott Carson in the West Brom goal.

Olivier Giroud had Arsenal's best chance to equalise when he received the ball with his back to goal and turned well before striking his shot against the outside of the post, as the visitors threatened to punish United's profligacy.

This is really a big matter that tricked all Arsenal fans including myself whether these two lads are relieble or not.To me Rosicky's injury wasnt so terifying except the fact that he needed a long 18 months to recover, anyway i still beleive he can still do what he used to do, i prefer him more than Nasri as he is more faster and he's got a good striking force when he hits the ball, to sum it up, he used to be one of my favorite, Lets see whats gonna happen!!!! As for Dudu, the terifying action of the injury cant still get out of my mind, it seems like it was my own leg, so thats why im always fearfull!!

The improving Christian Benteke played a square ball to the winger on the edge of the area from where his well - struck shot flew beyond goalkeeper David De Gea via a significant deflection off Victor Lindelof.

Standing at five - foot - nine, he isn't the tallest player and is instead at his best when deployed behind a larger, stronger strike partner to hold up the ball for him to run onto and find space around rather than play as the sort of target man or «nine - and - a-half» that can play as a lone forward in the heart of a front three.

However, despite that high profile strike against the Spaniard, the Brazilian's ability on ball would be better served in the thick of the transition between winning back possession and taking it forward on the counter, as the pitch and his passing options open up ahead of him.

«And he can strike a ball so well.

If that strike highlighted his deft movements and good finishing, his second on the day was all about composure as he pounced on a loosed ball in a crowded area, balanced himself before poking a low finish into the bottom corner.

The England international then stung the palms of Lloris with a well - struck drive, but the goalkeeper could not hold on to the ball, which dropped invitingly for Roberto Firminio, waiting six yards from goal.