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Ok, so Ben Crane has been hitting every fairway and every green, but here he drives it into the right rough because the ball doesn’t draw enough. Let’s look at the video to see why. No, let’s don’t, because anyone with any sense or knowledge of video and golf instruction will tell you that you can’t see why a ball goes a few yards off line. Sure, if you know where the ball went you can make up a reason after the fact, but give every announcer a blind test (here’s the swing, where’d it go?) and they would all fail because YOU CAN’T TELL. On any given day the swings of any good player are essentially identical, and if there is any type of anomaly the ball could go left just as easily as right, because the hands control the face at impact and it is too fast to see. This fact, however, will never be part of the lexicon of TV golf, because there is space and time to be filled, and every ego maniacal announcer will swear that they can pick out the exact reason why the shot missed (“see, the face was open at impact…he really got ahead of that one…didn’t really finish that backswing…just turned that right hand over as he was striking it…blah, blah, blah…)