I had 3 or 4 lame paragraphs written about Ernie Els and the Memorial this week. I nuked them. I just wasn’t feeling the joy.
The short version is I think Ernie has had a disappointing season this year, even though he’s won 3 times outside the PGA Tour.
There’s a new golf blog that just popped up called World Golf Views. It is the creation of a guy named Kevin who seems to be cool in the couple of emails I’ve had with him. He’s a sports writer of some sort.
He’s just starting out and has done his 2nd post. Hit is blog and help break in this golf blog virgin!
Hecklers rejoice! Monty has scratched his way into the US Open.
Monty finished in 11th place at the BMW which put him in the 50th position in the world rankings. 50th in the world gets an automatic berth into the US Open.
I’m sure the crowd at Pinehurst is a little more mellow than the crowd in New York or some other Open locations, but least they’ll have someone fun to heckle now.
A quick wrap up of the weekend’s pro tours. I’m calling it “Gag Central.”
PGA Tour
Justin Leonard came into Sunday with an 8 stroke lead at the St. Jude Classic. He pushed that lead to 9 strokes at one point. You could tell Justin was doing that old “playing not to lose” thing. He was playing very conservatively. He completely went away from the aggressive play that put him in the 8 stroke lead to begin with. That “prevent defense” only seems to prevent you from winning…
Meanwhile David Toms made a serious charge on the back 9 on route to a smokin’ 63. That smokin’ 63 included a water ball when he bounced his tee shot off the hard green at the par 3 11th.
Justin gagged his way into the finish line and came into the par 4 final hole with a 2 stroke lead. Trying to play safe he knocked his drive into the right fairway bunker. From there he flared his approach shot wide right of the green almost into the grandstands. After a free drop he chunked his pitch shot way short and barely two putted for the victory.
Justin narrowly avoided one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in PGA history. But it is a victory and now he’s got two this year.
Champions Tour
The 2nd gag job of the day was by Jerry Pate. All he had to do to secure the Senior PGA victory was make a 3 foot putt. Gag. He put a terrible stroke on that putt which forced a 3 way playoff between himself, Mike Reid and Dana Quigley.
Mike Reid made an amazing eagle on 18 to get himself into the playoff. He finished the job on the first playoff hole with birdie to secure the title. Jerry Pate had a similar putt on the first playoff hole to continue the playoff. Once again he put a gag stroke on it, missing terribly.
Teeing off 3 strokes behind on the 72nd hole, Mike Reid was shocked to eventually win the tournament. He’s probably not as shocked as Jerry Pate…
LPGA Tour
A person who didn’t gag Sunday was Jimin Kang. She started the final round of the LPGA Corning Classic 3 strokes behind, but fired a 66 to hold off Annika Sorenstam and Meena Lee by two strokes. Jimin Kang notched her first LPGA victory in style
European Tour
Since I seem to be covering all the major golf tours today I might as well mention that Angel Cabrera shot a 67 to take home the BMW Championship trophy. Paul McGinley was battling Cabrera down the stretch. He gagged on 16 & 17 allowing Cabrera a two shot victory.
Ernie Els tied for 39th, 15 strokes behind.
I just sold my house and now the chaos of cleaning out all my old crap has begun. I had no idea how many golf clubs I had in my basement. I’m guessing I have over 100 clubs… Years back I used to do some work for Browning/Bag Boy so I had a bunch of their gear, along with tons of other stuff.
Today I had a garage sale and it looked more like the local golf demo days. On my front grass I had 3 complete sets of irons, 3 brand new pull carts, about 15 brand new drivers, 4 putters, 5 sand wedges, 3 umbrellas, 3 golf bags, 12 dozen Nike balls and more. I was selling old dressers to the wife and throwing in a sand wedge for the husband.
This pic you are seeing is what I had left after dumping a ton of my “backup” golf gear.
Do you think this set is in violation of the 14 club limit?
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