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Golf Ethics
Here is a golf ethics question for you.
What if you were playing in the club championship tournament finals and the match was halved at the end of 17 holes. You had the honor and hit your ball a modest two hundred fifty yards to the middle of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron to the pin. Your opponent then hits his ball, lofting it deep into the woods to the right of the fairway.
Being the golfing gentleman that you are, you help your opponent look for his ball. Just before the permitted five-minute search period ends, your opponent says: “Go ahead and hit your second shot and if I don’t find it in time, I’ll concede the match.”
You hit your ball, landing it on the green, stopping about ten feet from the pin. About the time your ball comes to rest, you hear your opponent exclaim from deep in the woods: “I found it!”. The second sound you hear is a click, the sound of a club striking a ball and the ball comes sailing out of the woods and lands on the green, stopping no more than six inches from the hole.
Now here is the ethical dilemma:
Do you pull the cheating bastard’s ball out of your pocket and confront him with it or do you keep your mouth shut?
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2013 BMW Championship at Conway Farms….It’s official
See the article in the link below….the Western Golf Association made it official today. If the event goes well it will be back in 2015 as well. Great win for the Chicago area.
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Golf’s New #1
If you are an avid watcher of this great game, and tune in each weekend you knew that it was just a matter of time till this 22 year old would become the #1 golfer in the world. With only his 3rd PGA Tour victory (hard to believe) yesterday at the Honda Classic, Rory McIlroy took golf’s #1 ranking from fellow European Luke Donald. Even with Tiger shooting a remarkable 62 and taking the club house lead, Rory stayed poised and held onto his 2 shot lead. He was not missing anything within 5ft of the cup. Clutch putt after clutch putt. I haven’t seen this much confidence from a young golfer since, well…..Tiger.
Since Rory has been at the top of the leaderboard in the majority of the events he enters into we get to see a lot of him on TV. I have to say he has one of the most balanced swings I’ve ever seen. He swings so hard, but somehow maintains his balance, making his swing look so damn effortless and smooth. This is common for PGA players, but Rory’s swing is different…..in a good way. It really frustrates me, because when I swing hard I lose my footing at least 50% of the time. Don’t get me wrong, I know there is a huge difference between myself and a professional golfer, but it still annoys me. Just proves to me how much talent these guys really have.
Congrats to Rory, and his future sure looks bright.
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Tiger’s Putting Problems
One of my favorite sports columnists Rick Reilly just wrote a good article on Tiger’s putting problems. See the link below.
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7624365/tiger-putting-woes
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