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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Why do I have to work
I’m getting so many emails from golf courses saying they are open for business……and I’m stuck in the office. Even though it is ridiculously windy out today, I wish I was outside with a club in my hand. In due time I guess….in due time.
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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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Feherty being Feherty
David Feherty is a CBS and Golf Channel announcer who finds very unique, colorful and uninhibited ways of explaining or describing whatever is on his mind. Below are some great quotes form this candid guy…..
“Fortunately, he (Rory) is 22 years old so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body.”
“That ball is so far left, Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.”
“I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn’t be here this week. He is attending the birth of his next wife.” Truth hurts
On his decision to give up his playing career in favor of a microphone:
“When CBS came to me and asked me to do on-course commentary, I said, ‘You know, I’m only 37, I still have hopes of [playing] a little better.’ So they told me what they were going to pay me, and I said, ‘You want to buy a set of clubs?”
On giving up alcohol:
“I didn’t quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it’s not even a challenge.”
On McCord’s recent revelation, at the annual JCC Sports Awards banquet in Vancouver, that Tiger Woods’ caddie Steve Williams and Feherty often try to outdo one another on the course in the area of flatulence, Feherty said:
“Tiger is no slouch himself: He can lay ’em down like a crop duster.”
On Gary Player’s unsubstantiated suggestion last year about use of performance-enhancing drugs in pro golf:
“Gary thinks he invented fitness because he used to do pushups on the airplane. He’s just upset because you can’t win a major any more with a low, flat hook and a Napoleon complex.”
On the 14 years since CBS colleague Gary McCord was banned from the Masters:
“They don’t do comedy at the Masters. The Masters, for me, is like holding onto a really big collection of gas for a week. It’s like having my buttocks surgically clenched at Augusta General Hospital on Wednesday, and surgically unclenched on Monday on the way to Hilton Head.”
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