There was NO surprise that Hale Irwin won the Turtle Bay tonight. He’s only won it 5 times in a row now.

I was surprised that Justin Leonard won the Bob Hope Chrystler Championship. The tournament was Joe Ogilvy’s to win but a 73 ruined that idea. Everyone is making a big deal out of Justin switching to Nike gear. He’s apparently one of the few who actually IMPROVES after doing that! But he made tons of putts and if you have a keen eye, his putter is a TITLEIST.

As a Ben Hogan fan, it is strange to see the swoosh on Justin’s hat.

Speaking of Nike…David Duval was 32 over after 4 rounds??? I swear I could beat him right now.

Played golf today. The weather forecast was for a high of 43 and 5mph winds. The weatherman was wrong. It was very cold, windy and for holes 2-4 it snowed. My hands were frozen.

When we got to the 5th tee I told my 3 buddies I was done. Since that hole was going back toward the clubhouse we decided to play it and see if the weather got any better. What do you know…by the time we putted out the sky was blue. It was still very cold and VERY windy though.

So we struggled through the rest of the 18 cold holes, paid our bets and went home.

It is very hard to play in those conditions. What makes it even harder is trying to make a full swing with a t-shirt, long sleeve shirt, vest, sweatshirt, and rain jacket on. Man that’s 5 layers.

It was good to make some Winter swings and hopefully stay loose. But the golf was very bad.

Golfing here tomorrow! They have a funky deal for the winter. Your green fee is 1/2 the previous day’s temperature in dollars!

7,728 yards though….give me a break.

Joe Ogilvy is -17 after two rounds. Na, these course aren’t too easy for the pros.

The Hope is basically a shootout. If you like seeing low numbers, this one is for you. But what I DON’T like is watching freaking Michael Bolton golf. I’ll have to keep my distance on this one.

The Bob Hope Chrysler Classic starts today. The pros just eat up these easy courses in this tournament. They go loooowww.

This reminds me of my favorite Gary McCord quote during this tournment a year or two ago:

“Aim low sheriff, aim low. For the midgets are riding shetland ponies.”

Tiger must be relieved. He finally won a strokeplay event after going through a 15 month dry spell. He did win one event last year but that was the match play at La Costa.

Speaking of La Costa, I’ll be doing a course review of La Costa in the reviews section of Web Country Club soon.

Luke Donald was in the unt until he pulled a drive into the left hazard. Tom Lehman was in the hunt until he made some bogies down the stretch.

Tiger was LUCKY to birdie the 18th after flaring his 2nd shot right of the greenside water hazard.

The high today was 36 with the “inversion” that we get here. It was very chilly. My buddies have contacted me and invited me to golf tomorrow (Sunday). If it is 36 again I’m going to bail. It is not that fun to hit a frozen ball with a 3i a little off center. The pain goes straight to your hands.