As I’m sure I’ve said before, I’m in 3 golf clubs here in town. Two of them have year long match play tournaments and the last player standing is the club champ. I’ve been trying to get TO the club champ match in one particular club for 4 years. Somehow I made it this year.
Tomorrow is the 27 hole match play final. It comes two days after I registered one of my worst rounds of the year (82). It will be me against a former pro who is as cool as a block of ice. Not a long hitter, but very steady. He’ll try to par me to death and hope I make mistakes. I’m going to really have a hard time controlling my nerves as even typing this post I feel them.
I know I’m going to have some knee knocker swings and putts, but so will my opponent. In my opinion match play is the purest and most exciting form of golf. Hopefully I’ll still think that way after my match tomorrow.
A report will follow.
Who is leading the Reno-Tahoe Open? Who cares? It’s more entertaining to see who missed the cut: Azinger goes 69/81? Duval goes 82/77 (he’s only 28 shots from the lead).
Tiger, Vijay, Phil and many other top tier players at the NEC Invitational, where they’re bombing drives in the 375-400+ range.
Tiger and Luke Donald are atop the leaderboard but only because of a sloppy finish by Tiger. Vijay and DLIII also gagged their way down the stretch.
How about Tiger’s shirt today? First I thought he was wearing a vest. Then it looked like he wasn’t. Then it looked like he was. Tiger kept messing with his sleeves and it did look like the sleeves were not quite right for him. The yellow-white-yellow gradient just wasn’t working for me either.
There was only one gallery member today. He was quiet and quite friendly. I think he was hungry though…
I just barely got over the sadness of MJonGolf’s hanging up his golf blogger shoes. Now he’s back, with a clear mission: “to help golfers achieve their full potential, and highest level of enjoyment, by teaching Moe Norman’s single-axis swing and properly fitting them to their equipment.”
Best of luck MJ. Glad to see you back. You’re back on the blogroll.
Go visit MJ…now.
My kids and I finally went through the HUNDREDS of golf balls we’ve found over the last couple of weeks here on the course. I’m living on the #17th fairway for about 2-4 more weeks 🙁
These two particular balls seemed interesting. The Nike ball is obviously some kind of prototype. Perhaps they try some stuff with different prototypes and give them numbers. Then they wait for feedback from the testers and cross reference the numbers with the tester’s opinions… Sounds logical.
The Spalding ball I can’t believe we found. This course we’re on is only about 4-5 years old. But this ball is considerably older than that. And was someone playing this thing? No wonder they lost it. It’s so oblong it wouldn’t fly straight with a 120mph tail wind.
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