In case you missed it, the U.S. Open is going to a fifth day on Monday as Tiger Woods hit a 12-foot birdie putt (that nearly missed the hole) on the 18th hole to force a playoff with 45-year-old Rocco Mediate. It was another memorable fourth round on Sunday. Tiger entered up a shot, but [...]
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Tiger Woods, wrong again
Tiger Woods said last year at Oakmont, site of the 2007 US Open, that no 10-handicapper could break 100 at the course. I don’t know what a 10-handicapper is, and I don’t care. All I know is that this statement, like his comment this week that nobody watches hockey anymore, has effectively been proven wrong. [...]
Tiger Woods is an idiot
During a teleconference on Monday promoting the PGA Championship, which is being held at Oakland Hills in suburban Detroit in August, Tiger Woods was asked (perhaps by a Detroit-area reporter?) if he was rooting for Detroit or Pittsburgh in the Stanley Cup finals. Woods laughed, then replied, “I don’t really care. Let’s talk about the [...]
The Masters, Day 4
NOTE from a confused writer: I don’t know why this didn’t show up on Sunday night, but here it is, late and not-at-all timely! *********** As I watched the final round of the Masters from a sunny but windy Augusta, I keep writing on stray bits of paper things like “Tiger horrible tee shot on [...]
The Masters, Day 3
Except for English football, because I love hearing them use words like “insouciant” while describing a touchline pass, I never listen to announcers while watching sports; I turn the sound off and listen to music instead. The only downside is that I have to rely on the onscreen graphics for stats. The third day of [...]
The Masters, Day 2
One of the things that always cracks me up about sports is the concept of Anointed Ones. The Anointed Ones are people or teams or nations that are considered so superior to their competition that it’s almost akin to kicking a basket of puppies to have them play their supposedly inferior competition. Case in point: [...]
The Masters, Day 1
Let’s get what most sports fans care about out of the way at the beginning: Tiger Woods shot an even par 72, which puts him four shots off the top of the heap at the Masters in August, Georgia. In his previous four wins at the Masters, he’s been behind by at least three shots [...]
Tiger loses; Goosen rubs it in
Yes, there are haters even in golf. Tiger Woods lost his first PGA match since September 3. That was almost seven months ago. He finished two shots back Monday morning in the rain-delayed completion of the final round at Doral. It seems there’s always some two-bit golfer ready to pile on when Woods loses (and, [...]
I love watching Tiger roar
I’m not a huge golf fan per se. I enjoy playing it, despite the lack of birdies in my game. I enjoy watching a good, close match. But when Tiger Woods is in the hunt on a Sunday, it’s must-see TV for me. I’d take it over an NBA playoff game or the Wimbledon finals. [...]
Golf loses popularity
The most e-mailed story on the New York Times website Thursday dealt with the declining popularity of golf among the masses. Fewer people are playing, citing money and the time it takes to play a round. Jim Kass, the research director of the National Golf Foundation, an industry group, said the gradual but prolonged slump [...]
The Great American (horse) Race
I had fun watching the Daytona 500 on Sunday. Lots of horse races prepares you a little for auto-racing. The strategies are fairly similar. After the horses leave the gate, the drivers — er, jockeys — save their mounts for the final craziness as they’re peeling out of the final turn. So the last 10 [...]
Kidd’s bad year; ‘Zona leaves two on the court; Favre returning
- It’s been a bad year for Jason Kidd. Maybe he thinks he’s a Detroit Piston and it’s 1989. – I don’t know what’s worse about this story: That the Oregon State women’s basketball team needed double overtime to beat an Arizona team with only four players, that Arizona finished with only two players on [...]
Quick Hits: Concussion, female fans, NFL Week 2
A front-page article on the New York Times takes a look at concussions in high school football. According to a study by Scarborough Sports Marketing, Pittsburgh has more female sports fans than any other American city; it’s followed by Green Bay, Buffalo, Cincinnati and Kansas City. Woody Austin, paired with Tiger Woods in the third [...]
The FedEx Crap?
It was supposed to be a must-see end-of-season month-long tournament that determined the annual world champion of golf. Instead, the FedEx Cup has become the butt of jokes and is over two days before the final round. Entering this final event, only five golfers had a technical chance to win the championship, only three of [...]
Who knew – you can get a DUI while driving a golf cart
‘Caddyshack’ is widey regarded as not only one of the top sports-comedies of all time, and not only one of the top sports-films of all time, but one of the top comedies of all time. But one of the movie’s big names, gopher-chasing Bill Murray, likely isn’t laughing too hard (or maybe he is) after [...]
Golfing in the Catskills
Jim has been trying to get me to visit the Catskills with him and his brother for years. I finally did it this past weekend and was blown away. For those in New York City, I dare say it’s a “must” to wind down after a long, hectic week of work. In the small village [...]