Here’s another great read you can use to battle tryptophan. John Hawkins has this terrific, sharp analysis of the 2008 U.S. Open, a truly great tournament. I still say Winged Foot was better, even though it was a shocker ending, not a happy one, but still equally mesmorizing.
Here, enjoy my bonus piece on the same topic.
The rough is a brutal three-and-a-half inches, the rough on EITHER SIDE of the fairway is wider than the actual fairway itself, and it takes five-and-a-half hours to play. Yep, The Black is ready for the Open now! Except they’ll have to WIDEN the fairways a bit. Oakmont anyone?
EAST MEADOW, NY – Golf’s greatest gift is that if you look with the right kind of eyes, you can still see the game’s ghosts flitting about, still savor the ethos of altruistic sportsmanship, and not only walk in the footsteps of the greats, but emulate their virtue as well. That’s why spirits of fans and players alike are soaring at the Red...
Part one is here. Anyway, I fell asleep trying to write and now it’s Sunday…Championship Sunday, supposedly coronation day, but between that double-bogey bogey start for Woods, either Rocco or Westwood may be typing some script revisions to Act IV. That can wait, for Fathers Day, I collected these stories of the tour players and their dads, several of them...
This is part one of this article, which appeared at Cybergolf.com on Fathers Day and the Monday after. LA JOLLA, CA – [Editor’s Note: Jay wrote this piece in real time, while watching the tournament. Over the course of the piece there will be references to events as they happened.] Saturday, 14 June 2008 Dear Dad: Happy Fathers Day. It’s Saturday at...
LA JOLLA – Picture a wintry classroom in New England, thirteen small desks in an oval around Mr Littwin, my British Literature teacher. Eight foot fluorescent tubes burn their cold, white light overhead. Dusty blackboards line the walls. All eyes fixed on Mr. Littwin and a respectful hush descended. We were waiting, and he was ready with a challenge...
LA JOLLA, CA – All I wanted was a frozen coffee and to watch a little golf. Instead, I got crushed, mushed, crammed, jammed, mangled, tangled, beaned, and sardined by what could have passed for the second coming of every tribe of Visigoths that ever invaded Rome, Nome, or the River Somme. That’s what happened when, quite by accident, I walked headfirst...
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One caveat. I know that William Flynn designed Shinnecock Hills. Moreover, YOU know that I know that Flynn designed Shinny. The Macdonald reference is a weird glitch that we’re fixing…everybody be patient, but enjoy the rest!
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LA JOLLA, CA – The U.S.G.A’s egalitarian course set-up of Torrey Pines produced uncommonly equitable scores in today’s first round action of the 108th U.S. Open. Relative unknowns Justin Hicks and Kevin Streelman find themselves atop a leaderboard which neatly mixes other relative unknowns, PGA tour favorites, and even amateurs. Meanwhile “the...
California – a prophet on the burning shore California – knockin’ on the Golden Door Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light Rising up to paradise, I know I’m gonna shine… — Bob Weir and John Barlow LA JOLLA, CA – The sky was golf ball white, sending caddies and spotters scrambling over the fabled kikuyu of Torrey...
Bella Alle! That’s what grateful ragazzi e bellisime say to Italian ex=pat and now proud American Alessandro Speroni for opening the Sole Luna Cafe in San Diego, California. Hungry U.S. Open patrons who love Italian food and cappucino should run not walk to his cafe on Ash Street in the downtown quarter, especially if they are fans Italy’s worlds champion...
Who Are All-Star Professional Athletes Picking this week at the 2008 U.S. Open? Tiger Woods is the overwhelming favorite to win his third U.S. Open when play gets underway according to other world-class athletes: Vince Coleman (St. Louis Cardinals) – Tiger Woods. It’s his open Roy Green (Arizona Cardinals) – “It’s gotta be Tiger Woods...
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At the 2005, 2006, and 2007 U.S. Opens, the chaotic twists and turns of the greens at Pinehurst, Winged Foot and Oakmont were Tiger Woods’s undoing. “I had plenty of 8-10 foot putts, but they had three feet of break. You’re not going to make those all the time” he said after his final putt at Oakmont veered away, sealing his defeat. At...
Lets get some housekeeping out of the way before heading out to California: First: Alex Miceli is writing some excellent pieces for www.usopen.com, including this wrap-up of players who got through U.S. Open qualifying and will be at Torrey Pines. Next, I’ll be reviewing Dan Jenkins’s new book, The Franchise Babe over the next few days. My colleague...