The Canadian Open

'Roids or Yoga?

Date Written: July 30, 2007
Jim (Back-Off) Furyk captured his second straight Canadian Open with a last round 64 that featured a hole-in-one. In contrast to Furyk's birdie-birdie-birdie-eagle success (5 under par) at the 4th hole, Vijay Singh, who finished second by one shot, went bogey-bogey-par-bogey (3 over par) on that hole during the four days.

Our Jim Brady re-takes second place in our funky pool with his T-10th pick of Camillo "Vee-Jay-Gas." Last evening, in an informal poll after a nifty skins game that featured a bunch of local assistant pro's, Camillo was voted most-likely pro on tour to be taking steroids. Either that or massive overdoses of that ancient Eastern drug called "Yoga." I say give 'em all a blood test.

Other tour news:

Aussie youngster, Jason Day, fires a 62 and a 63 on his last two rounds in the Nationwide event in Cleveland to finish one back of two-time winner, Roland Thatcher. My prediction: we are going to hear a lot from Day next year on the PGA Tour. He looks the part.

Natalie Gulbis (who's also fun to look at, but for different reasons than young, Master Day) finally earned her first LPGA Tour title, getting a birdie on the first hole of a playoff against South Korea's Jang Jeong to win the Evian Masters in Evian-Les-Bains, France.

Tom Watson redeemed himself (somewhat) from the back nine debacle at the Senior U.S. Open a couple of weeks ago at Whistling Straigts to outlast his peers and capture the British Senior Open.

And, Andres Romero won his first title on the European Tour at the Deutsche Bank Players' Championship on Sunday, a week after his near miss at the Open Championship.

Keep your eye on the two tournaments that count in the money standings this week; another WGC and the Reno-Tahoe.