The Memorial

Miller Lite

Date Written: June 2, 2008

Seven pool players picked Kenny Perry to win The Memorial. Nice dart throwing kiddees. Y'all pad your accounts by over a million smackers and tighten up the race for second place. Kenny joins Tiger as only the second player to win Jack's tourney three times. Quite an feat! The win will surely guarantee Kenny's presence on Paul Azinger's Ryder Cup team. "Zinger" couldn't possibly leave him off the team which will play at Valhalla in Perry's home state of Kentucky after this win. Kenny has had such a nice run over the last month, first at The Player's and then his overtime loss at the AT&T in Atlanta. Perry has clearly proven his mettle.


From Dave Shedloski, of the PGA Tour:
"Long grass and long faces. Furrowed sand in the bunkers and furrowed brows. Fast greens and blue moods. The Muirfield Village course's ankle-deep rough swallowed up errant shots and its greens were as slick as glass. Only three players broke 70 in round two. Twenty players couldn't break 80."

From Tom Lehman:
"Mr. Nicklaus is getting exactly what he's hoping for. He's got a major championship-type feel to this place. The place is like a U.S. Open. We were talking about that on the first tee. The greens, the pins, the rough, the speed of the fairways ... it's not over the top, but it's very tough."

Now campers, back to the reason that Johnny Miller's mug shot is the featured image of the week. I actually tried to manipulate my computer to graphically put a foot in his mouth but I couldn't do it...I don't have any Adobe skills. To those of us who question from time to time if Johnny's comments are suspect; I offer the following: Johnny opined at The Player's that Kenny couldn't win on any US Open type course because he's only got a right-to-left game. Johnny has proven to many over time that he sometimes doesn't know from whence he speaks. As per Tom Lehman's comments above, Muirfield was just about as tough as any course the boys have seen this year and Master Perry was flawless. So once again, Johnny's "expert" testimony comes into question.

From the college ranks:
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -- UCLA's Kevin Chappell shot a 76 on Saturday to wrap up the NCAA men's individual golf championship and help the Bruins hold off Pac-10 rivals Stanford and Southern California for the team title.

Locally, in the, "This Is Your Year" department: our blind-lucky pool leader, Scott Winegar of Boise fame, one-hopped a 6-iron into the eleventh hole at Elkhorn Golf Course during last week's 2-day, Sun Valley Pro-Am. This was no cheap shot...166 yards over water onto a skinny green surrounded by nearly "Muirfield" rough in semi-rainy conditions.

Six Toms, four Austin's and four Snedeker's in Memphis this coming week. Then, on to Tiger's return to Torrey.

Finally, finally: In fairness, if "Hoof 'n Mouth Miller" wanted to further pursue his "ball flight" argument against Mr. Perry, he would surely point to Kenny's postgame Memorial announcement that he has never played well at Torrey Pines and that he's going to skip it. Maybe I'm too harsh on Miller Lite?