Date Written: August 4, 2008
The Associated Press summarized this past week's "Tiger-less" WGC/Bridgestone event as follows:
"With par putts on the final two holes, Singh closed with a 2-under 68 to hold off hard-charging Lee Westwood and Stuart Appleby and the fast-fading Phil Mickelson, who lost a one-shot lead with three bogeys on his final four holes."
The quote above really doesn't tell the full story. Despite Veej making two 4-footers at the end, his putting stroke looked, over the last nine holes, to be as scary as "Sweeney Todd." He missed enough short putts from 4-8 feet to land him a free pass to the seventh floor at Bellevue. If it weren't for his playing partner, "Lefty- Mick," falling all over himself coming in, he loses. Lefty played bogey-free for 14 holes and had a one-shot lead until making bogey from the bunker on three of the last four holes. So much for Lefty's famous, flawless short game.
Veej's 'wavy-gravy' putting stroke reminded me of me. As a kid, I used to make everything. Now if I make a putt, it's headline news. To me, forget reading greens; the hole looks to be the size of a thimble. My young (soon to turn forty) playing partner, Mikey P. says the hole looks as big as a trash can. I wonder if he's just delusional or trying to psyche me out. Veej and I can barely bring it back and through straight on three-footers let alone middle-of-the-green efforts. Veej claimed in a pre-game interview Sunday, that he's gonna stick with his belly putter. I have two belly putters...both have been banished permanently to a very dark closest as punishment for their bad behavior. Belly or no belly, cross-handed or upside-down, whatever Veej needs to be reminded that it's the Indian, not the arrows. He might consider therapy. We both putt like dogs!
Lefty's endgame meltdown caused our Mikey P. to lose a golden chance at winning for the week. Our esteemed pool leader, Master Arthur, padded his lead to over one million smackers with his lucky pick of "The Goose" who tied Lefty for fourth place.
This week, the PGA Championship outside Detroit, is the last Major tournament that will count for double pool money. Someone needs to make a dent in Master Art's million dollar lead. My prediction...Singh's wavy-gravy putting stroke won't work here on greens rolled to 13 on the Stimp. Thankfully, Master Art picked "The Veej" this week. Hah! He will not win in back to back weeks.
HOW WERE THEY TO KNOW DEPT: Mikey P. and Monte Train picked Tiger this week.
Hooray! Boise's Ryan Hietala won the Nationwide Cox Classic event in Omaha. Click on the link to read more:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/story/459599.html
And finally (I promise), this from the LA Times:
"Michelle Wie failed in her eighth attempt to make the cut on the PGA Tour, shooting a second-round 80 at the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open. A quintuple-bogey nine helped push Wie to nine-over 153 at the par-72 Montreux Golf & Country Club."
Click below for more on Wie-Wie:
http://www.pgatour.com/2008/tournaments/r472/08/01/wie.sider2/index.html
Michelle reminds me of an old Japanese proverb, "Women who drive upside down, have crack-up." I know, bad form, bad joke. Personally, I'd give her one more pass to play a Men's event...but from the Women's tees.
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