Who Are These Guys?
If you can name the golfer's in this picture, you've got to be nearly as old as I am...68.My answers/guesses are given below.
NEWS BULLETIN! Riviera, formerly known as "Hogan's Alley," has been renamed...it's now known as "Mickelson's Mile." If not for a slip up a couple of years ago on the last hole, "Lefty" would have won the last THREE L.A. Opens. It don't matter that his driver misbehaves. Just put it upside down in your bag, whip out your three metal, keep it in play, and make sure you sink the pressure putts. Voila! Victory!
In the traveling soap opera that is tour golf, there was a story that cried out like the tabloids this week. Sure, Freddy up and shanked one in the trees on eighteen. But how about his estranged wife passing away earlier in the week? What a shock. I was surprised he played at all. To quote an ESPN article:
Couples learned earlier in the week that his estranged wife, Thais Baker, died Tuesday of breast cancer. They never divorced after splitting up nearly four years ago, and Couples said he is not welcome in their home in Santa Barbara. 'She was a nice person,' he said. 'She did everything she could to make it another month.'
If one were to take each sentence in the paragraph above and try and explain what was going on in their relationship, one would have to guess that so much was unsaid.
John Manocheo, Doc 'N Jill and Glenn Marzion made a nice move up the pool standings by their astute, T-3, K.J. Choi pick in the LA Open. Five others added some significant dough with their T-6 for recent, wrist re-habbed, Luke Donald. Jan Jones crawled over Tobacco Road back into first place with a T-6 pick of "Crasher" Holmes.
Did you notice on the other side of the world (Perth, Australia), that Danny Lee, the reigning US Amateur Champ, won the professional "Johnny Walker Classic" on the European Tour. Lee's got an invitation to the Masters and then he's turning pro. Move over Ryo and Rory. Click on the link below to read more about Danny Lee:
http://www.pgatour.com/2009/r/02/22/johnnie.walker.ap/index.html
Finally, for anyone who's been on an intergalactic trip over the last week, Tiger announced that he will return to competition in the WGC Match Play. Get your TIVO'S oiled up and pre-set for Wednesday when he faces Brendan Jones in a first round match. From Mike McAllister, Managing Editor of PGATOUR.COM:
There's the knee. There's the rust from his layoff. There's the unpredictability of match play. All are ways that Tiger could lose. But he wouldn't come back if he didn't think he could win. Time for another storybook finish.
It'll be fun to see if Tiger's fit enough and see if he's altered his overwhelmingly physical swing to match the stress on his left leg.
Answer to who's in the picture above: Left to right: Dean Martin, Jackie Burke, Ben Hogan, Jerry Lewis, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead and Julius Boros. Am I right or wrong?
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