Date Written: September 2, 2009
So...as I'm traveling over the weekend in Southern California, I'm catching glimpses of "The Barclays" at various stops and wondering how-in-the-world did this here course, Liberty National, come into being? It looked "manufactured" or out of place or belonging in some other country. So, when I got home, I saddled up my favorite horse, "Internet Browser," to see if I could find out more about the joint. Voila! If you've got a few minutes and want to read a remarkable development tale about building a golf course on a toxic waste site, click on the link below, it's almost as good as the tournament itself:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sports/golf/27pennington.html?scp=1&sq=liberty%20national%20golf%20club&st=cse
I'm left wondering how much it costs to join and/or play Liberty National. I'll bet it's expensive. I wonder if Emma Lazarus (the gal who wrote the slogan at the base of Lady Liberty), "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free," could afford the green fees? More likely, she would have wrote, "Give me your rich, your privileged, your suffering elite" dot, dot, dot. Golf is much more likely to be mentioned on the Republican Party platform...not on the other party's wishlist.
"Heathcliff" Slocum, independent contractor and Republican that he must be, might be up for consideration as a junior member at Liberty Nat'l now that he's 1.35 mil ahead on his green fees. He was the #124 seed out of the 125 players who qualified for the first leg of the contrived Schmed-Ex Cup Series. Heath hadn't won an event in four years. After one terrific week, where he was apparently the only player to feel comfortable on the tricky greens, He lept all the way to #3 on the schtupid points list. Not even Bob Beamon could jump that far. (If you do not know who Bob Beamon is, check below). "Heathcliff" was either real lucky or real smart to make a "take-your-medicine," up-and-down par from a fairway bunker on No. 18...finally drilling a 20-footer to win by one stroke over a quartet of the world's best players: Tiger, Ernie, Padraig and Stricker. I was one of four in the pool who had a shot at winning until S.S. yanked a ten-footer on the final hole and made bogey. Damn it! Our new pool leader, Charlie Tuna, had Stricker too and with his solid T-2 dough, leaps over Glenn Marzapan into first place by about 400 G's. I jump all the way into umpteenth. So much for my golf-picking skills. Three pool rookies continue to hold the top three spots going into the last three events of our season.
This week the field is paired down to the top 100 and plays at the TPC near Boston. Whoever wins will jump into the top five spots. Explain that to me, please Mr. Finchem? How can someone ranked 95 justify a whole season of mediocrity with one good week? In answer to my own question, maybe it's why Pro's play the game...they follow their dream and hope for one good week where their swing gets magically grooved. Five of us like Villegas to play back to his success in this format last year. Charlie Tuna likes the Weir-Wolf so we know who to root against.
Answer to the question, "Who was Bob Beamon?" (From Wikipedia): On October 18 at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Beamon set a world record for the long jump with a jump of 8.90 m (29 ft. 2½ in.), almost two feet longer than the then, existing record.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sports/golf/27pennington.html?scp=1&sq=liberty%20national%20golf%20club&st=cse
I'm left wondering how much it costs to join and/or play Liberty National. I'll bet it's expensive. I wonder if Emma Lazarus (the gal who wrote the slogan at the base of Lady Liberty), "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free," could afford the green fees? More likely, she would have wrote, "Give me your rich, your privileged, your suffering elite" dot, dot, dot. Golf is much more likely to be mentioned on the Republican Party platform...not on the other party's wishlist.
"Heathcliff" Slocum, independent contractor and Republican that he must be, might be up for consideration as a junior member at Liberty Nat'l now that he's 1.35 mil ahead on his green fees. He was the #124 seed out of the 125 players who qualified for the first leg of the contrived Schmed-Ex Cup Series. Heath hadn't won an event in four years. After one terrific week, where he was apparently the only player to feel comfortable on the tricky greens, He lept all the way to #3 on the schtupid points list. Not even Bob Beamon could jump that far. (If you do not know who Bob Beamon is, check below). "Heathcliff" was either real lucky or real smart to make a "take-your-medicine," up-and-down par from a fairway bunker on No. 18...finally drilling a 20-footer to win by one stroke over a quartet of the world's best players: Tiger, Ernie, Padraig and Stricker. I was one of four in the pool who had a shot at winning until S.S. yanked a ten-footer on the final hole and made bogey. Damn it! Our new pool leader, Charlie Tuna, had Stricker too and with his solid T-2 dough, leaps over Glenn Marzapan into first place by about 400 G's. I jump all the way into umpteenth. So much for my golf-picking skills. Three pool rookies continue to hold the top three spots going into the last three events of our season.
This week the field is paired down to the top 100 and plays at the TPC near Boston. Whoever wins will jump into the top five spots. Explain that to me, please Mr. Finchem? How can someone ranked 95 justify a whole season of mediocrity with one good week? In answer to my own question, maybe it's why Pro's play the game...they follow their dream and hope for one good week where their swing gets magically grooved. Five of us like Villegas to play back to his success in this format last year. Charlie Tuna likes the Weir-Wolf so we know who to root against.
Answer to the question, "Who was Bob Beamon?" (From Wikipedia): On October 18 at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Beamon set a world record for the long jump with a jump of 8.90 m (29 ft. 2½ in.), almost two feet longer than the then, existing record.
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