Spieth hit wedge into the bagpipes on 18, and he landed short with a long and gnarly putt for the birdie he needed to get into a playoff. He missed, and Jason Day missed his birdie putt, so unless Oosthuizen comes home with a birdie on 18, Leishman and Z. Johnson are in a … [Read more...]
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Orange on Monday at the Old Course
6:11 p.m. St Andrews time (10:11 a.m. PDT) Left The Open in the capable digital hands of the DVR this morning and ventured out for a Dawn Patrol nine at the Old Course Tumwater Valley, the home club of Grey Goatee Nation. Felt the wind blowing in new weather, necessitating long sleeves in … [Read more...]
It’s Monday, of a fashion
1:12 p.m. St Andrews time (5:12 a.m. PDT) The guy who famously wears red on Sunday is not in contention, and not just because it's Monday for this fourth round of The Open Championship. The famously astute Grey Goatee Fashion Committee has seen little red these five days, except as an accent on … [Read more...]
The Open Championship: Bet with confidence
After many hours to digest Sunday's third round of The Open Championship, I have the definitive answer. Jordan Spieth will win. You read it here first. Louis Oosthuizen will win. You read it here first. The amateur kid will not win. The safest bet of all might be an investment in Under … [Read more...]
Weather or not
4:47 p.m. St Andrews time (8:47 a.m. PDT) Short of having Peter Alliss in the booth all the time, we really can't do much better than the American TV talking heads at The Open Championship, even when they're just killing time during a weather delay. Mike Tirico and Paul Azinger, one of the ESPN … [Read more...]
The Open, Day 2: Will it be Willett?
2:55 p.m. St Andrews time (6:55 a.m. PDT) He's making it look easy, Danny Willett is, and he's the easy story early in this rain-delayed second round at the Old Course. I'm wondering who he is, too. The things you learn when you check in with the crack Grey Goatee research staff (suddenly … [Read more...]
Yanks on the ould sod
7 p.m. St Andrews time (11 a.m. PDT) Ian McShane was back to open the second TV session of The Open Championship. "The church burned Protestant reformer Patrick Hamilton at the stake outside the chapel of University of St Andrews. His initials mark the spot," McShane said, adding that students, … [Read more...]
The bounces of the little dimpled ball
3:45 p.m. St Andrews time (7:45 a.m. PDT) He's the leader in the clubhouse at The Open Championship after an opening 65 today, and still the questions, and Dustin Johnson's answers, linger on Chambers Bay a month ago. After his round, he was asked about "scar tissue" from repeated near-misses at … [Read more...]
It’s a wrap: Johnson’s frustration is Spieth’s elation
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. -- Nobody around here minds that Jordan Spieth won the U.S. Open, but nobody likes the way Dustin Johnson lost it. It looked like Spieth's three-putt double-bogey on 17 would open the door for Johnson to slam it shut on his first major championship. Instead, he slammed the … [Read more...]
A last look at The Lone Fir Tree
It survived a working gravel and sand mine. It lived on through the abandoned site's conversion to a championship golf course. It's a Douglas fir tree, not very large or symmetrical, but now that the U.S. Open is here (and soon to leave), it makes No. 15 at Chambers Bay Golf Course the postcard … [Read more...]
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