The injuries were major and maybe preventable, but if you ask me what knocked Tiger down was the fall from the haughty perch built on freakish control of every situation on and off the golf course. That’s what we thought, and how wrong we were. What do we think now that he’s won the Masters? I … [Read more...]
Green days
If it hadn't been for Patrick Reed being the actual defending champion, the Champions Dinner Tuesday at the Masters would have been green-jacketed business as usual. Reed isn't Augusta-friendly, so much -- kind of a dickhead, really -- and maybe that's why we like him around the Nation of Grey. … [Read more...]
Of galleries and geese
Pernilla Lindberg isn't big, at 5-foot-5, so she's no Big Swede out of Sweden, the Scandinavian country in Scandinavia, but she can claim a professional major on her resume, which puts her in the company of countrypersons Annika Sorenstam and Henrik Stenson, the original Big Swede. Lindberg is … [Read more...]
Kooch v. Kiz
5 p.m. Grey Goatee Mean Time It was Kisner over Kuchar in the final of the WGC match-play event in Austin, which I hope made you a pile of cash, perhaps to mitigate your losses when Michigan State beat Duke to go to the Final Four. Baseball note: Even with all the groovy new metrics imposed on … [Read more...]
X marks the winner
Match play continues this week with the big boys, and it's down to the Sweet 16 already. Chalk has prevailed, right down the brackets, with the top three seeds moving on in every region, like they knew what they were doing when they drew it up. They fucking didn't -- they got lucky -- and … [Read more...]
Scarecrow edition
The LPGA is playing this week at the Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, the longest golf course name in the known world, which only means the LPGA has too many sponsors it's trying to appease. Maybe they're overthinking it. Maybe not. I like to think like my … [Read more...]
Bored to tears
HOUSTON, Texas -- The way I see it about living with acute leukemia is there's nothing good about it. Not a fucking thing. I can run to the nurses' station and ascertain why it takes so long to get back when the robo-beeping from the kink in the IV tube is driving him insane. I can carry a … [Read more...]
Aqua Velva edition
Even more than his 61st homer of the 1961 season, what sticks in my head about Roger Maris* is his pronouncement, in a television ad, that went something like this: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: You can’t beat the LPGA for unique golf news and people.” The last phrase might actually … [Read more...]
What’s in my bag?
You've seen the ads for Justin Rose and his move to Honma clubs. The Japanese luxury brand inked Rose, then the World No. 2, on the first day of the New Year. Rose is now World No. 1, and smashed right through any break-in angst over his shiny new sticks by winning with them at the Farmers week … [Read more...]
Order on the course
The phrase is deus ex machina. The meaning is fluid, as far as I can tell, but it seems in popular usage to be something unexpected that for no obvious reason makes sense of gibberish or substance of nothingness. Herewith golf, the simplest game. Its goal, its very essence, is simple, which … [Read more...]
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