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...]
The roars were Rory’s
The 42-year-old wearing red on Sunday wouldn't have beaten Rory McIlroy even if he hadn't jerked his tee shot OB on 16 and slopped it around 17. He even said so: He knew he needed to play the last three holes in three-under to have a chance, and it wouldn't have been … [Read more...]
World No. 388
Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Tiger Woods ... all within the top 388 in the World Golf Rankings, which makes the Valspar Championship just about the best field of a non-major this season. Oh, to be No. 388 in the world. The love, the money, the invitation to the … [Read more...]
It’s Spieth in his Under Armour
(2 p.m. Grey Goatee Mean Time) Which was better: Jordan Spieth's four-hole, 5-under spree on the back nine to retake the lead? Or Henrik Stenson making everything he looked at last year at The Open because he had to, just because Mickelson was nearly as good? I'd hate to choose, and the good thing … [Read more...]
Royal Birkdale, of a fashion
6:11 a.m. GGMT (Grey Goatee Mean Time); 2:11 p.m. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), Southport, England Henrik Stenson, Champion Golfer of the Year until somebody takes it from him, was uncharacteristically sloppy Friday. I'm not talking about his clothes, mind you. His threads, by Hugo Boss, just … [Read more...]
Masters Day Three: A puncher’s chance
Old and young of it, Saturday edition Playing partners Fred Couples, 57, and Jon Rahm, 22, both took steps back on Saturday, but it was an entertaining pairing, and be assured both will be back at Augusta next year, if bad backs and sophomore slumps don't rise up and bite. Couples shot 74 … [Read more...]
D. Johnson, your Masters favorite
It begins to seem like Dustin Johnson should never lose a golf tournament. When he’s striking it and creating around the greens and making putts, there’s no one as good. He can beat himself, and nearly did over a shaky few holes near the end Sunday at Club de Golf Chapultepec. We know, … [Read more...]
Is that a bread crust? Will it make me happy?
I can't say I know what a happy yak is supposed to look like, but I think now I'll know an unhappy yak when I see one. I have to think happiness, relative to its opposite, is far outside the existential ruminations of the yak, and the wildebeest, too, which is what I thought all those yaks … [Read more...]
The 3GA Tour and the other one
Last weekend, the PGA Tour yielded the world golf stage to the Grey Goatee Golf Association (3GA), as well it should. Kevin Patterson, a big kid out of Longview, Wash., earned the coveted Green Cardigan for season supremacy on the 3GA Tour. The enigmatic Patterson had nothing to say afterward, … [Read more...]
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