Duffers Corner

The course looked great today, didn’t it? I loved the fact that the original T.W was our leader for most of the day, but things could get interesting when the wind picks up tomorrow! The US Open is fun to watch with its fast greens and long rough, but there is nothing more original than what the British Open has to offer.

Looks like the US Open might finish again on a Monday this year thanks to Mother Nature.

You mean I have to watch another US Open Final @ work?

Kind of looks like it! The weather has been pretty crappy today and….yep, just got word that play will resume on Friday morning @ 7:30. Dang it! I hate watching golf on Monday. Yes I do remember last year, a little different scenario with it being an 18 hole 2-man playoff, but if it wasn’t for Tiger and his heroics it would have been just another dull tournament finishing on a Monday.

First, I have to work on Monday! I do spend a fair amount of the day on the internet so I could try and stream the video, but it is usually slow and choppy and I get frustrated and lose interest.

I could TiVo it? But I hate watching golf tournaments when I know there is a good chance that between work and getting home that I will somehow find out who actually won. I just hate that!

This sucker could actually finish on Wednesday! Forecast has Fridays weather being just like todays and if the field is tight, the chances of a playoff are pretty good. A US Open final on a hump day?  If so, you heard it here first!

Happy Father’s Day weekend to all you Dad’s!

Did anybody miss watching Tiger play in the British Open this year? I will admit that after seeing Ian Poulter pump his fists a few times down the stretch on Sunday a la Mr. Woods, I did kind of missed the guy. Would have Tiger been in the hunt on Sunday? You betcha! Would the scores have been as high as they were if he was playing? Maybe not. When Tiger is in the field you know that every player steps their game up a notch or two. I mean you have to; you’re playing against a guy that when he gets it rolling, there is no stopping him, he’s a machine.

But I am not in the group that thinks a tournament played without Tiger is not an official tournament, or that Padraig needs to have an asterisk next to his name on the Claret Jug that says ‘TDP’ or ‘Tiger Didn’t Play’. Now when Jack Nicklaus started to play in fewer majors, I don’t remember those tournaments becoming less significant?

So, with the British Open being played in unreal weather conditions and the solid play of an old legend (Greg Norman), that was all I needed to make this last weekend one I won’t forget….for a while!