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Sergio Garcia and Masters champion Trevor Immelman are not likely to make the cut. Nor Vijay Singh. And last year's surprise champion Angel Cabrera definitely won't.
Showing posts with label Sergio Garcia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sergio Garcia. Show all posts
Friday, June 13, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
Welcome Back
What I love about watching a major golf tournament: it obliges me to do nothing. A swing, the ball hops, rolls, is somewhere. It's not even my job to find it; the camerapeople do all the work.
Personalities attached to the event of the ball ascending, descending, rolling, stopping: Tiger, whose face becomes godlike with concentration. Mickelson, always caught in between a laugh and a grimace. Garcia, maddening, get on with it! Shots of strays from yesterday and yesteryear: please Freddie Couples, make another cut. Applause Friday at 18 whether you do or you don't. Farewell!
The final personality: the course. This one is one that people you know play, maybe you've played it yourself. It's not a dream vacation to Scotland, miles off the highway in Florida, a shrine where every bridge is named for a legend who crossed it on his way to his epic tournament day. Named for a tree that grows mostly around it and nowhere else, it's in the public domain, but unique as a face as well.
There's a stray torrey pine in the botanical garden at UCLA. I used to visit it all the time as an undergraduate. You can't look at the tree without thinking of the course: now that's an identity for a course to have. An identity rooted in nature, nature presiding over the Pacific, nature which on the smallest screen looks exotic, even for people who live here, who dip down PCH all the time.
Personalities attached to the event of the ball ascending, descending, rolling, stopping: Tiger, whose face becomes godlike with concentration. Mickelson, always caught in between a laugh and a grimace. Garcia, maddening, get on with it! Shots of strays from yesterday and yesteryear: please Freddie Couples, make another cut. Applause Friday at 18 whether you do or you don't. Farewell!
The final personality: the course. This one is one that people you know play, maybe you've played it yourself. It's not a dream vacation to Scotland, miles off the highway in Florida, a shrine where every bridge is named for a legend who crossed it on his way to his epic tournament day. Named for a tree that grows mostly around it and nowhere else, it's in the public domain, but unique as a face as well.
There's a stray torrey pine in the botanical garden at UCLA. I used to visit it all the time as an undergraduate. You can't look at the tree without thinking of the course: now that's an identity for a course to have. An identity rooted in nature, nature presiding over the Pacific, nature which on the smallest screen looks exotic, even for people who live here, who dip down PCH all the time.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Fog Delay
The tee-times you see on the pairings page will be pushed back forty minutes at least, because the fog in Augusta this morning was bad and play started that late. If you're interested to watch Tiger's round, he'll likely tee up no earlier than 8:20 a.m. Pacific.
Bloggers are not showing a lot of imagination in blogging about anyone else. Certainly among those deserving more respect is reigning champion Zach Johnson. I'd look for Zach to have a good sleeper round today, with all the ruckus going on ahead of him. Sergio Garcia also seems poised to have a big tournament soon; so does Phil Mickelson.
Bloggers are not showing a lot of imagination in blogging about anyone else. Certainly among those deserving more respect is reigning champion Zach Johnson. I'd look for Zach to have a good sleeper round today, with all the ruckus going on ahead of him. Sergio Garcia also seems poised to have a big tournament soon; so does Phil Mickelson.
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