Tour Championship Round 1

A lot was made after the US PGA was held in stifling heat of Tiger's comment about fitness being of great help. Well it might be the case in stifling heat but in the storm interrupted first round of the Tour Championship a pudgy, short South African with a pot belly you can rest a pint on nicely showed the way with a blistering 8 under 62 on a course that was playing long for him!

So fitness may help, but hitting the ball well just seems to be more useful. Put the two together and you achieve great things and maybe that's why Tiger is Tiger. But for now, well done 'soft-in-the-middle' Tim.

Lefty Saturday!

I think i was just going to summarise performances after a tournament but since this is the first post in a couple (ok six) months let's have a looksee how lefties are doing.

There may well be more but ones i was going to follow included:

Phil Mickelson, Mike Weir, Eric Axley, Bubba Watson, Nick O'Hern, Richard Green, Steve Flesch, Ed Loar (plays on Nationwide/Asian Tour), Stuart Little (European Tour) and, for the ladies on the Ladies European Tour, Sophie Hunter.

So, Saturday.

Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village - Mickelson withdrew injured, Axley, Flesch and Weir missed the cut leaving Nick O'Hern flying the flag which he is doing quite well currently in the top 10 although currently being outshone by Bubba Watson.

Sophie Hunter looks to be missing the cut at the Northern Ireland ladies Open although her second round was a sound improvement on the opening round. Come back to that in another post.

Right now, it's time to get some food :-)

Phew!

Well i know i'd not posted in a while but it really took a crawl around the far reaches of the brain to sort out the username password!!

Well i'm back to pontificate some having got my first comment! YAY! VJ has commented for Sophie Hunter to say that the card I sent was received.

Anyway, now i've sorted out the password and stuff i'd better sort out what i'm going to write! Well it's not like i'm short of an opinion on anything so i shall sort that out no problem while i'm sat here and there's a rain delay for the Memorial tournament which i'm watching on Setanta.

HNY! kiss kiss

Just checking in, hope Xmas went well, Happy New Year to all.

I sooo have a crush on Stephanie Sparks lol but I do like a nice red :-)

Merry Xmas golf dudes!

I shall be back to feed my audience of zero with controversial golf thoughts and coverage of lefty golfers in 2007. Great thing about having no readers - you can be as controversial as you like :-)

I see Paul Casey has got RBS shot of the year for his ace at the Ryder Cup. First hole-in-one i'd ever seen that one so nicely done Paul. The LET have finally.....finally published their 2007 schedule (still don't know if they forwarded on my congratulatory card to Sophie Hunter) so i'll check out the ladies in 2007 now there's two lefties on tour. I note also that the Ladies European Masters is not on the schedule. Evidently (damn having to do a second edit) for whatever reason it will appear in the 2008 - not 2007 - LET schedule.

So, roll on 2007, will Michelle Wie give up on men's golf tournaments if (when) she fails to make the cut at the Sony Open in January?...Will Tiger make it a grand slam year or was his tournament domination of the second half of 2006 getting earl's passing out of his system?...Will a European win a Major?...Will square drivers crash the market or crash and burn?...Will the Solheim Cup return to Europe?...Will I give up buying Today's Golfer or Golf Punk?...Will my handicap get any better now that i've got a Leadbetter Swingsetter?...Will I get caught if i sneak onto The Wisley on Xmas day for a few holes...

i am the result of my cultural condition so Merry Xmas and if you're not christian then don't worry about it, neither am I :-). Be excellent to each other...how about that lol

Yay! for Eddie

Jeez, beautiful day for golf, if a little chilly, but i'm sooooo hungover, so while i'm sitting here watching old X-Files on FX and waiting for Clerks 2 to download i'll give a good shout out to corn-fed lefty Ed Loar who finished T6 (-6 282) in the season ending Volvo Asian Masters.

Watched Teenage Tourette's this morning. 5 UK teens with Tourettes at a Tourette's camp in the US. Absolutely the funniest thing i've seen in ages even if i was laughing at them!!

Nothing much

Joy, I get to sit in tonight and watch the Volvo Masters of Asia on Setanta while my golf buddy Adele is on holiday in the Turks & Caicos Island and my brother is in Barbados playing Sandy Lane this week having watched the World Cup last week. The weather isn't great so it looks like it's putting on the carpet for me!

Did send congratulatory card to Sophie Hunter, don't know if it got there but hey, it's the LET lol. I know where the Solheim Cup is in 2011 but I don't know what the LET's 2007 schedule is.

Damn, where's the booze? Go Jeev Milka Singh and Prom Meesawat!

Kingswood was running a clearance sale for a shop re-fit for the new year last weekend. Ironically it specialises in good stock for the lefties but the right handed stuff was discounted more heavily. Terry has always been good to me though so i picked me up a YES golf Olivia putter and a Leadbetter swingsetter. So i'm going to try the swingsetter and the momentus swing trainer in 07 and see how i get on.

I tried some 3 Woods too but having got a bit rat arsed the night more and had far too few hours sleep i was all over the place and couldn't notice anything other than the Taylor Made R7 Ti is very nice, but didn't buy. Will maybe look at tweaking the bag in the spring.

Ok, It's xmas the week after next so i'll get a bit of time to play with the blog and make it look purtier and a bit more useful. Maybe someone will read it then lol.