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Post by 00hmh on Apr 14, 2019 16:50:05 GMT -6
Golf gods were kind to Tiger.
Good sports story to have recovered from injury and even be on the leaderboard of a major with the current generation of stars.
Quite a lot of drama the last 9.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Apr 14, 2019 22:33:11 GMT -6
So I gotta story..Its pretty out there but I swear its true. If you know me I have a knack for odd things happening. We spend a few days every year at the memorial golf tournament that is held in Dublin Ohio. Perks of my brother in law living on the course. Another Perk is we always have clubhouse passes and free drinks. Before kids came I would take great advantage of the free drinks at and near the clubhouse. I rarely watched the golf because honestly golf just is not my thing. So I would get up early with everyone and while they hiked miles around the golf course watching golf I would have drinks all day. This was not long after college when I was still a young buck still had not learned to drink responsibly in public. Well one day I found a nice tree right by the clubhouse and befriended a nice waitress whos name I can not remember. My only job that day was to hold up that tree and the waitresses job was to keep me hydrated and she did a damn fine job. As the day went on and golfers began to finish theie rounds more and more people enfringed on my tree. I fought tooth and nail to hold my position and keep that tree standing. Tiger was in the last group coming through and the crowds were massive. I never noticed that at some point during my duties the groundscrew came out and put a temporary yellow tape fence around the area my tree and I were guarding. The groundscrew must not have noticed us either or they were not paid enough to care that a very drunk and dumb Calhoun was well inside the yellow tape fortress they had created. Well as Tiger finished 18 the yellow tape barrier forced him,his people,the golf channel and Jack Nicklaus to meet up with me and my tree. No one seemd to notice I was there it was as if nine hours of drinking stiff waitress drinks had made me invisble. Next thing I know I am standing right next to Jack and Tiger of course I speak and my cloak on invisibilty is gone. Jack looks at me and says "why the Hell are you behind the yellow line." I say you see this tree I have been here all fng day this yellow tape has been here a half hour. Jack says you know I own this course right. I reply something like "do you know how many shits I give." The only thing that saved me was having a residents club house pass. Team Tigers Security then came and pried me off my tree and banished me to the common folk but not before I called both Tiger and Jack Dickheads. Thank God HOA fees at Muirfeild are more than a normal salary or I would have been in the pokey.
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Post by cardfan on Apr 15, 2019 3:05:26 GMT -6
That’s our Rob being Rob!
Son, what have you NOT done in this life?
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Post by sweep on Apr 15, 2019 7:02:22 GMT -6
I have always had a difficult time deciding whether the Masters is the most over-hyped golf tournament of the year or the most over-hyped sporting event of the year. Augusta National had become far too annoying in it's replete pretentiousness.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Apr 15, 2019 8:38:13 GMT -6
That’s our Rob being Rob! Son, what have you NOT done in this life? A lot but I have been very lucky and fell into some cool things for sure. Someday when I start and finish my book maybe I'll get rich and check off the rest of the bucket list |
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 15, 2019 9:10:49 GMT -6
I have always had a difficult time deciding whether the Masters is the most over-hyped golf tournament of the year or the most over-hyped sporting event of the year. Augusta National had become far too annoying in it's replete pretentiousness. No doubt about the hype, but it is a great golf tournament.
Cannot agree that it is exactly over hyped as a tournament. It is awfully important to golf. Cannot disagree about the excess of pretense, though.
Augusta does preserve a time capsule of the privileged world of country club golf and country club privilege in those years before the Depression. Golf is a after all historically a pretentious game of the privileged. This is a golf course built by such privilege as a place Bobby Jones and wealthy friends could play in privacy. Built in the middle 30's in the depths of economic hardship for so many, the history of Augusta National has not been as admirable as the golf the tournament that contributed so much to sports. Anyway, it is a great tournament. Arnie, Jack, Tiger and the legion of golfer just a little less good who have made golf a great professional sports attraction are all part of Masters lore and the Masters helped make them. My earliest memories of sports include the hard drinking almost blue collar Arnold Palmer who probably created the modern popularity of the game and the Masters. In many ways Arnie and Tiger have removed a lot of the pretense and snobbery from golf by making it sport that a much wider part of the population enjoys (and in 1934 who would have imagined a black guy becoming the greatest golfer of his era) . Certainly no other tournament did more creating the modern popularity of the game and especially of TV golf.
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