Sunday, April 13, 2008

A Tradition Unlike Any Other



It's a pretty lazy Sunday here in Chapel Hill...what better to do than procrastinate and watch the Masters in HD.

Brandt Snedeker is doing his best Brett Favre impression. He's just out there having fun. He's also -9 and has a good chance to get his green jacket. He sank a nasty putt earlier this round. Like the commentators said, he's really tracking and reading the greens very well today.

Woods is still 6 back. Immelman isn't playing perfect golf this Sunday, but he's even today so the pressure is still on Tiger and the rest of the group. He has had some birdie opportunities but hasn't capitalized on them. His putting is letting him down even though hes -11. Immelman, if he continues his current performance, could be the only player to shoot below 70 all four days.

Snedeker just fell to -8. Flesch just dropped to -7 after missing a fairway and then hitting a tree trying to punch the ball out.

Paul Casey has fallen apart.

Shingo Katayama dresses like an idiot.

Golf is by no means the best sport to blog about. I'm going to get back to the HD experience. If you can, change the aspect setting from normal or stretch to zoom for the Masters. It looks ridiculous. You can pretty much count the blades of grass.

Go Tiger.

Update: In the end, Trevor Immelman deserved to win. A scratch golfer at just 12 years old, he had a bunch of nice saves out of bunkers and the rough, and he was far enough ahead to drop his tee shot into a water hazard without much consequence in the final round. Immelman two putted on his way to a Masters title (he had strokes to spare). He came back from cancer, albeit benign, and you could say he was the most consistent player this weekend. It was his tournament to lose - he's the new major champion. Plus his wife is pretty hot.

Although Tiger made a short run on the back 9, he still missed too many makeable putts. He played pretty poorly, but amazingly he finished 2nd. Still disappointing. It's hard not to pull for Tiger.

Brandt Snedeker maybe had too much fun out there, having his worst day of the tournament.

All in all it was an entertaining tournament, but it lacked the memorable race to the finish.

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