The Open, 2006
So I read. I read and I read, all the golf news. I've become somewhat of an addict in the past few months to golf news, golf tips, golf blogs, and golf equipment reviews. The culmination of all of this brings me to starting my own golf blog. A small and probably unnoticed blog. I have my own personal blog, which has its own domain, and all that jazz, but I've sort of become dissinterested in chronicaling my life in general terms. I wanted to get specific. Whats this have to do with anything?
The US Open happened last month to set the stage for the British Open to be a very hottly covered golf event. Why did this happen? Of course you already know. Colin Montgomerie, dissolving on the 18th. Phil Mickelson doing the same. Tiger woods didn't even make the cut. Not to mention the controversy surrounding Winged Foot as a hard venue in the first place.
Now we've started The (British) Open. The controversy has already started, and with the morning crew of golfers already finished by the time many of us americans were getting to work, the wonders are flying as to who will be victorious on sunday.
Here's a quick look at where a couple of key people I've been thinking about stand.
Full Leaderboard from golf.com
Phils sitting good, Colin, has dissolved, Sergio is having an impressive showing, and as for Tiger after the 11th, he's 2 under. Looking at the score card, he's bogey'd once and 3 birdies.
Looking at all of the people who are finished their round, i could tell that many of them were making the majority of their birdies on the back 9. Though most of the top 10, have 2 birdies on the front 9. So if you're somebody who's rooting for Tiger, he's in good position, but he's probably not goin to come out on top of the leaderboard after today. But really, what does that matter, you save your best game for Sunday.
Something of note is, apparantly all the controversy over Tiger being paired with Nick Faldo, has not affected him. Tiger's -2, Faldo is +5.. hmmm maybe Faldo is more worried about playing with Tiger. Then again, the apparntly shook hands and practiced on the same range earlier. Though I haven't seen any reports that they're actually conversing. I so wish i had a tv around right now.
The US Open happened last month to set the stage for the British Open to be a very hottly covered golf event. Why did this happen? Of course you already know. Colin Montgomerie, dissolving on the 18th. Phil Mickelson doing the same. Tiger woods didn't even make the cut. Not to mention the controversy surrounding Winged Foot as a hard venue in the first place.
Now we've started The (British) Open. The controversy has already started, and with the morning crew of golfers already finished by the time many of us americans were getting to work, the wonders are flying as to who will be victorious on sunday.
Here's a quick look at where a couple of key people I've been thinking about stand.
| Pos. | Name | Today | Thru |
| 1 | Graeme McDowell | -6 | 16 |
| T2 | Greg Owen | -5 | F |
| T2 | Anthony Wall | -5 | F |
| T4 | Sergio Garcia | -4 | F |
| T14 | Phil Mickelson | -3 | F |
| T14 | Darren Clarke | -3 | F |
| T30 | Vijay Singh | -2 | F |
| T30 | Retief Goosen | -2 | 9 |
| T47 | Tiger Woods | -2 | 11 |
| T92 | Colin Montgomerie | +1 | F |
Phils sitting good, Colin, has dissolved, Sergio is having an impressive showing, and as for Tiger after the 11th, he's 2 under. Looking at the score card, he's bogey'd once and 3 birdies.
Looking at all of the people who are finished their round, i could tell that many of them were making the majority of their birdies on the back 9. Though most of the top 10, have 2 birdies on the front 9. So if you're somebody who's rooting for Tiger, he's in good position, but he's probably not goin to come out on top of the leaderboard after today. But really, what does that matter, you save your best game for Sunday.
Something of note is, apparantly all the controversy over Tiger being paired with Nick Faldo, has not affected him. Tiger's -2, Faldo is +5.. hmmm maybe Faldo is more worried about playing with Tiger. Then again, the apparntly shook hands and practiced on the same range earlier. Though I haven't seen any reports that they're actually conversing. I so wish i had a tv around right now.
posted by Mike @ 9:18 AM
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