59 year old Tom Watson is tied for the lead at the British Open after 13 holes on Sunday? Normally I consider watching golf on television to be one step down from flatlining, but there is the Tiger Woods exception and clearly I need to make room for a Tom Watson exception.
MORE: An AP recap after 12.
OK, THAT BIT: Tom Watson bogeys 18 to fall into a four hole playoff, during which he crashes and burns. Oh, well.
I do love the old Scottish courses with those deep bunkers - I think it was very creative the way the course architects integrated the WWII bomb craters into the course design.
The television coverage was a bit surprising - I expected that with Tom Watson staggering about the course I would be advised every five minutes to ask my doctor about Viagra or some other product to help me "stay in the game". Instead, the playoff was more or less commercial free.
John Daly had a wunnerful weekend, too. The first I ever watched.
Posted by: The heart of a goof. | July 19, 2009 at 12:24 PM
No matter what happens today Tom Watson has been great all week.
OT I am scratching my head over this AP/NYT story reporting in detail on a Taliban video of a US soldier taken hostage.
Lots of details soldier states his name,capotors display dog tags, and US refuses to confirm identity.
Hypocritical the way NYT covered the kidnapping of their reporter.
Posted by: BB Key | July 19, 2009 at 12:54 PM
BB Key-
NYT quietly paid a bribe to the Taliban to get their journalist back (the goofy story that he "just walked away" notwithstanding). The DoD probably wouldn't pay a bribe to get a GI back so the NYT and AP feel under no obligation to protect our captured solider.
The Obama Administration has made the situation much more dangerous because he did a prisoner exchange for a couple hundred Iranian terrorists captured in Iraq for that captured American journalist. The Taliban are thinking that if the Obama Administration would surrender that much for a captured American journalist in Iran (especially for someone who had lived in Iran for a number of years before her capture) they'll be more than willing to cave to all sorts of demands for an American soldier.
Posted by: RichatUF | July 19, 2009 at 01:17 PM
Hypocritical the way NYT covered the kidnapping of their reporter.
NYT reporters are never kidnapped by terrorists. They're just temporarily embedded pending delivery of funds.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | July 19, 2009 at 02:27 PM
The sucker misses the most fundamental of points. A lot of people might be willing to admit global warming in the sense we always are warning coming out of ice ages just as we also are always cooling going into them. It's the "A" in AGW that is the sticking point.
Then again Hillary has apparently gone to India to confess our fault in it all, so what do I know?
Posted by: Old Lurker | July 19, 2009 at 02:54 PM
...always are WARMING...
Posted by: Old Lurker | July 19, 2009 at 02:55 PM
Stewart Cink has a son named REAGAN. Cool.
Posted by: caro | July 19, 2009 at 02:57 PM
Ooops...looks like I posted that to the wrong thread. Sorry bout that.
Posted by: Old Lurker | July 19, 2009 at 03:26 PM
Cink has a twitter last night that he has since deleted (can't imagine why) that he had swine flu. He was coughing all the way around the course.
Congrats to Cink.
His son plays golf in the same region as my daughter. He is quite good.
Posted by: Stephanie | July 19, 2009 at 04:05 PM
Well I feel sad for Watson. He certainly lost as opposed to Cink winning - but Cink is supposed to be a great guy - - so I am happy for him.
Posted by: Jane | July 19, 2009 at 04:53 PM
test
Posted by: daddy | July 20, 2009 at 05:10 PM
Back in the 50's, the TV networks and their advertisers were asked why golf on TV? The audiences were small.
The answer came back - what would you pay to have President Eisenhower watching your ads?
Posted by: Whitehall | July 20, 2009 at 10:29 PM