That was something else for sure. One of the most interesting rounds of golf I’ve ever seen in a major. No way though they should have allowed Jordan Spieth over twenty minutes on the 13th to get that kind of relief on a sight of line ruling. Kuchar with all the momentum, had to sit there and wait and wait and wait.
But I’ll say this for Jordan Spieth—he’s a bonafide bulldog and what the game of golf desperately needed after Tiger Woods decided he needed to screw every escort in the world.
Jordan Spieth now joins Jack as only the second golfer ever to win three different majors by the age of twenty-four. Only the PGA Championship eludes him and of course that comes in August.
After the bogey on the 13th, he promptly turned on the switch going five under in the next four holes. Kuchar didn’t choke—he just was in the wrong place at the wrong time when Jordan Spieth went into full Jack Nicklaus bulldog mode.
Spieth, Dustin Johnson, and Rory are the three guys from this point forward to carry the game of golf. It was good to see Rory get his game back on track. Matt Kuchar is a wonderful golfer, but my advice to him would be—do you want to be the nicest guy on the tour or start winning some majors. He and Ricky Fowler kind of similar in that vein to me.
Golf has its alpha bulldog in place and that’s good for the game. For crying out loud, Steph Curry was tweeting shit about that back nine. Maybe Kuchar and Fowler should ask if they could be traded to Team Spieth. Durant wouldn’t hesitate—we can only be grateful he’s not an elite golfer.
Anyway, great day for golf. Traber doesn’t need to keep ranting about Tiger Woods. Nobody cares anymore. How sad is all that from a human perspective? What a tragic waste of a career and a legacy.
The Arnold Palmer commercial was equally awesome. As a fourth grader I attended by first junior golf clinic in the fourth grade at Lincoln Park and became somewhat of a golfer. Bobby Tway’s family took me out to Lincoln Park that day. I wanted to be just like Arnold and so did almost every other kid out there. Bobby Tway went on to win the 1986 PGA Championship with the iconic holed out bunker shot.
Bobby and his family moved to Georgia several years after that clinic at Lincoln Park. He came back and went to O State and played for Holder. In 1986, he won five tournaments and was the PGA Player of the Year. As much as I loved Arnold, this is my favorite golf highlight of all-time because of how nice he and his dad were to me. I’m grateful they got me interested in golf.
Parts of Arnold’s memorial service. His two biggest rivals, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player loved him like a brother. You don’t see sportsmanship and class like that anymore in sports. Jordan, Dustin, Rory, and maybe Jason Day—you are the present and future of golf.