Sorry for bailing on you yesterday....actually that's a fib. A storm that was supposed to miss us failed to do so, and the total reported snowfall of 11" bore no relation to the deep pillows of dry, fluffy powder we found.
I'm not sure it was my best ski day ever, but I'm equally unsure that it wasn't. Knee and waist shots were the order of the day, and I was out there from 9:30-3:30 without much of a break at all. According to the resort's wizbang monitoring system, I skied 26,500 vertical feet, way too much considering that I hadn't previously broken 19,000.
Here's a picture of a German gent named Peter that I picked up on my first chair and played tour guide for (along with Lee who showed up 90 minutes later) all day. He seemed to like that back alleys' we took him into:
Now, back to this silly golf stuff...
Monday Finish - By now you know how it finished, so I'll not waste scarce pixels on the game story. The headline is Brandt Snedeker's unreal 69 in the final round as compared to his peer group:
The final-round scoring average was 77.9, nearly eight strokes worse than Snedeker’s score. Twenty-three of 71 players failed to break 80.
“I feel bad for them,” he said. “They got the raw end of the stick this morning. But that’s just the way golf goes.”
You'd have to have been there to know the conditions for the early part of his round, but his back nine was simply inconceivable in those conditions.
Everyone's favorite moment was this from the third green early Sunday, when Colt Knost is seen imploring rules official Brad Fabel to stop play, then does this:
I do think that this is further evidence that Billy Horschel should consider a switch to decaf, but good fun...
Lots of Phil being Phil to sort through. When last we saw our hero he was calling out Australian millennials and acquitting himself well on the more difficult South course. So, golf being golf, of course he blows up on Friday and the youngster makes the cut.
Jim McCabe's piece on that subject carried this header:
Stats: Phil Mickelson's 76 at Torrey Pines North is truly stunning
I'd stipulate to mildly surprising given Phil's strong play early in the season, but Phil blowing up is never stunning. In his Morning Drive appearance yesterday, Shack attributed it to bad Karma... well, he is a SoCal boy.
Phil also famously played a shot from outside the boundary fence
The video doesn't show the prior shot, in which the ball was OB for a significant part of its journey. But fortunately for Phil, it ended in bounds by a dimple.
For those keeping score at home, Ryan Ruffels closeded with a two-under 76 in the final round and finished T43. Very impressive for a youngster...
And did you see Jason Gore's albatross?
That doesn't happen every day.
Gary McCord caused a Twitterstorm with a perhaps insensitive characterization about the wind. Stephanie Wei responds to what she thought she heard McCord say:
Raked, Stephanie....raked. Even Gary isn't stupid enough to go there.
On Morning Drive Shack also proposed a new rule for Tour Pros, to wit to stay off Twitter for a proscribed period after posting anything in the 80's. Here's the tweet that produced that suggestion:
Apparently Reed had an ankle injury with obvious swelling, and was examined by the Tour's medical staff. Think it might be a tad awkward next time they're paired?Hope some Tour event's staff is on this, as methinks they need to spend some quality time together soon on a Thursday and Friday.
Required Read of the Day - Thanks to loyal reader Wally for ensuring that I didn't miss this wonderful Alan Shipnuck article on the origins of Bryson DeChambeau, who's making a spirited run for the title of Most Interesting Man in Golf. I'm just going to excerpt his lede:
An industrial office park on the outskirts of Liberty Hill, Texas, is an unlikely place for a revolution, but one is being manufactured there, next door to EcoWater Systems, around the corner from a street sign that reads REPORT POACHING TO GAME WARDEN. This is the humble home of Edel Golf. Inside the sweltering, 4,000-square-foot metal box it is a riot of clanking machinery. The place has the vibe of a mad scientist's lab, which is how company founder David Edel likes it. Over here is a wedge with no grooves, over there a driver head made using a 3-D printer. Want an $8,000 set of irons with a gorgeous, hand-carved ivy design on the back of each clubhead? Yeah, he's got those too, not to mention a hybrid head made of padauk, a rainforest wood.
I don't want to have to have this conversation with you again, just go read the whole thing. It's gonna be so much fun watching this kid.
Lydia, Oh Lydia - She'll be making her season's debut this week at Lake Merced, but she posted this photo of herself at age 8:
I'm still struggling to adapt to Lydia post-glasses, and she's tormenting me with pics of her pre-glasses.
And no, I can't translate but the penmanship was a leading indicator of her short game methinks.
Today in Trick Shots - I don't blog as many of the trick shot videos as I'd like to, because most are in formats that I remain unable to embed. But this one was shared by Maggot, so enjoy:
I'm still trying to figure out why this would appeal to Mags? Can anyone help me out here?
I've got lots more, but I'm headed out in search of remaining stashes of powder.
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