Sunday Stuff

It's another beautiful morning in Park City.  Just a couple of quick items and I'll let you go...

First, it's been an early Spring here this week, with daytime highs around 50 degrees.  Nice to be skiing in sunglasses and not fighting the cold, but very limited terrain open.  So limited in fact that we've been skiing at Park City Mountain Resort instead of Canyons, our home track hill.  We're able to do that because Vail, which owns Canyons, bought PCMR in September.  Not so much a sale as a capitulation, as in a Great Moments in Business case study the nice folks at PCMR missed a lease renewal date and were about to be evicted.

In view of the unusual conditions, I have an interesting day planned thanks to ski buddy Mitch.  If it comes off as planned it should be a rich full day and I'll report on it in full later.  otherwise, just a couple of notes:

This Story Is Six Days Old -  I'm guessing that Jordan Spieth doesn't buy many lottery tickets, having, you know, hit the life lottery.  But if he did there'd likely be a 63 involved, as he shot that magical number for the second time in six days:

Jordan Spieth rolled in a 50-foot birdie putt on the last hole to cap off a Saturday at the

Hero World Challenge that was close to perfect. 

Spieth opened with three straight birdies on his way to a 9-under 63 at Isleworth, matching the best score of the tournament. That gave the 21-year-old Texan a seven-shot lead over Keegan Bradley and Henrik Stenson going into the final round. 

"This is the best I've played in a 54-hole stretch," Spieth said.

Doesn't seem like there will be much drama in the final round.  The only other item to note about the other 17 is that Keegan Bradley has been playing with a counter-weight putter, continuing his quest to continue his career after 1/1/16.

As for the tourney host, credit is due just for finishing:

On Thursday, Tiger Woods couldn’t break an egg. On Saturday, he broke par for the second straight day, improving to a 3-under 69. And for more good news, the fever he said he’s been playing with the past two days finally broke on the front nine. Woods waited four months to return to action and as luck would have it he’s had to battle nausea, laryngitis, and an assortment of flu-like symptoms. Woods’s mother, Kultida, noted that his fever spiked to 102 degrees on Friday night. 

“Well, it wasn’t easy, and I fought hard,” Woods said after the round. “That’s about all I had.”

At this point he seems more likely to shoot his temperature than to move up the leaderboard, but it's good to see him fight through it best he can.  And there's news that we might see a bit more of him, as per Shack (via Golf Central):

Tiger also revealed after the round that his early year schedule will be different, getting the hopes up of tournament directors in Phoenix, Pebble Beach and Los Angeles that he may add one of the events he used to play regularly. My money is on Phoenix.

 It certainly won't be Riviera, so Phoenix is the logical guess (weather and six-hour pro-am rounds argue against Pebble).  This does make sense so good on him for showing a little flexibility.

'Tis the Season - Golf.com has a holiday golf gift gallery here, that's fairly predictable.  Very much the usual suspects, GPS watches, range finders, golf shoes and apparel, yada, yada, yada... you could fill it out the same and they'd be interchangeable.  

David Owen  has the more enjoyable gift guide, including this hard-to-find item:

Shhh...don't tell Maggot.  I don't want the surprise ruined.