PGA - Travelers Championship up next
By: Brian Gabrielle | bgsports.com
After last weekend's dramatic U.S. Open, the buzz on the tour is Tiger Woods impending absence for more knee surgery. Still, the show continues at the Travelers this week.
News flash: Just as I was about to post this, I learned that Tiger Woods is going to have season-ending knee surgery. Turns out he ruptured his ACL last year and has been playing with it anyway. Also turns out his left tibia has a double stress fracture.
I’ve watched many Buick Invitationals (though none in person). You’d think I’d recognize the course but all week as I watched action at the 18th hole, I thought, where did that ugly ass hole come from? With the 'pond' in front of the green and lack of flora around the hole, the hole looked like a manmade pond at a scrappy campground. The square-shaped kind you get drunk enough on whiskey when you’re camping that you jump in and find it’s about two feet deep and there are snapping turtles.
This is a quibble because by all accounts Torrey Pines was a fair and tough test last week. You just won’t see the USGA winning any awards for aesthetics.
This just in: In addition to the broken knee and ACL rupture, Tiger also played with a broken arm last week.
Rocco coulda', shoulda', of course. It took 19 extra holes but so what? The end result was the same. Even though Tiger played with a broken knee, a broken arm and two sprained ankles.
The Thursday-Friday threesome of Woods, Mickelson and Scott was lame-o, despite ABC and ESPN’s constant revisionist commentary to the contrary. They really laid it on at the end of the tournament, in reflection mode. The truth is none of the golfers seemed inspired (except for Tiger on Friday), there was no sense of a duel, mainly because on Thursday and Friday they were thinking about their games and the course, not what the other guy was doing.
No, the real drama would come if Scott and Mickelson ever play to Tiger’s level and be bunched together on Saturday and Sunday. That rarely happens, though, because even with three broken arms, paralysis, no hands and no feet, Tiger is better.
When he’s ninety, in a wheel chair, in his 20th year of fighting a terminal disease, he will win his 30th U.S. Open.
What a hangover. Nineteen extra holes on Monday. The Celtics closing it out in a blowout last night. Now this huge Tiger news. Let’s just say this week’s Travelers Championship isn’t commanding my attention. We go from the cliffs overlooking Black’s Beach to...Hartford. The insurance capital of the world. Now if that doesn’t spell excitement I don’t know what does.
At this week's Travelers on the TPC River Highlands course, take Kenny Perry (16-1), 1/6 unit: I’m going right back to Perry. He wants to make the Ryder Cup in his beloved Kentucky so bad he took the U.S. Open off. I’m not sure I understand why he had to do that. But he did and the break was probably good for him, coming off a fairly emotional win at Jack’s place in Columbus after getting a terrible break in a playoff in Georgia a few weeks before that. Bottom line is the guy is on a mission and he’s playing his best golf in recent years.
Take Justin Rose (25-1), 1/6 unit: He has to win on the PGA Tour at some point. Maybe it’ll come this week, with pressure off on a course he fancies; last year he followed the U.S. Open with a T9 in Hartford.
Take Matt Kuchar (66-1), 1/6 unit: Kuchar’s playing well lately with a couple of Top-10s on tough courses (Colonial and Memorial) prior to his T48 in San Diego last week.
By: Brian Gabrielle | bgsports.com
After last weekend's dramatic U.S. Open, the buzz on the tour is Tiger Woods impending absence for more knee surgery. Still, the show continues at the Travelers this week.
News flash: Just as I was about to post this, I learned that Tiger Woods is going to have season-ending knee surgery. Turns out he ruptured his ACL last year and has been playing with it anyway. Also turns out his left tibia has a double stress fracture.
I’ve watched many Buick Invitationals (though none in person). You’d think I’d recognize the course but all week as I watched action at the 18th hole, I thought, where did that ugly ass hole come from? With the 'pond' in front of the green and lack of flora around the hole, the hole looked like a manmade pond at a scrappy campground. The square-shaped kind you get drunk enough on whiskey when you’re camping that you jump in and find it’s about two feet deep and there are snapping turtles.
This is a quibble because by all accounts Torrey Pines was a fair and tough test last week. You just won’t see the USGA winning any awards for aesthetics.
This just in: In addition to the broken knee and ACL rupture, Tiger also played with a broken arm last week.
Rocco coulda', shoulda', of course. It took 19 extra holes but so what? The end result was the same. Even though Tiger played with a broken knee, a broken arm and two sprained ankles.
The Thursday-Friday threesome of Woods, Mickelson and Scott was lame-o, despite ABC and ESPN’s constant revisionist commentary to the contrary. They really laid it on at the end of the tournament, in reflection mode. The truth is none of the golfers seemed inspired (except for Tiger on Friday), there was no sense of a duel, mainly because on Thursday and Friday they were thinking about their games and the course, not what the other guy was doing.
No, the real drama would come if Scott and Mickelson ever play to Tiger’s level and be bunched together on Saturday and Sunday. That rarely happens, though, because even with three broken arms, paralysis, no hands and no feet, Tiger is better.
When he’s ninety, in a wheel chair, in his 20th year of fighting a terminal disease, he will win his 30th U.S. Open.
What a hangover. Nineteen extra holes on Monday. The Celtics closing it out in a blowout last night. Now this huge Tiger news. Let’s just say this week’s Travelers Championship isn’t commanding my attention. We go from the cliffs overlooking Black’s Beach to...Hartford. The insurance capital of the world. Now if that doesn’t spell excitement I don’t know what does.
At this week's Travelers on the TPC River Highlands course, take Kenny Perry (16-1), 1/6 unit: I’m going right back to Perry. He wants to make the Ryder Cup in his beloved Kentucky so bad he took the U.S. Open off. I’m not sure I understand why he had to do that. But he did and the break was probably good for him, coming off a fairly emotional win at Jack’s place in Columbus after getting a terrible break in a playoff in Georgia a few weeks before that. Bottom line is the guy is on a mission and he’s playing his best golf in recent years.
Take Justin Rose (25-1), 1/6 unit: He has to win on the PGA Tour at some point. Maybe it’ll come this week, with pressure off on a course he fancies; last year he followed the U.S. Open with a T9 in Hartford.
Take Matt Kuchar (66-1), 1/6 unit: Kuchar’s playing well lately with a couple of Top-10s on tough courses (Colonial and Memorial) prior to his T48 in San Diego last week.