Saturday 27 February 2016

Post Snedeker Blues

So crushed was I by Snedeker I could hardly think about golf for all of Monday. Later on I decided to have a look.

Jamie Lovemark looked like the Loverman going in to the final round. Three beautiful 65s put my long labouring Lovemark in position for money. Even at low money, £1.50 each way at 70s promised sufficient ammunition for a serious week ahead.

And then came a formerly unknown fluid foe. Water. The life giving miraculous compound, which daily, brings every one of us life, had just destroyed mine. Three double bogeys in seven holes ruined my entire aspirations of future financial fire-power. Nonetheless, I continued to watch as Jason Dufner, renewed in physique and follicular prowess surged through a difficult play off against Lingmerth.
In the same week the European tournament yielded little success.

However, a final pre day double on Rickie and Mickleson looked like serious business. Fowler responded to a double bogey by holing out for eagle from 65 yards. Some of the most brilliant short game work ever continued to hold off the Belgian battering-ram Pieters to get the first leg of the double up and over. All that remained, was for America's darling, the everyman of golf, the left handed hero looked good for a serious settlement. Unfortunately a final day 68 was four shots clear of the required score to reach the play off.
Whiffs of the anti-water movement had started.


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