The Rookies

It was an incredible PGA Championship today, one that saw Tiger Woods lose his first major after leading at the start of the final round. He entered the day with a two-shot lead over both Padraig Harrington and Y.E. Yang. Most people figured Harrington would pose the real threat to Woods, as he won the championship last year and has three major titles to his name. The focus leading up to the tournament was on their anticipated duel, especially after they battled it out at the Bridgestone Invitational last week, and they didn’t disappoint. They were paired in the opening round and were almost neck-and-neck through Saturday, with Harrington cutting Woods’ one-time lead of four shots down to two by the end of the day. Their compelling performance prompted many golf scribes, including Golf Digest’s Dan Jenkins, to anoint their seemingly-inevitable duel as the story of the tournament going into today’s action.
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Look, let’s just get this out of the way: I dislike you, Rick Reilly. Many, many people do. The only people that don’t dislike you are rich white folk who drive SUV’s from their homes in the suburbs to offices in slightly more urban suburbs and watch CNBC and think that subsidized health care is awful because it means they’ll have to wait 15 extra minutes to see their third favorite doctor. These are the people that have you in a job, that forward the notion of you somehow being one of the best sportswriters around. They are completely disassociated with reality, which makes you their mouthpiece. You laugh at the same things they do. You are touched by what touches them. And what makes them indignant, what sets off the buzzer that tells them – once again – that America is not just the solipsistic Norman Rockwell nightmare of green suburban lawns with no sidewalks that they lock their doors on every evening…well, that ticks you off as well.

Like this:

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(Editor’s note: The US Open gets underway tomorrow at Bethpage Black on Long Island, New York. Resident Rookies golf nerds 310ToJoba and Chilltown, both avid players, took it upon themselves to preview the Open for you, the reader)

The Dark Horse

310ToJoba - Dustin Johnson. While Anthony Kim may have gotten all the attention for making 11 birdies in the second round of The Masters this year, it is important to note that the “other” Johnson put together quite a nice tournament himself. Consider that Johnson made nine less birdies than Kim but still finished only a stroke behind him on the final leader board. Even more striking is the fact that Johnson made 3 less bogeys and the same number of double bogeys as his counterpart. In short, he can be his own sort of scoring machine, as is evidenced by his four eagles in this year’s first major. Read the rest of this entry →

Megan Fox is paying attention.

The season of boredom in sports is upon us.

With the end of the NBA and NHL playoffs over the weekend, we’re left with a regular season in baseball that has been so exciting, it’s been subsumed by hype over Stephen Strasburg; NASCAR, if it still exists; international soccer; the NBA draft; and speculation about the NFL.

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El Pato: Two-time major champion.

And at the end of the day, only the duck was left standing.

Angel Cabrera, an Argentinian nicknamed “El Pato,” the Duck, survived a two-hole sudden-death playoff against the similarly steady Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell and electrifying charges from Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson to claim the 2009 Masters. He won his first green jacket with a Sunday 71 and two pars in the playoff, including an incredible save from behind a tree on the first playoff hole.

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