Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Road Trip Part 2!

If you’re reading this and haven’t read part one, then do that now. Don’t worry, this post will still be here when you come back.

Going to the PGA Championship fulfilled a lifelong dream of seeing PGA Tour players in a tournament. The whole experience of Whistling Straits was great,[1] and I was left feeling satisfied and filled with a new perspective on pro golfers. The following are my observations from the weekend:

· Whistling Straits is a beautiful course with way too many bunkers.[2]

· I must have envisioned every golfer as normal height because numerous golfers seemed taller or smaller than I thought. The most notable of which was Jim Furyk who is much taller than I suspected.

· Tim Clark is one of my new favorite golfers because he is a tee scavenger. This means that he doesn’t use a new tee on a par 3. I engage in this practice, and it was nice to see a pro do it after seeing almost all the golfers leave their tee behind.

· Bubba Watson is one of my new favorite golfers because he hits the ball a mile, is emotional in a good way, and is open about being Christian.

· The following for Tiger Woods was by far the biggest on both days, even though he wasn’t near the lead. Not only were these crowds huge but annoying. I’m not a Tiger fan but the fans following him were the worst. They had no golf etiquette, and I think that is the reason that people that play with Tiger don’t play well.

I loved the PGA Championship, and I was like a kid in a candy store.[3] Little did I know, that I would be in Wisconsin again in two weeks. That sounds like another blog post coming to me. Wait and find out.[4]



[1] Thanks in part to Michael Santa getting my cell phone in and hooking us up with free tickets, parking, and a hat

[2] Over 1,000 and some of which spectators had to walk through which led to controversy in the end. If you want my opinion just ask.

[3] Just ask Ethan

[4] If my current rate of blog posts stays, the next post will be in about a month

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