It's another beautiful day here at Res Ipsa Golf. The sun is shining, it's supposed to get up into the upper 50s (that's like 15 or so for you Canadians eh) this afternoon ... and of course I'm locked down in my office. It's also 100% standard that it's supposed to be beautiful through Friday and then the weekend forecast just keeps getting worse. Rain. Snow. Cold. Blech.
The start of the season might have to wait another week. Sigh.
The big news of the day is - of course - Tiger Woods coming back at the Masters. Other than the whole 'let's play a major without any warmup tournaments' thing this is the most obvious time to come back possible.
Think about it. The people that run the Masters will have the place on lockdown. The crowds are big but not overwhelming. They have the Pinkerton guys on security. They're not shy about ejecting people that violate their ideas of decorum. Augusta National is like a bubble and it's the obvious place for the comeback to begin. At any other tournament Tiger's handlers would have to make all sorts of plans for security.
I'm not going to hazard a guess as to how Tiger will do. He's enough of a freak - in the golf sense pervs - to be fully capable of winning. He's also human which means he could well shoot 78-78 and miss the cut. You could say we have data points from the past - when he took time off for his father's death or when he came back from injury last year - but I don't know that anybody in professional golf has ever experienced anything remotely CLOSE to what Tiger has and will continue to experience until things are back to business as usual.
I do know this - I am definitely bummed out that I didn't get any practice round tickets in the lottery this year.
Otherwise, I'm now caught up on the new season of the Haney Project. I thought episode 3 was pretty weak - there wasn't anything holding it together, no theme or anything. The one section that could have been a bigger part was the whole Ray's wife learning the game in secret. I hope there's more of that in coming episodes.
Incidentally, Ray and his wife come across like they don't like each other all that much. I very much enjoyed the hint of evil when she was talking about how much she was looking forward to spending a day at the course with him.
Also: Hank is still not Mr. Personality. That's not going to change. He makes a decent straight man I guess but you really need someone with truckloads of personality to play off him. Barkley had that, Romano comes up short - in my opinion and so far.
The start of the season might have to wait another week. Sigh.
The big news of the day is - of course - Tiger Woods coming back at the Masters. Other than the whole 'let's play a major without any warmup tournaments' thing this is the most obvious time to come back possible.
Think about it. The people that run the Masters will have the place on lockdown. The crowds are big but not overwhelming. They have the Pinkerton guys on security. They're not shy about ejecting people that violate their ideas of decorum. Augusta National is like a bubble and it's the obvious place for the comeback to begin. At any other tournament Tiger's handlers would have to make all sorts of plans for security.
I'm not going to hazard a guess as to how Tiger will do. He's enough of a freak - in the golf sense pervs - to be fully capable of winning. He's also human which means he could well shoot 78-78 and miss the cut. You could say we have data points from the past - when he took time off for his father's death or when he came back from injury last year - but I don't know that anybody in professional golf has ever experienced anything remotely CLOSE to what Tiger has and will continue to experience until things are back to business as usual.
I do know this - I am definitely bummed out that I didn't get any practice round tickets in the lottery this year.
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Otherwise, I'm now caught up on the new season of the Haney Project. I thought episode 3 was pretty weak - there wasn't anything holding it together, no theme or anything. The one section that could have been a bigger part was the whole Ray's wife learning the game in secret. I hope there's more of that in coming episodes.
Incidentally, Ray and his wife come across like they don't like each other all that much. I very much enjoyed the hint of evil when she was talking about how much she was looking forward to spending a day at the course with him.
Also: Hank is still not Mr. Personality. That's not going to change. He makes a decent straight man I guess but you really need someone with truckloads of personality to play off him. Barkley had that, Romano comes up short - in my opinion and so far.
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