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- Name: Nick W.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Sports Kudos
I meant to post about this on Monday, but I forgot and ran out of time. A big Huzzah! to the American team for their victory in the President's Cup. Those were some gritty, if not always beautiful, performances down the stretch.
I love the match play format, and to see the best players in the world face off against each other is fabulous-- especially in a team format, and even more so when you are playing for your country. The pressure on the leaders on Sunday of a major is probably comparable, maybe greater, but even then, if you f-up it's just you that you hurt. In the Ryder Cup, the Solheim Cup and the President's Cup, if you mess up, you hurt the team's chances, maybe cost your team a shot at victory. Incredible pressure. Love it.
Special huzzah's to Phil Mickelson and Chris DiMarco, the final two players, for not folding after Angel Cabrera and Stuart Appleby made some fantastics shots on the closing holes to take 1-up leads late. Mickelson played an absolutely magnificent shot into 18 to earn a tie in his match after 18 holes, and, as far as he knew, his birdie got the U.S. the half point they needed to win. Only after the putt dropped did he find out that no matches are halved until after the winner of the cup was decided. He still had to play sudden death holes with Appleby. Which made for a truly comical look on his face when he was informed that he hadn't secured the victory after all. Long gone are the days when Lefty seemed to fold under the heavy pressure golf sometimes brings to bear on its best players.
As for DiMarco-- I think we can now safely say he is clearly the best player to never have won a major. His drive on 18 was dreadful, but his second shot was one of the most money shots I've ever witnessed. The kind of recovery from a bad drive that you expect Tiger to hit. Brilliant. But he still had to make the putt, a testy little side hiller from 15 feet with the hopes of an entire team riding on it. Drilled it. Never a doubt. He was following it in celebration at three feet out because he knew it was good. Total money putt after a totally money approach.
Man that was fun to watch.
Okay, also a quick shout out to my Milwaukee Brewers for finally-- finally!-- winning the game following the one when they got to .500. Five times previous they had clawed back to .500 only to lose the next game. Last night, they won to move to 79-78. Two wins out of five snaps a 12 year string of losing seasons. Three wins in their final five gets them their first winning season in 12 years. We don't suck!
Go Brewers!
I love the match play format, and to see the best players in the world face off against each other is fabulous-- especially in a team format, and even more so when you are playing for your country. The pressure on the leaders on Sunday of a major is probably comparable, maybe greater, but even then, if you f-up it's just you that you hurt. In the Ryder Cup, the Solheim Cup and the President's Cup, if you mess up, you hurt the team's chances, maybe cost your team a shot at victory. Incredible pressure. Love it.
Special huzzah's to Phil Mickelson and Chris DiMarco, the final two players, for not folding after Angel Cabrera and Stuart Appleby made some fantastics shots on the closing holes to take 1-up leads late. Mickelson played an absolutely magnificent shot into 18 to earn a tie in his match after 18 holes, and, as far as he knew, his birdie got the U.S. the half point they needed to win. Only after the putt dropped did he find out that no matches are halved until after the winner of the cup was decided. He still had to play sudden death holes with Appleby. Which made for a truly comical look on his face when he was informed that he hadn't secured the victory after all. Long gone are the days when Lefty seemed to fold under the heavy pressure golf sometimes brings to bear on its best players.
As for DiMarco-- I think we can now safely say he is clearly the best player to never have won a major. His drive on 18 was dreadful, but his second shot was one of the most money shots I've ever witnessed. The kind of recovery from a bad drive that you expect Tiger to hit. Brilliant. But he still had to make the putt, a testy little side hiller from 15 feet with the hopes of an entire team riding on it. Drilled it. Never a doubt. He was following it in celebration at three feet out because he knew it was good. Total money putt after a totally money approach.
Man that was fun to watch.
Okay, also a quick shout out to my Milwaukee Brewers for finally-- finally!-- winning the game following the one when they got to .500. Five times previous they had clawed back to .500 only to lose the next game. Last night, they won to move to 79-78. Two wins out of five snaps a 12 year string of losing seasons. Three wins in their final five gets them their first winning season in 12 years. We don't suck!
Go Brewers!
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