The Savvy Boomer

A true golf nut.

Ed and Nancy met while on a singles cruise and Ed fell head over heels for her.When they discovered they lived in the same city only a few miles apart Ed was ecstatic.

He immediately started asking her out when they got home.

Time for Mike Weir to hang up the spikes for a while-maybe forever

Mike Weir is the greatest golfer to come out of Canada.  Winner of the 2003 Masters, 8 tournaments and over $26 mil in PGA tour earnings, ranked as high as #5 in the World Golf rankings, Mike has absolutely nothing to prove to the golf world.  I'm sure there isn't a rookie on Tour today who wouldn't gladly take those stats over the rest of their career.  I admire Mike Weir and what he has done at the highest level of the most competitive single person sport in the world.  But perhaps it's time to pack it in, before his poor play on Tour of late becomes more memorable than all the great finishes he has had over the past 10 years.

Vancouver Sun reporter reaches new low on Tiger reporting

I've never been a big fan of Tiger's because I personally think he has a huge ego but I've always thought he is probably the best golfer ever.  So when the crap hit the fan about his philandering, like others, I have watched the train wreck this has turned into with a lot of different emotions with my main thought being that if it's true, he deserves the bad publicity.

Enter Cam Cole, a Canadian journalist who thinks he knows something about golf and life.  His recent column in the Vancouver Sun manages to take a run at cocktail waitresses, nightclub hostesses, waitresses, (no politically correct terms for Mr. Cole-sexist terms are apparently OK when you talk about women who work in certain jobs) party arrangers, (OK nothing sexist here, but apparently all these jobs are not "sophisticated"-maybe if a couple of CEOS were on the list Mr. Cole would have been happier) African-Americans, Vegas, Stanford University, Oprah, blondes, Sweden and of course Tiger.  All this in 751 words.  Good stuff for a reporter whom a friend of mine once remarked about at the now defunct Vancouver Open several years ago-"Who's that little chubby guy that gets to walk inside the ropes?"

Newspapers are going out of business and reporters are whining about it by blaming bloggers huh?  Too bad.  I think the only reason I haven't canceled my subscription to the Sun is because I need it about 10 minutes every morning-if you know what I mean.

TW comes close at Turnberry

These days, when you read about golf and the initials TW, you usually think about Tiger Woods.  This weekend however, no one was thinking about Tiger and everyone , especially boomers, were hoping that the "old"  TW, Tom Watson could pull off a miracle at the British Open.  And if it wasn't for Watson hitting an 8 iron on 18 a few feet too far, the media would be falling over themselves trying to come up with unrealistic analogies about what an incredible achievement it is for a man just short of 60 to win one of the most coveted events in golf.

I sat in front of my TV screaming at that approach shot on 18 to bite before it slid off the back of the green but when Watson missed the putt to win, I turned it off because I didn't want to watch what was probably going to happen and eventually did.  Of course, I recorded it, but you could just see from the look on Watson's face that he was spent.

Tom Watson is the epitome of class and while he didn't win, he gave us all a look back at why the era of Palmer, Nicklaus, Player, Watson and Miller was the most exciting era in professional golf.

Oh yeah, some guy by the name of Stewart Cink won.

Boomers are taking over Turnberry

Watson (59), Calcavecchia (49), Singh (46), Jiminez (45) are in the top 4 of the British Open.  Can one of them pull it off?  ABSOLUTELY!!  (Tiger's out.)

The only thing hot about Tiger in the US Open is his mouth

No question that Tiger Woods is the best golfer in the world.  But watching him say and mouth the "F" word after making what he considers to be a bad shot is just classless. Very seldom do other pros do this on national TV, but Tiger does so consistently, to the point that the announcers  on the US Open coverage even commented on it today. 

Clean up your act Tiger.  I'm sick of it.  I would think your legions of fans, especially the kids are as well.

Tom Lehman and Steve Williams separated at birth?

I switched on the Memorial this weekend and of course the first thing I saw was Tiger but did a double take and wondered why Tom Lehman was caddying for him.  Was Lehman joking around?  Then I realized, no, that's Steve Williams, Tiger's regular caddy but for some reason I never noticed the striking similarity before.  For me, that was the highlight of the tournament as Tiger ho-hummed another one.  In case you can't tell, that's Lehman on the right.

 

Seniors Day at the golf course