Hats off to the United States team for winning the President’s Cup at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. I know the President’s Cup does not live up to the competition the Ryder Cups provide, but enjoy watching the similar formats the event showcases. If you need to understand the differences between the Ryder Cup and the President’s Cup, you only need to see how crushed Hunter Mahan was in the post interview in the last Ryder Cup; definitely hard to watch someone feel that low for losing their singles match. Alternate shot and singles matches are great to watch. Golf is such an individual game, then to have venues where the pro’s play in a team format, truly makes for great television. You get a chance to see how each individual dislikes losing a hole or attempts to grind through to half a hole. The course definitely provided different climates each day but the constant were those fast greens. There were times were I thought the balls were rolling on ice. Alister MacKenzie who also designed Augusta National, designed the course at Royal Melbourne where the event took place. After a valiant effort by the international team on the last day of singles matches the Cup was retained by the Americans 19-15. The international squandered opportunities from Day 1 and never recovered. The President’s Cup returns to the States in 2013 to Muirfield Village Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio.
Again I apologize, work gets in between my life’s passion and puts a wrench in my plans a lot of times. I will no longer make promises of when I plan on writing posts. I’ll just say until next time….
Some random thoughts I have for the winter season. This time of year where I can rarely play due to weather conditions, I try to swing when I can and when a “rainy” day occurs that allows me to get out and play I try to take advantage of the opportunity. Again you won’t post your low score of the year during the offseason but gives you an opportunity to still swing a club and enjoy the game. Due to the mild weather conditions so far in the Mid Atlantic region I was able to play a round of golf on 11.11.11 Veteran’s Day. It was a day to be thankful for all the service men and women who have sacrificed and allow me to enjoy days filled with playing 18 holes. The weather was in the 50’s and windy and I didn’t have a care in the world what I was shooting, I was just happy to play a round with old and new friends on all 1’s day.
During the weekend of the President’s Cup the site for the 2015 was announced. Seoul, Korea will be the destination and I tentatively plan on being there. Crossing my fingers and setting a 4 year goal for myself so I may have a Tebowing moment on the course. I hope everyone on state side enjoys a happy turkey day. Until next time.... take care and god bless.
