I'm gonna go off on a little tangent here and share with you my hate for the state of Utah in a golfers point of view.
First off, everyday since the snow (which also sucks) has melted and I've been able to actually play golf its been WINDY!! Playing golf in the wind is the most frustrating thing on this planet and it is windy EVERY SINGLE DAY. Its hard to even enjoy being outside in a hurricane everyday.
I hate wind.
Another thing that I absolutely hate is how it can be hot, warm, and sunny one minute then in a split second its a hurricane, its raining, and snowing the next. Utah is bipolar. It snowed on the first day of spring whatever day thay was in I think April. Its ridiculous.
If I had my way I'd live somewhere warm 24/7 365 days a year cause I HATE the cold.
Get me outta here!!!
- Jordan
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
HP Byron Nelson Classic
Sang-Moon Bae won the HP Byron Nelson Classic in Irvine Texas last week by beating out Keegan Bradley. On the 16th hole Bradley missed a 3 foot birdie putt that would have put him in the outright lead but it horseshoed around the cup and that put him 1 shot back that he couldn't get back and Bae went on to win.
Congrats Sang-Moon Bae
Congrats Sang-Moon Bae
Still Better Than Most.
Tiger Woods was on top of the world two weeks ago after winning his 2nd PLAYERS Championship. He won by 2 strokes by finishing with a 4 day total of 13 under. Kevin Streelman, Jeff Magart, and David Lingmert finished in 2nd at 11 under.
The big story around the PLAYERS was the verbal war between Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods who both exchanged words during seperate interview towards each other that caused quite a stir in the golf world.
On the 17th hole Garcia hit 3 balls into the water and finished with a quadruple-bogey that took him right out of contention.
Congrats to Tiger on his win.
The big story around the PLAYERS was the verbal war between Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods who both exchanged words during seperate interview towards each other that caused quite a stir in the golf world.
On the 17th hole Garcia hit 3 balls into the water and finished with a quadruple-bogey that took him right out of contention.
Congrats to Tiger on his win.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Catching Up
Sorry I've been slacking on these posts! Woops. I will try to stay on top of these a little better! hahaha.
Zurich Classic
Anyways, my last post was after the first day at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans which had American Billy Horschel winning with a four day total of 20-under and shot a 8-under 64 on Sunday to win outright.
Horshel was clicking on Sunday in New Orleans, he made 6 consecutive birdie putts on holes 7 through 12 and had 17 greens in regulation which is pretty incredible.
After a 52 minute rain delay Billy would win in dramatic fashion sinking a 27-foot birdie putt on the par 5 18th to beat D.A. Points by 1 stroke. Horschels' reaction was as intense as it gets with about 8 solid fist pumps and quite a bit of screaming, and grinning ear-to-ear, you could tell he was pretty pumped about winning, but hey, after three straight top tens on tour, who wouldn't be excited about their FIRST PGA Tour victory?!
He later went on to say, "I know it was pretty intense, there was a lot going on. It's celebration time now."
The win at the Zurich Classic moved Billy into 3rd place in the FedEx Cup standings.
Congrats Billy!
Disappointing week for Utah boy Daniel Summerhays who missed the cut by shooting 4-over on Thursday and 1-under on Friday and finishing with 3-over through 2 days.
Wells Fargo Championship
My boy Daniel Summerhays was tied for the lead at the Wells Fargo Championship with a 5-under 67 with Rory McIlroy, Nick Watney and 4 other players. He wouldn't have much luck the rest of the week, he'd shoot 1-over 73 on Friday, and a 3-over 75 on Saturday and Sunday.
But the big name of the week is Derek Ernst a 22-year old rookie out of UNLV while on his way to Athens, Georgia for a web.com tournament got a call a few days before that he had a tee time at the Wells Fargo Championship as the 4th alternate. Crazy, huh?! Just wait, it gets better.
On the 18th hole Ernst was down 1-stroke and needed a birdie to tie the leader David Lynn. From 192 yards out, he choked up on a 6-iron and stuffed it, putting it 4 feet from the hole for one of only four birdies on the closing hole on Sunday. In the playoff with Lynn, he proved that the birdie earlier, yeah that was no fluke, he hit a 3-iron to about 15 feet and sunk the putt for the victory. The win guarantees him a spot in THE PLAYERS Championship this week, qualified for two World Golf Championships, the PGA Championship, next years Tournament of Champions in Hawaii, and The Masters next April. Oh, and to top it all off, he got a pretty hefty paycheck of $1.2 million. No big deal.
This feeling is unbelievable right now," said Ernst. And unbelievable it was.
Phil Mickelson choked on Sunday, my oh my, did he CHOKE! Phil led by 1-stroke with three holes to go and he made back-to-back bogie's, missing putts from 6-feet and 10-feet -he's supposedly the "best" short-game player and putter in the game today (he's lost that title in my opinion). He would finish with a 73 and take 3rd.
"I felt like I was in control, and I let it slip away there the last few holes, so it was disappointing," Mickelson said.
But in all honesty the conditions at Quail Hollow were AWFUL! players were dropping out of the tournament because the greens were in such bad condition, it was freezing all week, it was cloudy, windy, and just everything that you don't want to deal with while golfing. Kudos! to the players that hung in there all week!
Congrats Derek!
THE PLAYERS Championship
This weeks tournament is THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Florida is always a great tournament to watch, but tons of rain last week actually flooded the path to get to the green on the iconic 137 yard par-3 17th island hole.
Zurich Classic
Anyways, my last post was after the first day at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans which had American Billy Horschel winning with a four day total of 20-under and shot a 8-under 64 on Sunday to win outright.
Horshel was clicking on Sunday in New Orleans, he made 6 consecutive birdie putts on holes 7 through 12 and had 17 greens in regulation which is pretty incredible.
After a 52 minute rain delay Billy would win in dramatic fashion sinking a 27-foot birdie putt on the par 5 18th to beat D.A. Points by 1 stroke. Horschels' reaction was as intense as it gets with about 8 solid fist pumps and quite a bit of screaming, and grinning ear-to-ear, you could tell he was pretty pumped about winning, but hey, after three straight top tens on tour, who wouldn't be excited about their FIRST PGA Tour victory?!
He later went on to say, "I know it was pretty intense, there was a lot going on. It's celebration time now."
The win at the Zurich Classic moved Billy into 3rd place in the FedEx Cup standings.
Congrats Billy!
Disappointing week for Utah boy Daniel Summerhays who missed the cut by shooting 4-over on Thursday and 1-under on Friday and finishing with 3-over through 2 days.
Wells Fargo Championship
My boy Daniel Summerhays was tied for the lead at the Wells Fargo Championship with a 5-under 67 with Rory McIlroy, Nick Watney and 4 other players. He wouldn't have much luck the rest of the week, he'd shoot 1-over 73 on Friday, and a 3-over 75 on Saturday and Sunday.
But the big name of the week is Derek Ernst a 22-year old rookie out of UNLV while on his way to Athens, Georgia for a web.com tournament got a call a few days before that he had a tee time at the Wells Fargo Championship as the 4th alternate. Crazy, huh?! Just wait, it gets better.
On the 18th hole Ernst was down 1-stroke and needed a birdie to tie the leader David Lynn. From 192 yards out, he choked up on a 6-iron and stuffed it, putting it 4 feet from the hole for one of only four birdies on the closing hole on Sunday. In the playoff with Lynn, he proved that the birdie earlier, yeah that was no fluke, he hit a 3-iron to about 15 feet and sunk the putt for the victory. The win guarantees him a spot in THE PLAYERS Championship this week, qualified for two World Golf Championships, the PGA Championship, next years Tournament of Champions in Hawaii, and The Masters next April. Oh, and to top it all off, he got a pretty hefty paycheck of $1.2 million. No big deal.
This feeling is unbelievable right now," said Ernst. And unbelievable it was.
Phil Mickelson choked on Sunday, my oh my, did he CHOKE! Phil led by 1-stroke with three holes to go and he made back-to-back bogie's, missing putts from 6-feet and 10-feet -he's supposedly the "best" short-game player and putter in the game today (he's lost that title in my opinion). He would finish with a 73 and take 3rd.
"I felt like I was in control, and I let it slip away there the last few holes, so it was disappointing," Mickelson said.
But in all honesty the conditions at Quail Hollow were AWFUL! players were dropping out of the tournament because the greens were in such bad condition, it was freezing all week, it was cloudy, windy, and just everything that you don't want to deal with while golfing. Kudos! to the players that hung in there all week!
Congrats Derek!
THE PLAYERS Championship
This weeks tournament is THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Florida is always a great tournament to watch, but tons of rain last week actually flooded the path to get to the green on the iconic 137 yard par-3 17th island hole.
Here's a picture of it last Friday
The rain has gone away and the grounds crew got all the water cleared off and the course is ready to go for the tournament!
Thanks for reading!
-Jordan
Friday, April 26, 2013
Zurich Classic Day 1
The Zurich Classic of New Orleans started up yesterday. After the first day American; Rickie Barnes was in the lead at an impressive (-8) 64 with Lucas Glover (USA) and Boo Weekley (USA) just one stroke behind.
Other notable big names on the leader board are South African; Ernie Els trailing just 3 shots back after the first day and American; Rickie Fowler (-5) 67 who was tied for 3rd with 9 other players.
Defending champ Jason Dufner (USA) is 6 shots back at (-2) 70.
Another big story is the 14 year old from China; Tianlang Guan who was in the clubhouse Thursday with (E) 72 and is in front of 2012 Masters champ Bubba Watson (+1).
I'm from Utah so I like to see how the local guys are doing and they are not doing very good, Mike Weir finished the first day at (E) at 72, and Daniel Summerhays finished with a (+4) 76.
You can follow the leader board online at http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/zurich-classic-of-new-orleans/leaderboard.html
I will post more about it after the tournament is over!
Thanks for reading!
-Jordan
Other notable big names on the leader board are South African; Ernie Els trailing just 3 shots back after the first day and American; Rickie Fowler (-5) 67 who was tied for 3rd with 9 other players.
Defending champ Jason Dufner (USA) is 6 shots back at (-2) 70.
Another big story is the 14 year old from China; Tianlang Guan who was in the clubhouse Thursday with (E) 72 and is in front of 2012 Masters champ Bubba Watson (+1).
I'm from Utah so I like to see how the local guys are doing and they are not doing very good, Mike Weir finished the first day at (E) at 72, and Daniel Summerhays finished with a (+4) 76.
You can follow the leader board online at http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/zurich-classic-of-new-orleans/leaderboard.html
I will post more about it after the tournament is over!
Thanks for reading!
-Jordan
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