Usually on Monday morning I’ll cruise through the all the golf sites to get the inside story from the weekend. But this morning, quite frankly my head is spinning.
What a crazy golf weekend. And it’s not over as the boys of the PGA Tour still have to complete the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open.
It was a smorgasbord of golf and we got to see golf 24 hours a day as the tournaments circled the globe.
It started early in the week at the Qatar Masters. And since that is 8 hours ahead of the east coast we got to see some real deep prime time golf. Follow that up with Jordan Spieth playing in the Singapore Open (13 hrs. ahead) and you had some really late night must watch golf.
The LPGA kicked off their season at the Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic, thankfully in the Eastern Time Zone, to add some more must watch golf into the mix.
And last but not least the Farmers, well they actually started last since they were 3 hours behind in San Diego. And with a field that included Phil the Thrill and Fowler the Fourth it again was another installment of must watch golf.
I was glued to the Golf Channel every chance I had, knowing that one of those tournaments was going to be on. And of course Mother Nature got involved with electrical storms in Singapore and El Nino in San Diego to cause delays in those events.
So Spieth who was making his last start of his “World Wide Appearance Fee Fiesta” was faced with the starts and stops and delays that really grinds a player down. He was already burnt when on his 72nd hole play was called with him needing just to hit one last putt.
That forced him to stay around til Monday to sink one last birdie to get within one shot of the lead and then wait for eventual winner Song Young to finish out his round. Spieth knew it was unlikely that there would be a playoff and he was right. He lost by one shot. But it was great for us golf fans as the delays caused restarts that The Golf channel would cut to live and we all had even more bonus, must watch golf.
I would start my evening with the Qatar Masters, Branden Grace was the winner and continues to show he is world class, then catch some Singapore Open. Oh, and of course somewhere around three or four in the morning I’d break up the golf fest with some Australian Open, tennis that is.
Melbourne is only 16 hours ahead, and ESPN had plenty of late night…or is it early morning coverage. Watching Serena Williams get upset again and Novak Djokovic master Andy Murray again just added to a great weekend and totally wiped me out. I kind of know how Spieth feels…all burnt out.
During normal hours here on the east coast I got to see a great tournament from the Bahamas. Paula Creamer played well and Stacy Lewis, Anna Nordqvist and Sei-Young Kim all fell one shot short of winner Hyo-Joo Kim in an exciting week that featured some of the LPGA’s best.
And with the PGA Tour on the west coast they were set up perfectly for a NFL-free Sunday afternoon finish. Ah, but that damn El Nino. The rain and wind were so bad that play just wasn’t called the course was evacuated.
But for us that means more bonus golf. Jimmy Walker, with eight holes left, leads by a stroke over Brandt Snedeker (who finished his round) and KJ Choi who also has eight holes left. Snedeker carded a 69 in difficult conditions in what he called one of the best rounds of his life.
And if your head isn’t still spinning from that weekend of golf, golf and more golf the Golf Channel is airing the finish of the Farmers at 1:00pm.
That’s Eastern Standard Time…thank God. I need a nap.
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