Tiger Is Awesome
Okay… I just watched one of the most exciting golf rounds I’ve ever seen. Fuck the US Open turned into complete awesomeness…. and I thought yesterday was spectacular…. well today was a whole new level. There will be some writing on that…. because it was just too exciting and heroic and Tiger being Tiger except he just had knee surgery and is in unbelievable pain.
Also… fucking cicadas…. they are so loud, and every time I don’t have a fan or TV or music on…. I feel like I’m in Eva…. it’s so freaky. Every time I walk out the door I expect to walk out into Tokyo 3 and see empty streets everywhere. It’s just so unsettling…. and also kinda awesome.
Lastly… I’m all alone for real tonight… my parents are spending the night in Harwich…. my brother is spending the night at a friends for a massive graduation party where he will get to shitfaced to drive home…. but at least he’s learned not to drive home. Anyway… I am completely alone…. I so wish I had people to have over so I could do shit… and not worry about disturbing someone. Also… I’m so pumped from watching the golf I just really want to do something…. instead there will be anime…. I’ll drink… and hopefully get happy drunk instead of the depressed drunk I got last night.
So golf…. OMG. Well…. Yesterday Tiger shot a 30 on the back 9…. which is either par 35 or 36… it was ridiculous. Morover…. this was all after aggravating his knee. He just had arthroscopic surgery on it… probably shouldn’t be playing. He was okay Thursday, then about mid round yesterday…. he tweaked it… and it started really bothering him, and he still shot an unbelievable 30 on the back 9. He had 3’s on the first 5 holes of the back 9, on 1 par 3, 3 par 4’s and 1 par 5. It was insane to watch. He finished tied for 2nd with 2 other guys, all 1 behind Appleby who was at -3.
Well… today Tiger sucked to start. Double bogeyed the first hole to catapult hi back to Even par for the tournament. Appleby started off rough too and let up the lead quick… going on to shoot +8. Rocco Mediate took over the lead and stretched it… getting it up to -4. Tiger floundered, bad some bogeys and some birdies and hovered around +1 for the tournament. Then… with 6 holes left….. he went into insane mode.
On the par 5 13th, Tiger drove it far into the rough into the crowd…. his knee really hurting him. Well…. he pulled out an amazing shot onto the back of the green to give himself and eagle put. It was a back and forth swinger and the announcers were saying how everyone missed it to one side. Tiger read it perfectly and holed it…. it energized everything. Tiger was now at -1 and closing on Mediate’s -3 lead. Mediate heard it and went into a slump over the next holes… bogeying two and double bogeying another to drop him down. He would finish at -1.
Tiger kept driving poorly, bogeyed the immediate next hole to get him back to E. He struggled, but made pars until he got to 17. Here he was still at E. He drove it poorly again. His second shot was okay out of the deep rough and into the rough between the bunkers around the green. His chip shot came out a lot harder and further than he wanted… you could see him grimace in disgust…. but then it fucking one bounced into the hole. Birdie chip in to get him to -1. Now he was trailing Westwood by only 1.
So Tiger goes into the par 5, 18th. We all watch him as he practices swinging. He’s missed 5 consecutive fairways…. he can’t drive… his knee is killing him and he’s limping and grimacing in pain after every shot. Well… he practices until he finds a shot that he feels he can hit consistently and rips it down the fairway. He stands at the tee after the shot, putting no weight on his left leg and bending over in pain. His second shot is he exact same shot as the first and he puts it in the middle of the green, giving himself an amazing eagle shot…. but once again he can’t even watch his shot or enjoy it as he doubles over in pain. He gets to the green… another difficult put that everyone had been missing right… and he lines it up like 3 feet out to the left. The announcer is all… look how far he’s out to the left… what is he doing, etc….. well then he sinks the put… to put himself in sole possession of the lead at -3.
It was fucking amazing. Just so epic to watch. Crazy up and down play from everyone.
Also… on a painful note…. Phil Mickelson… on the par 5. 13th…. his 3rd shot hits the front of the green and rolls all the way down the hill. 4th shot chip up to the top of the hill and rolls all the way back down to a little farther away than his last shot. 5th shot… chip to the top and rolls all the way down again even further away then the previous two. 6th shot finally gets up to the middle of the green. 7th shot….. leaves himself a good sized triple bogey shot…. which he misses…. for a 9… quad bogey. Just horrible to watch. Ended any chance of him competing.
Also… fucking cicadas…. they are so loud, and every time I don’t have a fan or TV or music on…. I feel like I’m in Eva…. it’s so freaky. Every time I walk out the door I expect to walk out into Tokyo 3 and see empty streets everywhere. It’s just so unsettling…. and also kinda awesome.
Lastly… I’m all alone for real tonight… my parents are spending the night in Harwich…. my brother is spending the night at a friends for a massive graduation party where he will get to shitfaced to drive home…. but at least he’s learned not to drive home. Anyway… I am completely alone…. I so wish I had people to have over so I could do shit… and not worry about disturbing someone. Also… I’m so pumped from watching the golf I just really want to do something…. instead there will be anime…. I’ll drink… and hopefully get happy drunk instead of the depressed drunk I got last night.
So golf…. OMG. Well…. Yesterday Tiger shot a 30 on the back 9…. which is either par 35 or 36… it was ridiculous. Morover…. this was all after aggravating his knee. He just had arthroscopic surgery on it… probably shouldn’t be playing. He was okay Thursday, then about mid round yesterday…. he tweaked it… and it started really bothering him, and he still shot an unbelievable 30 on the back 9. He had 3’s on the first 5 holes of the back 9, on 1 par 3, 3 par 4’s and 1 par 5. It was insane to watch. He finished tied for 2nd with 2 other guys, all 1 behind Appleby who was at -3.
Well… today Tiger sucked to start. Double bogeyed the first hole to catapult hi back to Even par for the tournament. Appleby started off rough too and let up the lead quick… going on to shoot +8. Rocco Mediate took over the lead and stretched it… getting it up to -4. Tiger floundered, bad some bogeys and some birdies and hovered around +1 for the tournament. Then… with 6 holes left….. he went into insane mode.
On the par 5 13th, Tiger drove it far into the rough into the crowd…. his knee really hurting him. Well…. he pulled out an amazing shot onto the back of the green to give himself and eagle put. It was a back and forth swinger and the announcers were saying how everyone missed it to one side. Tiger read it perfectly and holed it…. it energized everything. Tiger was now at -1 and closing on Mediate’s -3 lead. Mediate heard it and went into a slump over the next holes… bogeying two and double bogeying another to drop him down. He would finish at -1.
Tiger kept driving poorly, bogeyed the immediate next hole to get him back to E. He struggled, but made pars until he got to 17. Here he was still at E. He drove it poorly again. His second shot was okay out of the deep rough and into the rough between the bunkers around the green. His chip shot came out a lot harder and further than he wanted… you could see him grimace in disgust…. but then it fucking one bounced into the hole. Birdie chip in to get him to -1. Now he was trailing Westwood by only 1.
So Tiger goes into the par 5, 18th. We all watch him as he practices swinging. He’s missed 5 consecutive fairways…. he can’t drive… his knee is killing him and he’s limping and grimacing in pain after every shot. Well… he practices until he finds a shot that he feels he can hit consistently and rips it down the fairway. He stands at the tee after the shot, putting no weight on his left leg and bending over in pain. His second shot is he exact same shot as the first and he puts it in the middle of the green, giving himself an amazing eagle shot…. but once again he can’t even watch his shot or enjoy it as he doubles over in pain. He gets to the green… another difficult put that everyone had been missing right… and he lines it up like 3 feet out to the left. The announcer is all… look how far he’s out to the left… what is he doing, etc….. well then he sinks the put… to put himself in sole possession of the lead at -3.
It was fucking amazing. Just so epic to watch. Crazy up and down play from everyone.
Also… on a painful note…. Phil Mickelson… on the par 5. 13th…. his 3rd shot hits the front of the green and rolls all the way down the hill. 4th shot chip up to the top of the hill and rolls all the way back down to a little farther away than his last shot. 5th shot… chip to the top and rolls all the way down again even further away then the previous two. 6th shot finally gets up to the middle of the green. 7th shot….. leaves himself a good sized triple bogey shot…. which he misses…. for a 9… quad bogey. Just horrible to watch. Ended any chance of him competing.