What If Adam Scott Had....
by One-Eyed Golfer Guy on Oct 11, 2009 9:33 PM EDT
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PrintLet's look at 19 1/2 to 14 1/2 Prez Cup final score and do a couple 'what if' scenarios. What if Hunter Mahan, America's 12th man, had gone 0-3-1 instead of the 2-1-1 he did do, and the International's last guy, Adam Scott, went 3-1-0 instead of 1-4-0? That is called a double reverse. The Cup would belong elsewhere until 2011 in Australia.
What if Phil could not play for personal reasons or back problems and Brian Gay got the call? Same scenario? Point being, even what might appear to be a mini-blow out is actually much closer than it appears. I bad mouthed this event a lot this year and, as usual, I was wrong. It is not the Ryder Cup, but it was great golf.
Did anyone else enjoy the short par-four 17th and the 525 yard par-five 18th holes? Did anyone feel they should have been re-routed to have a 525 par-four 17th and a 652 yard par-five? Email your thoughts to the PGA Tour. Forget the Brits, they understand golf a little better than those guys.
Oh, yeah! He did not text me yet to tell me, but Tiger and I both think Ryo Ishikawa might be the REAL deal, the Ryo-deal. NOT the Rory-deal, the Rickie-deal or the Ryan-deal...
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Ryo....
… is the real deal and should be the next-big-thing when it comes to major victories. He showed a great deal of poise and incredible talent even in the midst of inevitable defeat.
Adam Fonseca
Ryo’s biggest problem may be the dolts in our media who couldn’t pronounce his name correctly in Japanese – now they can’t just say “REE-oh” as he gave everybody permission to do last week. I heard “Ro”…“Ree”…“Yo”…and three or four other mispronunciations of a simple “REE-oh”…you know…like the Olympic city they just chose.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
What if Adam Scott had...
…what ? He was ok – nothing spectacular. Had a couple of decent rounds.
I liked the semi-drivable 17th. Not the easiest tee shot to a pretty well bunkered front of the green. I like seeing great wedge shots because you get to see a variety of styles and shots, and there were some spectacular bunker shots.
I liked the shortish par 5 18th. Enough of the guys could hit the green in 2 to have some exciting eagle putts or bunker shots. And the wedge shots could zip around the hole if hit correctly – but that wasn’t an easy green.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
CG, why are American sportscasters such
friggin’ idiots that they intentionally mispronounce someone’s name? Like you said, he stood in front of our media and told them, “This is how you pronounce my name” and he even made them say it after him. For a week, I think I will protest by getting their names wrong. I’ll start with Johnny Mueller and Don Hicks…
...from the land of pleasant living, Baltimore.
by One-Eyed Golfer Guy on Oct 12, 2009 5:56 PM EDT reply actions
you’re asking me WHY ? I have no clue. I don’t know why there isn’t an industry wide book of pronunciations with recordings of how to pronounce people’s names. I didn’t say it was intentional – that implies that they choose to sound like an idiot. It just doesn’t seem like such a difficult thing to do to pronounce someone’s name correctly.
i would LOVE to hear a player talk to Mueller and Don. LMAO !!
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
What If?
OEG – I’m not really on speaking terms with you as you bad-mouthed my Stewart by betting him to lose :) And after such sterling performances in both last Ryder/Prez. Cups too. Lucas damn Glover was the problem (OK – not in one Sat. match), but now you’ll say ANYONE could have beaten Scott in singles.
CG – You’re very harsh on this one I think. It is extremely difficult to pronounce certain sounds which simply don’t exist in one’s own tongue. Padraig and Olazabal come to mind as two players who have given “permission” for their names to be pronounced in a simpler way. I have a surname which is not English and am amused at the panic induced by others trying to pronounce it , but not offended.
Wendy – is it really “harsh” to expect people who are paid to talk to be able to pronounce names – especially when they either tell everybody how to say it, or give an easier pronunciation ? They had three days to get REE-oh correct. Would they mispronounce Rio in Rio de Janero, or The Rio casino in Vegas ?
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Uh-oh. Wendy, what did I say
about Stewart? Are you sure it wasn’t CG? We must always be on speaking terms. Always…
...from the land of pleasant living, Baltimore.
by One-Eyed Golfer Guy on Oct 15, 2009 10:29 AM EDT reply actions
Oh, you mean in the matches. Yeah,
...from the land of pleasant living, Baltimore.
by One-Eyed Golfer Guy on Oct 15, 2009 10:30 AM EDT reply actions
Phew!
OEG – NEVER have 2 “What If” blogs again on the same day, please. I kept going to “What if Adam Scott had….” and finding that I had been deleted/blocked/wiped off the face of the earth (whilst retaining the comments of those two vixens, Heather & Patricia – natch)! I thought “the SOB can’t do that to me – he just can’t”. Then found I was on the wrong blog. The relief was such that I actually voted in the Cougar wotsit.
Know this, however, SC is sacrosanct – OK?
CG – I agree that REE-oh isn’t particularly difficult; my point (with reference to your “industry wide book of pronunciations”) was that some sounds are indeed extremely difficult to get one’s tongue round and the commentators are not linguists. The Japanese, for example, as we all know, find “r” torturous to pronounce.
I can manage “r”, but not “rrrrr”. Anyway – you’re almost always harsh :)
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