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Monday, February 8th, 2010 |
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PGA Tour Confidential
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The SI.com boys muse about Stricker, Mickelson, and how Miguel Angel Jimenez won the across the pond.
Shipnuck: No question Sticker is a great guy who is beloved in the locker room, press room and caddie yard. But if he's No. 1, golf is in trouble. The dude doesn't exactly set the pulse of the average sports fan racing. Or even most hard-core golf fans.
Bamburger: I beg to differ with my esteemed colleague. If Stricker becomes No. 1, not only is golf not in trouble, but it's actually a reminder of who makes it in golf: the guy who shoots the lowest scores, regardless of his Q-rating. Wayne Levi lives!
Shipnuck: The thing about Phil is that he regularly lays an egg, even when he's ostensibly playing well. He might win five times this year, including a major or two, but there will be plenty of weeks when he's a non-factor. That's what's so remarkable about Tiger's body of work — even when he's struggling he contends.
Morfit: It doesn't make any sense, but the older he gets, the more Phil seems to need Tiger around to play well. Maybe it's purely a motivational thing. Phil seems diminished without Tiger.
Dusek: I just love the idea that Sideshow Bob can win a golf tournament while smoking cigars and sipping red wine. Jimenez is a classic.
Shipnuck: In all my years of covering golf one image remains more indelible than any other: at the World Cup, in Barbados, I was hanging out on the beach at Sandy Lane — tough life, I know — and Jimenez was strolling around in nothing but a black Speedo and pork-pie hat, smoking an enormous, phallic cigar. I've been haunted by that vision ever since!
Rick Arnett |
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