Since nobody is privy to the statistics Justin and I are, I must divulge the fact that in the two consecutive days where Justin wrote, we broke records for number of page views, topping out at 41 the day he posted his Dana Jacobsen blog. What can I say? The man draws readers! I’m just along for the ride, baby!
As I return to the keyboard today, I found myself bypassing the Magic/Celtics Lakers/Cavaliers basketball games, the Winter X-Games 12 Skiier Slopestyle, and numerous good movie flicks to watch CBS’s coverage of the PGA Buick Invitational. The first event of the new season to draw the big names with the big prizes. Why did I watch? Because it’s golf baby! The colors of the course are stunning, drawing my eyes to the TV while I try to describe it to you all. It also gets me pumped for warm enough weather to bust out the sticks. I’ve already visualized sticking a 7-iron four feet from the pin on a par-3 somewhere in America. Hell, I even have a golf course right across the street from my apartment! That really hasn’t the process. I drive past it every morning and evening, imagining what that tiny little par-3 course has in store for me come 60 degree days.
Back to the point though. If you haven’t seen Tiger Woods play golf in the last four months, then folks, you’ve been missing some legendary golf. Following the death of his father Earl back in 2006, Tiger has transformed himself from the greatest golfer in the world to the most unstoppable athlete on the planet. He dominated tournaments down the stretch in 2007, running away with the inaugural (NOT FIRST ANNUAL…that is one of my biggest pet peeves) FedEx Cup while skipping one of the final four tournaments to rest. He’s gotten married, has a baby girl, switched swing coaches, and sculpted his body two different ways (from body building uber-freak to badass golfer). The scary thing is, he’s accomplished all this in less than a year and half! And guess what…it’s only going to get more menotinous this year. Tiger is once again dominating the Buick, leading by ten shots at the time of this posting, cruising to his fourth consecutive win at Torrey Pines, and preparing his yardage book for the U.S. Open in June…being played at…you guessed it…Torrey Pines. 2008 is going to be a record setting year for Tiger. I have him running away with 3 majors (The Masters, U.S. Open, PGA Championship) and winning an unprecedented 10 tournaments. He is that locked in right now. (By the way, Tiger just sank an enormous putt on the side of a ridge on the 11th green…I’m just floored at how well he’s playing.)
Later on this week, J and I will be breaking down the upcoming Super Bowl. And I’m just going to assume that each of us will bust out a baseball blog at some point….because we can both sniff reporting day.
-CR
