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Yeah but Zach's wife is a hell lot more of a looker than Kurt's.

 

Doesn't AP have a rule that Tiger has to be mentioned in the lead whenever he plays? I could have sworn I heard that.

 

A golfer mentions Jesus on Easter Sunday and people are hacked? What did he do, fall to his knees in the child position and genuflect three times? Lift his eyes to the heavens and start singing "Blessed Jesus?"

I look at it this way. Some people do deep breathing to take the pressure off; maybe this kid looks outside himself. If it worked and he's grateful for it and says thank you--never mind whether there's someone or something out there listening--why does that piss anyone off?

I didn't see or hear him, so if he super-sized it, belay the above.

 

If Zach Johnson means it, then he should thank whomever he pleases. If Jesus was with him, and he knows it, so be it.

I really hope somebody who writes columns at least writes one ripping CBS coverage. I mean, ripping it. The coverage was all over the place, cameras lingered on Tiger's ass instead some other important so, players simply disappeared for holes, scores were tardy.

But the camerawork...the camerawork was awful. Half the time, if a drive was off the fairway...you know what we saw? Fuckin trees. No clue of where the ball actually was...just a shot of "parts unknown." I got the sense that cameramen were just running around, looking for bounding balls. The directing was poor, the cameras themselves were poor, there were very few low angles...my personal fave was Appleby's putt on the tenth, where apparently there isn't any other angle on the hole other than the Tiger's-ass-is-right-in-the-way angle. Granted, I haven't been to Augusta...but isn't there some other look over there? Something not from the back of the green?

Enough's been said about the commentary, but let me add this: Faldo was much better for the last two British Opens than he was this week. Additionally, somebody needed to rip those players a new one for playing so atrociously on Saturday (horrible decisions, chickenshit execution). What Appleby did on the 17th yesterday was one of the single stupidest things I've witnessed this side of Mickelson, dumber, even, because it was Saturday. Somebody needs to step in there and say "that's just bad golf." It wasn't a bad break - it was a dumb ass trying throw 7-iron over tall pines out of a greenside bunker of another hole!

Look. I appreciate Tiger. But I would have physically ill if he'd won today. Maybe he's ill, maybe not, but his game, save a few shots, was never there all week. And out of 12 guys who had a better game, every bastard but one gave it back. And Appleby...that was no less than a Shark Norman choke, no doubt about it.

 

As a Christian, it pisses me off most of the time when people thank Jesus. Especially boxers, cuz, oh yeah, Christ is real happy you just beat the shit out of somebody for sport.

But Johnson meant it. That was a pretty unguarded moment. And if he means it, he means it.

 

What a guy says in the flush of triumph, unexpected triumph at that, gets a pass. We'll be hearing a lot more from Z. Johnson the next few weeks. If God's still his caddy in those remarks, he's fair game. Com'on, I'm sure every bigwig in Paradise thought Woods was going to win just like everybody else.

 

Someone please remind Doog that Appleby, and Goosen held the lead for longer than Tiger did.

By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — It all seemed surreal to Zach Johnson. Three clutch birdies on the back nine at the Masters. His name atop the leaderboard. Toppling Tiger Woods. Slipping on the green jacket.
“I’m from Cedar Rapids, Iowa,” he said when asked to describe himself. “That’s about it. I’m a normal guy.”
Not anymore.
Normal guys don’t beat Woods in the final round of a major, especially when Woods is in the lead. Normal guys aren’t unfazed by the ground-shaking cheers of Woods making an eagle to mount a charge.

 

Except for Justin Rose, who would have won outright with two birdies on his final two holes.

Except for Goosen, who would have forced a playoff with two birdies on his final two holes.

Tiger and the rest of the field got schooled (today) by Johnson. He was the best player on the course today, and through 72 holes. Congrats to him.

And if Mickelson had been in Tiger's situation at the start of the round, and after the agle at 13, and then played that poorly in the final five holes, he would be called the biggest folder of all time.

 

God's got a Nike deal?
I thought it was the other way around.
And Alma's written the best Masters wrap I'm likely to read anywhere.

 

Faldo immediately called bullshit on that -- in the gentlemanly, gentile Augusta way -- within a second of it popping out of Oooosterhouse's trap.

 

Agreed.

I've covered a few tournaments where Johnson played. He's a genuine person.

He meant what he said today. And if thanked his sponsors, so what? They got him through some tough times, backing him when he first started playing professional golf.

Good for him that he won today.