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13th March 2020 Players Championship and Coronavirus

The Players Championship halted, well cancelled after Hideki Matsuyama's dazzling first round of 63 and impressive tied for 2nd group at 65. Was there disappointment? Well the players did not show it as such...

First day on the 17th hole, beautiful spring day as it is.

Empty the next...

It was the right thing to so, left to everyone's own devices the fans, the players and crews would have continued. Someone thought of the what the situation will be like in the upcoming few weeks.

Jon Rahm from hard-hit Spain

The players really get it, for them its no danger at all as there are miles apart on the golf course, you gotta think of others, it is for the fans, the crowds' safety, the wider public, our loved ones and the medical workers. The world stood still and golf just followed.

15th April 2019 2:55am - 83rd Masters Tournament 2019

He has done the impossible, still able to turn it on down the stretch but not the extraordinary amount more than 10 years ago, just enough to close it out.

Just incredible with all the doubts(not just his but his fellow younger competitors as well) and without the Tiger power of the yesteryears.....a win with the heart and believe, against time, against us not wanting to see him disappointed.

You would not believe it, as it happened:-

July 2018 - the 147th Open

The last time we saw this was more than 10years ago...will it happen, to the back nine.

March 2018 -Pre-Masters Warm Up, Valspar Championship

Back in the Woods

Bogey-defying out of the woods antics are back. How many times have you seen TW's ball end way off in between trees, only to see him par away to opponents' despair? Well not recently...Crouching Tiger Flying Club

"I'm enjoying this"

April 2017

Masters 2017 - What a Difference a Day Makes

At least for Sergio Garcia after 2 decades since appearing on the scene as the young matador mostly likely to take on Tiger Woods and it did start with a bang at the 1999 PGA Tour Championship, not winning by a shot. At just 19years old, "it was just a matter of time". However "time" did not come again until the 2007 British Open which playoff was a battle of the would first breakthrough major championship winner. Padraig had the Irish luck that day,

And it would take another decade again, in 2017, that unknown to all Sergio still had it in him, letting the competition slip into playoff and holding it during sudden death. Truly, what a difference a day makes....green jacket fashion!

Personally we prefer the brides' dress. Nope the wife could not persuade him otherwise....

Boy Wonder does good..."let me be the teenager I always wanted to be 20years late"

April 2016

Masters Tournament 2016

Sunday

Congratulations and commiserations, that's what everyone's calling it, so you know what happened.

Winner is Saujana Golf & Country Club!

Day 3

It went according to "plan" at least for Spieth, McIlroy not able to make a dent to the leader under armour. Rory did not play badly, 3bogeys and a double. He got near to the pins but no birdies for the round. Jordan was the one struggling tee to green, opening drives to the right maybe just forcing it a bit to keep pace with Rory.

On numerous occasions, Rory had to wait for Jordan to putt first with the advantage being closer to the hole but Jordan made the birdie he did not, on the 12th after both of them double bogeyed the previous 11th and then on the 15th par 5.

McIlroy losses ground on his bread & butter hole 15th. Spieth went along with his process which looks pretty much looks like something he learned from Tiger or at least from watching him, limit the risks get it on the green and make the 20/30-foot putt. On the Augusta National greens it seems there is no advantage being within 10feet as it shows everyone still struggles to one putt. Or course par saves from 5/6 feet helps.

Will it be a two peat? Will the putting hold up under constant pressure? Yes, but everyday is Sunday.

Ding Ding Round 2

Suddenly a major contender entered the ring. The main fight is actually in Round 3, last pairing. Young Guns Part2. How would it affect Jordan Spieth's "believe in the process"? He showed yesterday at some point there is no procedure but still managed to contain any major fallout to keep the lead. Surely playing with McIlroy in the last pairing Day 3 with only a one shot advantage, you will need to add a little appendix to the process. Will Spieth make some adjustments? How will the dynamics between the two be:-

Will this be Jordan Spieth's view throughout the round, Rory by the side of the fairway 50yards out in font looking back, waiting with arms folded? Are you coming? I guess we will get some looks by Rory if he gets the upper hand just to add that little pressure. And Jordan would know it too and have that calculated too. Yeah but McIlroy unlike Dustin Johnson has one more major than you, and that's got to play at the back of your mind. Reaching the green in two but missing a 5-footer birdie while the other guy goes by regulation and nails in a 20 or 30-footer, will also get to you. Tough as nails + precision golf vs Power + finesse golf. Who won again Batman vs Superman? Us.

First Day

How is it even possible that this kid actually does what he says he will do?

Anyone who has played golf knows you set your goal each round before you tee off, the expectation to hit the mark is there(I guess more frequent for pros) but it is not within you, you just can't say you will do it as defending champion at Augusta National on the first day and take a 2-shot lead at 66, exclaiming "Got it!" hitting out from behind a tree at the 11th to save par in the process. A "Phew!..." would have made all of us feel a lot better. And it is not because a 22-year old will be brash, he is stating it and doing it like it is a matter of fact.

Jordan Spieth doesn't have the power tools of Tiger or Rory or Day which makes us golfers ask if what we have achieved even counts for anything. He can control destiny. We want to see Spieth do it but with a surprise or appreciative appearance. Now we want watch Spieth not winning it in the next three days (nothing against Jordan) just to validate the point you can't believe you can control the Masters.

Somehow if he doesn't win, I got feeling it will be just like losing last year's British Open he played the way that he said he would. Only a better play emerged.

June 2015

115th US Open Championship

Dustin Johnson missed out on a full 18th hole playoff with Jordan Spieth by missing a 3-footer birdie after a missed eagle putt to win from 12-feet. The immense pressure was understandable, was he thinking of the winning putt and did not consider the return putt. The 3-footer was no gimme but highly makeable, should he have taken more time to calm himself? It is a tough putt under the circumstances, he lasted 18-holes to find out if he could win and yet it will take another 18th holes. Mentally to put yourself through that, you got to wanna play win or lose. Jordan Spieth was raring to go another round, young gun. He didn't have to.

Drama unfolded thick and fast on from the 16th - Branden Grace hit one out of bounds on the 16th and Spieth made an tough birdie to take a 3-shot lead (at 6-under). That's was it. Yet Spieth stumbles (a 3-putt) on the 17th with a double bogey. Oosthuizen was in the clubhouse at -4. He was watching the TV as Spieth fires a 3-wood onto the 18th green for an eagle putt no more than 15-feet while Johnson birdied the 17th. Spieth missed his chance at putting everyone out of their misery. Johnson still had chance, a very good chance in fact. It hit an iron into 18th, within 12-feet of the hole. Did he choke? No, after the missing the eagle putt the roller coaster ride was just too much.

Chambers Bay looked just spectacular, instagram picture below by Luke Donald on the 6th hole.

Dare we say it, we miss Tiger Woods. Now, wouldn't it be exciting to see the player of our generation to win just one more golf major. Forget Jack Nicklaus' record, Tiger is already a legend. We just want a proper ending. Tiger Tracker....

List of Ramadhan Golf Promotions - from 18th June 2015 to 16th July 2015

March 2015

Best lesson in golf...how to throw a golf club like a pro? Seriously it will improve your golf swing, courtesy of Rory McIlroy  in the 2nd round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship. We guessed the Blue Monster got the better of him.

Here is a breakdown of the perfect swing...

Couldn't he just threw it like the amateurs, up and over the head. How deep is the lake? It would be great for a fan to recover it and hang McIlroy's 3-iron on his wall, the one that got away.

2015 in Golf (Vintage year?, somewhat the excitement came later in the year)

It started sort of a run of the mill year, the story unfolded slowly.

No shows

Everyone at the start of the year expected Henrik Stenson to continue his blitz from end 2013 but it didn’t happen that way. The 10 million dollar man with the robotic powerful strokes that seems to hit through the ball more than any golfer manage only a so-so year.

Bubba Watson second win at the Masters came without any major challenges on Sunday.

Tiger Woods worst year, yes?

Who? Billy Horschel, he is coming here in KL for the CIMB classic. (we had to be reminded by the billboards) Not to take any credit away but really a dark horse or Trojan horse that came up with a mathematical win for the Fedex playoffs. How many years have they shown us the possibility in numbers for others to wrestle the top spot from the leader who usually way ahead in points with two or more major wins? Never happened until now.

Fireworks

Those in the golfing age (in your forties) would remember the 80's movie Young Guns, and in 2014 we had many young guns or those likely to wear “Under Amour”

– Jordan Spieth, Patrick Reed, Lydia Ko, Lexi Thompson, Michelle Wie and Rory McIlroy (over the hill by young gun standards)

We have quick draw Patrick Reed with his declaration “I should be in the top five”, 23-years young, confident and brash but golf does that you when you think you have found the elusive key to the swing.

There is the cool, calm and collected can't do know wrong 21-year old Jordan Spieth and sharp shooter 19-year old Kraft Nabisco Championship major winner Lexi Thompson.

Get out of here, did you say 17? It is the rookie but deadly Lydia Ko, her first year as a pro.

The original young gun Michelle Wie who at age 10 qualified for USGA Amateur Championship and finally redemption with US Open success at 25years.

Finally the posse would not be complete without the biggest gun of all,  Rory McIlroy at 25 years old.

More Fireworks

We had the most exciting Players Championship in recent years thanks to Martin Kaymer. He looked like a choker during the finishing holes after a rain delay. Leading by 3-strokes when play resumed he immediately double bogeyed the 15th. He was bumbling away like Mr. Bean through the par 5 16^th and look like unraveling when the ball was in the air crossing the water(or not) on the 17^th. What saved him? The krazy super lucky tee shot that spun off green but didn't go into the water or the equally krazy breaking monster par putt? Saved him the US Open crown too.

Michelle Wie not defeated by hype, winning her first major after all the hype over the years, it is nice to see her being able to see past all of that.

Of course it is McIlroy’s year, super drives, fluid, fast, crisp and sharp hits. Not the runaway leads like yester-Tiger but eagle on demand just the same. Back to back majors British Open and PGA Championship in sterling fashion.

At the local scene in 2015

Lee Westwood – Maybank Malaysian Open champion.

Shanshan Feng - winner of the "Women with Drive" Sime Darby LPGA.

Ryan Moore – living up to the tagline “Back for Moore” (what are advertisers to write for 2015, “Back for Good”?, CIMB Classic winner again on a Monday again)

April 2015

Kraft Nabisco Championship. Can you spot the differences in the pictures below?

It starts with a little sprinkle of miracle (aka mineral) water in hot Malaysia and ends in a bath robe in a major championship. As good feng shui goes some water leads to more water, for Lexi Thompson in the form of a lake. Inbee Park kicks of an incredible 2013 season with a win in the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia in 2012. Similarly it work wonders for Lexi Thompson to win in Malaysia in Oct 2013 and then six months later at the major Kraft Nabisco Championship she gets to jump into the lake. Dare we say it the Sime Darby LPGA event is precursor to bigger events and not to be missed.

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