Apropos of nothing, here's the cover of Golf Magazine's January 2010 issue featuring Tiger Woods and President Obama.
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The US won the 2008 Ryder Cup, a golf match between European and American teams, for the first time in 9 years thanks in large part to its rookies, particularly Korean American golfer and LA native Anthony Kim who got the tournament off on the right foot for Americans by unnerving and beating Sergio Garcia.
Indeed, it was Kim who dominated perhaps the most feared European player, defeating García, 5 and 4. García was clearly demoralized and out of the match early, and with players from the other teams watching on television as they waited to tee off, García’s slumped shoulders and desperate scowls served to bolster the Americans.
Kim declined to concede a couple of short García putts in the opening holes, which seemed to irk García, who then hit consecutive shots in the water fronting the seventh hole. On the 11th green, he missed a crucial 2-foot putt as Kim watched nearby.
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I tend to agree with one of the points in the Times's critique of NBC's coverage of the US Open that Tiger Woods won in dramatic fashion yesterday. While not much in sports can beat "Woods in the foreground of a camera shot, finishing a putt, while the fans erupt behind him," nonetheless golf analysts can and should do a better job of explaining their "insider terminology" as well as better illuminate what's taking place on the course for the casual or novice fan. Read more here.
Giving up golf is how President Bush honors the sacrifice of US soldiers in Iraq as he stated in a recent interview with Politico and Yahoo News:
“I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization’s high commissioner for human rights.
What an asshole.