There was plenty of complaining about the condition of the golf course and especially the greens. If the course was that bad why did the winner beat under par? Anybody realize three of the last five
U.S. Opens the winner had matched par or one over to win. Rory shot 16 under and last year 9 under at Pinehurst were the only under par scores. More than half of the scores in the history of the tournament have been over par. Since 1970 when golf courses have become manicured the scores have been under par more.
So the golf was good I wish I had of been able to have seen the results of many of the shots or putts. Fox loved to show long range shots of drives where they used a tracer so you could follow the ball. What they needed to do was use the tracer on putts. The greens were so brown the ball was lost many times blending into the greens or should I say browns. Once Fox would zoom the camera in to follow the ball we could see it other wise missed most putts.
I have HD TV but that wasn't much good either. The blonde interviewer who stood in front of a monitor and tried to interview certain players. Where did they get her from. Friday after Jason Day had collapsed her interview question to Jordan Speith was where is your head now after Day's spell. What kind of question is that to ask the leader of the tournament?
The blimp shots made the course look like a sand pit that was no longer used and had grass growing is spots. I thought the course was really unfair when you drive the ball almost in the left rough but before it gets through rolling it has plunked in the right rough.
If we had a hard time following the ball how do you think the cameramen felt? There were way too many shots where the camera had no idea where the ball was and several times announcers were describing shots and the camera shot on TV was of something else. Despite all the bad things getting to watch the U.S. Open four nights in a row til after 10:30 is hard to beat.
He didn't win but Jason Day just might have won a million fans for his effort. I had major knee surgery in 1974. It took me ten years before I had enough confidence not to watch every step I took because one little pebble if I stepped on it wrong would flip my knee out and I would be flat on my face. I know Day's every movement he had to be thinking am I going down again? All think in the middle of the U.S. Open.
What more could any golf fan ask for? The winner Jordan Speith made a birdie on the last hole to take the lead and had to watch Dustin Johnson missed a ten footer to win. Then missed again. We will always remember Johnson's three putt for bogey but he made par and lost. This tournament truly is the sign there is a new king of golf. Tiger has his worse tournament ever and Speith becomes only the sixth player ever to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year. The only problem I see is there will be no golf Monday night.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Wilson County Schools Strong In Wells Fargo Cup
It case you didn't notice it this year the two Big East schools from Wilson County dominated this year's Big East standings in the Wells Fargo Cup. Each sport played by every team is listed with six points for the team winning first right down to one point for finishing last in the league. When you add all the points up Fike wins the Big East conference Wells Fargo Cup accumulating 181 points. Baseball was one first place finish for Fike. Hunt finished second with 176.5 points. Rocky Mount won both boys and girls track and with that effort finished third with 171. Northern Nash finishes fourth with 161.5 while Southern Nash has 148.5. Nash Central who started the year not winning a football game never got out of last with 125.5.
I find it rather funny that coaches have been going to football clinics learning how to teach heads up tackling. Back in my playing days they had a penalty called spearing if you led with your helmet. We were taught that the only safe way to tackle was with your head straight up. We were told you could not get a neck injury if you tackled that way.
The formula was make contact with the ball carrier with your head up into his number. Grasp your arms around him and then drive with your feet. It makes sense that if you lower your head you could have your neck driven back down your spine causing neck and spine injuries. Never heard of neck and spinal injuries during the days I was growing up wanting to play ball. Finally When it was my time never saw one either. I was run over a few times but never had to worry about the spinal cord area.
If you think football drives the bus in college athletics. There are more than 400 members of the North Carolina Athletic Association and 67 of it's member will have a new football coach by the time August football practices start. Yes, some coaches retired others move to a different school and some lost their job from lack of wins or pressure from not being successful. If that figure occurs every year every school would have a new coach every seven years.
Since this is a one man operation it is very hard to be in the right place at the right time on any scoop that may occur. I get Many text, calls, e-mails, and people walking up to me and say have you heard this. I want to thank any of you who steer me into directions to find information that appears on this blog. Sometimes that info needs further investigation and there are times I know the lead is dead on accurate.
If you watch any of the so called major networks sports reporters have their sources in which they rely on when they either go on the air with a report or write it down. I guess in my small way I have a system of informants just like them. We have in this area many athletes who do well in sports that nobody hears about until a source passes information on. Why would they do that? They want to see people get credit when credit is due. I know lots of information about things that will be happening but I have swore to keep secret until the proper time. Thank you all the people who pass on to me your trust to give me what you know. We have lots of things in this area worth everyone knowing about.
I find it rather funny that coaches have been going to football clinics learning how to teach heads up tackling. Back in my playing days they had a penalty called spearing if you led with your helmet. We were taught that the only safe way to tackle was with your head straight up. We were told you could not get a neck injury if you tackled that way.
The formula was make contact with the ball carrier with your head up into his number. Grasp your arms around him and then drive with your feet. It makes sense that if you lower your head you could have your neck driven back down your spine causing neck and spine injuries. Never heard of neck and spinal injuries during the days I was growing up wanting to play ball. Finally When it was my time never saw one either. I was run over a few times but never had to worry about the spinal cord area.
If you think football drives the bus in college athletics. There are more than 400 members of the North Carolina Athletic Association and 67 of it's member will have a new football coach by the time August football practices start. Yes, some coaches retired others move to a different school and some lost their job from lack of wins or pressure from not being successful. If that figure occurs every year every school would have a new coach every seven years.
Since this is a one man operation it is very hard to be in the right place at the right time on any scoop that may occur. I get Many text, calls, e-mails, and people walking up to me and say have you heard this. I want to thank any of you who steer me into directions to find information that appears on this blog. Sometimes that info needs further investigation and there are times I know the lead is dead on accurate.
If you watch any of the so called major networks sports reporters have their sources in which they rely on when they either go on the air with a report or write it down. I guess in my small way I have a system of informants just like them. We have in this area many athletes who do well in sports that nobody hears about until a source passes information on. Why would they do that? They want to see people get credit when credit is due. I know lots of information about things that will be happening but I have swore to keep secret until the proper time. Thank you all the people who pass on to me your trust to give me what you know. We have lots of things in this area worth everyone knowing about.
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