Pebble Beach

I had heard something about a few select PGA tourneys would be big money purses to better compete with LIV. Phoenix always has tons of fans, especially on that par three 16th stadium hole.

Yesterday while working from home I thought about the Pebble Beach Monday finish, but didn’t turn it on. Then last night after small group I turned on the replay for a little while. Sunday they played until dark. When the horn sounded players were permitted to finish the hole they were on, if they wanted to. Both groups playing 18 chose to finish, so they wouldn’t have to stick around an extra day. On other holes players hit their approach shots into the greens, so they wouldn’t have to battle different winds the next day. But then they marked their balls, knowing the greens would be tended overnight, making for an easier putt in the morning.

On Monday morning fans could attend the tournament finish for free. On one hole the tee box looked devoid of fans, but I heard the marshall shouting “QUIET ON THE TEE!”. I was wondering who they were yelling at.

Did you see on Sunday afternoon when CBS interviewed golfer Keith Mitchell while he was walking from his tee shot to hit his second shot from the fairway? I think later they talked more to Mitchell after his fairway shot landed on the green, until it was time for Mitchell to putt. Never seen that before. Later I learned Mitchell had played golf at UGA.

I was always a big Ryan Moore fan after seeing him wear a tie and carnigan sweater while playing in the Masters. He is a backer for the golf shoe company True Linkswear. I had a pair of them for awhile. Also saw Chickfila Dan Cathey wear True Linkswear golf shoes to Passion City Church.

I used to love to play Wii Golf. I didn’t like any of the other games on the Wii. But then we got the Wii Golf with the Augusta National course, but it wasn’t the same. I never figured it out.

I will always remember staying in the downtown Athens Holiday Inn during the 1974 state science fair when I was in 9th grade. A memorable trip with friends Don Lott, Catherine Hendricks, Anthony Corbett, Stuart McLemore, Chuck Wood, and the late Claire Moxley. 

I went to the comedy show last Friday with my friend Eddie. We got to talking about church league basketball and softball back in the 1980’s, and realized we probably played against each other back in the day. Back then he went to Wieuca.

I’d been thinking about what I will order when C and I eat at Houston’s Friday night. I was considering ordering a dessert instead of an entrée.

Reminds me, on Sunday pastor Crawford Lorritts from Fellowship Bible Church spoke on marriage at JFBC. C came home asking whether that was why I didn’t go (it wasn’t). Actually Loritts had spoken on the same topic to our men’s dinner a year or two ago.

At small group last night we recapped Thessalonians. Next week we’re moving on to I, II, and III John from now until May. Last night’s key verses:

I Thess 1:5&7

2 Thess 2:10-12

Being sick is great – I am continuing to lose weight. But blame my sickness in a very so slight dip in the quality of this dear blog.

DENISON: according to Pew Research, 77% of Americans say our country’s partisan divide is deeper now than it was before the pandemic. Support for the use of political violence is rising.  Gallup recently conducted a “confidence in institutions” survey. Their polling included the church, organized religion, the military, the Supreme Court, public schools, the police, the criminal justice system, small business, big business, large tech companies, banks, the medical system, newspapers, television news, Congress, and the presidency. Public confidence in every one of them fell last year.                         

James 4:1-2 - “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask”.

TY COBB  [SABR Bio] his MLB-record career batting average of .367 is now correctly established at .366. He is still & will likely always be the undisputed leader of the category thought by most to be the most important during his time. Cobb was the first Georgia native elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He received the most votes in the first class elected to the Hall in 1936: 222 of 226 ballots. He was the first player to homer in the majors before the age of 20 and after the age of 40. Cobb homered once at 18 (23-Sep-1905[1]) & once at 19 (01-Oct-1906). He went deep five times as a 40-year-old and once as a 41-year-old (16-May-1928).