Phil's Green Jacket Doughnut Dash

This is why we love golf and why we love Phil; Monday morning you can eat all the Krispy Kremes you want while wearing what you won on Sunday.  This picture was snapped Monday in Augusta at the local Krispy Kreme.  You gotta love a guy with enough personality to pull this stunt and nice enough to let the workers snap a photo at the window. 
Congratulations you just won the Masters what are you going to do next? I am grabbing the kids and going to Krispy Kreme.
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MASTERPHIL!

Watson had us wishing, Couples had us hoping, but eventually only Lefty was able to make the storybook ending come true.

  

In a week of returns to golf the biggest noise was not made by Tiger's return to the PGA and the Masters, but by Amy Mickelson. Battling cancer she made her first trip to follow her husband Phil at Augusta. Phil was at his best dialing in those kamikaze type shots that make us love him and curse him at the same time.

Despite an errant drive on the last Par 5, that put him squarely behind two trees, Phil did what Phil does. He went for the green in two hitting a perfect iron that had just enough to carry the creek bed onto the green. Phil went on to sink the pin high putt for eagle giving him a three-stroke lead, which proved to be insurmountable.

After he birdied the 18th to add an exclamation mark on his tournament championship he embraced his wife and kids as tears rolled down his cheeks. Maybe, just maybe it is possible to be the best golfer and a great husband and father. At least this week it appears so!

In other news, Scott McCrying plots to steal one of Phil’s three green jackets and appeals the PGA to have an asterisk next to Phil's name for use of performanced enhanced wedges (Sorry I just can't let this one go).

This post is dedicated to the biggest fan of Lefty I know, Grandma Hoppy.

I hope you enjoyed every minute of it!

Phil Takes the High Road

     Despite my support, Phil Mickelson, an avid reader I am sure, has decided to put the wedge back in his garage.  Phil accepted Scott McCrying's apology Wednesday and took the high road.  As of yet McCrying has made no such declaration about his Hockey-Stick Putter.  Unlike Phil, I obviously have not taken the high road and still wish Phil would have beat him with that antique wedge.  Phil says he will put the club away for now, but may bring it back in the future.  I hope the secret weapon returns soon.  Who knows maybe Phil loaned it and its magical powers to Peyton Manning for the Superbowl.  Too bad Phil didn't loan Peyton a better joke for media day. Really Peyton taking your little brother's jokes that he stole from the Office?!? It turns out maybe golf is a gentleman's game after all.  Thanks for the reminder Phil.

It's Too Late To Appologize!?!

In the search for PGA justice Scott McCarron would like a few things cleared up. First, he never called Phil a "Cheater" he just said that what Phil does is "cheating". Any good lawyer can see this makes all the difference and I should probably retract my first statement about Scott McCarron. But I never called Scott McCarron a "whiner" or any other thing I just described what he was doing, which was "whining". I think this is enough of a distinction to keep the article posted. Who is this guy, Bill Clinton? For a guy that doesn’t like the extra spin on the golf ball he sure does put some spin on his words.

Phil I would not put too much stock in to a guy that uses a putter that is taller than he is. Seriously? This guy uses a hockey stick to putt with and is worried about other people’s clubs. Should the PGA ban a twenty-year-old wedge or the two-meter putter? Scott, Happy Gilmore called he wants his putter back. If anything should be outlawed it should be anchoring a putter against your collarbone and using a slap shot. Just tap it in, tap tap taperoo.

As an update Robert Allenby supports my theory on how to get one of these magic wedges guaranteed to make you win (Although I could be wrong on this since John Daly is using one*). Allenby stated that you can find them in your garage or on eBay.

*This comment is not intended to rip on Daly, and if he is reading, John, I hope you take a week off clear your head and get back on the links your too talented to hang them up plus the pants wake us up from our naps.

Shame on you Phil Mickelson...

Shame on you, Phil Mickelson for playing by the rules. With all of the controversy in sports over the past few years, why are we talking about a 20-year-old wedge? We don’t have enough to worry about with PED’s, gambling, and countless others not to mention numerous indiscretions of players off the field.

This is different. Golf is a gentlemen’s game, it is against the spirit of the rule, it is an unfair advantage, and everyone should be on the same playing field. These are some of ridiculous reasons I have heard. Sure golf is a gentlemen’s game, but most guys would kick another guy’s ball in the water if he thought it wasn’t outlawed. I have a series of books call A Gentleman, the titles vary from 'at the table', 'at a party'-- mysteriously mine is missing the at the Golf course volume. If it existed, I am sure its first chapter would discuss the use of irons over two decades old never mind the language read on the lips after a missed putt or the moving of boulders or not allowing a golfer with a disease that causes problems walking to ride in a cart. Every time I play, I encounter more and more gentlemen (like the six yahoos playing in the foursome in front of me sharing a cart and not allowing anyone to play through). Never mind trashing on fellow players to the media.

It is against the spirit of the rule because the spirit says although this club is explicitly mentioned in the rule and exempted this implies it shouldn’t be used?!?! Unfair advantage? We are playing with Titanium drivers the size of a watermelon with graphite shafts that can hit the ball 350 yards with a ball that flies straighter and farther and stops on a dime and we are worried about a club made when the original Bush was in office. That is unfair, “Read my lips No 20 year old Wedges.”

Everyone should be on the same playing field. There is a new Internet site, its called eBay- and get this you can buy old stuff there. I am sure if a Pro wants a 20-year-old wedge he can find one. I was not aware there was a shortage. I have one in my bag if anyone wants it- I use it when I am in the rocks, which is about every other shot for me.

Professional golf is COMPETITIVE and HUGE MONEY IS ON THE LINE. What do people do when money is on the line in life? We hire Tax attorneys & CPA’s to interpret the rules to the best of their abilities so we can keep every nickel. We probably shouldn’t do that because it isn’t really in the spirit of the tax code. It is like cheating. Do we blame swimmers for wearing Speedos instead of baggy swim trunks? No, it is in the rules. Is the hitter who notices a seam in the webbing every-time the pitcher throws a curve ball cheating or just smart? How about the coach that calls a timeout just as the kicker is kicking the ball? CHEATER. Even though if he didn’t and it was our favorite team we would all be screaming ice him ice him! We may hate the rule, but we don’t hate those that follow it.

America, Golf, and Scott McCarron you all have bigger problems to worry about, like missing last week's cut. Please forget the 20-year-old wedge sir and get a life. If a Ping-Eye 2 wedge is the difference in Scott McCarron’s world ranking of 204 & Phil Mickelson at number 2, I will gladly buy you won Scott for 50% of your increase in winnings. Better yet, maybe you could play Phil for his. What should be the rules? We don’t want any cheating.