Notes from the tail end of the FedEx Cup run at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro.Charley Hoffman is pretty awesome, as you can see from the right. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention the number of f-bombs I heard him drop today, but it was a ton almost zero. Seriously though, Hoffman kind of rules. Having him paired with Daly made the majority of my day far more enjoyable.
And in the ever-clear and 20/20 vision that is hindsight, I kind of wish I hadn't semi-bashed Garrett Willis for his shrug off of a fan yesterday. It still took him about half a day to shake the bad karma, but we caught him when he made a mini-run at the Wyndham Sunday, and the dood is pretty funny.
He told someone creeping by in a clunker and slowing down to watch a tee shot that he should just "buy ah ticket", which was so solid. Of course, he's cool, but he's no Charley Hoffman.
Hoffman flew a drive to the right side of the crowd rope on 17 Sunday that caught the cart path, plugged a young fan in the arm and then skidded back into the fairway. (In case you don't believe me, proof of the plunk below.)
And in fairness to the young man, the soon to be bruise looked much worse in person. But I refuse to spend any more money on trying to find a really nice digi camera, so, deal with it. (Also, thanks to the entire family for being so accomadating re: letting nosy Brinson reporter guy take photos of your son's arm.) And besides, there's proof that it hurt the young fella based on Hoffman handing over his glove after autographing it.
The point of it all? I was right, that's what. Golfers should hand out free junk when they hit a fan with the ball -- after all, it's not often that you can screw up bad enough at your job to hurt someone and fix everything by signing a freaking mitten. Just so Garrett Willis knows.
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8-19-2008 @ 4:59PM
John said...
Hey, how about the very next hole (18) when Hoffman apparently went OB with his tee shot, got all the way down there and one of the volunteeers had picked up his ball for him cause it was "way down there". Talk about a real pisser. Not only did no one radio back to let him know he should hit a provisional but he got all the way down there and she had picked up his ball. HA! He had to get a PGA official to make a ruling, then he had to head back to the tee box and ended up in the rough on his second tee shot. Needless to say he was slightly upset. Best part of it all was the lady who picked up his ball kept it. She never even bothered to attempt to hand it back to him. This is why we can't have nice things (or good players) in Greensboro.
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