US PGA TOUR (Booz Allen Classic): Sergio Garcia (ESP)
EUROPEAN TOUR (Dutch Open): Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (ESP)
NATIONWIDE TOUR (LaSalle Bank Open): Chris Couch (USA)
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Too bad for Garcia that his win was overshadowed by the Ben Crane/Rory Sabbatini fiasco. Impressive victory considering his recent history of round four meltdowns. When they interviewed Garcia on ABC, he revealed himself to wearing gag teeth. When you saw that, were you sort of amuses, or rankling that he wasn’t taking golf/the interview seriously enough? If you answered the latter, I don’t want to be friends with you.
Also, you know that Booz Allen Hamilton commercial they ran constantly, with the boy outwitting the dog to get the frisbee? They didn’t even bother to make the scene to scale. The house was just as close to the dog the frisbee, so the boy wouldn’t've had room to circle around the dog unless he also circled around the house. Why didn’t they shoot the commercial somewhere else, then? Or build a set where that oversight wasn’t so obvious? Yes, I know it’s just a commercial and yes, I do need to chill.
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Big week for Spain, as Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano won in Holland. I fell asleep watching this one on Tivo.
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Chris Couch earned the dubious distinction of becoming the Nationwide Tour’s all-time leading money winner by winning the tour’s richest event, the LaSalle Bank Open. You win this and you are pretty much assured a card the next year on the PGA tour, and for Couch it was his second win, so he’s just one victory shy of a battlefield promotion.
Usually, I am cheering for the up-and-comers on the brink of a battlefied promotion, but Couch? I don’t know. He needs to get his head together and get over whatever it is that allows him to play so well on the Nationwide Tour and so miserably on the PGA Tour. Last year on the PGA Tour, he was one of the worst (well, had the worst results of almost any) players: 4 cuts made in 24 events. Only David Gossett played in as many events or more and earned less.
