Golfing In The Appalachian Mountains

I headed up after work to stay at my nephews cabin in the Pennsylvania part of the Appalachian Mountains. Here I am crossing the Allegheny River at the Emlenton high level bridge. I stayed at my Nephew's Jeff cabin here with his son Abram. He is really a cutey.
We hit the links the next day and the weather looked threatening.
There were a couple of Bluebirds in the area but the clouds didn't allow much light.
The morning changed quickly and it turned beautiful. It was a little windy as shown by the American Flag.
Here is our foursome, we shot 11 under after a slow start. We birded the last 5 holes. This is my brother and his two sons. We won one skin on a long putt I made on the final hole. No-one else had been able to handle the sloping green. I have played with my brother a lot this year and the scramble was a fun time.
The clouds were showing off in the mountains of Pennsylvania.

More From the Golf Outing

A golf course can be a wonderful source of photos. This one Little Thunder in Madison, OH was real special. It is made to cater to kids. It is shorter and has dog legs to give it potential. A fun course for the younger golfer. Thunder Hill the main course has 72 ponds and is rated #46 in the nation. It was a fish hatchery, they took out 28 ponds.

A saw to types of dragonflies by a pond.
This one may be a Bluet I've seen before at other blogs.
The Japanese Beetles were mating.
I think that's my camera in the reflection.
These flowers had a fly and a small bee on it. Click on it to see more.

The flower of a Sumac Tree is so interesting.
A story of the golf game, My 13 year old grandson shot one over par on the front nine and three over par on the back nine to beat everyone. He was throwing darts at the pins and was putting for birdies on at least 12 holes. Oh my, he does have potential as a golfer and earned a letter last year in Junior High School as a 7th grader.

My Other Love is Golfing

One of my other favorite things to do is golf. There is a problem because if the overlapping seasons of golf and fishing. If it gets to hot to fish you can always golf.

I especially like scrambles and usually play several with my Brother and his two sons. We are the fearsome foursome on the golf course. We had our best 18 hole round in a scramble of 16 under par. We had four Pars, twelve Birdies and two Eagles. We won first place in the scramble that year. The kids are big hitters, well over 300 yards at times. The old men are steady down the middle at 250 yards on the drives. I have been know to hit a 3 wood 250 yards off the fairway.
Note the matching drivers, we are a team.
Here are the kids. They played us in a lot of rounds of golf and haven't beat us yet. They tied us once. They say when we reach 70 they ought to be coming into their prime. I think their Dad intimidates them. He does play really well. The old guys resting. Note Fishing Guys wears a knee brace so the arthritis doesn't bother him so much. The next day it's always a sore knee day from the torque you put into your swing.
This was a special short club hole and Jeff sunk the birdie.
This is for readers of my blog. Junior also comes to the same outing with his sons so its like old home week from the neighborhood. Junior also had Prostate Cancer and is now retired and spends the Winters in Florida. He comes back to PA in the Summer.
This was a picture from another outing but I thought Gina would enjoy that I have a Tasmanian Devil golf shirt.

Tiger Wins Again

The biggest golf news of the day, Tiger wins a golf tournament. This is getting to be old news. (LOL) He won his 7th worldwide and his 5th PGA tournament. He has actually won 8 of his last 9 tournaments worldwide. He won it on a breaking putt of 21 foot on the last hole. He did the same thing to Phil Michelson in 2001. He again shot -4 for the day winning by one stroke. He is unbelievable as a golfer. This is the 5th time he has won at Bay Hill.
He ties the great Ben Hogan on the all time winners list and now has only number two Jack Nicklaus in his sights. He just recently past Arnold Palmer on the all time winners list and Arnold looked perfectly happy that he had won his tournament. Tiger plays again next week in Miami and is the defending champion. Tiger was excited about the winning putt but was gracious in his victory. How can you bet against him?
In other sporting news Texas did not win their title game so now we have to wait for the brackets to see if they get an at large bid to The Dance.

Jo: Maybe Kent State will not have a chance to meet Texas.

In NASCAR news 3 Chevrolet's go 1,2,3 but no Hendricks team drive are there. What's going on with Hendricks? Jeff Gordon has not won yet and neither has defending champion Jimmie Johnson. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is doing better then both of them. At least Jr. is in the top 12 as of now.

Tiger Wins 6th in a Row

Tiger easily beat Stewart Cink to win the Accenture World Match Play Championship for the third time. Tiger had two close matches out of the six but had no problem closing out this one on the 29th hole of the 36 hole championship round. That meant that Americans finished 1st, 2nd and 4th for a very good American showing in the Tournament.
Way to go Tiger, The Masters is coming in April as the first Major of the year. I believe Tiger will be Number 1 in the Fed-Ex Cup after having played only two tournaments.

Tiger Wins Both Matches Today

Tiger played well enough to win his to matches today. He handled AJ Choi fairly easily and advanced to the final 4. He then beat last year Champion Henrick Stenson in the last few holes to advance to the final 2. This leaves two Americans in the World Championship 36 hole Match. Justin Leonard will play Stenson for third place.

Stewart Cink hasn't won on the tour for since 2004, in which he won twice, and Tiger is going for seven wins in seven starts around the world. It sounds like a mismatch but sometimes golf can be a funny game. Cink played a wonderful front nine today with 5 birdies and an eagle. That would of given Tiger a run today. We'll have to see what he does tomorrow.

Tiger Moves on in Match Play

Tiger takes 20 holes to beat Arron Baddley. The pair had 22 birdies between them but the final Birdie on the 20tth hole wins it for Tiger. The field is cut to 8 players with Tiger playing AJ Chio. Tiger is still going forward to win 6 tournaments in a row.
Badds had birdie putts on 17, 18 and 19 but couldn't close the door on Tiger. If you give Tiger a chance the inevitable will happen.
The field is cut to 4 in the morning and then to 2 in the afternoon. The finals are tomorrow when they go to a 36 hole tournament. I wonder if he can win again this year?

Tiger Goes For 6 In a Row

Tiger Woods #1 player was playing JB Holmes #16 player in the Accenture Match Play Championship. They play the high rank players against the low rank players so you have the best rising to the finals. They forgot to tell JB that this was an easy win for Tiger.

It was a JB who had Tiger down 3 with five holes to play. Tiger isn't one to give up. JB hits a long ball and out drove Tiger almost every time.

The story then goes as follows:

Hole 14 - 15' Birdie 2 down with 4 to play

Hole 15 - 18' Birdie 1 down with 3 to play

Hole 16 - 20' Birdie all square with 2 to play

Hole 17 - 35' Eagle 1 up with 1 to play

Hole 18 - Par JB misses Birdie - Tiger wins

Yes, that's 88' of putts on 4 holes, no wonder he's the #1 player in the world.

JB had an excellent response. “You’re playing the best player in the world, 3 up with 5 to play,” JB Holmes said. “I just said, ‘Don’t do anything stupid. Make him beat you.’ And he did. What do you do?”

Sports Weekend Recap

NASCAR: Ryan Newman #12 wins the 50th running of the Daytona 500. The Dodges won 6 of the top 8 places. Toyota's finished 3rd and 4th place finishes. The Chevy's and Toyota's who had dominated the starting races up to this point ended up with a Chevy only having a 9th place finish.
NBA: The All Star Game and the rookie verses sophomore game were dominated by the Cavaliers. Boobie Gibson won the MVP with in the sophomore win and King Lebron James won the MVP east win of the game. There was an unforgettable dunk at the end of the game that showed how good James won.

Golf: Phil Michelson won his 33 tournament at Rivera Country Club. Phil has been playing well this year with a second last week and a win this week. Phil looks like Tigers only real competition so far this year. Tiger goes for his 6th tournament win in a row this coming weekend.

Tiger Wins Second Tournament in Dubai

Tiger goes to Arabia to win his second tournament. Dubai, what a place. I have gotten several E-mails on that country. They built a building to house a ski slope. They also built an palm shaped island in the Gulf and sold million dollars houses to the rich. It was sold out before the island was finished.

Tiger was ahead after the 1st & 2nd rounds but fell behind by 4 strokes on Saturday. With a typical Tiger charge, he put enough pressure on the rest of the golfers to win the tournament. He shot -7 the first day and -7 the the last day. He fooled around at even par for the combined middle days. This was not the runaway victory like the first win but it still was impressive all the same.

Tiger Woods Does It Again

Tiger Woods won his 62nd tour win tying one of my favorite golfers from the past Arnold Palmer. Tiger has caught Arnie at 32 years of age. Arnie won tournaments into his 50's. There are only three golfers ahead of him on the most wins list and Ben Hogan is only two ahead. The way Tiger is playing that may take a couple of months for him to pass him. This course is where a major is played this year. Talk about a sure thing. If he continues to keep his game, watch out for at least two majors this year.

Tiger just doesn't win golf tournaments, he punishes the other golfers. At one point in this tournament he was -21 when the others were -9. It is very hard to win a tournament by 8 strokes and it would have been more if Tiger hadn't relaxed toward the end. He actually lost his concentration and just played his way into the clubhouse. The rest of the field was already destroyed at that point. It doesn't make for an exciting finish but when Tiger is playing like this he is a joy to watch.