Not Time To Worry Yet

The most ominous player at the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Golf Course is the weather. They ("they" being the state of New York, since it's a public course located in a state park) spent the last three years getting the course ready for this spectacular event, only to get upstaged by the weather. On the first day, not long after the first golfers teed off, the skies opened up and drenched the players, the caddies, the spectators (including my friend, Kenny), the officials, the fairways, the greens...anything that wasn't protected by walls and a roof. The unlucky pros who drew the morning rounds and tried to feel their way through the course before the Big Guy blew his proverbial horn to stop play were at a distinct disadvantage from the pros who began their first rounds the next afternoon. By then, the course had dried out considerably and it was birdies and pars all around.
Tiger happens to be my favorite golfer and he also happened to get terribly unlucky this year because he was one of the ones who had to play in the soggy conditions. He may just barely make the cut. He won't cry about it though, at least not on camera, but I'll bet he's more than a little pissed. Especially since his main rival (or is that just in my mind?) Phil Mickelson got the better draw. Phil didn't have to contend with all the crap that Tig and those other boys did. How fair is that? I think they should have tried to even things up by making the afternoon groups play their first rounds wearing snow skis. Then we'd see how many of those sub-par rounds they'd be posting.
I'm still not counting Tiger out. He's just ten or twelve back with two rounds to go. It's not out of his realm of possibility.