Category Archives: Op-Ed

Tiger Drops the F-Bomb on Live TV on 13th Tee at Masters

Tiger Woods snap-hooked his tee shot on 13 into the woods, and reacted by dropping an f-bomb that was caught on CBS’ microphones.  A few minutes later commentator Ian Baker-Finch apologized to any viewers who might have been offended by Tiger’s potty mouth.

Golf writer Geoff Shackelford tweeted out the offending video.

 

Oh yeah…and Tiger found his ball, chipped out, wedged on, and then made the putt for birdie.

Nicklaus Scores Hole-In-One in Masters Par-3 Contest

Part of the Masters traditions is the par-3 contest, and today Jack Nicklaus wowed the crowd by scoring a hole-in-one on the 4th hole.   Kevin Streelman defeated Camilo Villegas in a playoff, meaning he won’t win the main tournament.

Best Calls At The Masters

My two favourite calls from The Masters both came from Verne Lundquist.  I looked all over YouTube for them and this is as good as I could find (most clips either had some other commentary or lame music over the actual audio). The clip is from the TSN SportCenter Top 10 Masters Moments back a few years ago, with an obvious Canadian bias as Mike Weir’s 2003 win was number 1.

The key calls are numbers 3 (Tiger’s chip-in on 16 back in 2005 with the “In your life…” call) and  2 (Jack Nicklaus in 1986 on 17’s “Yes Sir!”).

Bonus for number 5 when Tiger completes his “Tiger Slam”, winning all four major titles in a row, and you can hear Ken Venturi say what will be true forever, “Something I dreamt I would never see and I thought that no one would ever do”.

UPDATE – the TSN clip is no longer available so I replaced it with another one.  You still get Verne’s two calls.