It's nice to be able to count on someone for drama. After all, the world of professional golf is rather... well-behaved. And the truth is most of us really don't like well-behaved all that much, do we? So here's where Long John I won't rehash the most recent incident, yesterday at Honda. It's already been widely reported in the golf press (old and new media) for the past 24+ hours. Suffice to say it involved a well-heeled, 50ish woman and a camera. And that ultimately the cops were called in. I know, it sounds like a second rate subplot from Desperate Housewives. but it was just JD being JD...while we watched. Golf's guilty pleasure? I'd say so.
I thank Dave Hyde for the word "golferazzi" and for his entertaining story in the Orlando Sentinel.
Poor ol' John.
ReplyDeleteI kinda knew he was on his way to stuff-that-only-happens-when-you-can't-afford-it-to-land.
I'll add him to my list of those-I-wish-well-when-I-think-to-myself.
Your Daly Montage pic is great - kinda says it all in pictures...but it's a terrible shame that John's comeback has been adversely impacted by someone's selfish, thoughtless act...
ReplyDeleteThe PGA Tour should think about doing the same thing that the European Tour does at every tournament - confiscate ALL cell phones/cameras on the way in, or make people take them back to their cars...
I'm not sure if they did it at THIS year's Nissan Open, but at the 2006 tournament, they made people turn 'em in at the security checkpoint...
Now THAT was a hilarious scene...have you ever tried to separate a typical, self-absorbed Angeleno from their security blanket(I mean cell phone)???
I have never seen more ANGST and ANGUISH in my entire life!!!
Riviera Country Club is located smack in the middle of an upscale neighborhood, and 99.5% of the parking is located offsite at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Los Angeles, and people have to be shuttled in to the course by an armada of buses...it's a couple of miles down Sunset Boulevard, so there's no EASY way to walk the phone back out to the car without incurring a 30 minute MINIMUM round-trip...
Watching people FREAK OUT about having to sign over their beloved cell phone at the security desk was ALMOST more fun than watching the golf tournament...the tournament is VERY clear that no cellphones or cameras are to be brought to the course, but people think they're above the rules, and try to sneak by...
Those rules are there to prevent just this sort of situation...because some people cannot behave responsibly, so everyone suffers...
What a price to pay for someone to take a photo at a golf tournament when they aren't really that big of a golf fan. Now golf may not get JD back. That kind of injury is not one an Advil, Diet Coke and a six pack of beer will cure.
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