The most explosive rivalry to emerge from last weekend's Ryder Cup is perilously perched atop the leader board this weekend at The Tour Championship.
Anthony Kim and Sergio Garcia: It didn't take long for these two spirited young guys to get back to business. And The Tour Championship suddenly looks like a must-watch event, after being dismissed as irrelevant by many, in the wake of last week's historical showdown in Valhalla.
Sergio clearly has the most at stake here. His performance at the Ryder Cup was less than stellar, particularly his one-on-one with Mr. Kim, during which it sometimes seemed the American was toying mercilessly with the Spaniard.
If Mr. Garcia were to win this, he would have exacted a symbolic revenge ...within just a week... and though it would do nothing to erase the collective disappointment of the European Ryder Cup team, one can only imagine that, psychologically, it would be a game changer for Sergio going forward.
I rather doubt the ultra competitive AK is in any mood to facilitate that, however.
So with these to guys battling it out, this could be a much more compelling golf weekend than most had anticipated. Oh, and just behind Kim and Garcia...Phil Michelson and Camillo Villegas are poised to enter the fray, and really... how awesome is that?
Just another example that golf does not need Tiger to be worth watching.
ReplyDeleteWe've always liked Sergio Garcia...now we love Anthony Kim. How perfect to see them build a real honest-to-goodness golf rivalry. We haven't had that for a while. Oh of course we love Tiger buy I'm not sure it's not more fun to watch golf when he's not around.
ReplyDeleteCmon Jennifer ... Golf is certainly more fun to watch with Tiger in the field.
ReplyDeleteIf Seeerrrgio goes on to win, it will be especially impressive considering he was 4 over through his first six holes of the tournament. Go Kim (mini Tiger)!
The tables did seem to turn today. I've never been a Sergio Garcia fan but, call me old fashioned, I think it would do Anthony Kim a lot of good NOT to win tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteAll that sounds very dramatic and media-ish, but it misses a slight detail...Kim and Garcia are very good friends...very competitive...very professional, but very good friends.
ReplyDelete"Revenge" is a negative emotion - not something between friends.
They were both asked similar questions in the media tent after their Saturday round. Both adamantly denied that there was any "revenge" or lack of respect between them.
They DO want to beat each other's brains out on the golf course, but neither one seems to like the type to feed off of negative emotions. They both prefer to be more upbeat about their games - play hard and beat the other guy - then go have a beer afterwards.
What WAS funny today was Kim admitting that he thought he had an 11:55 tee time when it was really 11:25. He usually gets to the course an hour to an hour 15 ahead of time to warm up - but his mistake cut his usual time in half and he ended up hitting only 4 of 14 fairways, missing a lot of greens and putting a lot of pressure on himself to get up and down. All that and he shot a 72. I wish I could do that.
Kim denied that whacking the spectator in the head affected his game, but when he described the bloody golf ball sized indention in the guy's head, he was noticably upset. His back 9 was worse than the front.
By the way - the new greens are spectacular.
ReplyDeleteIt may not be "revenge" if they are friends, but you can still have a rivalry....
ReplyDeleteShould be fun to watch.
Rivalry indeed, but Sergio can't seem to hold on - never has. But now Villegas is the new young force to reckon with.
ReplyDeleteBTW, how can Phil miss the fairway and bogey #10 four days in a row?? Yeah, I know the answer...hehe.
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What a great Tour Championship this is turning out to be in the end.
ReplyDeletelol - teetime - you're right about Phil - but 10 and 16 are very tough fairways to hit. 10 is normally a par 5 and it's all uphill, so naturally they make the fairway about 15 yards wide. 16 is a long par 4, but the fairway was only 13 yards wide where they were landing the ball.
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