In the first place, I want to apologize to Eric for making him put up with an anti-media screed this afternoon. To Eric's credit, he was quite patient about hearing me out, and I now feel much better. Venting is often good for the soul.
In the second place, I want to give credit to Vandy alumnus Brandt Snedeker, who has played better than I expected, and who strikes me as the only American with a realistic chance of victory tomorrow.
They say that the Masters begins when the leaders get to the back nine on Sunday, but this Masters has already been chock-full of drama. So I can only imagine what we will see tomorrow.
One final note: Tiger should have had a birdie-4 at the fifteenth hole on Friday. Instead, with the two-stroke penalty, he ended up with a triple-bogey 8. Those four strokes are the difference between him and the leaders.
Here is the current leaderboard:
T1. B. Snedeker: -7 (70+70+69=209)
T1. A. Cabrera (ARG): -7 (71+69+69=209)
3. A. Scott (AUS): -6 (69+72+69=210)
T4. M. Leishman (AUS): -5 (66+73+72=211)
T4. J. Day (AUS): -5 (70+68+73=211)
6. M. Kuchar: -4 (68+75+69=212)
T7. T. Clark (RSA): -3 (70+76+67=213)
T7. T. Woods: -3 (70+73+70=213)
T9. R. Fowler: -2 (68+76+70=214)
T9. S. Stricker: -2 (73+70+71=214)
T9. B. Langer (GER): -2 (71+71+72=214)
T9. L. Westwood (ENG): -2 (70+71+73=214)
T9. J. Furyk: -2 (69+71+74=214)
It was great. I love how your fairly targeted anti-golf-media screed ultimately tipped the Marion house into a sweeping, full-roil populist revival. "Those people in New York and Washington don't even know we exist out here in this part of the country." I think Adam Scott was on a green with that ridiculous putter when that declaration was made.
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