Jan 29, 2025

Jim McCabe's front 9 musings . . .

1 – Me, myself, and I

Did you know that Greg Norman once strung together three sentences without using the world “I”? Of course you didn’t, because it’s never happened.


2 – One for the throwbacks

If you prefer your pro golfers to be of the old soul variety, then Harris English’s win is for you. Quality gent, through and through.


3 – Problem is recognized; now, how to fix?

Instead of telling us what we know – that rounds of golf taking five-and-a-half or more are killing the PGA Tour – please offer quality pace-of-play steps that could be enforced without a dozen or more loopholes.


4 – Like, come on

Oh, and if the solution involves timing players, what are the chances a shot-clock violation would be called on the 72nd hole of the Players Championship or a major? You know the answer to that.


5 – You cannot rush history

For example: Would you have wanted a shot clock on Tiger Woods off the 16th green in Round 4 of the 2005 Masters? Took a long time to unfold but good gracious what memories it delivered.


6 – Tough look

Huge Keegan Bradley fan, but man, that mustache . . .


7 – An improbable team

Speaking of mustaches, Sam Elliott co-starring with Rob Gronkowski in ads seen every two-and-a-half minutes during football games? Now that’s something I never saw coming.


8 – Methinks

Jordan Spieth is the most intriguing player for the next six weeks.


9 – Tough conditions

That was a three-club wind howling through my town the other day. Of course, with snow and ice on the ground and being trash day, more appropriately it was a three-barrel day because that's how many went flying by my house and landed in the schoolyard.