When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say yes. And when someone offers you tickets to The Masters, guess what, you say yes. That’s what I said to my friend who called late Tuesday night offering me tickets to Wednesday’s practice round. Yes, it was late notice. Yes, it involved some schedule-shifting. And yes, the 8-hour-drive was more than worth it. I’ve been to majors before, but this was my first visit to Augusta National. It was quite eye-opening. Walking around the course I witnessed 50-year-old men standing in line for autographs like a bunch of kids. I stopped counting the ... full post »

Fellow blogger Shanks once famously claimed: “There’s no chance this year’s Kraft Nabisco will equal the drama of 2006.” Actually, he said it a couple of days ago on my blog. Regardless, if he watched today’s exciting finish, he knows it’s time to rethink his position. The final few holes in today’s fourth round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship had all the drama of last year, plus a little something extra: history in the making. Lorena Ochoa was hanging in there quite nicely, doing her part to make my predictive powers look genius, until her quadruple-bogey choke yesterday on 17. ... full post »