Joe's Place

Here’s a hearty salute to Phil Mickelson on winning the 2010 Masters tournament and getting his third green jacket. (Nice news story here.) I can’t think of anyone more deserving than him particularly after a very tough personal time last year. Anyone that saw Phil and his wife Amy embracing shortly after finishing his round and later after signing his scorecard could see the culmination of a whole lot of emotion.

Very touching moments indeed, thank you CBS.

By the way, have you ever seen anyone so fearless on the back nine in a final round at Augusta? Who hits a six iron 205 yards off pine needles and in between trees to a water-guarded pin on #13 and sticks it to three feet? (I would have missed the eagle putt too, because I’d still be shaking from the approach shot.) An incredible final round to be sure.

The sports world eagerly anticipates two major events this week. One of them is the opening night of the start of the Christian Fellowship Golf League on Monday which involves yours truly, but unfortunately the other news event begins later in the week in Augusta, Georgia and involves a slightly better known golfer named Tiger.

Yes, Tiger Woods will again be the news centerpiece after a long and somewhat sordid absence from the game. This will be a huge sports news story with world coverage, but unfortunately that likely means that the cameras will be absent from the other event which for the first time will be held weekly at The Falls Golf Club in O’Fallon, Missouri.

With all that Tiger has on his plate, it just astounds me that he could even contemplate his return to golf and in the process steal away the major media coverage from our opening night of our league. But while you may not hear much about sixteen men hacking and slashing their way through those nine holes on morning news shows Tuesday morning, if anything even remotely newsworthy occurs, you can read about it here.