Fort Smith Classic

[msd3075]

This week the Nationwide Tour is in town and playing at the course I normally play out of (Hardscrabble CC in Fort Smith, AR). Seeing as he's not playing in the US Open and that he's trying to get attention for the tournament so that it can get better sponsorship, John Daly is playing in the tournament this year. He's actually playing really well. Anyway, I went to the tournament last year when there really wasn't anyone that well known playing in it, and there might have been 30 or 40 spectators tops out on the course. I want to say that there was a crowd 2 or 3 people deep around each teebox/green that John Daly was on at the time. I saw that he was teeing off on #5, so we waited on #6 teebox so I'd have a front row seat right next to the tee marker to watch his swing up close. The 6th hole is a dogleg left par 5 that you can cut the corner on (you hit over part of #5 fairway to do it) if you have enough distance. Both his playing partners cut a bit off of the corner, but John took aim almost directly down #5 fairway and hit one of the biggest bomb drives i've seen on that hole. His ball flight was so much higher than any of the other players I watched that I initially thought he had popped it up. His swing is just so powerful in person it's amazing.

On a a different note, I was a bit disturbed by another player in the group in front of Daly's group. It was a guy named Matt Every. I don't know much about him, but I looked him up and it looks like he's playing on the PGA Tour this year after graduating form the Nationwide the last few years. Anyway, there was a huge backup on #6 teebox, and because it's a somewhat blind drive over the trees you can't see if it's clear or not. Matt Every hit his drive, and a few seconds after it hit the fairway, a caddie came running out from around the corner waving his arms frantically; he'd hit into the group in front of him. Given the situation, it really wasn't somethign that was that hard to do and I can understand makign the mistake, what got me a bit pissed off was, with several small children within hearing range of him, he says somewhat loudly, "F--- my a--, I f-----g see you a-----e!!!" After he said it, it wasn't like he looked ashamed or anything; he acted like all of us should have said it along with him.

[senorchipotle]

yeah, so people curse. how is that in any way alarming? children aren't going to be killed by swear words. i see it as a good opportunity to inform them not to use such language in public. making a big deal out of it is only going to increase their curiosity about the words. by calmly pointing out that it's impolite and forgetting it, they will forget it as well.