The Masters!

Well it’s that time of year again folks, one of the most amazing sports spectacles in the world is about to begin. I am not talking about the curling world championships, nor the cricket world cup qualifying tournament or even the Leafs annual meaningless batch of games down the playoff stretch. No, I am talking of course, about the Masters. This year the golf media is asking one question, will Padraig Harrington continue his run of consecutive major tournament wins? And the man everyone wants to talk to about it? Padraig himself, Tiger, obviously. Nobody cares about Padraig Harrington. He’s like the Richie Cunningham of the PGA tour and Tiger is the Fonz. If Richie and the Fonz were at the same Jefferson High dance, clearly everyone would be paying attention to Henry Winkler the Fonz.

Now the big thing I’m looking forward to is the (possible) confrontation between Steve Williams, Tiger’s caddy, and Phil Mickelson regarding certain hilarious comments Williams made a few months ago about Phil. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3770488.

I picture the confrontation taking place like this. Tiger and Phil are paired together on Sunday. It’s a close battle between the two rivals with Tiger leading by a stroke on the 15^th hole. Phil will be lining up his birdie putt that would tie Tiger, and Williams will make a fart noise with his mouth as Phil is about to strike his putt. This will throw Phil off and he will smash his ball 15 feet past the hole. This will prompt Phil to throw his putter at Williams and the two will engage in fist a cuffs right on the green. After Williams is ejected from the tournament for this behaviour, Tiger will be forced to carry his own bag for the remaining 3 holes and will still emerge victorious. Even if this doesn’t happen, the tournament should still be highly entertaining, although I will be disappointed. Enjoy the weekend everyone!