Don’t remind me
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- July
- 19
Yes, some of you have noted that my attention this week has been on the LPGA while the most storied championship in golf is going on across the ocean in Scotland
That is because….drumroll please….I’m not at the Open Championship.
What can I tell you? I went to three Opens between 2003 and 2005, including one at the famed Old Course which probably ranks as the highlight of my sports writing career. There is no experience like it, and if I told you I didn’t miss being over there this morning, most of you would see through it.
But the reality of travel budgets, and the conflict of a high-level LPGA event in our backyard the exact same week, makes the Open a luxury we had reason to bypass. And while I don’t necessarily relish other people’s misfortune, it’s worth noting that plenty of big papers have been skipping the Open as well. And with that in mind, my bosses at The Journal News deserve credit for sending me when they did—and of course, for one day (hopefully) sending me again.
Just watching the images on TV this morning tugs at me to want to get back. But I’ve also reached a point where being on the road for nine days no longer has the appeal that it once did, what with a wife and a son and a constant clog in our shower. So I’ll settle for TNT and ABC, and I’ll spend my days chronicling some dramatic golf right down the road.
All things considered, that’s not a terrible trade-off.
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on Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 7:31 am by Sam Weinman.
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I think it was pretty clear there would have been more info on Carnoustie had you been there, but not even some b.s. or rumors or uninformed opinion? C’mon…
Maybe it’s time the Journal News raise their ad rates—if you were at the Open you could do a swing through the continent to check up on Ranger players and prospects…
And there’s a lot for your wife and son to do in Prague—like drink beer.