You wanna talk lucky to get a parking space...
The HQ was lucky to get the last one in the lot, and we're not complaining...
It's where you can see Puddy ((actor Patrick Warburton)) slice a ball into the woods without having to paint his chest, and where you can see Kurt Russell actually birdie a hole- for real- not with the handicap stuff...
The host course is Thornblade in the north Greenville suburbs ((pictured, thanks to me)). There are two other courses involved: The Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg and Bright's Creek just north of the Carolina border. But Thornblade is a course
carved in amongst a boatload of trees and homes to match. If you screw up, there is very little room for error.Example: The 18th is a par-4 with the standard amount of hospitality suites surrounding the green. Home town golfer Kyle Thompson hit a shot left of the green with his standard, bright yellow golf ball. It proceeded to carom off the guardrail of the suites and work itself to 15-feet left of the hole.
Par... the easy way...
And instead of the normal quiet signs, because of the sponsor, it's "Ruhe! Bitte!"
Which reminds the HQ of this particular thought...
((HT: Warner Brothers Pictures))
Best cabaret singer ever...
The weekend was another chance for Jerry Rice to add to his desires to work onto the Nationwide Tour. The next sentence has a big "but" attached...
After a first-round 92, a second round 82, and a caddie using a range finder instead of a yardage book, Rice was DQ'ed from the weekend- and he promptly retired from the under-50 set of golf... for now...
Our friends at WSPA-TV caught up with Star 80 before the week started...
Another celeb, "Army Wives" Catherine Bell, came out and played the first three rounds- six months pregnant. Since most golfers are creatures of habit, they may look at Bell's approach and take off from there...
She played shots barefoot... if a guy does it- the approach might be what was
referred to as a "sartorial faux pas." When Bell does it, it's Catherine Bell.The HQ asked when that idea started...
"Actually, a few days ago," she admitted. "My feet started hurting while I was playing. I'm pregnant, so I just went barefoot. Turns out, I play better golf without shoes..."
She signed every autograph request and stayed for every picture...
Class act...
TOUR UPDATE: Geoff Sisk is grinding right now...
He was five-under heading into the last nine on Saturday trying to make the cut. He shot two-over and missed out again... the HQ jinx is still in tact...
"I just have to stick to it," he said after the round. "Maybe I have to stick to it a little more often. I hit it solid out there, but there are times when I hit it 'too solid' and hit it too much. It's only four tournaments. It's not a whole season. I still feel I can play out here. I just don't have an answer right now."
Sisk thinks the solution is just to "keep plugging" as he says... and the Game 7 loss of his Bruins didn't sit well, either...
Tommy Gainey was having a good weekend in front of the home folks... and there was some serious detente going on with the crowd. He actually gave a soda to a Clemson fan. For a South Carolina guy to do that is huge...
He was paired with George Rogers... yes, that George Rogers...
"My game ain't worth nothin'," Rogers said. "But it's okay when your pro is playing good."
"'1980 Heisman Winner' says enough for me," Gainey admitted. "He did a lot of good for USC, and I'm a big fan of the university. It's a daydream playing with a legend like him."
Gainey shot a three-under 68 to be in a street-fight for 7th. His putter let him down on the last five or six holes, including a short birdie putt on 18, and that needs to wake up for a higher place.
Big mover on the day was Fabian Gomez with another 64- this time at Bright's Creek... Bigger mover on the day was Tommy Biershenk- a 10-under 62 in Spartanburg- good enough from 88th at the beginning of the day to 17th...
And did the HQ mention there were a lot of German SUV's in the parking lot this weekend...???
Winners tomorrow...
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