Adrenaline Has Run Rampant Here Lately.....

but now that the U.S. Open is over, things are getting back to normal.

Oh don't look at me, it wasn't MY adrenaline.
I don't know of anything more boring than watching golf on TV, unless it's actually playing golf, during which you can't really tune out and go to sleep.


The trouble is, nobody here agrees with me. In fact, last weekend I was the only person in this house NOT glued to the TV set during the U.S. Open. I had a nasty cold, and quite frankly the timing couldn't have been more convenient. I went to bed and listened to music while puttering around on the laptop. Periodically, I would hear cheers and moans from the living room. Now I realize that's appropriate football - watching behaviour, but is it really normal to be that into golf?


Keith actually summoned me from my sick bed once.

"Come here, you gotta see this replay!" he said.

So I took my 50-pound head into the living room in time to watch Tiger Woods putt the ball into the hole.

I was dumbfounded. "That's what I came in here for?"

He couldn't believe it didn't knock my socks off.

"Are you kidding? " he said. "That's a 60 - yard putt!"

But I still didn't get it. Not when you put everything into perspective. If, say, I made a 60 - yard putt, now that would be something to get excited about. But we were talking about a guy who plays golf for a living, who has devoted his whole life to perfecting his game, and who by the way, had won this tournament a dozen times or so already. Shouldn't we really be expecting 60 - yard putts from him?

I'll say it if nobody else will ...... If we're going to call this thing a sport, I think we need to raise the bar.

And anyway, why don't these guys have normal names? I mean, Tiger? Rocco? Boo?
What is UP with that?

I did finally get interested when we turned on the TV about 4:00pm Monday afternoon. Apparently the U. S. Open was still going on. The situation had called for a tiebreaker. We started watching at the 18th hole. AGAIN a tie. It was sudden death time. I couldn't believe it. For a few minutes there, I was actually on the edge of my seat watching GOLF.
Never in a million years would I have thought it.

I guess there's a first time for everything.