The PGA Tour resumed last week without a Tiger, and some old names showed up on the leader board, with Stewart Cink winning the event.
If you remember, Tiger beat Cink in the match play tournament at the beginning of the year. So if things happen the way they should, we will have some new faces winning tournaments and some familiar names winning.
This week at the Buick Open, which was always a stop on Tiger’s schedule, a Hoosier is atop the leader board after two rounds. Bo Van Pelt, a Richmond Ind., native, is leading at 14-under par. Good luck to Bo over the weekend.
The U.S. Open lived up to all it was supposed to be, the return of Tiger and the feel-good story of Rocco Mediate.
Tiger’s victory over Rocco did come with a price. Tiger is now done for the season and must have some more surgeries to repair his knee. The question that everyone asks now is will a new star emerge or will Phil Mickelson take over as the new Tiger?
These are very good questions, and I am sure everyone has their opinion, so here is mine.
Weather. We are back to that theme this past couple of weeks.
Brickyard Crossing has been closed for 3½ of the last 11 days. On every one of these days, Little Eagle Creek overflowed its banks and flooded the adjacent holes.
The first day we were closed was Saturday, May 31 – what a good way to end a month of rain already. All of our bridges were under water and impassable.
Believe it or not, we were open the next day and were able to get carts in the fairways by mid-afternoon. Then Wednesday, June 4, rain hit again. It looked much worse this time.