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Around the wider world of golf: The pros weren't playing this past week... but I would like to note a couple of North Carolina happenings. On the good side, my Carolina Panthers made it through the first round of the NFL Playoffs and will play the defending champions, the Seattle Seahawks. (It's good news that they won. Facing the Hawks is NEVER a good thing.)
I also want to word the passing of ESPN anchor -- and North Carolina boy -- Stuart Scott, who died Sunday morning after his 1/3 bout with most cancers. Stuart is normally diagnosed as having revolutionized sports reporting -- not just at ESPN, but for all the game networks -- and changed into provided the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance simply ultimate July. ESPN published a protracted article approximately him at this hyperlink that consists of the tribute carried out through ABC's Robin Roberts. He become best forty nine however I can not even remember ESPN with out him. I never met you but I'll pass over you too, Stu.
"And so it begins." That's actually a line from the science fiction TV show Babylon 5, spoken by the alien Kosh in the final first season episode, Chrysalis. It's a cryptic warning to Babylon 5's commander, Jeffrey Sinclair, that a war is coming.
Okay, possibly it's a bit over-dramatic for the start of the 2015 a part of the PGA Tour's wraparound season. Nevertheless, that is the week while all of it starts in earnest -- the prep for the Majors, the race for the FedExCup, and the very last qualifying for the Presidents Cup. This is the week when the storylines start to play out -- Rory and Phil's pursuit of the career Grand Slam, Tiger's pursuit of Jack's 18 majors, and the public's pursuit of the Next Big Thing, whoever he may be.
It all starts on the Hyundai Tournament of Champions on the Kapalua Resort on the north shore of Maui in Hawaii. (Whew! That's plenty to say.) Zach Johnson comes in as defending champion, and he heads a field full of maximum of the Tour's 2014 winners. We nevertheless may not see some of the top players due to the fact they both did not win on the PGA Tour closing yr or have surely opted to attend and make their debuts within the subsequent month or so. But all of them face the identical hassle...
How to regain the momentum that they had closing yr -- you understand, the form that got them to this occasion in the first region.
So as I said earlier, that is the week when all of it starts in earnest. And it's in that spirit that I offer this general little Limerick Summary that names nobody specifically and surely would not say a lot in any respect. After all, it truly is wherein we're right now...
Well, the Tour boys are returned on the street!
Last 12 months?S winners are up?They have been owed
One on Maui?S north coast.
Who will win? Who?Ll be toast?
We’ll soon learn whose momentum has slowed. The photo came from the tournament qualifiers page at PGATOUR.com.
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