That's Snow Way to Start a WGC

And to think they were worried about the wind when they teed off!

The opportunity of snow became lots more than a possibility on the WGC-Accenture Match Play... And it did a lot earlier than predicted.

Of course, you rarely expect to get snow in a desert. But most people don't realize that not all deserts are hot. I was researching the Sahara Desert for some children's stories a couple of years back and discovered that scientists define deserts in much broader terms. For example, here's a little section from Wikipedia's entry for desert :

Deserts are sometimes classified as "hot" and "cold" deserts. Cold deserts can be covered in snow or ice; frozen water unavailable to plant life. These are more commonly referred to as tundra if a short season of above-freezing temperatures is experienced, or as an ice cap if the temperature remains below freezing year-round, rendering the land almost completely lifeless.

The University of California at Berkley's page on deserts says that there are some cold deserts near Arizona, "in the basin and range area of Utah and Nevada."

And while most people would say that the Sahara Desert is the largest desert on earth, it's really only the third largest. Both Antarctica and the Arctic Desert (at the South and North Poles) are the Rory and Tiger of the OWDR -- the Official World Desert Rankings.

Still it is a piece disconcerting to turn to your TV, anticipating to peer a warm desolate tract in Marana AZ, and seeing this alternatively:

Luke Donald tweeted this photo with the message "Even the cacti are cold, it is a winter wonderland here in Tucson!"

Lots of gamers were tweeting pics of the snow -- between the snowball fights, that is. And there has been lots of snow to image; I heard there was as plenty as 3 inches.

But leave it to an Ian Poulter tweet to reduce proper to the crux of the matter: "What's the hassle we could play. Hahahaha"

The match is supposed to get back underway sometime nowadays, and getting things executed by using Sunday should not be a hassle. After all, the primary spherical has a especially small general of sixty four players and the numbers are reduce in half with every successive spherical.

As for me, I've decided to be philosophical about the whole lot. GC has the LPGA tournament in Thailand scheduled to air beginning at 9am ET, so there ought to be lots of golfing at the inexperienced stuff. And as for the fit play...

On the intense aspect, at least all four of my alternatives are still in the event.