How do you prepare for the US Open Golf Tournament? Eating a good breakfast.
Our National Championship is not like any other golf tournament. The rough is tougher than a $7.99 T-bone steak. It’s wilder than a mid-Western roller coaster junkie. The greens are quicker than a KY Jelly slip-n-slide. And this week is more of a mental drain on the players than a week long Grey’s Anatomy marathon.
But of all the things that the players have to focus on; the course, their game, the opponents and the media; the one thing they need to dial in on is ‘recovering’.
This week they are going to make bogeys. It’s how they respond to them. If they can pull an ‘Indian Jones’ on the inevitable boulder rolling down the slope they will have a chance to take home the prize on late Sunday afternoon.
It pushes the best players in the world to their limits. People, like me, are more enthralled with this than a dubbed Asian game show. Non-golf fans don’t understand, but this makes for some great television.
But for the second year in a row a Brit will take home the most prestigious trophy in all of American sports. There are 6 golfers from across the pond in the top ten in the world rankings, five of which are from the British Isles. Some of them have momentum (Luke Donald), others have been there before (#2 Lee Westwood, #7 Graeme McDowell, #10 Paul Casey) and one has a giant chip on his youthful Irish shoulder (#8 Rory McIlroy).
The best players in the world need to survive this week by …. Scrambling and scrambled eggs.
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