Doug Ferguson, AP's golf columnist, who I think is excellent, does a year end column of anecdotes from the past year. They all are fun and insightful, but I think the last from Ian Poulter's caddie about the end of a long year is fantastic:
The final week of December is the one week no meaningful tournaments are played on any tour in the world.
The golf year is endless, and it can feel even longer.
Mark Fulcher, the caddie for Justin Rose, has been at this a long time. The crowning moment was at Merion, where Rose won the U.S. Open for his first major. This was in late October, halfway around the world in Shanghai. Everyone was tired. Rose was just starting the stretch run to the end of his year. The caddies were talking about the drudgery of early rounds at a tournament.
Except for "Fooch."
"The day I stop caddying, I'll either be dead or I won't be excited on a Thursday morning," Fulcher said that day. "Thursday is the greatest day in golf. It's the perfect reset, isn't it? You're reminded, even if you won, that everyone starts all over the next week. And if you've played absolute rubbish, there's always the belief that it's about to turn around. I love Thursday. Just love it."
It's a good reminder for everyone involved in this game. You never know what's going to happen next. Or when.
The whole column:
Say hi to Maria if you run into her at Starbucks
The final week of December is the one week no meaningful tournaments are played on any tour in the world.
The golf year is endless, and it can feel even longer.
Mark Fulcher, the caddie for Justin Rose, has been at this a long time. The crowning moment was at Merion, where Rose won the U.S. Open for his first major. This was in late October, halfway around the world in Shanghai. Everyone was tired. Rose was just starting the stretch run to the end of his year. The caddies were talking about the drudgery of early rounds at a tournament.
Except for "Fooch."
"The day I stop caddying, I'll either be dead or I won't be excited on a Thursday morning," Fulcher said that day. "Thursday is the greatest day in golf. It's the perfect reset, isn't it? You're reminded, even if you won, that everyone starts all over the next week. And if you've played absolute rubbish, there's always the belief that it's about to turn around. I love Thursday. Just love it."
It's a good reminder for everyone involved in this game. You never know what's going to happen next. Or when.
The whole column:
Say hi to Maria if you run into her at Starbucks