Weird day for the Bryant brothers,
Brad and Bart. On Sunday
morning Brad had a two-shot
edge at the seniors' AT&T Champions
Classic, and Bart was part
of a five-way tie at the Arnold
Palmer Invitational.
But not long after Bart's playoff hopes were dusted by a 24-foot Tiger Woods bomb on the 72nd hole, Brad was knocked to the dirt on the second hole of a three-man playoff with Loren Roberts and Denis Watson, who went on to win after three holes. It wasn't what either brother was hoping for, and Bart in particular lost a chance to punch his ticket to Augusta, but between them they earned $754,400 and a few more stories to tell around the Thanksgiving dinner table.
Not bad.
• A spunky Swede shot a blistering seven-under 65 in the final round to come from 10 strokes back and win the MasterCard Classic, tying an LPGA record first set by Mickey Wright in 1964.
Annika Sorenstam? No, Louise Friberg, a 27-year-old rookie who redefines the phrase coming out of nowhere. Friberg made it to the LPGA by way of the University of Washington, the Futures tour, the West Coast Ladies tour, the Telia tour (Sweden), the Ladies European tour and last year's Q school, where she qualified for the LPGA on her first try.
In two previous starts this year Friberg had missed a cut and tied for seventh at the Fields Open. Now she's on a list of 2008 winners with Sorenstam, Paula Creamer and Lorena Ochoa.
Also not bad.
• David Feherty, CBS analyst and columnist for Golf Plus sister publication Golf Magazine, punctured a lung and broke three ribs when he was hit by a truck while riding his bicycle last Friday near his home in Dallas.
He was released from Baylor Medical Center on Sunday and in a Monday e-mail wrote, "I got shoveled out of the hospital yesterday, and last night was my first without a morphine drip. Right now, I'm banging on the door of the ward, but they won't let me back in. I'm an alcoholic and an addict, so the strongest thing I can take at home is Advil. I have never felt pain like this. Blinking hurts, coughing is agony, farting is out of the question and a sneeze would be suicide. I'll be back for the Masters for sure, no pain could keep me away, but, if you're going to put anything in SI, make a point of reminding motorists that cyclists are entitled to use the road, too. It's a miracle I wasn't crushed like an ant, all because someone wanted to make it to a red light in front of me."
• Where's Monty? That's the game they were playing at the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea. Colin Montgomerie had committed to play the European tour event and was featured in ads and posters all around the tournament venue on JeJu Island, but then Arnold Palmer offered Monty an exemption to Bay Hill.
Sitting 61st in the World Ranking and needing to get to 50th to qualify for the Masters, he spiked the Ballantine's and beat it to Bay Hill. How did it work out? The Koreans missed Monty; Monty missed the cut.
• The Florida state attorneysays that no charges will be filed against Arjun Atwal in the car accident that led to the death of another man in March 2007.
But not long after Bart's playoff hopes were dusted by a 24-foot Tiger Woods bomb on the 72nd hole, Brad was knocked to the dirt on the second hole of a three-man playoff with Loren Roberts and Denis Watson, who went on to win after three holes. It wasn't what either brother was hoping for, and Bart in particular lost a chance to punch his ticket to Augusta, but between them they earned $754,400 and a few more stories to tell around the Thanksgiving dinner table.
Not bad.
• A spunky Swede shot a blistering seven-under 65 in the final round to come from 10 strokes back and win the MasterCard Classic, tying an LPGA record first set by Mickey Wright in 1964.
Annika Sorenstam? No, Louise Friberg, a 27-year-old rookie who redefines the phrase coming out of nowhere. Friberg made it to the LPGA by way of the University of Washington, the Futures tour, the West Coast Ladies tour, the Telia tour (Sweden), the Ladies European tour and last year's Q school, where she qualified for the LPGA on her first try.
In two previous starts this year Friberg had missed a cut and tied for seventh at the Fields Open. Now she's on a list of 2008 winners with Sorenstam, Paula Creamer and Lorena Ochoa.
Also not bad.
• David Feherty, CBS analyst and columnist for Golf Plus sister publication Golf Magazine, punctured a lung and broke three ribs when he was hit by a truck while riding his bicycle last Friday near his home in Dallas.
He was released from Baylor Medical Center on Sunday and in a Monday e-mail wrote, "I got shoveled out of the hospital yesterday, and last night was my first without a morphine drip. Right now, I'm banging on the door of the ward, but they won't let me back in. I'm an alcoholic and an addict, so the strongest thing I can take at home is Advil. I have never felt pain like this. Blinking hurts, coughing is agony, farting is out of the question and a sneeze would be suicide. I'll be back for the Masters for sure, no pain could keep me away, but, if you're going to put anything in SI, make a point of reminding motorists that cyclists are entitled to use the road, too. It's a miracle I wasn't crushed like an ant, all because someone wanted to make it to a red light in front of me."
• Where's Monty? That's the game they were playing at the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea. Colin Montgomerie had committed to play the European tour event and was featured in ads and posters all around the tournament venue on JeJu Island, but then Arnold Palmer offered Monty an exemption to Bay Hill.
Sitting 61st in the World Ranking and needing to get to 50th to qualify for the Masters, he spiked the Ballantine's and beat it to Bay Hill. How did it work out? The Koreans missed Monty; Monty missed the cut.
• The Florida state attorneysays that no charges will be filed against Arjun Atwal in the car accident that led to the death of another man in March 2007.
