Bogey Bogey Start

 As the world around us burns... figuratively and literally......it's finally Masters Tourney time. Let me start with saying that the Masters App is.... THE SHIT. If you are reading this, you probably already know this. It leads major coverage by a wide margin. Others do not even come close to the accessibility this app gives golf fans. --Side bar--- remember when the PGA Championship was on TNT? WTF? As I start writing this Justin Rose finished his round atop the leaderboard. This dude is impressive. I know he spends an ass load of time and money on keeping his body right, but ya still have to make the shots, and boy howdy does he. Can he go wire to wire? Last to do it was Spieth in 2015.... shout out Brian Riddle. Be like J. Rose... replace your divots.. you monsters Does Nick Dunlap seem like he's having fun? No... no he did not have fun. In his opening round, the 2024 American Express Tournament darling, finished his opening round with a 90! +18. +18!!!!!! +18!!???? Un frea...

  Let me start by saying.....I have not played, nor watched golf since August. 2024. No watching because Big Scheff is making it boring... in a very cool way. No playing because Asheville (where I live) had many of its courses wiped out by Helene... that b. A new season (does it ever end?) is upon us, and we are getting close to seeing El Tigre at the Genesis. Granted we have TGL now too. I personally have seen only the blow out matches. Also, super strange to see Tiger's mom in attendance at his last match and days later she passed away. Life is friggin something else. **I am too slow of a writer... he pulled out of the Genesis due to his mother's death.** I am trying to get my steam back... it might never return. I do not care for the Waste Masters Classic or as it is otherwise known the Phoenix Waste Management Open. Honestly, I need to experience some nice weather to get physically and mentally back into golf... usually by the Florida swing. LIV sucks. Still. Adrian Meronk!...

 While sitting on the couch, watching a quite boring 2023 Open Championship, I had an idea to make it more interesting (at least for me). Bogey Bogey Start was born out of boredom, and a love of the game of golf.  About 2 weeks before the start of the Open and the birth of BBS, I was fired from a golf course job for going to my grandma's 80th birthday. The Superintendant at the course I worked at was a drunken sociopath and  I was not too bothered by being canned. Having had 10 years previous experience in brewing I thought it would be an easy re-entry into working in that industry. It was not. The bulk of 2023 was hard for yer boi. Despite endless efforts to get a job, attend events to meet people, and get my name out, it all proved worthless. What made my life palatable to me last year was trying to find an audience through this long outdated medium of blogging. I did not have a blog in 2006, why would I start one in 2023? I tend to swim upstream. Back to being gainfull...

 Welllllllllllllllllll... I don't know if people are actually reading this stuff, but Google tells me that you are. Which is amazing because I have made it so hard on you all. Please know that I truly appreciate all of you, whether you're just a hacker clicking on here to (not) get any payout, or just a lookie loo, or if you actually find anything in this mumbo jumbo, I thank you very much for checking it out. Anyway. What has happened? I do love the Canadian Open. Sorry to see Nelly come down to earth with a +10 in the US Open (5/30), including a 10 on a par 3. I'm sure I've gotten a 10 on a par 3, I just never had the strength to write it down. Grayson Murray... very sad. Sun Day Red. How much more money does Tiger need? $90 dollars for a monocolored t-shirt? And, god damnit! Mock turtlenecks!? People... save/invest your money.                                             ...

 Man... just give it some time, and things turn around eh? Akshay wins and gets in, its Masters week(!!!), and I have myself a Masters kid, who turns 2 on Friday, with a party to follow on Saturday. That is to say... yer boy will not get to see all of his favorite week in golf. Alas, those of us that are parents, know the struggle... right?  Friggin Akshay!! My guy, our guy! He gutted out a win in San Antonio this past weekend to get an automatic spot at Augusta the following week. As if that pressure was not enough... Akshay sunk a 12-foot, downhill put to force a playoff and in a very ok celebration... separated his own shoulder. Sports injuries through celebration are a specific cringe in my opinion. My guy Akshay joins Tony Finau (ankle separation, Par 3 contest...memba?) Bill Gramatica the former Cardinals kicker who while celebrating a made field goal (that's your job) tore his ACL,  quarterback Gus Frerotte who sprained his own neck slamming his head off a wall whi...

 Well then... a 20-year-old sophomore in college won an event. Anthony Kim might come back. And he'll probably join LIV... right?  We've all heard it by now but last weekend a friggin 20-year-old won the American Express. Given his amateur status, Nick Dunlap missed out on a milli and a half payout, and 500 FedExCup points. Never a better time to finish second than last week. Yet another thing almost none of us can empathize with is, "Yeah, I missed a chance to win $1.5 million this weekend." Poor bastard turned pro days after. We'll see lil Nicky Dunlap elsewhere this season and you'll hear about it for the thousandth time here on Bogey Bogey Start. Golf.com reported this week that Anthony Kim is expected to return to golf this year. He is of course being courted by LIV, while PGA officials in the story "declined to comment." Classic PGA huh.. have you learned nothing over the last 2 years? Kim, who has not played professional golf since 2012, has ...