The Good, The Bad and The Masters

The weather is spectacular!  You should be BBQing by Thursday and golfing by Friday.  A sure sign of spring (or summer) is The Masters!  I watched what I could on the weekend and Tiger Woods never ceases to amaze me.  Yes, he is perhaps the greatest golfer ever but it's when he's losing that he intrigues me.  That's because, unlike the rest of us, he doesn't know how to lose.  He is so focused that the thought of taking a bad shot doesn't even enter his mind.  What we can determine from his "Landmark" approach is that when he is having a bad game, he can't correct because he can't change his focus!  Isn't that amazing?!

The sub-plot of the weekend was when Bobby Clampett referred to Liang Wen-Chong as a "Chinaman."  Now, we can get in to the political-correctness discussion at a later date but sufice it to say that one should, whether they believe it or not, have the common sense not to use that phrase during an international broadcast.  Furthermore, given that Augusta has a reputation for being sexist and racist, a comment like that only opens the club up to additional critisisms.  But, at the very least, an incident like this opens to door to some dialogue about the times in which we live.