Sean O'Hair sliding uphill

Date: May 13, 2007
Time: 21:45
Place: The RI 'dero

I was watching the Players Championship today which Phil Mickelsen won. He made it interesting on the very last hole by nearly putting his second shot in the lake, but I think he was losing interest in the game due to the incredibly slow play of his partner, Sean O'Hair. O'Hair could not hit a putt in any less than 5 minutes. One could argue that it was working for him since he was in second place but that evaporated when he put two shots in the lake at 17 on his way to a quadruple bogey. After chowdering the last two holes, he slipped to like 11th or 12th.

I can make a quadruple bogey. I also bogeyed Bethpage Black #1 within a month of Tigers Woods bogeying it.

You hate to be overly critical of the young man, but there is nobody more despised on the course than slow players. If you're going to choke , do it fast. NBC took the unusual step if reserving time until 7 PM, probably figuring they'd have plenty of time to chat with the winners. Instead, they ran a little late as O'Hair had to over-analyze every putt on a course he had played the previous 4 days. Perhaps that quadruple bogey was the golf gods' way of saying "TODAY, damn it".