The Walking Scorer

I walked with Paul Goydos and Tommy Tolles today.  Paul shot a bogey-free 65 with three lip-outs and two more near misses on quite makeable putts, and is T3 behind Jeff Maggert (63) and Bernard Langer (64).  Tommy shot 69.  He was 4 under par on the front 9, with six birdies and two bogies, and one drive in the wrong fairway.  Then 2 over par on the back, with one drive in the wrong fairway, and one in the wrong rough.  That last was on the 14th hole, and his recovery shot through the trees landed on the cart path and bounced over the green.  Behind that green is someone's back yard, marked by out-of-bounds stakes and a gallery rope.  He was so close to OB that he had to move the gallery rope to play his next shot.  He got up and down for par. Paul was also 4 under on the front, and they had 10 birdies between them on those first 9 holes. Paul missed two fairways (3 and 18) by a total of about a foot, both times on the left.  On 3 the pin w...

I worked the PGA Tour Champions Qualifying Tournament last week.  Nothing terribly interesting happened on the fairways, but ... When I was about 33, playing at Glastonbury Hills Country Club, Tim Petrovic, the star of the Glastonbury High School golf team also played there.  I never met him or played with him, but I knew of him.  And followed his golf career from time to time, as he played on the PGA Tour, and got on TV once in a while. He led the tournament after 3 rounds, at 18 under par, and finished in the top 5, got his card for the "senior" tour.