Every week (pretty much) GOLF senior writer Michael Bamberger identifies — and ranks — the absolute, undeniably, very best* things in golf right now. This week, he’s filing from the warm center of the universe, Dublin, Ohio, home of Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial tournament.
(*or at least mildly interesting)
7A. Men at Work
Tiger played in the Wednesday pro-am with Peyton Manning. They both have green coats, as Peyton is an Augusta National member, and Tiger won his fifth Masters in April. Peyton had himself a big day on Wednesday. He drove it in play on one. He got a read from Woods on 18 and then holed his birdie putt. “I don’t know if you saw it,” Manning said several times, post-round. Yes, Peyton—everybody saw it.
But Manning’s highlight was not the birdie but a moment at the turn, when he and Woods and Big Jack had a little visit. Manning has played with these two golfing icons, who have won 38 majors between them, professional and amateur. (That tally, folks, is 20-18, Nicklaus leading but out of outs.) Manning, like Nicklaus and Woods, has an interlocking grip. He has a patient backswing, he’s shut at the top and he’s nothing but oomph at impact.
Asked about their similarities, Manning said of Woods and Nicklaus, “They both have great memories. Tiger can tell you shots that I hit in the pro-am in 2005 at Bay Hill. Jack can tell you about the 7-iron he hit in the 1960 U.S. Open at Cherry Hills. Tiger will probably have the same memory as Jack when he’s [79].
“I probably have a similar recall for football. I try to forget my bad golf shots.” Then, like a comedian doubling-down on a good bit, he said: “I made a birdie on 18. I don’t know if you saw it.” We saw it. Looked like a 10-footer. Tiger read it, Peyton stroked it. Teamwork.
Peyton Manning is only getting better at interviews in retirement pic.twitter.com/KjjGwYysTS
— Dylan Dethier (@dylan_dethier) May 29, 2019
7B. Boys at play
Manning, famously, returned to his sport (the football!) after surgery, and Woods has done (and is doing) the same. After the pro-am, Woods was asked, “Did Peyton say anything inspiring to you?” “No,” Woods said. “He just gave me crap the entire time.”
6. Mad men
A year or so before Jack Nicklaus won his 18th major, the 1986 Masters, he did a “do-you-know-me?” TV spot for American Express where he offered some biographical clues about himself but not his name, which was revealed in the ad’s final seconds. That’s what a niche sport golf was then. Today, Tiger Woods is one of the most famous people in the world and his presence as an advertising pitch man has a lot to do with it. Maybe his finest acting moment is his look of utter boredom in a current Bridgestone spot in which Bryson DeChambeau prattles on and on about the science behind the Bridgestone ball.
They’re playing together on Thursday and Friday, with Justin Rose. “He taught me a few things, from an acting perspective,” DeChambeau said. “Personally, I thought I did a better job. But he didn’t think so. He was like, ‘It’s easy. It’s not hard. Just do it.'” Just do it indeed.
https://www.golf.com/news/columns/2019/05/30/tiger-woods-bryson-dechambeau-memorial-2019/
2019-05-30 01:36:16Z
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