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Gee, what a US Open Golf Championship it has been. The weather, well it has been awful! Rain the first two days, nice day on Saturday, today a mix, sunshine, rain and wind, heavy rain, then sunshine again. They really should play this tournament in southern California. Anyhow, Justin Rose of Great Britain won his first major, coming in at +1 with a winning round of 70 today. Congrats to him! Condolences to Phil Mickelson, the birthday boy, who for the record sixth time came in second (tied with Jason Day) at +3. Has to be a very hard pill for Lefty to swallow. He really had his chances, and quite frankly, he blew them. The eagle today on hole #10 had to have you thinking yes, at last Phil is going to win the US Open. It was not to be. The final leaderboard is as follows: and by the way, no one wound up under par!!! Justin Rose, +1, Phil Mickelson and Jason Day, +3, Hunter Mahan, +4, Jason Duffner and Ernie Els, +5, Luke Donald and Steve Stricker, +6.
Those are some high scores. Sort of makes the extremely high scores of the world’s top three, Tiger Woods (+13), Rory Mcilroy (+14) and Adam Scott (+15) look not so bad!
They were calling the last five holes at this golf course, Merion Country Club, the most difficult in US Open history. I have to say, I found watching this a bit exhausting! The weather, the high scores, Tiger and Rory not in the mix, only Lefty seemed to keep it interesting. All in all, great win for Justin Rose.
I am ready for some basketball…Spurs and Heat underway in game 5. Let’s go Spurs!
