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Where is the slow play penalty on Masters winner Trevor Immelman? Tiger Woods should call him out

Sunday April 13, 2008 | 07:09:56 pm 281 words, 2797 views  

Trevor Immelman may be cruising his way to a green jacket, but he’s doing so going 45 in a 65 in the left lane with his blinker on.

Immelman and Brandt Snedeker teed off at 2:30 pm. It’s 7:00 now and they just barely teed off the 17th, they are nearly two holes behind the group ahead, Paul Casey and Steve Flesch.

Have they been put on the clock? I think Jim Nantz is getting sleepy. At the very least, he’s texting his agent demanding overtime comp. Now it looks like my local news is going to be bumped. When I don’t get my local shootings and cat parade updates I start the week on a sour note I can’t sweeten.

It ain’t Snedeker’s fault. If anything, Snedeker should take more time. Usually he just walks up to the ball and swings with nary a waggle.

If Immelman ends up only winning by one or two strokes, this is going to be a tainted green jacket. Nobody likes a slowpoke, especially the members at Augusta, who I’m told usually play the course in closer to three hours.

To think I just defended the members of Augusta National for their sexist, conservative ways…then they allow this sluggish play to infect their hallowed grounds. If they don’t light a fire under some butts next year, my support is going with the feminists!

Tiger Woods, who has complained about slow play recently, should make a statement about it.

“The win only counts if you finish in under five hours,” is what Woods should say. That would create a little tension.

Now that the Grand Slam bid in 2008 is over, we golf writers need a new story line.

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Comment from: WP Newton [Visitor]
Amen to that. I screamed at the TV several times about how long it was taking Immelman (Woods also) to hit their shots. I know it was windy but you gotta hit the ball sometime!

Not too much drama on this Sunday at the Masters.
PermalinkPermalink 04/13/08 @ 19:47
Comment from: vk [Visitor]
'Tiger Woods, who has complained about slow play recently, should make a statement about it.'

LOL at that.
PermalinkPermalink 04/13/08 @ 23:28
Comment from: Bridget [Visitor]
The Masters is so yesterday. Now it's all about the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
PermalinkPermalink 04/14/08 @ 02:36
Comment from: SPORT FANATIC [Visitor]
To whom it may concern.

I would like to ask te writer of this article would he have written the same if it was Tiger Woodswho have won?

In my view he would not have written the same because then his favourite would have won.

I honestly think that the blame cannot be laid at Trevor's feet.

He played a great game of golf and was the worthy winner.

You go BOYTJIE!!!!!!!!!

PermalinkPermalink 04/14/08 @ 03:52
Comment from: Proud South African [Visitor]
Here here!!!!

Well done Trevor...

If he was a little slow, it was great, because it made the greatest moment in South African golf in 30 yrs last that little bit longer.

In any case, he is allowed a few extra seconds per shot because he played fewer than the rest of the guys out there... LOL!

Not to mention his phenomenal recovery from major surgery!

Get over it... we have our Champion!

Go Trevor jou Doring!

PermalinkPermalink 04/14/08 @ 06:36
Comment from: mac [Visitor]
Spot on Sport Fanatic! Who is Tiger Woods? He may be the best in the world, but he is getting more and more arrogant these days. And why not he is half American....

I will support any non-american that plays against Tiger in a final round. Not that I hate him, or hate amricans. I'm just getting so sick of you arrogance.
PermalinkPermalink 04/14/08 @ 06:37
Comment from: Eddie (PROUD SOUTH AFRICAN) [Visitor]
The article is complete bollocks. But What the heck, Trevor is the champ, the americans lost, the world smiles. Really funny - if you go to the US masters website, you even have the option of tracking "only American" players. Whatever. That sums it up. The world is tired of US arrogance. Well done to a true champ, beating adversity and the field in the "hallowed" greens of Augusta. So much symbolism in that, it wonderful. South AFrica have far more talented golfers than the US CONSIDERING the size of the golf playing population, and far fewer resources available.
PermalinkPermalink 04/14/08 @ 08:01
Comment from: Johnny B [Visitor]
5 hours for a twosome Pathetic!! This article has nothing to do with Tiger or American Favortism. We as a nation are the slowest golfers. Pro golfers are setting a bad example bottom line.
PermalinkPermalink 04/14/08 @ 10:00
Comment from: Thomas M [Visitor]
Earlier rounds were 5,5 hours - why was nothing said then? Brad Faxon has said years earlier that some of the sloweste players on tour are the most well-known. Why single out the winner for slow play?
PermalinkPermalink 04/15/08 @ 01:34
Comment from: Thomas M [Visitor]
Oh, and why not take on the player that left a huge divot in the middle of the 18th fairway for Trevor to finish in??? Can just imagine if it was Tiger in that divot......
PermalinkPermalink 04/15/08 @ 01:36

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