I leaned over to my father-in-law and mentioned who it was, but he didn't have a clue who I was talking about. He told me I should introduce myself -- can you imagine that discussion? "Hi, Scott. I am so and so and I am an avid fantasy golf league participant and co-founded a golf blog. You will now be on it."
Anyway, I had to call SOMEONE for kicks (and so it wouldn't slip my mind in about 2 days), so I decided to give a quick call to my brother and told him about my 'sighting'. It also gave me a chance to rub it in that my hapless Rams beat his vaunted Cowboys that afternoon in a blowout. It was then that my brother told me Oakland won the game with a 57-yard kick.
After my brief call, I was telling my father-in-law that Oakland won when Hoch swings around and says to us "How long was the kick that won the game?" I said "Janikowski kicked a 57-yarder to win it." He then mumbled something else to my father-in-law about the longest ever and they both agreed there were longer ones in history over 60 yards. That was the extent of it because then our table was ready and we had to go.
I looked in the newspaper the next day for Champions Tour results and apparently, Hoch had finished his tournament in the middle of the pack in the event in Houston and had already huffed it to the San Antonio area for the next week's event. Sorry, but end of story.
In other golf news, there was a Chris Dimarco sighting at the end of Saturday's 3rd round in contention for a tournament called the Justin Timberlake Shriners Open or something. Davis Love III finished in the top 10 to move to 125 on the money list and even David Duval made the cut.
All you need to know is here is the list of winners of this "Tour event" over the last 5 years.
- 2008 - Marc Turnesa
- 2007 - George McNeil
- 2006 - Troy Matteson
- 2005 - Wes Short, Jr.
- 2004 - Andre Stolz
Honest to God, I watch a LOT of golf on TV and I follow almost all golf-related news, but if I had a chance to win a $1 Million to name 3 of the last 4 winners of this event, I don't think I could have gotten 2 of them - which two, I don't even know.
Andre Stolz? There has to be a trivia question out there somewhere on this guy because I didn't know who he was when he won and I still don't know anything about him.
Anyway, in the emptiness of professional golf known as the Fall Series, this lame encounter seemed blog-worthy enough.
Tiger, please come home soon!
