IT WAS MAGICAL GOLF AND BIRDIES UNSEEN UP TO LAST NIGHT!!
THE DUEL OF THE TITANS OF GOLF TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT AND AS I SAID YESTERDAY MORNING, I AM GLUED TO THE TV ALREADY. I HAD A FEELING THAT RAHM WAS THE DANGER TO JOHNSON AND NOT MATSUYAMA. WHEN A PLAYER SCORES A 66 WITH A PENALTY ON SUCH A DIFFICULT COURSE, I KNEW RAHM INTENDED BUSINESS AND I HAD A COUPLE OF POUNDS ON HIM JUST TO MAKE IT MORE JUICY!!
JOHNSON STARTED WITH SUCH EASE AND BRIO THAT ANYONE WATCHING, INCLUDING THE COMMENTATORS, THOUGHT IT WAS OVER. HOWEVER, CAME A MOMENT WHEN HE MADE A MISTAKE AND THE INFALLIBLE TURNED TO HUMAN AND FROM FOUR UNDER PAR AND NO OPPONENTS HE CAME DOWN TO TWO UNDER AND FOUR PLAYERS WERE CHASING AND THREATENING HIM.
FINALLY RAHM APPEARED IN THE LAST NINE HOLES AND TOOK OVER WITH STEADY, GREAT GOLF AND JOHNSON HAD TO CHASE, WHICH HE DID. ON THE 18TH HOLE HE DID THE IMPOSSIBLE AND HIT A FIFTY FOOT BIRDIE FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE POSITION, ON AN UNDULATING GROUND AND REALLY NOBODY EXPECTING A BIRDIE, WHICH HAPPENED TO AN EXPLOSION OF JOY AND CLAPPING.
RAHM WAS PRACTICING IN THE PRACTICE AREA AND KNEW THAT HE HAD TO KEEP WARM AND ON THE TASK UNTIL IT WAS REALLY OVER.
PLAYOFFS ARE REALLY PART AND PARCEL OF THE GAME AND I REMEMBER THE BLOW MORIKAWA INFLICTED ON THOMAS TWO OR THREE WEEKS AGO. WHAT GOLF!!!
THE EXPECTATIONS WERE HIGH AND ON THE GREEN OF THE EIGHTEENTH HOLE THE ODDS WERE IN FAVOUR OF JOHNSON WHOSE BALL WHOSE ONLY THIRTY FEET AWAY FROM THE HOLE WHEREAS RAHM’S WAS ABOUT 70-80 FEET AWAY.
HE TOOK THE SHOT FIRST FOR A BIRDIE AND I WAS AGHAST ON HOW HE SHOT IT SO FAR TO THE HIS LEFT. HOWEVER, JON KNEW WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT AND THE BALL TRAVELED LEFT AND ROUND, WENT ON ROUND AND ROUND AND SLOWLY AND GRADUALLY LIKE A BULLET HIT THE TARGET, SANK IN THE HOLE AS IF A HAND FROM ABOVE GUIDED IT. IT WAS THE APOTHEOSIS OF A SPORT THAT IS SO MUCH GRIPPING THE WORLD NOW.
GOLF WON, RAHM AND JOHNSON WON!!
CONGRATS GUYS!!!
THE EAGLE
