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The Goats of the Weekend

In a weekend of many sporting events the terrible decision making and poor play vastly overshadowed the moments of brilliance.

5. Jim Furyk - He may have gone unnoticed by most sports fans this weekend but not by myself and my father. On 18 sitting at +5, the eventual winning score, Furyk stood over his 5 foot point for an excrutiatingly long time. He actually stood over his put and backed off several times prompting my father to get annoyed and say I hope he misses it now, good he missed it. In an event that will be known more for its blunders than for the actual winner Furyk was the first of many to overthink himself out of contention.

4. Josh Howard & Avery Johnson - Neither can get the sole blame for this blunder and it did not necessarily cost them the game, however using their last timeout to unintentionally "ice" Dwyane Wade instead of positioning themselves with a chance to win the game with a last second shot was a killer. I personally lay the majority of the blame on Avery Johnson. As an enormous Chris Webber / Michigan fan I have felt the wrath of untimely timeouts, and sometimes in the heat of the moment as a player you do not know how many timeouts you have as a team. When Avery Johnson was signalling for a Time Out and then showing the #2 I can only assume that Josh Howard saw this and thought that the Mavericks had two timeouts left and that Avery wanted to ice Dwyane and then use the second timeout.

3. Colin Montgomerie - Monty I was pulling for you man big time but you blew it. On 16 you were at 5 over and then you proceeded to hit a beautiful approach shot to leave yourself with a 15 foot birdie putt and you completely choked and 3 putted. Than the next hole you shanked your drive into the crowd, hit a gorgeous shot onto the green and sank a miraculous birdie putt to move into a tie with Phil. But then the 18th whole adventures continued. A gorgeuous drive gave me hope, but a duffed iron approach shot put too much pressure on yourself. Than the overthinking continued with a long par putt Monty thought in order to win he desperately needed to make this putt, instead he rolled the ball well past the whole leaving himself a difficult bogey putt which he additionally could not make. Monty, you dissappointed me big time.

2. Jorge Larrionda - The U.S. may have been lucky to get their equalising goal against Italy on saturday, but they were outplaying the Italians for the first 20 minutes despite the Italians first goal off a free kick. The red card given De Rossi was also a no brainer, De Rossi would get kicked out of any other professional sport for the elbow he threw but then the Uruguayan official put his stamp on the match. Mastroeni made a dumb tackle, a stupid unnecessary tackle, but you see these all the time, it deserved a Yellow, a straight red was ludicrous and it was an equalising call, if an Italian did not get thrown out he would not have made this decision. Then the foul on Eddie Pope outside the box might have deserved a second yellow, but to kick out Eddie when you unfairly took out Pablo put the U.S. in a terrible position. Jorge was completely inconsistant and really cost the U.S. the chance of victory.

1. Phil Mickelson - No Brainer Goat of the Week. That just might be the shank of a lifetime, hell he hit the middle of the hospitality tent roof. If this course was layered with condos he would have shattered a few windows, ya probably shouldn't have brought out the big stick. But don't just look at the last hole to see where Phil blew up mentally, earlier in the round Phil decided it was a good idea to try to take out a fairway wood and hit the ball out of the deep stuff, the ball went 3 feet. Phil for someone that studies these courses so much and has so much talent, your stupidity on the course is unmatched, congrats on a collapse of Van de Velde proportions.

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Anonymous said…
There is a good picture of Phil with head in the trash looking for his ball on the 17th in today's Globe. That picture pretty much sum's up his play

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