the weather is here; I wish you were beautiful
It's Players Championship week....or at least it would be if we were using the PGA Tour schedule of years past. It's the week right after the Bay Hill tournament (excuse me, the Arnold Palmer Invitational) when the best golfers in the world used to converge on J'ville....until now.
Now we're trying to position The Players to be a major and that doesn't happen when it's played right before the Masters and right in the middle of March Madness, so it's been moved...to Mothers' Day weekend. The clincher was last year's rain. It rained all during the tournament and everyone got this opinion that if the tournament moved to May, the weather would be much nicer.
In the meantime, a quick look around the North Florida's weather map this week shows a noticible absence of precipitation....and none looking like it's coming this way until sometime next week...and it's beautiful outside.
They demolished the clubhouse last year when the tournament ended and said....it doesn't matter if they hold the tournament in March or May, we'll be ready. A quick look out there, even to the most casual observer, reveals a preponderance of dump trucks and construction stuff still going on, so I guess it really did matter.
I'm sure it'll be ready in May, but they couldn't ask for better weather than they would be having right now. In May we get the standard 3:00 p.m. thunderstorms, and it can get very hot. I'm assuming that can make the eye candy all that much sweeter, but I'd rather be watching golf in 78º weather and do a little girl watching than watch it in 95º weather and sweat like hell while watching some golf and more girls. Maybe it won't go down like that, but well see...on Mother's Day.
If you haven't guessed, I liked it when The Players was played in March. I understand the reasons for the move, and maybe my reasons for not moving it are purely selfish. I think the course looks beautiful and the weather, temperature-wise, is perfect in March. Granted, a lot of attention is diverted to March madness this time of year, so The Players isn't the focus of the sports world and it probably will be in May. Tiger won't be calling the tournament a great tune up for the Masters, like he has before. To me though, there was something special about Sawgrass in March, and I'll miss that.
Now we're trying to position The Players to be a major and that doesn't happen when it's played right before the Masters and right in the middle of March Madness, so it's been moved...to Mothers' Day weekend. The clincher was last year's rain. It rained all during the tournament and everyone got this opinion that if the tournament moved to May, the weather would be much nicer.
In the meantime, a quick look around the North Florida's weather map this week shows a noticible absence of precipitation....and none looking like it's coming this way until sometime next week...and it's beautiful outside.
They demolished the clubhouse last year when the tournament ended and said....it doesn't matter if they hold the tournament in March or May, we'll be ready. A quick look out there, even to the most casual observer, reveals a preponderance of dump trucks and construction stuff still going on, so I guess it really did matter.
I'm sure it'll be ready in May, but they couldn't ask for better weather than they would be having right now. In May we get the standard 3:00 p.m. thunderstorms, and it can get very hot. I'm assuming that can make the eye candy all that much sweeter, but I'd rather be watching golf in 78º weather and do a little girl watching than watch it in 95º weather and sweat like hell while watching some golf and more girls. Maybe it won't go down like that, but well see...on Mother's Day.
If you haven't guessed, I liked it when The Players was played in March. I understand the reasons for the move, and maybe my reasons for not moving it are purely selfish. I think the course looks beautiful and the weather, temperature-wise, is perfect in March. Granted, a lot of attention is diverted to March madness this time of year, so The Players isn't the focus of the sports world and it probably will be in May. Tiger won't be calling the tournament a great tune up for the Masters, like he has before. To me though, there was something special about Sawgrass in March, and I'll miss that.
John put this out here at 7:41 AM
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