Weekend Primer/ US Open Preview?

Posted by Marty Tirrell on January 25, 2008

“Tweener Week”–the week between the NFL Conference Championships and the Super Bowl–usually a downer week for sports. Not this year with Tiger Woods’ 2008 debut on the PGA Tour at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California.

Torrey Pines’ South course will be the site for this year US Open in June so we do get a mini-preview of the Open do we not?

Why Zach Johnson would forego this chance to tune-up for a major is eye-brow raising, but he’s not alone. Tiger has won the Buick at Torrey five times (he grew up playing here) so the concession to his Tigerness should come as to big surprise. But you could rationalize a paid series of ‘practice rounds’…NO?

Was that not a technical glitch when The Golf channel opened it’s coverage of the Buick with Kelly Tilghman’s apology for the ‘lynch Tiger’ comment? Was on my TV as the first 10 seconds or so was silence. Too bad there wasn’t a glitch when she first blurted the comment.

Tube Talk:  Golf channel today and CBS both Saturday and Sunday for the Buick.

NBA Triple-header Sunday: Boston @ Orlando, Cleveland @ Los Angeles and Denver @ Dallas. Combo ABC/ESPN

College hoops: Memphis/Gonzaga Noon (East) Saturday

SoundOff Sunday night WHO TV  10:30p Think they’ll be talking Drake?

BestBet: Tiger to win Buick.

Golf, Marty

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