Kevin Holtsberry's Old Blog

Perfect for Masters weekend:

This hot:

• Tiger Woods has won the last three times an event was played at Doral Resort and Spa (Doral-Ryder Open, 2005-06; World Golf Championship event, 2007).

• He has won the last three WGC-CA Championships (known as American Express Championship before 2007) and six overall, tied for his most wins at any event.

• He has won the last six WGC stroke-play events (3 NEC/Bridgestone, 3 American Express/CA Championships).

• He has won 15 of 26 WGC events he has entered (there have been 27), totaling close to $20 million in earnings. Only one other player has more than one win at these events.

• He has won five straight PGA Tour events, the fifth-longest streak in PGA Tour history (he has two of the other four longest streaks as well).

• He has won the last seven tournaments he has entered worldwide, including all four in 2008.

• He has 64 career PGA Tour wins, tying him with Ben Hogan for 3rd all-time.

 

He is currenly one shot off the lead heading into the weekend, want to bet against him?

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I was finally exposed to the Wiggles tonight and I have to say they have rocketed to the top of my most hated kids videos list.  For the strong of heart here is an example from the video we watched tonight:

We may be springing ahead tonight but we are far from Spring in the weather department:

Joshua Radin's We Were Here

Everything'll be alright (will's lullaby)

way down in new york town
thinkin bout the way she loved me
there's a hole in my pocket that's about her size
but i think everything is gonna be alright
yes i hope everything is gonna be alright
a smiling face is trade in l.a.
the gifts are found at the bar
well i wish my car
could drive to her tonight
then i'd know everything is gonna be alright
yes then i'd know it'll be alright

the rain in new orleans
forgot to end
but the mouths of the people are dry
and we watch and wait
and do nothing but sigh
and hope everything is gonna turn out right
but i don't know if it'll be alright

but i look at you
warm in your dream
while your mobile dances above
and i think to myself
it's a beautiful night
and i know everything is gonna be alright
yes now i know it'll be alright

One of my heroes has died.  William F. Buckley Jr. died overnight in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.

It is one of those headlines or emails that comes across your screen and feels like a punch in the gut.  I was aware that his health was failing but you just don't think about losing someone like this until it happens.  And then it hits you that the world is somehow different.  It feels like the end of an era.

WFB, as he was often known, changed the face of American conservatism and politics like few others.  And like millions of others it was his writing, persona, and magazine that lead me to conservatism.  I own all of his books and have read them all excepting his last (Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription)

His range was remarkable.  He wrote political polemics; syndicated columns; unique memoirs; books on sailing, language, and faith; and novels.  He singlehandedly changed the perception of what conservatism could be.  And in the process changed America.

RIP.