Kevin Streelman in 2014
ANGC Burner had himself a week. First, he surfaced this fabulous shot of Sungjae’s family with perhaps his biggest fan (I need that shirt, but I need it of the famous* waving Tour Championship illustration from a few years ago instead).
*This cannot possibly be famous, but it is to me.
Then he went on a run with some high-level Denny McCarthy content (a sentence that has surely never been typed). The backstory here is that ANGCB thinks Denny looks like Lee Harvey Oswald (which he does).
Here are a couple of comps.
On Thursday of last week, Denny needed to make this shot from the fairway for 59. He banked it off the side of a hill (you can see where this is going), and it nearly fell for the eagle and magic number.
The caption was almost too easy.
Somebody spotted Chez Reavie at a Cheesecake Factory after his Saturday round watching himself at the bar, which is just astonishing and hilarious behavior. The nicknames, by the way, write themselves.
Nobody crowbars daggers like Porath crowbars daggers.
This is 100 percent Jordan Spieth.
In light of Rose Zhang’s near win at the KPMG Women’s PGA last week, I spent some too much time ranking Roses. Here’s where I landed.
10 years ago this week … Ken Duke won the Travelers and gave us this classic fist pump. Incredibly, only the second most notable thing he’s done over the last 10 years.
20 years ago this week … Jonathan Kaye won the Buick Classic, which became the Barclays which became the Northern Trust which became the St. Jude Championship, which is technically not the same thing as the St. Jude Classic but is still played in Memphis. Kaye, who is now 52, played in 331 events (including the Puerto Rico Open this year), won twice and made $10.6M.
30 years ago this week … Nick Price beat Dan Forsman and Roger Maltbie at the Greater Hartford Open (now the Travelers) for the seventh of what would eventually be 18 wins in his career. It helped lift him to No. 3 in the world behind Nick Faldo and Bernhard Langer.
I was reading this humorous ranking of the presidents the other day by one of my favorite writers, Tim Urban, and I stumbled across a very compelling truth buried in one of the paragraphs about Lincoln. Here it is.
Lincoln ran for Senate in Illinois in 1858 against Stephen Douglas, engaging in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates on slavery during the campaign. Douglas won the election, but Lincoln had the debates made into a book, which spread throughout the country and won him national support, paving the way to his presidential election two years later.
Power is power (obviously), and winning an election and the platform it provides unlocks that reality. However, ideas are perhaps even more powerful than power, and Lincoln either knew this or fell into it, thus vaulting him beyond the man who had just defeated him.
An encouragement: If you’re frustrated that your voice isn’t bigger or more widely heard, remember that though platforms are meaningful and important, we are and (hopefully) always will be a society in which the most meaningful currency is ideas that spread, take root and transform. That has never been more true than it is right now. I don’t know if this is the chief benefit of living at the intersection of free speech and the speed and ubiquity of the internet, but it’s way, way up there for me.
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