In addition to qualifying for the Masters, Daniel Chopra’s win at the Mercedes-Benz Championship earned him enough money to keep him in hair care products for the next decade. Chopra, the bleached blonde Swede who grew up in India and played college golf at the University of Florida, held off Steve “Comeback Kid” Sticker with a birdie on the fourth playoff hole to win the opening event on the 2008 PGA Tour. Chopra had at least three putts to win that mysteriously died on the lip of the cut. Stricker, who won back-to-back PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year awards, fired a final round 64, including a clutch birdie on the 72nd hole, to get in the playoff and starting the final round four shots behind the leader. He might have one the tournament on the first playoff hole had his putt from off the green not hit Chopra’s ball marker and stopped six feet short of the hole. All in all, it was a very entertaining opening event even if Tiger, Phil and Padraig Harrington decided not to make the trip to Maui.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Webb Heintzelman.
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- Mr. Fairway
- Mr. Fairway’s love affair with the game of golf began in junior high. He once made his living as a journalist covering high school sports, cops and robbers and politics. Today, Mr. Fairway is a public relations consultant and a widely-published freelance golf writer. His current USGA handicap index is 9.3 and he averages 50-plus rounds a year.