Good news for golf fans on several fronts. First, ESPN will televise the Wednesday par-three contest. That will mark the first time that the traditional pre-tournament event has been shown on TV. It should be entertaining. Note the historical fact that no winner of the par-three contest has ever won the Masters in the same year.
Speaking of ESPN, the all-sports network will broadcast the Masters on Thursday and Friday. The good news is that fans will not have to listen to the biggest blowhard on television, Chris “Boomer” Berman and his stupid nicknames at Augusta. Masters officials apparently were appalled at the thought of Berman bellowing, “Back-back-back-back” on Tiger Woods drive. The ESPN coverage will be led by the capable Mike Tirico.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Richard Crawford.
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- 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.