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"I can confidently say I plan to keep my shirt on at all times." - Joel Dahmen in his plea to earn a sponsor's exemption this week at WMPO.
The job market is insane these days with AI-generated resumes being read by AI-enabled HR scanners being judged by HR associates using AI-assisted prompts.
But in a world of AI, kudos to Joel for going analog and hand-delivering his letter to the WMPO attached to a polo.
A tale as old as time
TIGER AND THE BOULDER
Not sure how I've missed this clip from previous WMPO coverage but back in 1999, at the then Phoenix Open, Tiger Woods drove a ball into the native area left on the 13th. The issue was that his ball rolled up right behind a boulder. A boulder that you may notice in the background of the screenshot above—much father away.
Well, Tiger asked a rules official if the boulder could be considered a "loose impediment" and the official basically was like yeah doesn't look embedded to me. And there's nothing to say that multiple people can be asked to move a "loose impediment". Probably because most of said impediments are roughly the size of a pinecone. Challenge accepted said the crowd as a group of a dozen spectators following Tiger rolled the one ton boulder away, clearing a path for him to launch a long iron up towards the green.
Click through above for the full clip as it's pretty crazy this was allowed but also there is no better clip to demonstrate the power of Tiger.
But I'll take it one step farther, this story reads like a fable to me so I asked the intern for a bit of help in writing a new one that we can all tell our kids at bedtime.
In the desert lived a young Tiger named Eldrick who always played with kindness. One day, while playing golf, his ball stopped behind a huge boulder. But Eldrick didn't roar or complain. Seeing his calm in the face of adversity, the other jungle animals stepped forward and together rolled the boulder away. Eldrick bowed, took his swing, and thanked them for their kindness.
The lesson that day traveled father than his long iron; many hands can help move even the toughest obstacles.
Casting is tough. Dan's casting was tougher.
CAN I BEAT THE CONTENT CREATOR?
In this first installment of "Can I Beat the Content Creator?", we focus on a breakdown of a proposed casting list for a LIV/PGA movie posted by @Danongolfshow aka Dan Rapaport's live golf show on Skratch. The results were—well—rough. And like pretty much everyone in the comments, I thought that I could do a better job. So I'll let you all decide how I did...
GREG NORMAN
Dan's choice? Charles Dance aka Tywin Lannister
My choice? Woody Harrelson
PHIL MICKELSON
Dan's choice? Christian Bale
My choice? Stephen Root
YASIR AL-RUMAYYAN
Dan's choice? Oscar Isaac
My choice? Eugene Levy
JON RAHM
Dan's choice? Javier Bardem
My choice? Dave Bautista (if he chilled out on the body building for a bit)
BRYSON DECHAMBEAU
Dan's choice? Channing Tatum
My choice? Chris Pratt
RORY MCILROY
Dan's choice? Kit Harrington
My choice? Charlie Hunnam (not going to lie, this was a tough one)
TIGER WOODS
Dan's choice? Denzel Washington
My choice? Cuba Gooding Jr. (probably influenced by those internet rumors from whenever ago but still)
BROOKS KOEPKA
Dan's choice? Josh Brolin
My choice? Josh Brolin (hard to argue this one)
A new "NFL logos if they were golf courses" drop!
EVERYONE READY FOR THE BIG GAME??
I've profiled this dude a few times before for his golf course logo work. @Clubupdesign has a few ongoing series where he takes NFL or MLB logos and turns them into golf course logos. And he's quite talented.
So in honor of THE BIG GAME (wink-wink), he posted one for the Patriots that is so insanely clean, I'm left wondering if this is an actual golf course logo from somewhere in the Northeast.
You can see above the different elements he pulled through but where this logo shines the brightest is when he drops it on a scorecard.
Pure.
Pro Bowl may be on its last legs...
HIGH GOLFER IQ OUT OF BRANDON AUBREY
As three of you knew, the Pro Bowl took place last weekend and featured the game's biggest stars—who didn't already have plans and weren't injured.
Part of the festivities, it seems, was a long drive competition for the kickers. A curious bunch.
And the video above features Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey taking his swing only to realize he shattered the driver. "Wow, who knew he had that kind of power?", you might ask.
Nah, my man just teed up using a left handed driver and somehow didn't realize it, so he made contact with the back of the clubhead. A place that most golf club manufacturers don't really reinforce given the other 99.99999% of shots are off the face (or crown or hosel or toe...).
Reports are he ended up lacing one like 330+ so maybe just chalk that up to nerves.
