When a Rose smells like shit

Justin, Justin, Justin.

After your breakthrough win at the Memorial, you were supposed to, you know, BREAKTHROUGH. So you most certainly did not have permission from this blogger to choke on Sunday. I know I gave Dustin Johnson a freebie for his Sunday effort at Pebble last week. But this was most definitely not a US Open setup. In fact this was one of the easiest courses of the year, and you plain choked. This is what happens to people who are proud to be English. You fuckwit!

Yes, thanks to you Justin, that Victorian shit eating grin bastard has won another bunch of skins, and the Rooster, the Craic Meister and I are getting a little fed up. Rather than Rick using his measly $24 on the 1st round of drinks, it's now going to the waiter as a tip for pissing in Tony's mash potato.

Yes congrats to Tony, who now has amassed $276. Rick has $24, the Skinny resets to $12, the overall moves to $160 and we all owe $130. Tony's strategy of ignoring the obvious picks, and going for hunches is clearly paying dividends. It might blow him out of the overall, but I'm guessing he's not giving much of a fuck about that, as things stand today.

Next week is Tiger's tournament, the AT&T National. This is Tiger's way of thanking all the Troops that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, whilst he makes his way through all of their wives. Only joking. This is a fine tournament, normally played on fine courses and this year is no exception.

This year thanks to ongoing future "US Open hopeful renovations", we move from Congressional Country Club to Aronimink Golf Club. Now check this out you Long Reef fuckers! Aronimink was formed by the merger of 4 different Cricket clubs. That's right, CRICKET CLUBS. Back in the 1850's in North East USA, their were many "refined" Americans that believed in drinking afternoon tea and all the other trappings of the British Empire. However, under pressure from more progressive Americans (especially the Independence Patriots), they had to drop the pro English shit, and so cricket was finished in the USA for a long time. Golf was thought acceptable because it was deemed a Scottish pastime, and since the Scottish hated the Poms, then golf was OK. This club in fact may have been the impetus for America becoming the golf loving nation it is.

Aronimink Golf Club is named after the local Indian Tribe, that the previously mentioned cricketers wiped out from the area, in time to develop the back nine. Today, it is a Donald Ross design and is a fine test of your golfing ability. Not surprising really. Tiger does tend to chose really really good golf courses as his favourites, mostly because he is the best equipped to handle them. Donald Ross when redesigning Aronimink in 1948, said that he intended it to be his masterpiece. Only after it was finished and being played, did he admit that it was better than he ever imagined it could be. The defending champion is "He who must not be named", and I for one am really looking forward to seeing this course test the best players in the world.

There'll be a good field this week. Rooster Fucker has been close to the money lately, and if history is any guide, he'll pick the winner this week and pocket $12.

Good luck all!

The LRFG!