Monday Miscellany
Wow Wie! There's an old golf saying about "You drive for show but you putt for dough." Well, if 13-year-old amateur Michelle Wie were a pro, she would be rolling in dough right now. The ninth-grader-to-be won the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links in Florida yesterday (see the story here).
Wie, the youngest to ever win the title is known for her 300 yard (~275m) plus drives. Her weakness, if there is one, was her putting. But she seemed to have nerves of steel yesterday as she rammed home putts from every direction and distance.
Congratulations to the Punahou Putter.
Turkeys, white elephants and dodos. That's how some are describing the equipment the British military are forced to use. The article here tells especially of the problems with their Phoenix drone which wags have nicknamed the "Bugger Off" because it never seems to come back (or perhaps they don't want it to).
The Smell of Napalm in the Morning In something out of the movie Apocalypse Now, US forces attacked Iraqi strong holds yesterday to the sound of Wagner's Die Walküre. No word yet when the special edition DVD will be released.
Aloha!