Photos from the San Diego Union Tribune
The South Course at Torrey Pines will be playing host to the U.S. Open next month and was flexing its muscle this week with amateurs having a hack (and another, and another….) with the championship conditions in place.
The 7,643 yards of immense, tantalizing fun was experienced this week by four particular San Diegan’s you might be interested in. San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, Chargers coach Norv Turner, former San Diego Padre and Hall-of-Famer Tony Gywnn, and Hall-of-Fame motocross racer Broc Glover. All of which might rather have slept in on this day….[Source]
Philip Rivers - Score 99 (3.5 months off of ACL surgery)
“I can’t imagine playing in the U.S. Open. I’d much rather have a football helmet on.”
“Gol-ly!” – Rivers’ strongest curse word. “I’m three steps off the fairway and I’m buried.”
Eyeing the quarterback that got him to last year’s AFC Championship Game, Turner warned in a fatherly tone, “Don’t hurt yourself.”
Tony Gwynn - Score 119 (3.5 months straight eating a dozen donuts/day….as discussed HERE)
“The distances are unbelievable….we’re going 120, 140 yards behind the blues. I hit a couple of shots today that barely made it to the regular tee.”
Norv Turner - Score 115 (3.5 months since he’s been vindicated for being a simp of a coach….as discussed HERE)
“It gives you so much appreciation for the pros,” Turner, 55, said. “On TV, everything looks so easy. There are some impossible shots out there.”
Broc Glover - Score 94 (3.5 months since I never heard of the guy before)
“It was definitely very, very difficult….But I’d go right back out there and do it again today. And I’d do it again tomorrow morning, too.”
The course is 300 yards longer than any Open course in history and the amateur foursome played from the championship boxes.
It should fun in the sun (well, So. Cal June gloom) at Torrey in five weeks. I look forward to stumbling around the course, Coors Light in hand, and yelling absurd comments like “You Da Man!”, “It’s In The Hole!”, or “I Like Men!” All of which are, frankly, as gay as the next….
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