Clear Thinkers favorite Dan Jenkins is not having any part of the notion that Zach Johnson‘s victory in The Masters Golf Tournament was boring due to a tricked-up Augusta National:
I, for one, loved it. The Augusta National, with an assist from nature, finally reined in technology. That alone was worth a roar, wasn’t it?
They took the winning 72-hole score back to 289, the highest it had been since 1954 and 1956, when the basic culprits were strong, gusty winds and the hard old Bermuda/rye greens that wouldn’t hold a pitchfork if Tiger Woods was swinging it.
If there was anything I liked better than seeing the tour pros have to face a tough course for a change, it was learning that Zach Johnson, the new Masters champion, is an unapologetic God-fearing lad who has a Yorkshire terrier like I do.
Only his is named Hogan.
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