Good Stories

From the BAH and the US Open, where I had friends in attendance:

I had a friend who volunteers for the BAH, and was assigned the off-course task of picking up the golfers from Dulles and delivering them to their destination of choice. Had the opportunity to drop off Furyk, and Lee Westwood, who arrived in the States with a number of his cronies, and spoke barely intelligible english. Also picked up Len Mattaice, who asked to be dropped off at his hotel in Gaithersburg, north of Bethesda. When asked where he was staying, Mattaice was at the Holiday Inn Select.

On Saturday, while at Dulles killing time at the new Air and Space Museum, ran into none other than Nick Price, waiting for his flight to Pinehurst after missing the cut by one. Price said he missed the cut because some SOB birdied 18 on Friday, and knocked 15 guys off the cut-line, and he was going to catch hell at the Open. Price engaged my friend in conversation for 10-15 minutes, then brought his wife over under the introduction, "...meet my good friend (name), who I haven't seen in years...". Sounds like a truly great guy.

At the Open, the cameras didn't do the rough or greens justice. The craziest thing my friend saw was a skulled bunker shot at 13 on Thursday that flew 25 rows into the stands, to be bare-handed by a patron like he was snagging a homerun. Despite crowd chants of "throw it back", the guy got a golf ball, and the pro got a double bogey.