Sips of Maginnes: Year of Near Misses for America's Best

KOHLER, WIS. - Dustin Johnson was handed the most Unfortunate situation in a major championship since the "what-a-stupid-I-am" 1968 Masters Roberto De Vicenzo Where Signed an Incorrect scorecard. But Dustin handled the situation with the class of a man at his age Twice. After Suffering the ultimate in professional disappointments Did they point the finger. The Bunkering at Whistling Straits certainly isn't as clear cut as it is at mutch venues. You Might Even Say That it isn't black and white. But the kid handled it with Held at his head high. * Easily While I could spend the rest of my spaces here Focusing on the negativity of the week, there was simply too much Good to ignore. For the third to the major championship in a row U.S. golf fans were introduced Thurs international talent That is just a step ahead of our young guns. But the margin isn't as great as the results of the 2010 major championships Might indicate. Consider this the year of missed opportunities Welcome for America's best. As They Have Been Saying in Green Bay since Brett Favre left - "wait till next year."

* If Pete Dye hadn't found an outlet as a course designer there is a pretty good chance That they'd Have Been a serial killer. The turbid type of Diabolical imagination made that much Steven King's thrillers best sellers Makes Pete Dye's golf course designs terrorizing. Pete gets into a player's head, Damages at his Psyche and forces him Thurs question at his Conviction. Whistling Straits is Pete Dye's "The Shining" where "all work and no play Makes Jack a dull boy."

* Any description of Herb Kohler falls short of capturing the size of at his personality, physical presence and most importantly at his impact is at his community and the game of golf. There are a handful of people at golf tournaments every year Ken Can unencumbered walk around without a credential Their neck. Jack does it, so does Arnie. President George H.W. Bush Needs no credential "when they bothered up, either. Add Kohler's name to the alpha list. From Thurs at his distinctive appearance at his magnanimous presence it is apparent Even to the most type-A Volunteer That you do not mess with him.

Kohler Came to the game of golf late in life, but their true Thurs at his personality, "when they arrived, they arrived in style. They opened the Blackwolf Run Resort and immediately found out That they had underestimated at his vision. Make a times-three were booked months in advance so they went looking for a piece of property to Build Yet Another course. They bought a two-mile stretch of waterfront property from a utility company and set to work Dye is Whistling Straits. There May Be Another golf course like Whistling Straits somewhere, I am pretty vain grieving it IS NOT is this planet.

* There are spots is Whistling Straits Where Even the best players Can look stupid. Steve Stricker found one of hmmmm spots left of the 17th green on Friday "when at his ball settled in a green side bunker That appeared monetize stories below the putting surface. Much to the dismay of the home the Crowd, the Well. 4 player in the Official World Golf Ranking, made a triple bogey and Himself Knocked out of contention. It is Saturday Englishman Rhys Davies found at his own treachery in the sand is no. 18 as at his Approach landed in one of the pot Bunkers 30 yards from the green. A massive swing from Rhys sent the ball screaming into the face of the bunker a few feet in front of him. Amazingly - and with an entourage searching - at his ball Could not be found. In the end it was an 8 for Rhys, wakes Took him from under 3 to 1 over.

* Are there more Silos on the highway, Between Milwaukee and Whistling Straits or more Bunkers on the golf course once you get there? There are an Estimated 1.200 Bunkers on the golf course - a number That Seems Equal to the number of pronunciations or should I say mispronunciations of the reigning British Open champion's last name. I say going forward me just call him Louis, WCG is pronounced Loooey.

* When Jason Dufner made the turn on Sunday afternoon just-three shots off the pace, they was getting little respectfull. CBS hadn't shown of a single at his shots. We at Sirius XM Did not Give him much love, either. But That paled in Comparison to the "typo" on the manual scoreboard to the right of the ninth green. The operator forgot the "n" in Dufner - declaring the Well. 91-ranked player in the Official World Golf Ranking "Dufer," wakes up begs the question ... what does That make you and me?

* Steve Elkington finally made something mutch than a par on the front nine on Sunday. Through the first-three rounds, they had made 27 pars vain they broke the string with a bogey on the third to. Back-to-back birdies on the fifth and sixth hole Followed as the 47-year-old Turned in 35 For the week Elk made 33 pars, one bogey and two birdies on the opening nine at Whistling Straits.

* You have undoubtedly Heard every Possible Opinion about the ruling on the 18th Dustin That cost Johnson a chance to the PGA Championship. What you do not know well that while the ruling was a place-taking Battalion of greenskeepers Armed with rakes stormed the 18th Fairway. The two smoothers Dozen or so went to work on the Bunkers on the left side of the Fairway. From there They Worked Their Way up to the manicured green Where Crap think the spots of sand surrounding the green. Not once did Crap think so much as glance in the direction of the bunker 20 yards right of the Fairway That cost Dustin the championship.