It will be a bittersweet night for the Reidland Class of '86, as that whole institution apparently still hasn't quite gotten over the 26-0 loss hung on them by the visiting Heath Pirates in the autumn of 1985. "The Pirates collected its (sic) first win of the 1985 season in their first away game. Heath trounced the Reidland Greyhounds 26-0," reported the Sept. 27, 1985, Heath Post. "Reidland received the opening kickoff to drive against the Pirate defense. When Jamie Ousley had to run out of punt formation on fourth down from the Greyhound 35, Heath was given the ball in excellent field position ..."
Less than four months until Christmas.
Eagle-baited.
"In my first newspaper job, I was a 16-year-old agate clerk at The Paducah Sun, and one of my responsibilities was to make sure I remembered to put two names in bold in the fine print: Perry and Russ Cochran, another Paducah native who is competing here this week."
My sister-in-law didn't make it to this year's New Song, but she usually goes. It is, indeed, a big deal.
The Twitter desk became the 26th follower of @floydschools.
The HP Kentuckian-of-the-year race heats up!
Columbia preps for 14 marching bands and thousands of fans.
Good jobs news from Louisville--but not as good as the bad was bad.
Inspired, no doubt, by The Heath Post's ongoing 1974 retrospective, ...
RIP, Cecil Cope, an occasional Benham Santa Claus.
Kenny Perry and Russ Cochran are both part of the tie for the lead heading into today's final round of the seniors event.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I've ever watched the Golf Channel. I don't know whether this tournament telecast is live, but I assume it is not, given that they aren't indicating that it is. Anyway, Mark Calcavecchia (and I'm afraid to Google his name to check the spelling because I might learn today's result) is leading Russ Cochran by one and Kenny Perry by two in the final round.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. The Golf Channel has some sort of talk show called Feherety.
ReplyDeleteI really wish there was a senior circuit for all of the big sports.
ReplyDeleteKenny Perry is playing with Calkavekkeeeah today.
ReplyDeleteWeird ... sounds of a siren can be heard on the broadcast behind Jeff Sluman's putt.
ReplyDeleteTwo Golf Channel commentators, both former PGA Tour golfers apparently, says that Russ Cochran was once "somewhat of a nervous player out there" who is now "playing with more confidence than at any other point in his career."
ReplyDelete1. Calcavecchia -11
2. Cochran -10
3T. Perry -8
3T. Sluman -8 (I think he might be from Louisville)
All these guys are through 12 holes today.
Cochran's in a bunker off the tee on 13.
ReplyDeleteCalcavecchia flies over the hole on the par-3 13.
ReplyDeletePerry joins Cochran in the front bunker.
Oh, yeah, I had forgotten these guys play in threesomes.
Great short stuff from all three of the final group on No. 13.
ReplyDelete1. Calcavecchia -11
2. Cochran -10
3T. Perry -8
3T. Sluman -8
Love it that Don Draper/Dick Whitman/Jon Hamm is the new voice of Mercedes-Benz.
Birdie, Cochran!
ReplyDelete1. Calcavecchia -11
2. Cochran -11
3T. Perry -8
3T. Sluman -8
The leaders are through 14.
Backswing train-horn starts errant Calcavecchia drive on par-5 15 ... Perry "absolutely destroys his," says Golf Channel commentator ... As the lead group walks to their putts, Sluman, using one of those goofy-looking putter, misses a birdie by an inch or two up on the 15th green ... Calcavecchia hacks out of the rough and into more rough ... After a misfire on his second, Perry's third shot drops to within about three feet of the hole ... Cochran's third shot, out of a bunker, holds on the green fringe ... Calcavecchia has about eight feet left to save par ... Cochran--assisted by son/caddy Ryan--just misses his long putt for birdie from off the green ... CALCAVECCHIA HOLES THE LONG PAR PUTT! ... PERRY BIRDIE! ... Cochran pars out.
ReplyDelete1. Calcavecchia -11
2. Cochran -11
3. Perry -9
4. Sluman -8
This tournament is in Seattle. The broadcast might well be live.
Calcavecchia is suddenly on fire ... pitching in from off the green on No. 16 and now putting in from off the green on No. 17, both for birdies.
ReplyDeletePerry bogies 17, impressively, after losing his first ball.
Cochran taps in for birdie at 17, a hole that he had bogeyed on both Friday and Saturday.
1. Calcavecchia -13
2. Cochran -12
3. Perry -8
3T. Sluman -8
Sluman pars out, and now the leaders are teeing off on No. 18.
Calcavecchia has played 18 in par and eagle this weekend; Cochran, birdie and par.
ReplyDeleteCalcavecchia bombs his drive; Cochran is in the fairway, too, but the pride of Paducah will have a much longer second shot ahead.
ReplyDeleteGolf Channel reports that Cochran told his son that he needs an eagle on the par-5 18th because he feels Calcavecchia will definitely birdie it. The son reminds Cochran that he now has a four-stroke cushion over third-place Perry and Sluman. "So, let it rip."
ReplyDeleteCochran does, and some type of big fairway wood settles in about 15 feet behind the hole. He'll have a chance.
Calcavecchia gets to the front of the green, and I think he'll have to putt first--meaning he may be faced with a decision of gunning for the hole (if he does, in fact, believe Cochran could follow with an eagle) or easing near the hole for a safer birdie.
Calcavecchia does putt first, does go for the hole and does very nearly end the drama. He taps in a birdie, so ...
ReplyDeleteCochran is forced to stand by and wait out Perry's three-putt for bogey.
ReplyDelete"Can't be more than nine or 10 feet," the Golf Channel commentator says of Cochran's eagle putt ...
ReplyDeleteYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete"RUSS COCHRAN, AN EAGLE AT THE 54TH HOLE, AND WE'RE NOT DONE YET!"
ReplyDelete1T. Calcavecchia -14
ReplyDelete1T. Cochran -14
3. Chip Beck -9
4. Sluman -8
5T. Bob Gilder -7
5T. Perry -7
I'm pretty sure this is a sudden-death playoff, and I'm pretty sure they're playing No. 18 again. Both Calcavecchia and Cochran are in the fairway with their drives; Cochran, just a hair longer.
ReplyDeleteThey are, in fact, back on No. 18.
ReplyDeleteCalcavecchia's second shot lands in almost the same place, at the bottom left of the green, as it did on this hole in regulation.
CURSES! Cochran's second shot bounds into a right-hand bunker.
Cochran gets out of the bunker, but he skips the third shot off the other side of the green ...
ReplyDeleteCalcavecchia runs his long putt to within three or four inches of the hole, so ...
ReplyDeleteBut there's no magic this time for our man, Russ. His pitch from the fringe is short, and he still needs two more putts to finish. Calcavecchia taps in for his first Seniors victory.
ReplyDeleteCalcavecchia is from Laurel, Neb., and Sluman is from Rochester, N.Y.
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