“Laohu” at HSBC
The world’s first ranked golf player, Tiger Woods, also named Laohu as Mandarin Chinese, finally knocked a 10-foot birdie after the game growing along all 603 yards of the eighth hold in the HSBC Champions at Sheshan International, Shanghai, China.
With five birdies over the final 10 holes, he pieced together another 5-under 67 and surged into a share of the 36-hole lead with Nick Watney in a World Golf Championship that had a distinctive American flavor. Seven of the top nine players on the leaderboard are from the United States.
Far more tantalizing going into the weekend was Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson , who ended their PGA Tour season with a compelling battle in Atlanta, going at it again halfway around the world in China.
Woods missed six birdie chances inside 20 feet and was growing increasingly agitated until one putt on the ninth changed his outlook.
“It certainly was a little bit frustrating, but the guys weren’t running off and hiding, either,” Woods said. “I knew if I could just play the back nine at 3-under par … I figured that would probably be a pretty good number. And I did a couple better than that.”
A Hazard
A couple of women were playing golf one sunny Saturday morning. The first of the twosome teed off and watched in horror as her ball headed directly toward a foursome of men playing the next hole.
Indeed, the ball hit one of the men, and he immediately clasped his hands together at his crotch, fell to the ground and proceeded to roll around in evident agony.
The woman rushed down to the man and immediately began to apologize. She explained that she was a physical therapist: “Please allow me to help. I’m a physical therapist and I know I could relieve your pain if you’d just allow me!” she told him earnestly.
“Ummph, oooh, nnooo, I’ll be all right. I’ll be fine in a few minutes,” he replied breathlessly as he remained in the fetal position still clasping his hands together at his crotch. But she persisted, and he finally allowed her to help him.
She gently took his hands away and laid them to the side, she loosened his pants, and she put her hands inside. After a short massage she asked him, “How does that feel?”
To which he replied: “It feels great, but my thumb still hurts like hell!”
