Frank Nobilo

I feel like a”Deere” in the headlights this morning. One more flight to go.

Sorry to hear Bob. The danger is more than losing jobs. It’s losing the people who could make you feel a stadium, a moment, a champion…through the beauty of words. You always did that. Sad day for sportswriting.

It’s hard to put last week in a nutshell. With the distances the players hit it these days pars with a short iron in hand are less appealing but on the flip side with everything on the line Aaron’s Rai’s last 10 holes, strategically and execution were near perfect. The course and setup was certainly a major venue and by that I mean multiple good shots were needed to guarantee a par. It wasn’t instant gratification. Aronimink had a little Philadelphia in it. Tough. Demanding. Honest.

Lucky enough to run into Aronimink’s director of Golf John Gosselin yesterday. He’s been here for 20 years so was an absolute mine of information. The basis of these greens have remained the same for 100 years. Every now and again they will cut a new hole location and find an old horse shoe. The pans (like a plough) they used behind the horses on the greens were much narrower than the machinery of today. That’s a reason why the slopes on these greens are so much more intricate. More fun to watch but more difficult to putt.

Always fun to catch up John. Missed the banter.