Updated 5.05pm
TED POTTER JUNIOR will carry the “curse” of the Par 3 contest at the Masters this week.
After a lot of scorecard confusion, Potter came out on a top of a five-way playoff against Matt Kuchar, Ernie Els, Nick Watney and Phil Mickelson.
Nobody has ever won the Par 3 contest, held on the Wednesday before the Masters tee-off, and then gone on to win the main event on Sunday.
Earlier it appeared that Mickelson, a three-time green jacket winner and one of this year’s leading contenders, was spooked by the curse and deliberately messed up his chances.
After going around in four-under-par 23, Lefty’s card was submitted as an NS (not scored), ensuring that he wouldn’t win.
But it wasn’t superstition. It was an honest mistake and after some rejigging of the leaderboard, he was back in contention only to be beaten by Potter.
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The CPA proposals are not realistic. The month of April for Club fixtures? 1. It’s right in the business end of the National leagues. 2. Clubs aren’t and shouldn’t be ready for championship at that time of year. The finals are not until October.
The club finals work well on St Patricks day. It gives them the publicity and spotlight that they deserve. The alternative as proposed is to play them in late November/December. That’s not acceptable imo.
@Tim Dawson: club leagues should be started in early/mid February and ran off every week (or pretty much every week) which would have most leagues ran off by the end of April. Semi finals and finals to be ran off and completed by May/June. Club championships can then be started in April, not sure why you think this is too early as every club will be training since January? Not sure why if you start a champing April you couldn’t have it completed early August at the latest, which would allow provincials and all ireland series played out before the end of October.
Have a rigid fixture list in place and lose this nonsense of having 3/4 week gaps between games.
@Robert Callaghan: hem! Because there is also the intercounty league and championship and clubs will not play without their county players. The national league is played in April. That’s why you can’t have club championship then. Or are we now talking about punishing the county player for being better and flogging them to death?
@Tim Dawson: grand, start it in May then, or move National Leagues to March and get rid of the O’Byrne/McKenna cup preseason comps to freely time. The General point being that we have less gaps between games and a rigid calendar. The whole thing from intercounty down needs to be restructured because it’s broken.
Are you happy then to leave the fixture system the way it is and ignore the overwhelming opinion of club players? For what, because the club championship final has to be played on St. Patrick’s Days because it always has?