McIlroy Roars Into the History Books

No tradition quite says Father's Day like the US Open Golf Tournament, and this year's was especially notable because of the performance by 22-year-old Rory McIlroy.

McIlroy shot an amazing 16 under, doubling up the second best score of eight under posted by Jason Day (who also seems to have a very bright future).

Some of my favorite moments of the tournament were:

• When McIlroy walked up to the 18th green on Sunday and after sinking the putt to win the tournament walked over and told his father "Happy Fathers Day." All I got my dad for father's day was a lame Apple TV gadget thing, Rory gets his dad the US Open.
• It's hard to not cheer for Y.E. Yang, but what made me love him even more was when I found out that he lives in Texas and that his kids are actually hockey players. I can't think of too many Asian hockey players in the NHL, and can probably think of even less players from Texas.
• The variety of putters used in the tournament was marveling. Adam Scott has long been known to use a long putter, but what really got me was the putter used by Robert Garrigus. Garrigus is a big guy, and I believe has the longest drive of all PGA Tour golfers. So when he walked out to putt for the first time and looked like he was using a mini-golf putter for a 6-year-old I couldn't help but laugh.
• Looks like Rory had a little fun with the trophy. Damn Irish.
• Speaking of the Irish, anyone see the guy throw the Ireland Flag at Rory's face as he walked from the 18th to the trailer to go over his scorecard. Don't know if it was supposed to be political or just some idiot, but Northern Ireland's flag looks like this, not this.

On a personal side note, I like Mike have been gone from this blog for way too long, more for other writing jobs than for an obsession with alcohol. I would say the odds are good that I will be slowing down my contributions to those to nothing, and with that upping my contributions here big time. Nothing like writing about whatever you like, and doing it alongside two good friends.