PGA TOUR: Day One of the Champions’ Dick’s Sporting Goods Open

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Published: June 26, 2010

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Featured Columnist Andy Reistetter is on site at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open at En Joie Golf Club in Endicott, New York. Endicott is one of the Triple Cities along with Johnson City and the author's hometown of Binghamton. Here are his thoughts after Round 1 on Friday, June 25th, 2010.

 

On the Champions Tour, Friday is opening day, not cut day.

All 78 professionals entered in the fourth Dick's Sporting Goods Open will play all three rounds on the En-joie golf course.

There is still pressure on the professionals.

If one does not start well, one only has two more rounds to make up the difference in order to contend on Sunday afternoon.

Attending a Champions event is fun.

The older guys are really good.

They still hit the ball a long way. Some hit it farther than their days on the regular tour due to club technology, golf ball design and personal physical fitness.

I followed the pairing of Nick Price, Tom Kite and Peter Jacobsen.

Kite's appearance has changed a great deal since the days when a U.S. Open slipped away at nearby Oak Hill before he earned his due at another Open at Pebble Beach.

His physique is chiseled, his glasses gone and with a pretty lady caddie, he is one of the many superstars, not super seniors, out here on the Champions Tour.

Kite and Price were out-driving the younger Jacobsen.

Chided by the gallery a bit, Peter's response was, "Hey those guys have all original parts!"

Jacobsen is healthy again after left shoulder rotator cuff surgery in January and a right knee replacement two years ago.

Although there are gallery ropes, watching a Champions event is up close and personal kind of like a U.S. Amateur championship.

After Price hit a chip a little heavy on the par-five eighth hole, all around the green could hear him say, "Awe, you...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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