Ryder Cup 2008

Ryder Cup was at Valhalla this week in Louisville, Kentucky. Valhalla has hosted some major tournaments in the past, and it was a great candidate golf course for this year's Ryder Cup. I went to the '96 and '00 PGA tournaments at Valhalla with my favorite two men, my father and Adam. I couldn't change tradition, so we three headed up to Louisville on Wednesday to watch a practice round of the tournament. In the past, we had always gone on the weekend to these tournaments. I completely enjoyed the informal practice round much better than I enjoyed the weekend play in years prior. As most of you know, I am not the tallest person in the world and it was always difficult to see over the mounds of people already there. The food was ridiculous expensive, but we enjoyed the air conditioning and food in the International Pavilion. We had a great time especially rooting for our Campbellsville natives, J.B. (John) Holmes and Brandon Parsons. Holmes and Parsons gave us some Ryder Cup stuff and autographed the ticket for Carson. Holmes and Parsons were so humble, polite, asked about the rest of my family who wasn't there, and Holmes even thanked us for coming. I am so proud of both of them. Carson didn't seem too excited about it when I gave him the autographed ticket. Hopefully, one day he will.

Other week news:
1) My brother had a hole in one today in a scramble!!!! I was hoping he won some big nice new ride, but I think he won a gift card to Dick's instead. He said he didn't see it go in. Way to go Bran. Bran and crew are heading to Disney this week to say their hellos to Mickey. When they get back, cute little Reece gets her orange cast off!!! They were over last night for dinner, and Reece is doing so well with her arm length cast. She uses her left hand so well now. Also, a Happy Anniversary goes out to Brannon and Brooke this week.
2) Taylor and Carson said their verse and have one more to reach their next patch for Cubbies( thanks to my Memaw for sewing those patches on their vests). We are working on it for Wednesday.
3) Adam is back to running all the time now. He is trying to gear himself up to run not the half marathon in March but the marathon....26 miles. He is crazy! I told him that I would support him whatever he wants to do......that sure is a lot of miles. Maybe if gas gets too high, he can just run to work every day.....He is planning on doing the small 5K race for the race for the cure in October. I drop him off to the Greenway on our way to church for choir practice. He enjoys running on the Greenway.
4) Speaking of gas, we started the week with the highest gas prices in the country 4.99, and ended the week at 3.39. Now something is wrong with that. It literally took almost a hundred bucks to fill up my van and now we are back to more reasonable. What are they thinking! Crazy, huh?
5) We spent the entire day over on UT campus starting out with basketball practice, tailgating, Vol Walk, band coming down, etc. I am not going to comment on the ballgame. Taylor and Carson are excited about going to the Northern Illinois game in a couple of weeks (Oct 5)....I think they are the only ones in Knoxville that are still excited about this year's football year.
6) Enjoy your upcoming week. Give God all the glory and Praise Him for being Almighty. God is Good All the Time!